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RE: Mizu No Oto - Every Image Has Its Haiku - Edition #59 [English - Español]

in Bananafish5 years ago

Great job at this tricky poetic form. I have never tried one of these.

The spanish translation reads well. I know from experience that it is extremely hard to translate poetry, even when rhyme or metric is not an issue.

It occurs to be that maybe a 5-syllable word like "acorralados" (surrounded, corralled, enclosed) may do the trick as a last line, but again, I am not a hiku expert 😊.

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hm. 5 syllable words as lines are really cool, but that one doesn't capture the passage of time I was going for. I thought better of my own last line when I put "escape" in the translator, but left it anyway.

Thanks for your thoughts! Give it a shot yourself. Sometimes they take me a full week to write, sometimes they just pop out. This one took a couple days of thinking about the photo, and popped out when I noticed the snow was melting in the sun.