Marit's Paper World (blog) https://www.maritspaperworld.com/blog Marit's Paper World (blog) Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:41:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Friday haiku: old fence https://www.maritspaperworld.com/blog/friday-haiku-old-fence/ https://www.maritspaperworld.com/blog/friday-haiku-old-fence/#respond Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:41:03 +0000 https://www.maritspaperworld.com/blog/?p=33565

scheefgezakt oud hek
houdt vast aan zijn rol en scheidt
groen gras van groen gras		 faded, crooked old fence
holds on to its post. divides
green grass from green grass

Photo: @LenaSchreijenberg

Je t’embrasse

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Het hek staat open
en we lopen door het gras
van hier naar ergens		 Green fields. Open fence
invites us to walk further
from here to somewhere

I always try to translate the haiku into English without losing the atmosphere of the poem and keeping the right number of syllables. And there are times when the English version/haiku comes to mind first. Sometimes I even like the English version better. Not in this case though… the Dutch version speaks to me more because of the internal rhyme. However, writing and translating a haiku is a good training to improve both my mother language (Dutch) as well as English.

I submit today’s haiku to Recuerda Mi Corazon where our lovely hostess Rebecca brings us all together to share haiku on this Friday event Haiku my Heart.

 

 

 

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