My poems in different languages

#1 (in Japanese; translator – Maria Baurenska)

黒髪を

飾る白花

初恋や

first date

white blossoms all over

her black hair

–Sakura International Award, 2014

#2 (in Chinese; translator – Chen-ou Liu)

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

第一隻麻雀

溫過的清酒已經冷卻下來

然而你缺席

第一張日曆頁

被撕裂成碎片

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

第一只麻雀

温过的清酒已经冷却下来

然而你缺席

第一张日曆页

被撕裂成碎片

first sparrow

the mulled sake cools down

without you

the first calendar page

is torn into pieces

_Cattails, May 2014

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

孫子的相片

顯示

在訊佳普上

戴著她丈夫的眼鏡

嘗試閱讀電子音信

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

孙子的相片

显示

在讯佳普上

戴著她丈夫的眼镜

尝试阅读电子音信

photos

of their grandchildren

over Skype

she tries to read the message

with her husband's glasses

_Sonic Boom, 2, 2015

#3 (in Hungarian; translator – Szondi György)

kora regel

a balkonon egy férfi

pelenkiát tereget        

early morning

on the balcony a man

hangs out diapers

_Different Silence, 2012

#4 (Croatian; translator - Đurđa Vukelić-Rožić)

radni dan

netko je stao

na leptira

a workday

someone had stepped

on a butterfly

_Diogen, SECOND PRIZE - SUMMER SENRYU 2013

nakon zalaska

poziv na večeru

sa svijećama

afterglow

an invitation to dinner

with candles

_Diogen, 2013/Editor’s choice

#5 (in Romanian; translator - Cristina OPREA)

noapte cu zăpadă –

chiar şi vocea corbului

dispare

a snowy night

even the raven’s voice

fades away

_Sharpening the Green Pencil, 2014

#6 (in Russian; translator – Vladislav Vassilev)

имэйлы

зеркальное отражение моих

его инициалы

emails

his initials

a mirror image of mine

_Ёршик/Ershik du Jour, January 2015

#7 (in Italian; translator – Lucia Fontana)

equinozio di primavera

l'ombra di mia madre e mia

della stessa misura

spring equinox

my mother's shadow and mine

the same size

_Incense Dreams - issue 1, May, 2017

#8 (in Serbian; translator – Milan Dimitrievich)

промрзли врабац

дише на топлом ми длану

триjумф живота

a frozen sparrow

is breathing on my warm palm

the triumph of life

_Пред Звездним Вратима, 2015

#9 (in French, Italian, Bulgarian and English)

smog

my daughter asks

how to color it

смог

дъщеря ми пита

как да го оцвети

brume

ma fille demande

comment la colorizer

smog

mia figlia chiede

come coloralo

_Climates (three-lingual haiku anthology – Bulgarian, French and Italian), 2018

Translators: Guiseppe Dell’Agata, Jean-Louis Chartrain, Pamella Della Toffola, Svetla Lazarova, Velina Zankova

English&Bulgarian: me

#10 (in Spanish)

няма вятър...

но този бамбуков лист

защо лети?

no hay viento...
¿porqué vuela
esa hoja de bambu?

_translated in Spanish by Angela de Sousa