haiku-usa

A blog devoted mainly to haiku and senryu and to thoughts about, and inspired by, haiku and senryu.

Haiku is to poetry as espresso is to coffee.

Tuesday, February 03, 2015

winter gray

a jet engine whines across

my nerves

grisaille invernale

le couinement d'un moteur

me tape sur les nerfs

I posted my haiku as a comment at Daniele's blog, and she responded with this elegant translation.

Magyar said...: __Grand, that engine's growl boring into and becoming the conscious... tension mounts.
_m; 4:14 PM
Crafty Green Poet said...: very effective; 8:00 AM
Bill said...: Thanks, M and Juliet. The post I was commenting on was following a prompt of "nerves/nervousness."; 10:13 AM