International Haiku Festival in Ghent, Belgium 13th to 19th September 2010 Zilvervisje glimt Langs ’t onzeekre watervlak En hapt er een ster August Vermeylen (1927) silver fry flicker along the shifting waters and snaffle a star Trans. David Cobb (2010) The festival haiku by Vermeylen is one of the oldest haiku written in Dutch but also a natural choice given that Ghent is a city of rivers and waterways that weave through and around its gothic buildings and cobbled streets. And the theme of water was more intimately introduced to the delegation of assembled haiku poets after dinner on Monday and Tuesday evenings with candle-lit ‘ginko’ in hand-made and man powered, long-oared, wooden boats. With blankets over our knees and notebooks in hand we were steered silently along the dark water, under low stone bridges, with the lights and stepped gable roofs of the city above us. someone singing from an open window the boat drifts Lynne Rees ...
A sensory delight - all sound marvelous to me. Especially the part about he sea!
ReplyDeleteI've read through all your small stones and really enjoyed them.What lovely writing ,I feel as if I am beside you experiencing them all.
ReplyDeleteIndeed a sensory delight...
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for stopping by, Barb, Cassam and Frank. I'm currently at home in Wales and I'm very pleased these glimpses speak to you.
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