Janak Sapkota
Haiku in Nepali and English
English translations by the author
in the refugee camp |
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| not to be alone in the riverbed I sleep with the autumn moon |
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| winter – as I walk alone gurgling river |
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| a white pigeon drops a feather in the yard first winter snow |
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| a dark moon overhead even my shadow is weary out on the street |
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Janak Sapkota is from Nepal, currently a postgraduate science student in Finland. He has published Lights Along the Road, a collection of haiku co-authored with the American poet Suzy Conway. He won the Smurfit Samhain International Haiku Prize 2006 and the Seventh Annual Ukia Haiku Competition 2009. While on a writing residency at Cló Ceardlann na gCnoc, Donegal, Ireland, he published Full Moon, a limited edition of his haiku with Irish language translations by Gabriel Rosenstock and images by Danielle Creenaune.
