Posts Tagged ‘ haiku ’
人が怖くて冬のブランコ漕ぎにゆく 叶 万里子
hito ga kowakute fuyu no buranko kogini yuku
I am afraid of people
And I go out to push
a winter swing
Mariko Kano
translation by Fay Aoyagi
from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), February 2017 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo
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Source: Today’s Haiku (January 16, 2020) | Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi)
Source: Daily Haiku: Dec. 22, 2019 | Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
Jostling one another
along the one hundred steps
clusters of hydrangeas
– Kyōko Shimizu
I love the image of clusters of hydrangeas pushing against each other along the one hundred steps. The one hundred steps remind me of climbing or leaving a temple or shrine of some sort, or perhaps another place where these flowers have lived for a very long time and have grown into each other as a result. I also envision human beings “jostling,” as they take the one hundred steps of their own lives . . .
In the 2013 Autumn–Winter Kō issue, in her introduction to the two best haiku that she picked from previous issues, Kō’s editor, Kōko Katō, writes: – Priscilla Lignori
Facing the scenery both social and natural around them, what appeals to poets? They are always feeling with their senses, something beyond their senses. Beauty or truth of beauty, however we may name it, surely there is something deserving to be learned. – Kōko Katō
悴んでゆび十本に骨がある しなだしん
kajikande yubi juppon ni hone ga aru
numb with cold
there are bones
in my ten fingers
Shin Shinada
Fay Aoyagi, translator
from ‘Hayabusa no Mune’ (‘Falcon’s Chest’) haiku collection by Shin Shinada, Fusansu-Do, Tokyo 2011
Source: Today’s Haiku (December 12, 2019) | Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi)
Source: Daily Haiku: Nov. 23, 2019 | Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
how short
a distance
the sparrow can fly
by Tom Clausen (USA)
Frogpond, Vol. 42:3, Fall 2019
Source: Daily Haiku: Nov. 19, 2019 | Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
行く秋や琥珀に虫の深眠り 小田切順子
yuku aki ya kohaku ni mushi no fukanemuri
departing autumn—
insect’s deep sleep
inside the amber
Junko Odagiri
from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006
Fay Aoyagi, translation
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Source: Today’s Haiku (November 6, 2019) | Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi)
