Failed haiku nr. 104 - November 2024

 Sunflowers

Long time ago, the old man lost his belongings along with his
personal library. Sometimes, he takes his walking stick and the
faded hat and goes down into the city to look for books. He knows an easy access point to the paper recycling bin, then piles everything there is to read into a bag and returns to his world of sunflower walls and cloud ceiling. From the hump of the horizon, streak lightnings spread out all over and the enamel sky cracks.

world, where to?
the truth lies
in sunflower fields

Haiga im Focus - November 2024

 

Kyoto Haiku Project / Writing on the “Peace”, October 2024

change of season -

children planting cherry trees

in the scorched orchard 

 

the rain is over -

children playing badminton 

over the barbed wire 

 

air raid siren - 

unfinished chalk pigeon

in the schoolyard 

 

war orphan -

searching for a kindred spirit

in the woods

Akita International - Haiku beyond Earth「天上俳句会」By Hidenori Hiruta , October 23

Inspired by my ten English haiku, Hidenori Hiruta translated them literally into Japanese short poems first of all.

 

As a result, four interpretative Japanese poems of 5, 7, 5 pattern are added to the English haiku as above. Some of them might be haiku（俳句）, and others senryū（川柳). 

 

And six of the English haiku are interpreted into Japanese tanka（短歌）poems of 5,7,5,7,7 pattern.

This is because English is different from Japanese. 

 

compelled to leave –

a thistle from home

worn on the shawl

我が家去るショールに薊巻きしまま

2

where there’s hay,

that’s where I’m home –

rigged maps

干し草の匂う我が家や地図に無し

3

burnt orchard –

flying starlings scatter

cherry pits

焼け落ちし果樹園を飛ぶ椋鳥がサクランボ食べ種を散らばす

4

blind windows –

I follow the light

of the third eye

盲窓第三の目で光追ふ

5

forehead in the grass –

a caterpillar falls on

the tattooed butterfly

草むらに額現る毛虫かなタトゥーのつきし蝶に落ちけり

6

grazing land –

in the wake of grasshoppers,

acid rain

放牧地バッタに続き酸性雨

7

mankind, where to?

passing through ruins,

a duck with duckling

廃墟群アヒルとその子通り抜く我ら人類向かうのは何処

8

stranded dolphins –

we miss the hole point

of this act

座礁せしイルカの群れに考えるこの行動の本質如何に

9

napping
atop a haystack –
cricket concert

干し草の山の上にて昼寝する蟋蟀の鳴く音楽会に

10

road facing window –
a pile of medicines
next to a quince

窓通し見える道路にマルメロと薬の山がその隣には

Fireflies' Light, Issue 30, Octobre 2024

 

Cafe Haiku, 2024, City Scape

 

 

 

 

Talking about strawberries all of the time / October 2024

 Talking about strawberries all of the time is an online literary journal based out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and was founded by Malcolm Curtis in the summer of 2018.

 

Haiga im Focus - October 2024

 

Under the Bashō 2024 / Haibun

 

                             Rustling shadows

Day after day, after day, after day, until one day...

And then, not even a day goes by and someone

(someone else) comes to clean up the place...

Few garbage bags: our memories.

 

rustling shadows –

 

an origami crane 

                         through the shredder

 

 

 

       Foșnet de umbre

Zi după zi, după zi, după zi, până într-o zi...

Apoi, după nici măcar o zi, vine cineva (altcineva) și face curățenie generală...

Câțiva saci menajeri: amintirile noastre.

 

foșnet de umbre –

 

un cocor origami 

 

                         în tocător de foi

 

Ginyu Haiku Magazine Nr 103. Haiku selected and commented by Ban'ya Natsuishi

 

alarmă aeriană -
de-a v-ați ascunselea
nu mai e un joc

 

air raid alarm -
playing hide and seek
is no longer a game

2
nimeni și nimic –
doar câte un gard,
sprijin la drum

no one and nothing –
only a fence to lean on
on my way

3
tic-tac oprit  –
unele ceasuri merg
doar în pereche

tick-ticking off –
some clocks are made
to be in pair only

4
ceasornic vechi
repornit de spirite –
să zâmbesc sau nu

my old watch
restarted by spirits –
to smile or not

5
carte cu lipsuri –
în spațiile goale
puteai fi tu

book gaps –
in the empty spaces
could be you

6
ușă forțată -
numai iedera stă
cum vrea zidul

forcing the door out  -
only the ivy stands
as the wall wants to

7

rejected call –
the warm psithurism,
another option

apel respins –
șoapta frunzișului cald,
altă opțiune

 

Thank for your sincere and original haiku!

The 1st haiku expresses your critical situation near Ukraine to appeal well to my heart.

The 2nd is a touching poem of your solitude.

The 5th suggests your lost sweetheart.

                                          Ban'ya Natsuishi