Haiku and More

Haiku and other poetic snippets. Admin: Tiet Ho aka Bat Xu.

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And

When summer comes the cicadas sing again. Fireworks freeze in my memory. Distant countries are dim but the universe is right in front of your nose. What a blessing that people can die leaving behind only the conjunction ‘and’.

- Tanikawa Shuntarō

English Translation: W. I. Elliott and K. Kawamura Art: Tiet Ho

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gay… affectionate… when I’m reborn I pray to be a white-wing butterfly

- Issa

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squatting like buddha: but bitten by mosquitoes in my nirvana

- Oemaru

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at the ancient shrine tarnished gold-foil… and green leaves awakening time

- Chora

Artist: Unknown

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snow is melting… far in the misted mountains a caw-cawing crow

- Gyodai

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dull-dreary rain-day… dripping past my gate a girl bearing irises

- Shintoku

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vanishing springtime… wistfully the lonely widow pouts at her mirror

- Seibi

Art: Keishu Takeuchi

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Art: Kelly Tan

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spring rain— in our palanquin, you whisper sweet nothings

- Yosa Buson

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onto his silent lap she lowers her eloquent hips

- Anonymous

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sleeping, waking the emptiness of my mosquito net

- Fukuda Chiyo-ni

English Translation: Alan Cummings Art: Utamaro Kitagawa

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Art: Picasso

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Art: Susa Talan

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Sonnet 35

When I return from town silence nonchalantly occupies the room. I open the window without a word and a black picture flows in.

Under the streetlight's gaze night's mutterings grow conspicuous. Inside me are pictures of the seasons. Unlived in, they are extravagantly beautiful.

Voices come from far away, calling no one but merely tossed up to the sky.

My daytime pupils aren't stretched open yet. Things in the dark are hard to distinguish; stars alone abound.

- Tanikawa Shuntarō

English Translation: W. I. Elliott & K. Kazuo Tranh: Emilio Hernández Martín

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