ある筈のない文字さがす冬紅葉
Searching for a word
that I don’t expect to find
Winter’s red leaves
かくじつに階段は果つ天の川
I know for certain
At the top of the staircase
Is the Milky Way
げんげ咲き胸底という長い廊下
The present blooms
A long corridor called
The bottom of the heart
ただひとりにも波を打つ冬の水
Even all alone
A wave crashes
Winter water
どこにもなくてどこにもありて寒の月
nowhere
everywhere
cold moon
ぬかご飯水辺の母は跼んでいた
Rice bran
Mother’s round back bent over
The water’s edge
一月の全景として鷗二羽
As a panorama
of January
two sea gulls
夢に夢みて寒の月とり逃がす
A dream in a dream
The cold moon
escapes from me
手をつなぐため薄氷を壊すかな
To hold your hand
must I break the thin ice?
春の道ひとつは黒船へつながる
A spring road
tied to a black ship
狂うために生れるまえの障子開く
To make me crazy
Before I was born
A paper door opens
紅茸を蹴り夭折に遅れおり
Kicking benitake mushrooms
Late for an early death
NOTES:
Shionoya Jin (b. 1939) is a modern Japanese haiku poet.
Poems taken from the Gendai Haiku Association Database.
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