どこへでも走って天気の中にいる –谷佳紀
Wherever I run
I’m surrounded
by weather
–Tani Yoshinori
夏来る人格二つたずさえて –恩田皓充
Summer arrives
Carrying
Two identities
–Onda Hiromitsu
千里より一里が遠き春の闇 –飯田龍太
A single li
is farther than a thousand li
Darkness in spring
–Iida Ryuuta
零(ゼロ)の中 爪立ちをして哭いている –富澤赤黄男
in zero
standing on the tips of my toes
and crying
–Tomisawa Kakio
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NOTES: A li is a unit of measurement (about 500 meters).
Poems used by kind permission from the Gendai Haiku Association.