clip-clopping through the winter streets no love to be found --Shoshi Fujita 冬の街戞々とゆき恋もなし　藤田湘子 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

a suit hangs in the one-room apartment-- bringing in the new year --Maya Okuzaka ワンルームに吊るす背広や年守る　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

like cracking an egg, the year has come --Maya Okuzaka 卵割るやうに今年となりにけり　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

the ocean has the stillness of a conqueror cold sunset --Maya Okuzaka 海原は覇者のしづけさ寒夕焼　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

before the waterfall gradually I fade away --Maya Okuzaka 滝の前だんだんわれの居なくなる　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

evening cherry blossoms everyone passes them by --Maya Okuzaka ゆふざくらみんながとほりすぎてゆく　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

the pale pink of the jellyfish's genitalia --Maya Okuzaka もも色のほのと水母の生殖器　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

like spacious billowing cloth, spring --Maya Okuzaka ひろびろと波打つ布のやうに春　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

like opening a book, I look up at the blue winter sky --Maya Okuzaka 本ひらくやうに冬青空仰ぐ　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

winter melon saint greater burdock sage sitting side by side --Maya Okuzaka 冬瓜聖人牛蒡賢人隣り合ふ　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

the wind dies an air bubble in the gum arabic --Maya Okuzaka 風死してアラビア糊の気泡かな　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

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the cicada song rushing toward its own death a deep red --Maya Okuzaka 己が死へ急ぐ蝉声真くれなゐ　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

winter warmth the cello sitting in my dead father's chair --Tokino Itō 冬暖かチェロ坐る亡き父の椅子　伊藤トキノ #haiku #translation

the procession silently advances westering sun --Maya Okuzaka 行列のしづかに進む西日かな　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

the blazing sun seems like it's about to hatch --Maya Okuzaka ぎらぎらと炎天がいま孵化しさう　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

the sound of a thousand people taking their seats the rainy season deepens --Maya Okuzaka 千人の着席の音梅雨深し　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

it seems to have a long, long tail autumn's end --Maya Okuzaka 長々と尾のあるごとし秋の暮　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

horses loaded the freight car departs Milky Way --Maya Okuzaka 馬積みて貨車発ちにけり天の川　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

the dense white of the envelope-- A-bomb anniversary --Maya Okuzaka 封筒の密なる白さ原爆忌　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

thoroughly washing my body to enter winter --Maya Okuzaka ていねいにからだ洗へり冬に入る　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

cherry blossoms bloom bigger in the mirror --Maya Okuzaka 桜咲く鏡のなかの方が広い　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

a clear fingerprint on the glass door A-bomb memorial --Maya Okuzaka 硝子戸に指紋くつきり原爆忌　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

a crowd of backs on the station stairs War Memorial Day --Maya Okuzaka 背中犇く駅の階段終戦日　奥坂まや 終戦日: "End of War Day," aka "anniversary of the end of the war," often know as V-J Day (or, Victory Over Japan Day) in the West #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

Japanese bindweed-- death is just a blank white future --Maya Okuzaka ひるがほや死はただ真白な未来　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

the graceful jellyfish does not grow old our country does --Maya Okuzaka 窈窕と水母は老いず国老いぬ　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

leaving the photo studio a bit older opium poppies --Maya Okuzaka やや老いて写真館出づ罌粟の花　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

cherry blossoms fall always leaving us behind --Maya Okuzaka 桜散るいつもわれらを置去りに　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

there's a monkfish in my body mouth open --Maya Okuzaka 身のうちに鮟鱇がゐる口あけて　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

the underground mall's collonade May has arrived --Maya Okuzaka 地下街の列柱五月来たりけり　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

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Osaka's shaggy heat, walking through it --Maya Okuzaka 大阪の毛深き暑さ其れを歩む　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

the end of the sound of everything, the sound of snow falling --Maya Okuzaka いつさいの音のはてなり雪ふるおと　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

young maples opening the great big sky for the dead --Maya Okuzaka 若楓おほぞら死者に開きけり　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

each strand of hair has a root drought --Maya Okuzaka ことごとく髪に根のある旱かな　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

saying good morning an echo of early summer --Maya Okuzaka お早うと言ふはつなつのひびきなり　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

broad beans: all of them laughing in front of the monk --Maya Okuzaka そらまめのみんな笑つて僧のまへ　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

the elephant moves as an archetype of scorching heat --Maya Okuzaka 炎天の原型として象歩む　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

dandelions at the speed of the local train --Maya Okuzaka たんぽぽに普通列車の速さかな　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

blowing dandelion fluff . . . the conductor --Maya Okuzaka たんぽぽの絮吹いてをる車掌かな　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

universal gravitation a dent in the potato --Maya Okuzaka 万有引力あり馬鈴薯にくぼみあり　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

inside the melon bread there's a little spring haze --Maya Okuzaka メロンパン体内すこし朧なり　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

a horse passes before my eyes like autumn passing --Maya Okuzaka わが前を馬過ぐ秋の逝くごとく　奥坂まや #haiku #translation

facing the lotus pond summer writing desk --Seiun Kōno 蓮池にむけて夏書の机かな　河野静雲 #haiku #translation

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my thanks to the monk's sermon for the nap! --Seiun Kōno うと／＼と彼岸の法話ありがたや　河野静雲 (Dozing off / (during) the Buddhist Higan sermon / Gratitude!) #haiku #translation

the country wages war arrow after arrow a shrike's piercing cry --Seiun Kōno (1887-1974) 国戦ふ発矢々々と鵙高音　河野静雲 #haiku #translation

not losing to the wind or rain green onions --Aoji Sakurai 雨にも負けず風にもまけず葱坊主　 桜井青路 #haiku #translation

the scent of wood on the lumberjack's lap rice with yams --Aoji Sakurai 木こり木の匂ひをひざにむかご飯　桜井青路 #haiku #translation

the jewel beetle flies until its whole body turns green --Asahi Matsumoto 玉虫の全身青くなるまでとぶ　松本旭 #haiku #translation