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

O how thin the mantis's face castle town --Asahi Matsumoto (1918-2015) 蟷螂の顔の薄さよ城下町　松本旭 #haiku #translation

volcanic ash falls all day on the scarecrow in the wind --Takuyo Obara (1921-2020) 火山灰降りてひねもす案山子風の中　小原啄葉 #haiku #translation

my fake plastic love dreams of electric sheep in clockwork orange #centoku? #senryu

clouding the well water, the typhoon passes --Akio Fujimoto (1928-2014) 井戸水を濁し台風去りにけり　藤本安騎生 #haiku #translation

adding a new color goldfish bowl --Miwako Fujimoto 新しき色の加わる金魚玉　藤本美和子 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

looking back in the scorching sun a child . . . --Miwako Fujimoto 炎天のふり返りたる子どもかな　藤本美和子 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

the boy bows deeply geese returning north --Miwako Fujimoto 少年の一礼深き帰雁かな　藤本美和子 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

spring chill-- men are always heading to the battlefield --Miwako Fujimoto 花冷や男はいつも戦場へ　藤本美和子 (花冷, "blossom chill," is the kigo for a cold day in spring) #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

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the pale purple of the saffron going into mourning --Miwako Fujimoto (b. 1950) サフランのうすむらさきの服喪かな 藤本美和子 Take 2: the saffron's pale purple mourning... #haiku #translation

indoor heating-- the student isn't sleeping lightly --Saō Murakami 暖房や生徒の眠り浅からず　村上沙央 (In other words, he is sleeping deeply, but Murakami uses the negative form for ironic understatement) #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

the autumn fly becomes a letter in the headline --Saō Murakami 秋の蝿見出し一字になりきって　村上沙央 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

swimming across the river, child in arm -- A-bomb anniversary --Tetsu Hayashi (1926-2008) 子を抱いて川を泳ぐや原爆忌　林　徹 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

rice-planting ceremony the cattle cheerfully mooing --Tetsu Hayashi 花田植牛ほがらかに吼えにけり　林　徹 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation Image: kitahiro.jp/about/mibu_h...

scorching heat-- each living creature has two eyes --Tetsu Hayashi 炎天や生き物に眼が二つづつ　林　徹 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

crescent moon in the chestnut tree my wife's birthday --Tetsu Hayashi (1926-2008) 栗の樹に三日月妻の誕生日　林　徹 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

I meant to take a nap but decided to bake a cake instead --Teiko Inahata 昼寝するつもりがケーキ焼くことに　稲畑汀子 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

at some point the winter moon came out our parting --Teiko Inahata 何時の間に冬の月出てゐる別れ　稲畑汀子 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

the fireworks fade but the darkness from before is no longer there --Teiko Inahata 花火消え元の闇ではなくなりし　稲畑汀子 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

mitsumata flowers three times three is nine three times three is nine --Teiko Inahata (1931-2022) 三椏の花三三が九三三が九　稲畑汀子 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

after father died the laurel tree withered in the womb --Onifusa Sato 父死後の胎内に枯れ月桂樹　佐藤鬼房 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

transient world: the snow surrounds our black fortress --Onifusa Sato 仮の世のわが黒砦雪しまく　佐藤鬼房 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

all in vain the black, thick sound of rain! --Onifusa Sato 徒労のみ黒き茂りの雨音よ　佐藤鬼房 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

birthday I swallow down the salty pickled greens --Onifusa Sato 誕生日鹹き漬菜を呑みくだす　佐藤鬼房 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

in awe of the swan craning its neck I don't like Dalí --Onifusa Sato 頸捩る白鳥に畏怖ダリ嫌ひ　佐藤鬼房 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

summoned to the sand dunes beneath the evening moon --Onifusa Sato 夕月の砂山に呼び出されたる　佐藤鬼房 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation