Here is an e-mail sent from Ms. Djurdja and Stjepan in June this year.
Thank you dear Hidenori Hiruta-san.
Now we returned from another haiku meeting, this time in Ludbreg, a small town in the North of Croatia, The Centre of the Earth.
Again we met our dear haiku pals, shared a day with them. My husband and two haiku friends Milena Ljudmila Mrsic and Dubravko Korbus from our town of Ivanic Grad were with us and we travelled together. We love haiku and love being a part of the wonderful haiku world.
Two days ago I posted a haiku collection by Dubravko Korbus to you, hope it arrives well. He is my husband’s friend. They worked together and Dubravko started to write after reading Stjepan’s haiku, and much talking about haiku.
It is not easy for my husband to say, how thankful he is for all you do for his work.
That fine thread of respect and thankfulness…. it cannot be posted into words.
Haiku belongs to those who belong to haiku.
Thank you.
Djurdja and Stjepan from Croatia
Here is a photo of a haiku collection by Dubravko Korbus.
Here are 14 haiku from a haiku collection by Dubravko Korbus
village to village
church bells escort
a storm cloud
村から村へ
教会の鐘が付き添う
嵐雲に
all the shadows
inhaled quickly
by a stormy cloud
全ての影
すばやく吸い込まれる
嵐雲に
everything
stops breathing just before
the storm starts
あらゆるもの
息を止める
嵐が始まるちょうど前に
an unkempt garden
with another thunderclap
an even deeper silence
手入れをしてない庭
もう一つの雷鳴で
ずっと深い静寂
expecting the storm
an old apple tree’s shadow
frozen
嵐を予期して
古いりんごの木の影が
凍っている
the storm
the hedge is ready
for its passage
嵐
生け垣が備えている
その通過に
the first raindrop
a deep circle
in the thick dust
最初の雨滴
深い輪
濃い塵の中に
arms wide open
in a dense, summer rain
– the scarecrow
両腕を広くひろげている
濃い、夏の雨の中
― 案山子
lightning
screaming
silence
稲妻
金切り声
静寂
the storm
having no mercy
for an old scarecrow
嵐
慈悲はない
老いた案山子のために
after the summer storm
there remains only the legs
of the old scarecrow
夏の嵐の後
脚だけがそこに残っている
老いた案山子の
a rainbow
its colours gleam
through the hailstones
虹
その色が輝く
ひょうを通して
disappearing clouds
the raindrops abandon themselves
to the sunshine
消えていく雲
雨滴が身を任せる
太陽に
after the rain
each treetop spreading
its shadows
雨の後
こずえがそれぞれ広げている
その影を
The next posting ‘The Results of The 2nd Japan-Russia Haiku Contest ’ appears on September 7.
― Hidenori Hiruta
