September 2019, Tanka
2019年9月 短歌
All rights reserved ©Rika Inami 稲美 里佳
1
盆過ぎて篠突く雨のアラームに黒雲ながめ行方を追へり
after Bon
alarm of a pelting rain
from my smartphone…
I watch leaden sky
and chase clouds
2
夏去りぬ葉月の嵐に蹴散らされ風鈴の音の虚ろにさはぐ
summer is over
blown up by August storm
lost in a flash
a wind-bell
…chiming…chiming…
in vain…
3
瓢箪の艶やかに生り垂れしなる…われ凡夫にて善事（よごと）をたづね
gorgeously
a gourd has grown up
hanging down
an ordinary mortal
I ask for something good
4
あえかなる 吐息をもらし笑みこぼつ 釣鐘人参 朝露に濡れ
leaking
a faint and feeble sigh
lady bell smiling
moist
with morning dew
5
最良の時は近きか夏越えて朝露にしむ稲穂かがよふ
soon
the best time comes …
summer is over
the ears of rice brightening
with morning dew
6
葛が原しげり葉かげり阻みをり雲井かなたは仄あかるみ
kudzu field－
my passage blocked
by leaves’ shadow
yonder the cloudy sky
emitting subtle light
7
湧き起こる裡なるものに抗へず欲望故か神の標（しるべ）か
I can’t
prevent something inner
surging up…
is it my desire
or the Divine’s direction?
8
紅萩や己が身を数ならぬとな真葛が原に埋もれ隠りそ
pink bush clover —
just thinking yourself
worthless
don’t bury yourself
in the midst of kudzu fields
9
君とわれ須臾にかたらひ睦ける野にまぎれゐし藤袴の如
you and I
talk together for a while
growing closer
like wild thoroughworts
lost in a reverie
- About Kudzu, bush clover and thoroughwort, each flower is one of seven autumn flowers, which are kudzu, bush clover, thoroughwort, silvergrass (Japanese pampas grass), fringed pink, golden lace and balloon flower (Chinese bellflower). They are very traditional flowers for Japanese literature, in particular, waka/ tanka and haiku since Manyoshu (the oldest anthology of Japanese poetry).
10
事無きにやるべきを終へ長月のうつりの雨を安らぎて聴く
without any trouble
I’ve done what I should do
while resting I hear
a September long rain
to change season to…
Akita International Haiku Network 