World Haiku Series 2019 (6) Haiku by Alexandra Ivoylova

World Haiku Series 2019 (6)

Haiku by Alexandra Ivoylova

 

a cool morning

the sound

of swelling clouds

 

涼しい朝

膨らんでいく雲の音

 

a white butterfly

soars above the grass

a song of silence

 

白い蝶

草の上に舞い上がる

沈黙の歌

 

a birthday

at the doorstep

a rose petal

 

誕生日

玄関口に

バラの花びら

 

a long kiss

grasses blurring

the sun

 

長いキス

草が太陽をぼやけさせている

 

a night train

cities in the distance –

nameless constellations

 

夜行列車

遠くの都市 ―

名前のない星座

 

birds are singing

in the wood of deads

a distant bell tolling

 

鳥が囀っている

死者の森で

遠い鐘の音

 

the tea is getting colder

someone has left

my heart

 

お茶が冷えてきた

誰かが私の心から去って行った

 

the old school

a light gleam

from another time

 

古い学校

別の時代のかすかに明るい輝き

 

it is quiet

in the room –

I hear someone’s absence

 

部屋が静かになった ―

誰かがいなくなったのだ

 

snow

a white sky, a white land –

a pristine world

 

雪

白い空、白い土地 ―

手付かずの世界

 

— Translated by Hidenori Hiruta

 

 

ALEXANDRA IVOYLOVA is graduated at National Academy of Music “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov” in Sofia, class piano. She has specialized in Paris. Studied chamber-singing – as a mezzo-soprano she has issued the compact disk “Baroque arias and songs” (2011, with the pianist D. Andonova).

 

Alexandra Ivoylova has taken part in exhibitions, has illustrated pages in the literature press.

 

She publishes essays, fragments, poetry (including poetry for children), literal, art and musical critique, creative portraits. She has issued nine books – poetry, haiku, maxims, haibuns, poetic dialogues, as well as “The entity of Botev’s speech” – analyses.

 

She is the compiler and editor of the Bulgarian-French bilingual anthology “The town” − 103 Bulgarian, French and Francophone poets.

 

A. Ivoylova is a member of the Bulgarian PEN-Center, Union of Bulgarian Journalists, Bulgarian Haiku Union, World Haiku Association, “Europoesie” etc. She is also member of editorial staff of the Bulgarian magazine “Haiku World”.

 

Here are four photos presented by Ms. Alexandra Ivoylova, which will inspire you to write haiku.

Please feel free to write your haiku in the comment column.