World Haiku Series 2019 (24) Haiku by Cherese Cobb

World Haiku Series 2019 (24)

Haiku by Cherese Cobb

 

veiled
the bride clings to her bouquet
of forget-me-nots

 

ベールを被って

花嫁は忘れな草の花束にすがりつく

 

a spring wind
blew away
my shadow

 

春一番

私の影を吹き飛ばした

 

origami
my heart
folded in his hands

 

折り紙

私の心が彼の手に包まれた

 

thin ice
the moon
cracks under my feet

 

薄い氷

月が私の足下で砕ける

 

in a pond of stars
a frog
sings yesterday’s song

 

星の池で

蛙が昨日の歌を歌う

 

Día de los Muertos—
scrubbing our last conversation
from your headstone

 

命日―

あなたの墓石から私たちの最後の会話を取り除く

 

a thousand paper cranes—
the darkness in
their folds

 

千羽鶴―

折り目における闇

 

on the lapping shore
three suns
setting

 

波打ち寄せる浜辺で

三つの太陽が沈む

 

shades of winter…
a call for the part of me
that’s died

 

冬の陰…

機能が停止してしまった私の身体の一部へ呼び声

 

beautyberries
the first taste
is all I want

 

カリカルパ

最初の試食

私が欲しいものの全て

 

— Translated by Hidenori Hiruta

 

Biography: 

 

Cherese Cobb is a professional writer and photographer from Maryville, Tennessee. When she’s not pinning copy, she splits her time between family, nature, and cat-worship, and chugs coffee to survive all three.

Find her online at @cherese_cobb.

 

Here are eight photos presented by Cherese Cobb, by which you are inspired and motivated to write haiku.