World Haiku Series 2019 (73) Haiku by Jay Friedenberg

World Haiku Series 2019 (73)

Haiku by Jay Friedenberg

 

summer breeze

the soft rustle

of meadow grass

 

夏のそよ風

牧草地の草の柔らかいカサカサという音

 

storm surge

the crackle and crunch

of river ice

 

高潮

川の氷のパチパチとバリバリという音

 

rust belt

the sun sets

on an old factory building

 

ラスト地帯

夕日が沈む

古い工場の建物に

 

spring greens

the fleeting shimmer

of a dragonfly’s wing

 

春の緑

トンボの翼のつかの間のきらめき

 

tenement garden

a milkweed bloom

becomes a monarch

 

家の庭

トウワタの花が君主になる

 

night sky hallucination

at the Milky Way’s edge

Zarathustra Speaks

 

夜空の幻覚

天の川の端で

ザラスシュトラが話す

 

coronal mass ejection

a spark shoots out

from the campfire flames

 

コロナ質量放出

キャンプファイヤーの炎から火花が飛び出す

 

blizzard white-out

not seeing past

my expectations

 

吹雪のホワイトアウト

過去を見ていない

私の期待

 

moon landing

a fly touches down

on my pie crust

 

月面着陸

ハエが着地する

私のパイの皮に

 

spring runoff

a shift in the glacier’s

state phase diagram

 

春の雨水

氷河の状態図の変化

 

— Translated by Hidenori Hiruta

 

  

Bio:

Jay Friedenberg is a member of the Haiku Society of America and Associate Editor for its journal Frogpond effective 2018 -.

He is a regular attendee and presenter at the New York Metro HSA organization.

He is also a member of the Spring Street Haiku Group in New York City. Jay has won numerous awards for his haiku and is accepted regularly into many U.S. and international journals.

His second book titled Elemental from Red Moon Press was on the short list for the 2016 Touchstone Award. 

 

Jay Friedenberg Haiku Curriculum Vitae

Editorship

Associate Editor for Frogpond, the journal of the Haiku Society of America. 2018-.

Contest Awards:

2019 11th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest. Winning entrant.

2019 Anam Cara Contest. Commended category.

2019 UTHS AHA Contest. Third Place.

2019 R. H. Blythe Award. Runner up.

2019 R. H. Blythe Award. Honorable mention.

2018 Little Iris Haiku Contest. Second Place.

2018 Little Iris Haiku Contest. Commended category.

2018 Irish Haiku Society Contest. Honorable Mention

2018 Kusamakura International Haiku Competition. Third Place.

2018 Haiku International Association Contest. Honorable Mention.

2018 Annual H. Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu Contest. Honorable Mention.

2018 UTHS AHA (Jane Reichold) Contest. First place.

2018 Irish International Haiku Contest. Honorable Mention.

2018 Golden Triangle Haiku Contest. Entry acceptance.

2017 British Haiku Society Award. Runner up category.

2017 World Haiku Contest by Lyrical Passion Ezine. First place.

2017 Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Award. Third Place.

2017 9th Annual Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum Haiku Contest. Winning entrant.

2017 Golden Triangle Haiku Contest. Entry acceptance.

2016 World Haiku Contest sponsored by Lyrical Passion E-zine. Honorable Mention.

2016 British Haiku Society Awards. Special Mention.

2016 Iris Magazine International Haiku Contest. Highly Commended.

2015 Kusamakura International Haiku Competition. Second Place.

Anthologies

2019 Fuga No Makoto: Ten Years of the World Haiku Review, 2008 to 2017.

2018 Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku.

2017 Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku.

2016 Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku.

2014 Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku.

Book Awards:

One Rock out of Place. Haiku Foundation Book of the Week. April 8, 2019.

Elements. 2016 Haiku Foundation Touchstone Book Awards Shortlist.