World Haiku Series 2019 (152) Haiku by Priscilla Lignori

World Haiku Series 2019 (152)

Haiku by Priscilla Lignori

 

Rain comes to an end  

the sound of a running stream

in the warbler’s voice

 

Quarterday – A Journal of Classical Poetry 　Vol 3 Issue 1 2017

 

 

雨がやむ

流れている小川の音

ウグイスの声の中

 

With the world at rest 
the firefly becomes busy 
lighting the darkness 

Word Haiku Review  August  2011 

 

安らかな世界で

ホタルがせわしくなる

闇を照らしながら

 

The bloomed peony—

plenty of hiding places 

for a lonesome bee

 

Ko Magazine  Spring-Summer 2014

 

 

咲いた牡丹

たくさんの隠れ場所

寂しい蜂のために

 

Spread around the yard

not knowing how they got there—

a dozen pumpkins

 

Asahi Haikuist Network  November 29, 2013

 

庭の周りに広がり

どうやってそこに集まったのか分からない

1ダースのカボチャ

 

Always a surprise 

where the cormorant pops up 

from his sudden dive 

 

World Haiku  2014  NO. 10

 

 

いつも驚き

鵜が飛び出すところ

突然のダイビングから

 

Under autumn stars 

I’m smaller than the pebble 

stuck inside my shoe 

 

Eastern Structures  No.1 (Volume 1)  March 19, 2016

 

秋の星の下で

私は靴の中に刺さった小石よりも小さい

 

Unpublished haiku:

 

Perched on the dead tree

heron’s legs are as stiff as

the branch he stands on

 

 

枯れ木にとまっている

サギの足は堅い

立っている枝と同じくらい

 

A peace offering—

child draws a small butterfly 

on sister’s napkin  

 

平和の捧げ物

子供が小さな蝶を描く

姉のナプキンに

 

Inside the Bible—

pressing the orange blossom 

of a cut cosmos

 

聖書の中

切ったコスモスのオレンジの花を押している

 

Ant stops at the edge 

of a curved petal, and peers

into the abyss 

 

 

アリが曲がった花びらの端で止まる

そしてじっと見つめる

奈落の底を

 

— Translated by Hidenori Hiruta

 

 

BIO:

Priscilla Lignori is a haiku poet and a psychotherapist in private practice. She is the recipient of numerous international awards for haiku poetry including the 2013 Basho Memorial English Haiku Contest and the 2016 and 2018 Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi Memorial Haiku Contest.  

The founder of Hudson Valley Haiku-kai, a haiku group that meets monthly to share and discuss their haiku, she has published one book of haiku poetry, Beak Open, Feet Relaxed: 108 Haiku. 

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