World Haiku Series 2019 (158) Haiku by Réka Nyitrai

World Haiku Series 2019 (158)

Haiku by Réka Nyitrai

 

within a stone the river talks in its sleep

 

Under the Basho, 2019

 

石の中で川は眠りの中で話します

 

autumn dusk—
a red sock
goes missing

 

Harusame, 2019

 

秋の夕暮れ

赤い靴下

行方不明になる

 

falling leaf
the shape of my ear
in its shadow

 

Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2019 

 

落ち葉

私の耳の形

その影に

 

is father
trying  to send me a message?
an earthworm sings

 

Otata 45, 2019

 

父は

私にメッセージを送ろうとしていますか？

ミミズが歌う

 

twilight a golden apple in a demon’s beak

 

is/let, 2019

 

黄昏黄金のリンゴ悪魔のくちばしに

 

a fish who once was my mother
spring fountain

 

is/let, 2019

 

かつて私の母だった魚

春の泉

 

pear flower—
a sudden desire to become a mother 

 

hedgerow #128; summer issue 2019

 

梨の花

突然母親になりたいと強く思う

 

quinces in autumn light—
the longing for my homeland

 

hedgerow #128; autumn issue 2019

 

秋の光の中のマルメロ

私の故郷への憧れ

 

first autumn rain…
one black umbrella
among many colorful

 

最初の秋の雨

1本の黒い傘

多くのカラフルなものの中で

 

Buddha face—
sunflowers in a wooden
wheelbarrow

 

仏の顔

ひまわり

木製の手押し車の中に

 

— Translated by Hidenori Hiruta

 

Bio:

Réka Nyitrai
Born: October 05 1977 in Turda, Romania
Resides: Bucharest, Romania
During the Winter of 2018 either Réka Nyitrai found haiku or haiku found Réka Nyitrai through her very first poem that simply came off the top of her head: “on a snow covered branch … yesterday’s bird-songs”.

Since then she keeps writing haiku, mainly surreal and psychological ones and cherita.

So far, she has been published in Under the Basho, Failed Haiku, Wales Haiku Journal, Harusame, is/let, Otata and The Asahi Shimbun.

 

Lastly, here are photos taken by a friend of Ms. Réka Nyitrai’s, Ms. Veronica Iwanaga, who resides in Japan.

Ms. Iwanaga kindly and delightedly presented her photos for the World Haiku Series 2019.