World Haiku Series 2019 (166) Haiku by Sanjuktaa Asopa

World Haiku Series 2019 (166)

Haiku by Sanjuktaa Asopa

 

dusk …

the river meanders into

its own murmur

 

Indian kukai #22 , December 2017

 

夕暮れ

川は蛇行する

それ自身のつぶやきの中へ

 

river eddy …

what is it

that I’ve lost

 

R H Blythe haiku contest, 2019

 

川の渦

何ですか

私が失ったものは

 

fireplace logs

the way his promises

crumbled

 

Indian kukai#26, December 2018

 

暖炉の丸太

彼の約束の有り様

無に帰した

 

hopscotch squares …

till the children come back,

the pigeons

 

石蹴り遊びの正方形

子供たちが戻ってくるまでは

ハト

 

crow feather-

before dusk

the feel of dusk

 

The Herons Nest, Vol 16.3, Sept　2014

 

カラスの羽

夕暮れ前

夕暮れの雰囲気

 

dappled light

the pauses

in a junco’s song

 

Modern Haiku, 49.2, 2018   

 

まだらな光

一時停止

ジュンコの歌で

 

falling cherry petals

how gently the world lets go

of light

 

VCBF Haiku Invitational, 2017

 

散る桜の花びら

いかにやさしく世界が解き放つか

光を

 

opening the window

to a moth and what’s left

of the moon

 

A Hundred Gourds 1.4, 2012

 

窓を開ける

蛾と残っているものに

月の

 

sipping stale coffee the same sparrow as yesterday

 

A Hundred Gourds, 2.4, 2014

 

古いコーヒーをすすっている昨日と同じスズメ

 

the hush beyond the gunfire olive blossoms

 

International kukai, 2012

 

静けさ砲火の向こうオリーブの花

 

— Translated by Hidenori Hiruta

 

Bio:

Sanjuktaa Asopa is an indian poet who had come upon haiku on a poetry site over more than a decade ago and had been hooked ever since.

Her haiku and occasionally a tanka or a rare haibun have been published in many internationally reputed print and online journals and included in quite a few anthologies.

She has also been the co-editor of Naad Anunaad : an anthology of contemporary haiku along with Kala Ramesh as the chief editor.

Born and educated in Kolkata, she now lives in the quiet city of Belgaum in the southern parts of India.