World Haiku Series 2020 (16) Haiku by Carmela Marino

World Haiku Series 2020 (16)

Haiku by Carmela Marino

 

moon flower…

the rest of a dream

on the windowsill

 

June 24,2020 on Haiku Commentary

 

夕顔

夢の残り

窓辺に

 

 

his deep sleep

the milk of my breast

frozen

 

July 1,2020  honorable mention   on The 5th Annual H. Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu Contest

 

彼の深い眠り

私の胸の乳

冷え切る

 

first date

the half-closed wings

of the butterfly

 

September 3, 2020 on Heron’s

 

初めてのデート

半分閉じた翼

その蝶の

 

 

cicadas

I clean the headstone

of my grandma

 

September 10 2020 on Mainichi 

 

蝉

墓石を掃除する

おばあちゃんの

 

 

July sky

in his last message 

still beats a heart

 

September 29, 2020 on World haiku review

 

七月の空

彼の最後のメッセージで

まだ心を打つ

 

dew drops-

who knows who I was

in past life

 

October 6,2020  on FemkuMag

 

露の滴

私が誰であったか誰も知らない

過去の人生において

 

melanoma 

the wings of a butterfly 

leaning against the rock

 

October 15,2020 chrysanthemum

 

黒色腫

蝶の羽

岩にもたれている

 

 

full moon

the ash carried 

by the wind

 

October 23,2020 on Cattailsjournal

 

満月

運ばれた灰

風によって

 

 

twilight leaves-

I just hear the noise

of my steps

 

November 20,2020 on Underbasho

 

黄昏の葉

音が聞こえるだけ

私のステップの

 

 

slow thaw

every snowflake

has its sunset

 

september 9,2020 on daylahaiga

 

ゆっくりとした雪解け

あらゆる雪片に

日没がある

 

― Translated by Hidenori Hiruta

 

 

Bio:

Carmela Marino was born 9 January 1980 Sacco Salerno, and lives in Rome since 2005.

She is married and a full-time mother.

She likes to write, over all poetry thanks to her children.

She started writing in the hospital during frequent hospitalizations of her second-child Daniele with Down’s syndrome.

Haiku was a therapy for her and “writing a great feeling in a small space”.
Her haiku were published in blogs and magazines such as Akita International Haiku Network World Haiku Series 2019; Bones, Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog, Chrysanthemum, Failed haiku, #FemkuMag, Haiku Commentary, Haikuniverse, Harusame, Hedgerow, Otata, Stardust Haiku, The Asahi Shimbun, The Bamboo Hut,Underbasho,Autumnmoon 

 

https://akitahaiku.com/2020/05/18/