World Haiku Series 2020 (41) Haiku by Isabella Kramer

knowing the way the old Bedouin draws lines into the desert sand  

published on Asahi Haikuist Network 09-18-20

道を知っている　年取ったベドウィンは砂漠の砂に線を引く

lost and found

the raven on my shoulder

no longer a stranger  

first published on hedgerow: a journal of small poems #132

行方不明になり見つかった

私の肩のカラス

もう他人ではない

not a single firefly 

curious who turned off

the last light 

一匹のホタルもいない

誰が最後の光を消したかに

好奇心を持つものは 

bridal spirea blossom— breathe in breath breathe out

花嫁のシモツケの花— 息を吸って息を吐き出す

first published on Asahi Haikuist Network by David McMurray 03-20-20

Covid-19

on the other side

the war in my dreams

first published by Margaret Dornaus on the COVID-19 ANTHOLOGY 2020

コロナウイルス

反対側に

私の夢の中での戦争

touching the poem

on top of the headstone

the wandering sun 

詩に触れる

墓石の上で

さまよえる太陽

#stayathome Buddha’s smile will reach you there too

引き籠もり　仏陀の笑顔はそこにも届く

first published by Elancharan Gunasekaran in the E-Chapbooks 2020 for download on www.proletaria – green dawn 

may dawn. your skin still elderflowers

夜明けかもしれません。 あなたの肌はまだニワトコの花

Corona crisis –

I feel the healing power

of soft washes

コロナウイルスの危機

癒しの力を感じる

柔らかな水彩画法の

offseason

the elegant curve

of flying swans

シーズンオフ

優美な曲線

飛んでいる白鳥の

March snow

make up the beds

with fresh linen

3月の雪

ベッドを作る

新鮮なリネン付き

― Translated into Japanese by Hidenori Hiruta

Ms. Isabella Kramer kindly and delightedly presented her favorite photos to the World Haiku Series 2020.

Short Biography:

Isabella Kramer is a healthcare worker and can’t stay home.

At her free time she‘s working as an artist, writer and photographer. Currently she’s living at Nienhagen, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Her interests range from watercolor paintings to haiku, haibun, tanka and cherita, mostly written in English.

She’s also interested in photography, Lyric (mostly written in German), and arts.

Her first book is published on blurb.de with German poems “weniger bis meer”, and also contributed to several anthologies and haiku calendars. You can find her work at her blogs www.veredita.blogspot.de and www.haiku-veredit.blogspot.de, also published at several journals, translated in German, English, Japan, Polish and French.

You can find her on Twitter https://twitter.com/IVeredit