airborne troops a soap bubble safely landing 航空部隊 シャボン玉 安全に着陸
Ken Sawitri
Photograph by Aisha Shifa
the pattering light on uprooted seedlings ... summer moon パラパラする光 根こそぎの苗に 夏の月
Ken Sawitri
Photograph by Aisha Shifa
cat yowling ... the wooden cuckoo bird strikes a quick two-note call 猫のうなり声 木製のカッコウ鳥が奏でる 速い 2 音符の鳴き声を
Ken Sawitri
Photograph by Aisha Shifa
Haiku published for the first time in Asahi Haikuist Network, The Asahi Shimbun, March 20, 2020
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13209316
darkening room ... light tags on the old prayer beads 暗くなる部屋. ライトがつきまとう 古い数珠に
Ken Sawitri
Photograph by Aisha Shifa
dust on dad’s travelling suitcase ... cold moon 父さんの旅行用スーツケースにほこり 冷たい月
Ken Sawitri
Painting by Jimat Achmadi
Haiku published for the first time in Asahi Haikuist Network, The Asahi Shimbun, February 7, 2020
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13096900
riding wind from the future an eraser sculpting 風に乗って 未来から消しゴム 彫刻
Ken Sawitri
Art by Aisha Shifa
Note : As her mother, I documented her writing/drawing/other ‘art’ my daughter did. In this photo haiku, it was her drawing when she was 7 years old on back side of an old calendar.
hand painted map the village river pulsing through my veins 手描き地図 村の川の脈動 私の静脈を通して
Ken Sawitri
Photograph by Jimat Achmadi
Haiku published for the first time in World Haiku Review, Winter Issue, December 2019, Vanguard Haiku, Zatsuei Award
https://sites.google.com/site/worldhaikureview2/whr-december-2019-issue/vanguard-haiku-page-3
no moonlight ... darkness stares at every hoot 月明かりはない 暗闇がすべてを見つめる フクローの鳴く声
Ken Sawitri
Photograph by Jimat Achmadi
seclusion clouds signs off painting on the clear screen 隔離 雲が絵を締めくくる きれいな画面に
Ken Sawitri
Photograph by Aisha Shifa
teak leaf rice warms a handful of barefoot's dreams チークの葉のご飯が一握りの裸足の夢をあたためる
Ken Sawitri
Painting by Jimat Achmadi
Haiku published for the first time in Under the Basho 2020, One-line Haiku, 16 November 2020 https://underthebasho.com/current-year/one-line-haiku/3565-ken-sawitri.html
Note : ‘Teak leaf rice’ is cooked rice wrapped in a fresh teak leaf.
The leaf dispenses special colour and scent to the rice, especially when the rice is warm (hot).
― Translated into Japanese by Hidenori Hiruta
World Haiku Series 2019 (93) Haiku by Ken Sawitri – Akita …
https://akitahaiku.com/2020/04/15/
A brief biographical statement
Ken Sawitri was born in Blora (Central Java, Indonesia), and completed her degree in psychology at Universitas Indonesia. During 1995-1998, she was writing from the desk of Psychology & Education of “Ayahbunda”
magazine. In her journey in learning to write haiku, she feels thankful that her English haiku and photo haiku were appreciated in Japan and other international publications. And in 2017, she was too, delighted for being invited by a Polish haikuist, Krzysztof Kokot, to translate into Bahasa Indonesia his four English haiku in his book “Wokot haiku – Around the Haiku” (Nowy Targ-Poznan, Kontekst Publishing House, 2017).
One of her haiku won the Second Prize in the 2013 “Diogen” Summer Haiku Contest. Another one was chosen to be made as a haiga by Ron C.
Moss (“A Hundred Gourds”, 2015). Then in 2016, it was published by Scott Metz & Lee Gurga in “Haiku 2016, 100 notable haiku from 2015”
(Modern Haiku Press, 2016)
http://modernhaiku.org/mhbooks/Haiku2016.html. Her haiku about animal suffering was published in “Every Chicken, Cow, Fish and Frog: Animal Rights Haiku” edited by Robert Epstein and Miriam Wald (2016) https://www.amazon.com/Every-Chicken-Cow-Fish-Frog/dp/0998073229.
In collaboration with her husband, Jimat Achmadi, two of their photo haiku were awarded as the Editor’s Choice in “Cattails” (2014, May and September Edition). Some were selected to be published in The World Haiku Association (WHA) Haiga Contest (2015-2016) and some were exhibited in NHK World “HAIKU MASTERS” Gallery and TV program.
In collaboration with her daughter, Aisha Shifa, her photo haiku was chosen as the “Haiku Master of the Week 4” on January 2018.
Recently, her haiku were published in “World Haiku Review” – the official magazine of World Haiku Club curated by Susumu Takiguchi, in “English-Speaking Union Japan” (ESUJ) curated by Emiko Miyashita and Tetsuya Kotaki, “tinywords” (ISSN 2157-5010) – an international, daily magazine of haiku and micropoetry, and “Seashores – an international journal to share the spirit of haiku”. This year, her senryu received the “Highly Commended” award in The Fifth Annual H.
Gene Murtha Senryu Contest (2020) https://youtu.be/AQCU-FBwRrI.
She dedicates her haiku for her motherland in “Listen, The Spice Whispers, haiku from Indonesian archipelago”
https://indonesiainmyhaiku.wordpress.com/
In the photo : Ken Sawitri with Aisha Shifa
My favorite photograph
One night in November 2019, my husband invite me to come into his studio. He let me sat in front of a 40x40 cm blank black canvas, and gave me a stick of white pastel. He often suggest me to draw but I said "I can't draw." This is a photograph of my first 'painting' on canvas. I am happy with my 'painting' and took a photograph that night, by myself. Photo : Ken Sawitri, "Firefly Night" (2019), pastel on canvas
Akita International Haiku Network 