late evening
the purring of a cat
and a kettle
Frogpond vol. 43:2 Spring/Summer 2020
夕方遅く
猫のゴロゴロ
そしてやかんも
isolation ward
the nurse’s gloved hand
in a dying palm
Earthrise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2020: Year of the Nurse
隔離棟
看護師の手袋の手
瀕死の手のひらに
the blues
the mirror behind the bar
reflects Autumn
74th Basho Memorial English Haiku Contest, 2020 Honorable Mention)
ブルース
バーの後ろの鏡
秋を反映
a gun salute
how silently cherry tree
sheds petals
Vancouver Cherry Blossoms Festival 2020, Honorable Mention
銃の敬礼
なんて静かに桜
花びらを落とす
zen garden
snowflakes settling
on Buddha's eyelids
Placed in the Japanese Garden at the Chicago Botanic Garden within Words in Bloom (fall 2020)
禅苑
雪片がとどまる
仏陀のまぶたに
Chopin's waltz
floating in the air
cherry petals
World Haiku Review Autumn 2020 Honourable Mention
ショパンのワルツ
空中に浮かぶ
桜の花びら
detached lovers
the scent of bloomy linden
that's all they have
World Haiku Review Autumn 2020 Haiku of Merit
離れた恋人たち
花盛りのリンデンの香り
彼らが持っているすべて
quarantine
I listen to cardinal’s song
on YouTube
The Asahi Shimbun July 4, 2020
隔離
枢機卿の歌を聴く
ユーチューブで
Autumn drizzle
twitches of the horse's ears
shake off the droplets
Autumn Moon Haiku Journal accepted for issue 4:1, Autumn/Winter 2020-2021.
秋の霧雨
馬の耳のけいれん
小滴を振り払う
snowy garden
full of wild apples
bare branches
The Asahi Shimbun to be published on December 4, 2020.
雪に覆われた庭
野生のリンゴがいっぱい
裸の枝
― Translated by Hidenori Hiruta
Photohaiga by Marta Chocilowska
Published in 2020
- solo in Paris: Daily Haiga January 27, 2020
2. inside: Daily Haiga Ferbruary 8, 2020
Accepted in 2020 for publication in Daily Haiga
3. rendez-vous Daily Haiga, April 3, 2021
4. cranes Daily Haiga May 9, 2021
5. white frost Daily Haiga December 2, 2020
Biography: Marta Chocilowska is a retired economist, writer, and haiku poet. Her poems have been published in haiga and haiku journals worldwide, including Cattails, Frogpond, tinywords, and Contemporary Haibun Online. She has co authored several haiku and senryu anthologies, and her book The Seasons in Polish Haiku came out in 2015. She has been a prize winner or judge in Polish, Romanian, English, and Japanese haiku contests and won the Sponsor’s Award in the Ito en Oi Ocha New Haiku Contest 2016. She has been president of the Polish Haiku Association since 2018 and managing editor of the PHA’s annual almanac Migratory Birds. She also serves as manager of The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Registry. She resides in Warsaw, Poland.
Lastly, here is a photohaiga on Japanese Garden at the Chicago Botanic Garden_2020.
ー Presented by Marta Chocilowska
Akita International Haiku Network 
A welcome escape from the “new normal”.
On Tue, Jul 6, 2021, 3:01 PM Akita International Haiku Network wrote:
> Hiruta posted: ” late evening the purring of a cat and a kettle Frogpond > vol. 43:2 Spring/Summer 2020 夕方遅く 猫のゴロゴロ そしてやかんも isolation ward the nurse’s > gloved hand in a dying palm Earthrise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2020: > Year of the Nurse 隔離棟 看護師の手袋の手 瀕死の手のひ” >
Enjoyed reading them! Congratulations!🌺❤️
Dear Hiruta-san, thank you very much for publication and translation my haiku to Japanese. What a great pleasure and honor for me!
I m happy you like them, Azim. Thank you very much!