World Haiku Series 2020 (66) Haiku by Milena Nedbaeva

dot dot dot
on the passerby's face
winter rains

点点々
通行人の顔に
冬の雨

spring blooms
along-the-fence-into-the-yard 
an old plum curls

春が咲く
柵に沿って庭に
古い梅のカール

snowflake smell
louder than crickets' songs
the southerner's dream

雪片のにおい
コオロギの歌よりも大きい
南部人の夢

summer rain
he doesn't worry about
your wrinkles

夏の雨
彼は心配しない
あなたの皺を

lighthearted crowd 
on the cross of the world
the flute voice is quiet…

陽気な群衆
世界の十字架上
フルートの声静か

one-two-three-...
your fragrance still lingers 

1、2、 3、...
あなたの香りはまだ残ってる

autumn strings
out the window wide open
heart beats

秋の弦
窓の外を大きく開いて
心臓の鼓動

the cane tick-ticks away
gentle scent of her perfume
on my hand

杖のカチカチ音が離れる
彼女の香水の優しい香り
私の手に

December rains
Monet's lady drowns
in the sun puddles

12月の雨
モネの女性が溺れる
太陽の水たまりで

Mozart's "Requiem"
high note 
first snow

モーツァルトの「鎮魂曲」
高音
初雪

― Translated into Japanese by Hidenori Hiruta

Bio:

My name is Milena Nedbaeva. I am 47 years old. I live and work in Odessa, Ukraine. 
Graduated from the Art classes of the Mariinsky gymnasium (Odessa, 1989 - 1991). Graduated from the Art and Graphics Faculty of the South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushinsky with an MA diploma (Odessa, 1991 - 1997). 
In 2011, after years of private practice of interior design, I quit design and then I was drawn to the photography and performance arts. I studied the history, theory and practice of photography art in the inspiring courses of photographers Anna Golubovskaya, Vladislav Petrovsky, Yuri Bershadsky. In 2017, my solo photography exhibition "The Mirror" was shown in the Odessa Art Center "Underpub". Also, I studied performance art at the Lviv School of Performance, in the British performer Denise Blacker's group. I also participated in the encouraging workshops by Kanadian director and performer Michael Devine, by Japanese butoh performer Hi Hal, German modern conceptual composer Bernd Schultheis.
Now, I am an author and co-author of more than 50 public performances which were shown in those art & culture official platforms as the Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, the Museum of Odessa Modern Art, the theater space "TEO", the Lviv "Days of Performance Art" festival, the Odessa International Theatre Festival and other culture events in Odessa and other Ukrainian cities. 
In artworks, I experiment with synthesis of various arts and media: visual art, sound-not-music, movement-not-dance as the study of solidity and space, theater, literature, photography and video, etc. The contemplative style refers to the philosophy, aesthetics and rituals of the Eastern cultures, mostly Japanese traditional Zen practices without a literary, word-for-word borrowing or vulgar imitation. Being rethought and redesigned according to the particular objectives and concepts of the projects, it becomes just another tool for translating the symbols and semantics of the author's artistic text, offered to the audience for the reading in the modern conceptual or meditative performances. As a matter of principle, I prefer to work not with a mentally prepared audience, but with random passers-by in open urban spaces.
I also translated my passion, knowledge and experience into lectures for adults and children which were read in different locations: Philosophical Faculty of Odessa National University named after I. I. Mechnikov, etc. I also was invited for interviews on the local TV.
I started writing haiku, senryu, haibun, haiga in Russian and English languages two or three years ago. And now I am excited about deeper immersion into Japanese culture through the researching and practice of classical and modern haikai art.