first of the year — flowers in the wind open to hope 年の最初 風に咲く花 希望を開く winter rain — the same greyness on palaces and sky 冬の雨 同じ灰色 宮殿と空に the last cricket sings a song — moonless night 最後のクリケット 歌を歌う 月のない夜 clover in bloom — in your hair carnival corianders 花咲くクローバー あなたの髪に カーニバルのコリアンダー sailing at dusk — the breathlessness of pandemic melts in the waves 夕暮れ時の帆走 パンデミックの息切れ 波に溶ける winter sky — your eyes over the years always the same 冬の空 何年にもわたってあなたの目 いつも同じ under the snow I tread on dry branches — cornflakes in the milk 雪の下 私は乾いた枝を踏む ミルクのコーンフレーク frozen night — just a wine glass in solitude 凍てつく夜 ただのワイングラス 独りで a ray of sunshine after the last storm — in memory of my father 太陽の光 最後の嵐の後 父を偲んで hailstones — cherries on the tree in just a few months あられ 木の上のサクランボ ほんの数ケ月で ― Translated into Japanese by Hidenori Hiruta
Presentation:
Alessandra Delle Fratte is an Italian psychotherapist (Rome), with a great passion for the haiku, since the 2015. In the haiku written in English, particularly, she finds the right brevity and rhythm that allow – to each verse – to express the most archetypical or intimate thoughts. Present in THF’s Haiku Registry, her haiku were published on international digital journals/blogs including Otata, The Haiku Foundations, Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog. Awards: Honoured Mention at the Gustavo Pece Italian Prize (2019). Work Anthologized: A.A.V.V. Haiku Column Anthology Vol. 4 (2018), Vol. 5 (2019), Vol.6 (2020). Recently published her first Haiku Collection Three jasmines scent my tea, with poems in Italian translated in English.* * Delle Fratte A. (2019). Tre gelsomini profumano il mio tè. La Ruota Edizioni: Roma
Akita International Haiku Network 
Beautiful haiku. Thanks.
“winter sky” — so touching. Thank you for the read.
These are beautiful. Thank you.
Dear Mr. Hidenori,
Thank you so much for showcasing my haiku and for translating them into Japanese.
Greatly indebted to you,
— Alessandra Delle Fratte
So very happy to receive such an encouraging feedback from All of you.
It means a lot!
Thank you so much 🙏🏻🌸
— Alessandra Delle Fratte