Akita International Haiku Network
Gray clouds trail across the sky. In the pale winter sun a flock of geese (Ben Grafström–Akita, Japan)
Haiku by Mike Gallagher creaking trees the silent decent of leaves きしむ木々 葉の静かな…. badger and I on the prowl night owls アナグマと私 徘徊中 夜のフクロウ bogland beyond the stunted birch windblown decades 湿地帯 発育不全の白樺の向こうに 風に吹かれて数十年 the river running into itself a black pool 川 自分自身にぶつかる 黒いプール two seagulls flapping into the calm before the storm 二羽のカモメ … Continue reading World Haiku Series 2022 (78) Haiku by Mike Gallagher
Haiku by Mike Gallagher creaking trees the silent decent of leaves badger and I on the prowl night owls bogland beyond the stunted birch windblown decades the river running into itself a black pool two seagulls flapping into the calm before the storm each day ending in its own darkness each night begins a mallard … Continue reading World Haiku Series 2022 (78) Haiku by Mike Gallagher (Ireland)
Haiku by Mihovila Čeperić-Biljan * my grown-up son... the nightingale’s lullaby through a closed window 成長した私の息子 ナイチンゲールの子守唄 閉じた窓から ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK,Mart 18,2022 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14569670 * mowed lawn-- this morning it blooms with the gnat swarms 刈られた芝生 今朝はブヨの群れで花が咲く ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK,October l21,2022 https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/14746047 * summer night in a broken lamp the moonlight 夏の夜 壊れたランプに 月明かり 14th Yamadera … Continue reading World Haiku Series 2022 (77) Haiku by Mihovila Čeperić-Biljan
Haiku by Mihovila Čeperić-Biljan * my grown-up son... the nightingale’s lullaby through a closed window ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK,Mart 18,2022 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14569670 * mowed lawn-- this morning it blooms with the gnat swarms ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK,October l21,2022 https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/14746047 * summer night in a broken lamp the moonlight 14th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest 2022. http://yamadera-basho.jp/?p=log&l=520253 … Continue reading World Haiku Series 2022 (77) Haiku by Mihovila Čeperić-Biljan (Croatia)
Haiku by Michael O'Brien ghost hormones the photograph of a smashed pineapple ゴーストホルモン 砕かれたパイナップルの写真 (first published in: Bones 24) - mood ring the horse a horse ムードリング 馬 馬 (first published in Bones 24) - new aspen leaves the first king’s death 新しいアスペンは初代王の死を乗り越える - Just as close to the sun. The priest’s shoes. 太陽と同じくらい近い。 司祭の靴。 - … Continue reading World Haiku Series 2022 (76) Haiku by Michael O’Brien
Haiku by Michael O'Brien ghost hormones the photograph of a smashed pineapple (first published in: Bones 24) - mood ring the horse a horse (first published in Bones 24) - new aspen leaves the first king’s death - Just as close to the sun. The priest’s shoes. - Pig’s back. Once we were all rocks.- all … Continue reading World Haiku Series 2022 (76) Haiku by Michael O’Brien (Canada)
Haiku by Marta Chocilowska leaf mouldthe rhinoceros beetlegoes to rest 腐葉土 カブトムシ 休みゆく(ESUJ_H November 2022) a pitiless sunthe sycamore leavescone-shaped 無慈悲な太陽 スズカケノキの葉 円錐形(The Asahi Shimbun Nov. 18, 2022) town under siegethe war newsman reportsthat birds sing again 包囲された町 戦争記者が報じる 鳥が再び歌うことを(The Asahi Shimbun August 5, 2022) long rainthe great grey slugscrawl out 長雨 大きな灰色のナメクジ 這い出す(Brass Bell: … Continue reading World Haiku Series 2022 (75) Haiku by Marta Chocilowska
Haiku by Marta Chocilowska leaf mouldthe rhinoceros beetlegoes to rest (ESUJ_H November 2022) a pitiless sunthe sycamore leavescone-shaped (The Asahi Shimbun Nov. 18, 2022) town under siegethe war newsman reportsthat birds sing again (The Asahi Shimbun August 5, 2022) long rainthe great grey slugscrawl out (Brass Bell: a haiku journal, August 2022) air pollutiona forgotten … Continue reading World Haiku Series 2022 (75) Haiku by Marta Chocilowska (Poland)
2023年8月 短歌 August 2023, Tanka All rights reserved ©Rika Inami 稲美 里佳 ― Two pieces of tanka to the pomegranate flowers, which I saw on my morning walk. 朝の散歩時に見た柘榴の花へ2首 1, 2― 1． 三つ年をながめてきたる柘榴花けふに飛天舞ひ匂ひたつかな Pomegranate flowers… I’ve watched for three years today Hitens dancing and their fragrance in the air ※Hiten means Buddhist Angel. 2. 子をおもふ情愛ふかき訶梨帝母ザクロの花の紅緋きらめく Hariti… Goddess’s … Continue reading 稲美里佳の短歌：Tanka by Rika Inami (72)
Haiku by Mark Miller nightfall–– fruit bats sail through the Milky Way 日暮れ オオコウモリが航行する 天の川 Shamrock #47, 2022 filtered sunlight deep in the forest the lyrebird sings 森の奥深くで濾過された日光 コトドリが歌う Autumn Moon, Spring/Summer 2022 leading me farther from the forest trail… song of the hermit thrush 私をさらに遠くへ導く 林道から 仙人ツグミの歌 Akitsu Quarterly, Summer 2022 flashing silver the plunging … Continue reading World Haiku Series 2022 (74) Haiku by MARK MILLER
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