Haiku beyond Earth「天上俳句会」Haiku by Srinivasa Rao Sambangi

Haiku by Srinivasa Rao Sambangi (India)

1.

summer rain
all exclamations
end in full stops

(Chrysanthemum, Issue 31, 2023)

夏の雨感嘆のうち止みにけり

2.

cloister premise
a bumblebee finds a hole

in the garden net

(ESUJ-H, April, 2023)

穴見付くマルハナバチや庭の網

3.

long summer
the garden lizard’s tail
opens a question

(The Heron’s Nest, September  2023)

長い夏庭のトカゲや尾で問えり

4.

night train
the brook’s cadence
at the stop

(Frogpond, Issue 46:2, Spring/Summer, 2023)

駅に着く小川のリズム夜汽車かな

5.

half time
my son and I exchange
our goal posts

(First Prize, Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest 2023)

中間にポスト交換子と私

6.

bullet train
the time runs at
sixty minutes an hour

(Failed Haiku, Issue 86, 2023)

時速より分速似合う新幹線

7.

violent storm
a temple bell rings
on its own

(Chrysanthemum, Issue 30, 2023)

暴風は知らぬ世界や寺の鐘

8.

this way or that way but not the moon’s way

(Presence, Issue 77, 2023)

どの道も月の道とは違いけり

9.

rainy day I raise the volume of bathroom song

(Leaf, Issue 2, 2023)

雨の日や歌の音量上がる風呂

10.

jasmine buds
no hurry to unfold
my grandchild’s fists

(Cattails, October 2023)

ジャスミンのつぼみそのまま長くあれ孫の拳は握られしまま　（短歌）

孫の手の開かぬ拳つぼみかな　（俳句）

Note:

About the Japanese Short Poetry of 17 phonetic Units of 5, 7, 5 Pattern

Inspired by ten English haiku by Srinivasa Rao Sambangi, Hidenori Hiruta tried to translate them into ten Japanese short poems of 5, 7, 5 pattern.

The Japanese ones are added to the English haiku as above.

As a result, some of them might be Japanese haiku (俳句), and the others senryū（川柳).

Surprisingly, the last English haiku was translated into Japanese tanka（短歌） poetry of 5,7,5,7,7 pattern. This is because English is different from Japanese.  

Brief Bio: 

Srinivasa Rao Sambangi is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt working with a Pharma company in Hyderabad, India. He takes a special interest in oriental poetry forms, especially haiku. His haiku are published in various international journals/anthologies like Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Failed Haiku, Akitsu, World Haiku Review, Herons Nest, Chrysanthemum, Wild Plum, NHK Masters, Taj Mahal Review etc. He is also recognized in several international haiku contests. His debut book “forget – me -nots”, a collection of haiku and senryu was published in 2022.