Haiku beyond Earth「天上俳句会」Haiku by Parameswaran Sivaraman

Haiku by Parameswaran Sivaraman（India）

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Climbing hill

My ego

Started rolling down…

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登り坂わが自負心の転けりけり

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HAIKU to Akita’s “Haiku Beyond Earth”

1.

Splashes of colour

Failed to create art.India)

Diwali trashes!

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夜の空色のしぶきが舞い上がるアートにならずディワリのゴミに　（短歌）

2.

Windowside travel.

Watching the trees

Walk away from me.

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窓辺にて旅に出かけた人になる木々眺めても遠ざかり行く　（短歌）

3.

Prayers for rain answered.

Farmer’s son gets 

School holiday.

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農家の子雨への祈り応えられ学校の休み手に入れにけり　（短歌）

4.

Color changed in sky canvass

Painting incomplete

Cracker Trashes on Earth.

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絵を描く空のキャンバス色変わる地上にたまる爆竹のゴミ　（短歌）

5.

River joined sea easily

Fishes swimming

Upstream.

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川と海いともたやすく合流す魚は泳ぎ川上に行く　　（短歌）

6.

started praying for rain

Frog in hope of 

changing pond.

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雨乞いに望みを抱く蛙かな

7.

Swimming in a pond..

The Sun

Always floats…

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太陽の池の水泳浮くばかり

8.

Overthinking

Honeybee 

Shed feathers ..

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蜜蜂の考え過ぎや羽抜ける

9.

Not trained to swim

Caught in the gutter

Plastic fishes..

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水泳の訓練受けず側溝にプラスチックの魚が見える　（短歌）

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Note: Short Japanese Poetry of 17 phonetic Units of 5, 7, 5 Pattern

　 Inspired by ten English haiku by Parameswaran Sivaraman, Hidenori Hiruta translated them literally into ten Japanese short poems first of all.

　 As a result, the interpretative Japanese poems of 5, 7, 5 pattern are added to the English haiku as above. Some of them might be haiku（俳句）, and others senryū（川柳).  

　 Surprisingly, six of the English haiku by Parameswaran Sivaraman were interpreted into Japanese tanka （短歌） poetry of 5,7,5,7,7 pattern.  

Short note on Author:

Parameswaran Sivaraman

Living in Chennai Tamilnadu India

Three books of Haiku.. collection of poems

(Each nine Haiku)

Reading books regularly