Haiku beyond Earth「天上俳句会」Haiku by Daniela Rodi

Haiku by Daniela Rodi (Finland)

ancient cemetery…
only the wind
comes and goes

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風だけが来ては去りけり古代墓地

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Haikuniverse

A daily haiku or micro-poem

November 9, 2023

HAIKU to Akita’s “Haiku Beyond Earth”

the longest journey…

a falling leaf

returns to dust

The 5th Basho- an International English Haiku Competition, 2023

Selected by Naoko Fujita as 10 winning works.

一枚の落ち葉の旅や塵に帰す

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end of winter–

a butterfly settles

inside my shadow

Cold Moon Journal, 2023

我が影に蝶の止まれり冬の果て

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still flying 

across the lake

a dropped feather

Fresh Out Magazine, 2023

羽一枚湖上横切り舞ひにけり

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bedtime stories…

father’s old armchair

remembers his shape

Cold Moon Journal, 2023

就寝時父親語るあれやこれ肘掛け椅子は面影覚ゆ

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end of journey…

a gull’s feather 

drifts ashore

Stardust, 2023

旅の果て鴎の羽の岸に寄す

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a dead butterfly

on the beach–

sudden fall

Autumn Moon, 2023

死に蝶や俄かに落下砂浜に

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sunflower field

a little girl walks

towards the sun

HaikuNetra, 2023

ひまわりの畑の中の女の子太陽目指し黙々歩く

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no way to escape

the autumn wind…

I cling to myself

Selected in the 15th Yamadera Basho

Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest, 2023

秋風や我に縋って立ち向かふ

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

Inspired by ten English haiku by Daniel Rodi, 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, two of the English haiku were interpreted into Japanese tanka （短歌） poetry of 5,7,5,7,7 pattern.This is because English is different from Japanese.  

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Bio:

I’m a haikuist from Finland. Actually, I was born and raised in Sweden, but I live in Finland now. My father was Italian and my mother is Finnish. I love poetry and I have been writing haiku for a few years now. 

My haiku has appeared in several American and European haiku journals and blogs. Cold Moon Journal, Autumn Moon, Haiku Corner, Memorie di una geisha- international multi blog are some examples. Last year I was also one of the winners in Basho-an international English haiku competition.