Haiku beyond Earth「天上俳句会」Haiku by Vandana Parashar

Haiku by Vandana Parashar (India)

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broken pot

a handful of earth

to the earth

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鉢壊れ一握の土地に帰る

World Haiku Series 2022 (118)

https://akitahaiku.com/2024/01/04/

HAIKU to Akita’s “Haiku Beyond Earth”

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watchman’s funeral

for just this once I hold

the door for him

警備員彼の葬式一度だけ彼の逝くためドアを保持する

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telling a story

I can’t understand

wind in the reeds

物語分からぬところ葦の風

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another shooting

the hermit thrush knows

nothing about it

ヤドカリは知らぬが仏再撃を

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open window

the quiet of my room

disappears

開いた窓部屋の静けさ消えにけり

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morning rush

a pigeon outside my window

doing nothing

朝ラッシュ鳩何もせず窓の外

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wet leaf on the road

the wind

doesn’t want it

吹く風に道路の濡れ葉無用なり

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summer grass

how I want to fall

like rain

夏草の雨になりたき想ひかな

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falling night 

the sound of water

darkening

夜が更ける暗闇の中水の音

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winter solitude

isn’t grief 

hard enough

厳しさは冬の孤独の悲嘆かな

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some singing bird

all I see is 

a yellow fence

鳴く小鳥黄色い塀の見ゆるのみ

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

Inspired by ten English haiku by Vandana Parashar, 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, one of the English haiku was 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:

Srinivas Sambangi has shared email exchange with you regarding the discontinuance of the World Haiku Series and your proposed new project of showcasing the haiku of poets. 

In response to the same, I’m sending you ten of my haiku published in 2023 in various journals. I hope you’ll find them worthy of showcasing.

Vandana Parashar is a postgraduate in Microbiology, an educator and a haiku poet. 

She is the Associate Editor of haikuKATHA and is also in the editing team of Poetry Pea. She is the feature columnist for whiptail journal.

Her debut e-chapbook, “I Am”, was published by Title IX Press in 2019. Her second chapbook “Alone, I Am Not”, was published by Velvet Dusk Publishing in April 2022.