Haiku beyond Earth「天上俳句会」Haiku by Kenneth Daniels

Haiku by Kenneth Daniels (South America)

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the constant 

gaze of Orion 

in January 

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オリオン座不断の視線睦月かな

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HAIKU to Akita’s “Haiku Beyond Earth”

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the dawning

of the new moon in March

refreshing air

新月の弥生の夜明け爽やかや

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new moon of Shiva

colder days too will pass

away

新月やシヴァの寒き日過ぎ去らむ

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searching for

a new horizon

the snow moon

地平線新たに捜す雪の月

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raising my eyes 

beyond the winter sky 

Lenten fast

四旬節断食の目や冬の空

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the Chinese New Year

I hunt for dragons

in the sky

春節に飛翔の龍を探しけり

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journey of light

my communion with

the Pleiades

六蓮星光の旅に交はりき

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wolf moon rising

the epiphany of

my self fears

狼の遠吠え響くウルフム－ン

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the constant 

gaze of Orion 

in January 

オリオン座不断の視線睦月かな

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my long dark

night of disbelief

a cold moon

寒月や不信の続く長き夜

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

Inspired by ten English haiku by Kenneth Daniels, 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). 

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Bio:

My name is Kenneth Daniels, a member of Science of Spirituality Meditation Center, www.sos.org, under the guidance of Sant Rajinder Singh ji.

I began writing haiku in 2009 on Facebook. I live in Georgetown, Guyana, South America and have not yet visited the countries of the four seasons. My haiku are therefore purely imaginative but based on personal experience in my life, self introspection and aspirations shaped by the themes of meditation, fellowship and brotherhood. 

Besides haiku and other Japanese forms, I write couplets and now attempting to do English Doha (taken from India) poems.

My blog is ” The Lotus”@drshn3.wordpress.com 

I believe the hope of humanity lie in Meditation on the Inner Light and Sound Current with the guidance of a Spiritual Teacher and the goal of life is Self Knowledge and God Realization.