Haiku by Natalia Kuznetsova (Russia)
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double rainbow
over the cemetery
cicada’s song
/ Poetry Pea, August 2023/
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墓地の空二重の虹に蝉の歌
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HAIKU and PHOTOS to Akita’s “Haiku Beyond Earth”
double rainbow
over the cemetery
cicada’s song
/ Poetry Pea, August 2023/
墓地の空二重の虹に蝉の歌
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a blind busker …
Vivaldi’s outburst of spring
rips the dark
/ The 15th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku contest 2023, selected/
大道に盲目の人芸演ずヴィヴァルディの春闇を切り裂く
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watching clouds
float above …
why worry
/ UtB May 2023/
浮雲を眺めてしばし憂ひ無し
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Harvest Moon …
please, do not disturb
soldiers’ dreams
/Asahi Haikuist Network, November 3, 2023/
収穫の月にお願い一つあり兵士の夢を邪魔しないでね
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autumn blues …
in the looking glass
sadness
/ Haiku Dialogue, November 2023/
秋の鬱鏡の中に悲しみが
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sunken skies
over the soldiers’ graves …
unborn children
/ World Haiku Review 2023, Haiku of Merit/
生まれ来る子供たち見ぬ兵士たちお墓の上の打ち沈む空
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Photo 1
Mourning Moon …
counting and recounting
friends gone
/ Lavana Kray’s BLACK & WHITE HAIGA/HAISHA blog, March 2024/
悼む月数えて語る友の逝く
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Photo 2
heated debates
over burning issues …
unheated homes
/ Lavana Kray’s BLACK & WHITE HAIGA/HAISHA blog, January2024 based on the haiku published in the CHRYSANTHEMUM magazine #30, 2023/
緊急の課題の議論白熱す暖房の無い住宅の危機
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photo 3
day in day out …
my solitude slips into
emptiness
/ Lavana Kray’s BLACK & WHITE HAIGA/HAISHA blog, February 2021/
日々深む私の孤独空しさへ
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Photo 4
little miracles
we pass by …
early spring
/ Lavana Kray’s BLACK & WHITE HAIGA/HAISHA blog, April 2024/
早春や小さき奇跡そこここに
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Note: Short Japanese Poetry of 17 phonetic Units of 5, 7, 5 Pattern
Inspired by ten English haiku by Natalia Kuznetsova, Hidenori Hiruta translated them literally into ten Japanese short poems first of all.
As a result, six 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).
And four 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.
BIO:
Natalia Kuznetsova, Russia
English language teacher, translator, poet.
She started to write haiku in English in 2007 and since then has participated in numerous competitions worldwide and has received various awards. Her haiku and senryu have been published in many countries in traditional and online publications.
She is included in The Haiku Foundation Registry and is on the list of “European Top Most Creative Haiku Authors” 2010-2023
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