Haiku beyond Earth「天上俳句会」Haiku by Anju Kishore

Haiku by Anju Kishore (India)

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crescent moon

the sharp edge

of longing

(The Heron’s Nest June 2022)

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三日月や鋭き刃もて憧れる

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HAIKU to Akita’s “Haiku Beyond Earth”

1.

crescent moon

the sharp edge

of longing

(The Heron’s Nest June 2022)

三日月や鋭き刃もて憧れる

2.

homeless boy
the lake wears
a tattered sky

(haikuKATHA Issue 5

Triya Mag Basant Edition Feb 2023)

ホームレス少年一人湖畔にて眺む湖面にぼろぼろの空

3.

fall breeze

around the girl’s feet

a rustle of laughter

(LEAF: Journal of The Daily Haiku Issue 2, Dec 2023)

秋風や少女の脚下笑い声

4.

shooting star

a wish to wish

for nothing

(haikuKATHA Issue 17)

流れ星何も望まぬ願いかな

5.

pancake moon

stories the beggar feeds

her toddler

(THF Haiku Dialogue,Mar 2023, Editor Carole MacRury

Also chosen by Richard Grahn for The Abstractaphy Initiative’s Haiga Challenge 2024)

パンケーキ月を見ながら食べている乞食の幼児ケーキを食べる

 6.

golden hour

arranging marigolds

in the geriatric ward

First place

Glass House Haiku Award 2024 Curated by Narrow Road Journal

Jury Shobhana Kumar and Geethanjali Rajan

病棟の楽しい時間老人がマリーゴールド花瓶に生ける

7.

at the bend

of a dead-end

morning glories

(Golden Haiku 2024)

朝顔や袋小路の曲り角

8. 

cracked soil

this thirst for more

high-rises

(The Abstractaphy Initiative, Feb 2024)

割れた土高層ビルを求めけり

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

Inspired by eight English haiku by Anju Kishore, Hidenori Hiruta translated them literally into Japanese short poems first of all.

As a result, five 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 three of the English haiku are 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:

Formerly a finance professional, Anju Kishore is a Pushcart Prize nominee and an award-winning editor of numerous free-verse anthologies.

Her book of poems, ‘…and I Stop to Listen’ was published in 2018.

Her haiku and haibun, some of them prize-winning, are part of many journals like haikuKATHA, Drifting Sands Haibun, Prune Juice, Heron’s Nest, LEAF, and Contemporary Haibun Online.

Her free-verse poetry is part of significant anthologies like Aatish 2 and The Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English.