Haiku beyond Earth「天上俳句会」Haiku by Richa Sharma

Haiku by Richa Sharma (India)

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a million twilit reasons but one white stork

whiptail: journal of the single-line poem, Issue 6

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薄明り鸛のみ一羽だけ

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HAIKU and PHOTOS to Akita’s “Haiku Beyond Earth”

1.

today without anything the tea tastes better

seashores, an international journal to share the spirit of haiku, Issue 11

今日の日はお茶が最高他に無し

2.

autumn sea

again reminded about

being a woman 

Honourable Mention in “The 12th Setouchi-Matsuyama International Photo-Haiku Contest in English.”

秋の海再び女目覚めけり

3.

a million twilit reasons but one white stork

whiptail: journal of the single-line poem, Issue 6

薄明り鸛のみ一羽だけ

4.

stirring a Kafkaesque sorrow evening wind 

Failed Haiku Journal, Issue 92

カフカ的悲しみ起こす夜の風

5.

through the gentle gate I follow the rain’s vision

Under the Bashō 2023, Postku

穏やかな門を通って追いかける雨の幻影ひたすら求む

6.

leaning over the ifs and whys of this birth i grow into a winter witch hazel 

whiptail: journal of the single-line poem, Issue 8

「もし」と「なぜ」この誕生を突き詰める我転生し冬の満作

7.

months after

I touched your face

the first wild rose

First Prize, 7th Radmila Bogojevic Haiku Competition

夢の如あなたの顔に触れてから数ヶ月後に最初の野薔薇

8.

balcony bee

only one of us enjoys

the morning breeze

Wales Haiku Journal, Spring ’23 edition

ベランダに蜂飛び回り朝の風楽しむ者は我が家に一人

9.

yellow mangoes

again I play

the psychiatrist

我が庭に黄色いマンゴー実を結ぶ再び我は精神科医に

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

Inspired by nine English haiku by Richa Sharma, Hidenori Hiruta translated them literally into Japanese short poems first of all.

As a result, four 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 five 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. 

BIO:

Richa Sharma resides in Delhi NCR, India.

She loves reading and writing poetry in her leisure time.

Since 2019, her work has appeared in numerous online and print journals dedicated to Japanese short-form poetry like Frogpond, the cherita, Gembun Anthologies, Dua Anthologies, Presence, Akitsu Quarterly, Modern Haiku, Whiptail Journal, Kingfisher, Failed Haiku, Drifting Sands Haibun, Under The Basho, Bones, Seashores, Wales Haiku Journal, #FemkuMag, Nick Virgilio Haiku Association, and others.

Her work has also been selected as Honorable Mentions in the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2021, Africa Haiku Prize 2021, 3rd Star Haiku Contest, Japan Fair 2022 Contest, 3rd International Competition for Haiku Poetry Japanese Films in Valli Cinema, 14th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest, and Heliosparrow Poetry Journal’s Semagrams Contest 2022.

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