Haiku by R. Suresh babu (India)
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night bus
the full moon
gets a free ride
(Creatrix haiku, March 2023)
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夜行バス満月無料乗車かな
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HAIKU to Akita’s “Haiku Beyond Earth”
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between silence
the librarian
slurps his tea
(tsuri-dōrō journal)
図書の司書沈黙帯に茶を啜る
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interlude
the actors puff
on a single cigarette
(Haiku dialogue, The Haiku Foundation)
一本の幕間の葉巻役者達
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pension day
the purple cream
on her wrinkles
(Poetry Pea journal)
紫の色のクリーム塗られけり彼女の皺に年金の日に
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autumn sunset
grandpa refills
his clay chillum
(haikuNetra Journal)
おじいちゃん粘土のチラム補充する秋の夕焼け魅惑一杯
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naming ceremony
bubbles
on the baby’s lips
(haikuNetra Journal)
赤ちゃんの唇に泡命名式
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summer noon
a peacock
without his tail
(fresh out magazine, 2023)
夏の昼尾のない孔雀摩訶不思議
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winter night
the drum beater warms his drums
in the pyre
(From the Plum Tree Tavern journal)
冬の夜ドラマー達が薪を焚き彼らのドラム暖かくする
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starry night —
milk
in my baby’s breath
(Issue #15 of tsuri-dōrō)
星空の美しき夜赤ちゃんがミルクの匂う息を吐きけり
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night bus
the full moon
gets a free ride
(Creatrix haiku, March 2023)
夜行バス満月無料乗車かな
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first rain . . .
in the fishing net
fingerlings
初雨の漁網の中に幼魚かな
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Note: Short Japanese Poetry of 17 phonetic Units of 5, 7, 5 Pattern
Inspired by ten English haiku by R. Suresh babu, Hidenori Hiruta translated them literally into 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 are interpreted into Japanese tanka（短歌）poems of 5,7,5,7,7 pattern.
This is because English is different from Japanese.
Bio:
R. Suresh babu hails from Thiruvalla in Kerala.
His Haiku, Senryu, Haiga, Cherita, Gembun, Tanka and Haibun have been published in various anthologies and journals.
His haiku was shortlisted for the Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems in 2022.
He is the winner of the World Online Kukai, Kyoto Haiku Project 2021 and received an Honorable mention in the 75th Bashō Memorial English Haiku Contest, 2021.
He has done the art works for the Haiku anthology Bull-Headed, edited by Corine Timmer.
Akita International Haiku Network 