Haiku beyond Earth「天上俳句会」Haiku by Vladislava Simonova (8)

Haiku by Vladislava Simonova (Ukraine)

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Пишу на песке.

Вновь утащила волна

хайку в дальний путь.

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Writing on the sand –

and again a wave drives my haiku

So far away.

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砂上の句再び波の持ち去れり

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Winner of JAL Foundation Award（JAL財団賞) in the Russian section of the 7th Japan-Russia Haiku Contest 2018.

HAIKU to Akita’s “Haiku Beyond Earth”

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Drumming of the rain,
But there’s nothing I can play 

To join in its song.

ひたすらに雨のドラムの音を聴く

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To the broken willow,
Bowing low above the path,
Everyone bows down.

行人や折れし柳に頭下ぐ

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Unlucky poet!
Whatever you try to say,

It all has been said…

ああ詩人運の女神の笑みを待つ

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Cosmos flower, —
The last one left in this garden,

Its petals now fall…

この庭の最後の花や秋桜

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  I open my umbrella:
Today I want to listen
To every raindrop.

傘の下雨粒全て聴かまほし

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  A windy night —
Under the autumn rain,
The maple is unrecognizable.  

風の夜の秋雨隠す楓かな

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  Like a late apple,
The moon decided to hide
Among the branches.

収穫の遅き林檎に月隠る

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  Into the warm home,
On chilled fingers, I brought

The scent of chrysanthemums.  

菊の香を家に携ふ冷えた指

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  Ah, how many leaves
The strong wind is tearing off!
I’ll curtain the window…

強風だ、葉が何枚も飛ばされる急いで窓に覆いを掛ける

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The plum entwined
With the grapevine.

The two leaves fall at once.  

梅の木が葡萄の蔓と絡み合いそれぞれの葉が一度に落ちる

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

Inspired by ten English haiku by Vladislava Simonova, Hidenori Hiruta translated them literally into Japanese short poems first of all.

As a result, eight 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 two interpretative Japanese tanka（短歌）poems of 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 pattern are added to the English haiku as above.

This is because English is different from Japanese.

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Bio:

Vladislava Simonova was born on March 23, 1999 in Kharkiv into a family of a soldier and a teacher. She graduated from art school in the violin class and was interested in writing poetry and photography since her school days.

When she was hospitalized for heart disease at the age of 14, she found a book of Japanese poetry in her room, which prompted her to start writing haiku.

At the age of 18, she won the top prize in the student division of an international haiku contest held in Akita City, Japan.

Since 2019, her haiku have been featured in the Akita International Haiku Network and in the e-journal Serow (Kamoshika).

With the support of the Ukrainian Embassy in Japan, her first haiku collection, 『ウクライナ、地下壕から届いた俳句』 , or Ukraine, Haiku from the Underground Shelter: The Wings of a Butterfly, was published by Shueisha International in August 2023.

In April 2024, her second haiku collection, 『俳句ウクライナから日本へ　297歩』, or Haiku: From Ukraine to Japan, 297 Steps, was published by Rekishi Tanbosha in Japan.

Her haiku have been put in various newspapers and online media, including Chunichi Shimbun, Kyodo News, Akita Sakigake Shimpo, Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, San-in Chuo Shimpo, NHK’s ETV Special and so on.