Haiku by Milan Rajkumar (India)
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budding camellia
caressing once again
this baby bump
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もう一度ふくらむ椿愛撫する
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HAIKU and PHOTOS to Akita’s “Haiku Beyond Earth”
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ethnic conflict
near the village temple
a cicada’s cry
tsuri-doro, issue 18, nov-dec 2023
民族の紛争起こる村内の寺院の近く蝉の鳴き声
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ancient drum sounds
the possessed Maibi utters
a different dialect
Under the Bashō 2023,
(summer kigo)
音響く古代の太鼓儀式かな奉ずる巫女は別の言葉で
A Maibi or an Amaibi is a female priestess or a nun who upholds the sacred rites and rituals of Sanamahism (Meitei religion). Their lives and duties encompass a wide range of activities to the spiritual life of the Meitei ethnicity.
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hills are burnt
for poppy plantation
this losing ‘war on drugs’
Under the Bashō 2023
(Summer kigo)
麻薬との戦いに負け丘陵は焼き払われて芥子栽培に
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Cheiraoba ritual –
on hillocks, ancestors wait
for us with boons
Under the Bashō 2023
(Spring kigo)
チェイラオバ旧正月のお祭りに丘の上では先祖が待てり
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buzzing bees!
youngsters talking about Yaoshang fest
Under the Bashō 2023
(Spring kigo)
蜂のそば若者たちは語り合う伝統的な祭りについて
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budding camellia
caressing once again
this baby bump
Honourable Mention
THF Monthly Kukai, November 2023
もう一度ふくらむ椿愛撫する
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rows and rows
of mosquito nets –
makeshift relief camp
haikuKATHA, Issue 25, November 2023
救援の仮設のキャンプ蚊帳の列
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lofty mountain
hiding amid Shirui lilies
my forgotten poems
Muse India Vasant Ritu- Spring Issue No. 108 (Mar – Apr 2023)
高山は百合の間に隠れてるシルイの丘に我が詩も隠る
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non-stop rain—
in the swollen river
debris of huts
Honourable Mention, Annual Hortensia Anderson Haiku Awards (aha), 2023
降り続く雨に増水川の中小屋の残骸あちこちに見ゆ
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foggy dawn
a fisherman wakes up the lake
with his oar
Second Prize, 40th Indian Kukai. January 2023
霧深し夜明けの漁師舟を漕ぐオールの音に湖目覚む
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Note: Short Japanese Poetry of 17 phonetic Units of 5, 7, 5 Pattern
Inspired by ten English haiku by Milan Rajkumar, Hidenori Hiruta translated them literally into ten Japanese short poems first of all.
As a result, two interpretative Japanese poems of 5, 7, 5 pattern are added to the English haiku as above. They might be haiku（俳句）or senryū（川柳).
And eight of the English haiku are interpreted into Japanese tanka （短歌）form of 5,7,5,7,7 pattern.
This is because English is different from Japanese.
Short Bio:
Milan Rajkumar is a secondary school teacher. He lives in Imphal, Manipur, a corner of North-East India, bordering Myanmar, with his loving wife and two sons.
The present ethnic crisis which starts from May, 2023 and makes more than 60,000 people homeless and nearly 200 people lose their lives in his small state could be seen in some of his works.
His works are selected in many international haikai journals.
Nowadays he writes every day and night under the mentorship of Kala Ramesh.
Photos:
Akita International Haiku Network 
Beautiful haiku, Milan.
Congratulations!