Haiku beyond Earth「天上俳句会」Haiku by Tuyet Van Do (3)

Haiku by Tuyet Van Do (Australia)

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on a pilgrimage –
shadow of followers
on the footpath

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巡礼や歩道に映る影法師

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

on a pilgrimage –
shadow of followers
on the footpath

~ The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue, 30th March 2022

巡礼や歩道に映る影法師

mid-autumn moon
hanging on the front porch
cellophane lanterns

~ The Japan Society’s Haiku Corner, Week 39, September 2023

中秋の名月の射す玄関のポーチに掛かる提灯六つ

shopping centre
a toddler crying
on santa’s lap

~ haikuNetra Journal Issue 1.4, December 2023

ショッピングセンターの中泣く子ありサンタの膝で幼児が一人

post heavy rain
white fungus
sprouting on the logs

~ Triya Mag, Basant Edition, February 2024

大雨後丸太に生える白い菌

sharing truth …

a poet labels me 

anti vax

~ Synchronized Chaos, 1st July 2024

ある詩人私のことを呼んでいる「反ワクチン派」ほんとの話

garden party
between conversations
dusk chorus

~ Time Haiku, Issue 60, August 2024

ガーデンのパーテイ中の会話の間合唱起こる夕暮れの庭

on the footpath
a homeless man reads
today’s newspaper

~ FreeXpressSon, Issue 9, September 2024

歩道にて今日の新聞読んでいる男性一人ホームレスなり

rising sun
glittering pearls
on the spider web

~ Gathering Anthology, September 2024

蜘蛛の巣に真珠の如き日の出かな

first spring walk
in the park
an empty swing

~ The Wise Owl’s The Daily Verse, 15th October, 2024

初散歩空の鞦韆春の園

buzzing bees
in the flower bed
a single red tulip

~ Fireflies’ Light, Issue 29, October 2024

ブンブンと蜂飛び回る花壇には赤きチューリップ一本だけ

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

Inspired by ten English haiku by Tuyet Van Do, Hidenori Hiruta translated them literally into ten 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 six 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. 

Brief Bio: 

Tuyet Van Do lives in Australia. 

Her work has appeared in Time Haiku, Pure Haiku, cattails, Synchronized Chaos, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Cold Moon Journal, Narrow Road, Triya Mag, FreeXpresSion, haikuNetra, haikuniverse, Poetry Super Highway, Take 5ive, The Bamboo Hut, Under The Basho among others.

She was nominated for the Touchstone Award for Individual Poems.