Levi's 7th Task
Through the lab window
I watch the tree leaves falling
Suddenly miss you
I watch the tree leaves falling
Suddenly miss you
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Haiku Poems
Haiku has developed as a poem of nature. Haiku poets have used it to express not only natural beauty, but also their sense of empathy with natural things. Sometimes they have described the natural world in order to indicate their subjectivity states of mind. Such a tendency is less common in the West, where nature has been generally regarded as something to be utilized by man.
Monday, September 18, 2006
Monday, September 04, 2006
Fuyu-zare ya
Tani no yuri iki hisome
No wa hadaka
(Georges C. Friedenkraft (France)
Translation by Uchida:
Scarcely clothed in glass
Stealthy lily of the vale
Fleeting naked
The author is a biologist. The way that he writes of the lily in the vale is effective in conveying a sense of precariousness and ephemerality. He may have been recalling “Le Lys dans la Vallée,” a story by the French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
Fuyu kodachi
Fukkura-suzume no
Hana ga saku
Ayako Mizuno (Aichi Prefecture, Japan)
Translation by herself:
Puffy sparrows
Like blossoms on a
Bare winter tree
Sparrows in a winter, curled up and with their feathers ruffled, have a bloated appearance. This was expressed in a well-known verse by J. W. Hacket as “without any necks,” and Kawabata Boosha described them as looking as if they might “bounce upon the ground.” The author of this verse has depicted the sparrows in a naïve and romantic way.
Tani no yuri iki hisome
No wa hadaka
(Georges C. Friedenkraft (France)
Translation by Uchida:
Scarcely clothed in glass
Stealthy lily of the vale
Fleeting naked
The author is a biologist. The way that he writes of the lily in the vale is effective in conveying a sense of precariousness and ephemerality. He may have been recalling “Le Lys dans la Vallée,” a story by the French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
Fuyu kodachi
Fukkura-suzume no
Hana ga saku
Ayako Mizuno (Aichi Prefecture, Japan)
Translation by herself:
Puffy sparrows
Like blossoms on a
Bare winter tree
Sparrows in a winter, curled up and with their feathers ruffled, have a bloated appearance. This was expressed in a well-known verse by J. W. Hacket as “without any necks,” and Kawabata Boosha described them as looking as if they might “bounce upon the ground.” The author of this verse has depicted the sparrows in a naïve and romantic way.
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