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World Haiku Series 2019 (155) Haiku by Ram Krishna Singh

Hiruta Haiku, World Haiku Series 2020/07/10


World Haiku Series 2019 (155)
Haiku by Ram Krishna Singh

cold and naked
in perils of water–
stumbling boatman

寒くて裸
水の危険の中で
つまずく船頭

winter holidays–
my son chases butterflies
flower to flower

冬休み
私の息子は蝶を追いかけます
花から花へ

cleaning the remains
of burnt out earthen lamps–
dusky temple yard

焼けた土製ランプの遺物の掃除をしている
薄暗い寺院の庭

unemptied
the cup of remorse–
begging bowl

空でない
後悔の杯
懇願するようなボウル

too small to explore
the sea of the unknown:
island existence

小さすぎて探索できません
未知の海を
島の存在

filling emptiness
waves dance over each other–
the sky meets the sea

空虚さを埋めている
波はお互いに踊る
空と海が出会う

moon energy
fills up the inner space–
call to wake up

月のエネルギー
内側の空間を埋める
目を覚ますように呼びかける

closed eyes:
smelling the cleavage
crescent wanes

閉じた目
くぼみのにおいをかぐ
三日月がかける

journeying
on a late running train
squirrels frisk near track

旅
遅い電車で
リスが線路の近くではね回る

post-retirement
my watch not worn for days:
horologist

退職後
時計が何日間も身につけられていない
時計学者

— Translated by Hidenori Hiruta


Bio note:
Ram Krishna Singh, an Indian English poet, has been writing for about four decades.
Professionally, till recently, Professor of English at IIT-ISM in Dhanbad, India, he has published more than 160 research articles, 175 book reviews and 42 books, including Sense and Silence: Collected Poems (2010), New and Selected Poems Tanka and Haiku (2012),  You Can’t Scent Me and Other Selected Poems (2016), God Too Awaits Light (2017),  Growing Within (2017, English/Romanian), and There’s No Paradise and Other Selected Poems Tanka & Haiku (2019).
His haiku and tanka have been widely read and appreciated. More at: https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/R.K._Singh ;
email: profrksingh@gmail.com

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