English Haiku Poemsｂy Masako Takahashi

WISTERIA

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　　　The misty morning;

An ayu fish is so cold

Held in my hand.

２

In the full moonlight　

Cosmos flowers standing high

On the dark ground..

３

Rustling green popular

The tune of the guitar coming

Out of the radio.

４

All around myself

Green pampas grasses swaying

In the summer breeze.

５

Foggy hollyhochs;

They are liable to bloom up

Near the railroad.

６

Amaryllises -

Rain is shining and falling

Onto the earth

７

Around the well

Amaryllises flowering;

My old home

８

I am thinking of

Linden trees sprouting high up

In distant Berlin.

９

The dusk on the lake;

Ripples glisten with the reflection

Of early summer.

１０

In the waste garden

Water lilies come out of

The water, and bright.

１１

A high-rise building

Makes the new May sky on its glass

In the morning sun.

１２

The small wild roses

Like a beginning of love

They really seem so.

１３

The pale purple blossoms

Of paulownias - the distant

Mountains lie blue-green.

１４

The wind has ceased -

The secret time domes down to

The blooming roses.

１５

The wind has calmed down -

The secret time comes down to

The garden roses.

１６

Onto the water

White blossoms of wisterias

Are spilling their smell.

１７

When I feel lonely

I hold the poems in my mind;

Paulownia blossoms.

１８

Falling bamboo leaves –

As if they were falling down

Inside my heart.

１９

Twilight has gone and

mother and child comming to

the light in green leaves.

２０

The word my late father

is in a dictionary - - coolness of

rainy season.

２１

The magnolias

decaying - -and then there lie

mountains and rivers.

.

２２

Twilight has gone out

mother and child coming to

light in the green leaves.

２３

The word my late father

Is in a dictionary—

coolness of rainy season.