It's Next Door to Spring (Three Haikus)
To come through little light
I learnt by hearsay there's a sick person
the house cold winter tonight
寒灯や病む人ありと伝え聞く
(Oral Japanese)
Kan-tou ya
yamu hito ari to
tsutae kiku
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In my garden crimson camellia
veiled in white snow to fall silently
the third times in this year
紅椿ことし三度の雪衣
(Oral Japanese)
Beni-tsubaki
kotoshi sando no
yuki-goromo
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Mild and warm this morning
Still though not to remove shelters from snow
It's next door to spring
雪除けをはずせぬあしたの春隣
(Oral Japanese)
Yukiyoke wo
hazusenu ashita no
haru tonari
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lovely
Your haiku are delicate, the third is my favorite.
All are lovely, though.
raskin
Thanks raskin
Dear raskin,
Thank you so much for your comment.
I want to find and to write a keen sense of beauty on everyday ordinary affairs.
By the way spring is long in coming.
I think I will go to view the plum blossoms to the mountain garden next sunday.
In Japan, plum flower was called "The Elder of Flowers" in old literature as it blossoms to take the initiative in every spring flowers. And "The Young" is cherry. It is an interesting, is't it?
Thank you.
Tadami Yamada
It's Next Door to Spring
joseph l. gause
Tadami:
I know you are deeply concerned for the sick person in the cold Winter house, which you expressed so delicately;
I also surmise, that in Japanese, your Haiku is even deeper.
My warmest regards for your skill and your compassion.
Your good friend Joseph
Thanks Joseph
Joseph;
Thank you for your kindly comment.
I know very well the hard works of who care for a sick person all through the night, because I had been nursing my 92 old mother for four years in my house.
Although the both my father and my mother died in spring, March, but everyone are waiting spring coming.
I am going to go view the plum blossoms to the plum garden in the suburbs today.
Your friend Tadami Yamada