Haiku about Basho's memorial

Matsuo Basho died on November 28, 1694.

According to the lunar calendar, the anniversary of his death fell on October 12 this year.

I visited the poet's statue in Akita, and planned to stay at home and reread his travel journal “The Narrow Road to the Deep North.”

Let me post two haiku I wrote then.

Frozen leaves

carpet Basho's feet

memorial

芭蕉像足元覆ふ霜葉かな

Basho zo ashimoto oou shimoba kana

First hailstone

hits the garden

Basho reread

初霰庭打つ音や芭蕉止む

Hatsu arare uiwa utsu oto ya Basho tomu

These two haiku appeared on the Asahi Haikuist Network by David McMurray on November 20.

Would you please look into the homepage?

The site address is http://www.asahi.com/english/haiku/.

―　Hidenori Hiruta

Haiku about Indian summer

Fortunately, I enjoyed Indian summer, and wrote haiku.

Jersey calf

posing on the grass

Indian summer

The calf's back

paralleling the mountain slope

autumn lea

I tried on translating these into Japanese, but it was difficult.

Instead, I translated them into Japanese in the form of tanka(短歌）, 5-7-5-7-7．

ジャージーの子牛のポーズ澄ましたり秋の草地で

日向に浴す

ja-ji-no

ko ushi no po-zu

sumashi tari

aki no sochi de

hinata ni yokusu

子牛の背山の斜面と並び立ち秋の草地にいと美しき

ko ushi no se

yama no shamen to

narabi tachi

aki no sochi ni

ito utsukusiki

― Hidenori Hiruta

Haiku about Swans

My haiku appeared on the Asahi Haikuist Network by David McMurray on November 6.

Its homepage is : http://www.asahi.com/english/haiku.

Swans depart

from the beech forests

yellow leaves

白鳥の発つﾌﾞﾅの葉や黄色染め

hakucho no tatsu buna no ha ya kiiro zome

I post another haiku of mine here.

Swans repose

in the beech forests

yellow leaves

ﾌﾞﾅの葉や白鳥憩ふ黄色染め

buna no ha ya hakucho ikou kiiro zome

Now, let me post two haiku by Mr. John McDonald, a Scottish poet.

He wrote two haiku about swans in his book titled 'TUIM TIN TASSIE (empty tin cup)'.

fou muin―

on the derk watter

a swan

full moon―

on the dark water

a swan

満月や暗い水面に孤白鳥

mangetsu ya kurai mizumo ni ko hakucho

swans preenin―

kinches

o a luvers' hank

swans preening―

loops

of a lovers' knot

羽づくろひ白鳥輪をかき恋結ぶ

ha zukuroi hakucho wa wo kaki koi musubu

― Hidenori Hiruta

Haiku about Autumn Leaves

My haiku appeared on the Asahi Haikuist Network by David McMurray on October 30.

Its homepage address is : http://www.asahi.com/english/haiku.

An old pond

reflecting red leaves

maple trees

古池に映る紅葉楓かな

furuike ni utsuru momijiba kaede kana

I'd like to post another haiku of mine here.

For red leaves ―

rambling in trees

narrow road

逍遙の奥の細道紅葉狩

shouyou no okuno hosomichi momijigari

Now, let me post haiku by some fellow haiku poets of mine.

hairst mornin ―

maple leaves

on a gean tree

autumn morning ―

maple leaves

on a cherry tree

秋の朝櫻木の上楓の葉

aki no asa sakuragi no ue kaede no ha

by John McDonald, a Scottish poet

autumn daybreak ―

sunlight blazing through

maple leaves

秋の明け紅葉眩む日の光

aki no ake momijiba kuramu hi no hikari

by Joshua Sellers, an American poet

discarded ―

wet leaves

the closest friends

我が友や見る人も無し濡れ落葉

waga tomo ya miru hito mo nashi nure ochiba

by Juhani Tikkanen, a Finnish poet

fallen leaves

these things of past days

up in smoke

昔日を煙と化する落葉かな

sekijitsu wo kemuri to kasuru ochiba kana

by Magyar, an American poet

―　Ｈｉｄｅｎｏｒｉ　Ｈｉｒｕｔａ