HAIKU in English
　　　　　　　 　 Composed by K.Y

　HAIKU is one of the traditional poetry in Japan and the shortest form of poems all over the world. The characteristics of HAIKU are as follows:

　　　・5-7-5 syllbles (not strictly)
　　　・three lines
　　　・seasonal word
　　　・simple and objective description
　　　・insight into the real life of being

　　Making HAIKU in English is not so easy for us. However, it is a nice media to use for communicating with each other through the Internet. We feel that the age of HAIKU communication comes just around the corner.

HAIKU in Spring Season

Your letter
has come; the odor of
snow-melting

Buds of Ume flowers
are trembleing in the height
of cold wind

Yellow daffodils
flick away the particles
of spring light

Spinning
down in the twilight---
petals of cherry blossoms

A long way away
from your eyes ---
spring river

In full bloom
in a light rain---
Japanese Iris

Colors of rain
become more and more purple---
iris garden


HAIKU in Summer Season
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
Children
are chasing after another on the beach,
summer-hat sparkling in white

Nothing except for
white sails and sea breeze--
Shinojima Island

Spears of summer grass
grow up over my chair---
sick in bed

Shining and bright
in pure white ---
her summer dresses

Dead centipede
lies down hard and dry---
the end of the rainy season

Sound of cascade
out of the inside of my body---
sound of silence

I sit in the course
of early summer breeze ---
convalescent days

Two crayfish
are rattling in the darkness in the kitchen
at midnight

Spinning up
to the summer's sky---
my wife's parasol


HAIKU in Autumn Season 　
　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　
I recall the days
when I offered wild cosmos flowers to you
as a token of my youth

A black hole
is being in inner world---
flowers of cosmos

The tower of night:
no reflection of light
in my sight

Under the oak tree
shoes of my sons are left alone:
evening in summer

The shadow of
a dead cat on the street
is getting longer in autumn evening

The sky of Kentucky
are left on the eyes of the dead squirrel
along the road

Countless
of grains of corns and black earth ---
Ohio State

A paper plane
glides in the course of
autumn wind

The red moon
is hanging from the night---
Halloween

Strike the massive iron
until the iron face comes
out of itself


HAIKU in Winter Season
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
Yellow lemons
are floating in my memory
for my dark ten years

Freezed stars
are illuminating on the top of the trees---
the sacred and waste land

A flake of
snow gathers
the numberless snow

Supporting
the big, grey sky---
winter trees

Shadows of trees
are running on and on---
December