Butterfly Dream: Writing Name Haiku by H. Gene Murtha

English Original

forty-six years

writing my name

yellow in snow

TempsLibre,  July, 2002

H. Gene Murtha

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

四十六歲

用尿液寫下我的名字

它在雪地裡泛黃

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

四十六岁

用尿液写下我的名字

它在雪地里泛黄

Bio Sketch

H. Gene Murtha, a naturalist and poet, sponsored and judged the first haiku contest for the inner city children of Camden, NJ., for the Virgilio Group, of which he was a lifetime member. He was widely published for his work in haikai literature from the USA to Japan. 

Butterfly Dream: Steam Train Haiku by Srinivasa Rao Sambangi

English Original

steam train

bit by bit the wind

paints my face

Cattails, April 2020

Srinivasa Rao Sambangi

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

蒸氣火車

一點一點地微風

描繪著我的臉

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

蒸气火车

一点一点地微风

描绘着我的脸

Bio Sketch

Srinivasa Rao Sambangi, a Master Black Belt in Six Sigma, is currently working in a pharma company in Hyderabad, India. His haiku are regularly published in all the leading haiku journals

One Man's Maple Moon: Robin and Mussorgsky Tanka by M. Kei

English Original

a robin's

shiny black head

in the rain

Mussorgsky

on the stereo

Eucalypt, 4, 2008

M. Kei

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

一隻知更鳥

閃亮的黑色的頭

在雨中

立體聲響流洩出

穆索斯基的音樂

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

一只知更鸟

闪亮的黑色的头

在雨中

立体声响流泄出

穆索斯基的音乐

Bio Sketch

M. Kei is a tall ship sailor and award-winning poet who lives on Maryland’s Eastern shore. He is the editor of Atlas Poetica: A Journal of World Tanka. His most recent collection of poetry is January, A Tanka Diary. He is also the author of the award-winning gay Age of Sail adventure novels, Pirates of the Narrow Seas. He can be followed on Twitter @kujakupoet, or visit AtlasPoetica.org.

One Man's Maple Moon: Waves Tanka by Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

English Original

sitting

with my toes curled

in the sand ...

alone not yet alone

I travel with the waves

Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

坐在沙灘上

把腳趾蜷縮

在沙裡 ...

獨自一人, 卻不孤單

我隨波逐流

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

坐在沙滩上

把脚趾蜷缩

在沙里 ...

独自一人, 却不孤单

我随波逐流

Bio Sketch

Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo is a self-published Filipino author of Twin deLights: Haikuna Matata and Hainaku! It's Pundemic! I am Balot. Acovida dito. Her poetry has been published in anthologies and journals like The Haiku Foundation, Presence, Mainichi, ESUJ-H, and Lothlorien Poetry Journal.

A Room of My Own: Window Gaze Haiku

window gaze

still the motel neon lights

and this car glare

FYI: This mood haiku could be read as a sequel to mine below:

alone

in a creaking bed

motel night

Whispers, May 16, 2018

And for more examples, see To the Lighthouse: Mood Haiku & Tanka

Added:

white picket fence

both sides of silencing

the silent

Added: Trump Empire, Inc, XXXI

one, big, beautiful bill ...

a hushed silence 

sweeps the briefing room

then a loud fart 

echoes, echoing

FYI: The Bill proposes approximately $3.7 trillion in tax cuts over a 10-year period. And Chris Lehmann remarked: the largest upward redistribution of wealth under any piece of legislation in American history

And ABC News, June 3: Elon Musk attacks Trump's funding bill: 'Disgusting abomination'

This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination...the bill "will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden America citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt." He later posted that "Congress is making America bankrupt."

Added:

non-stop rain

another war on drugs raging

inside of my friend

Butterfly Dream: Walls Haiku by Robert D. Wilson

English Original

unable

to rest, the walls ...

evening chill

the Living Haiku Anthology, February 14 2016

Robert D. Wilson

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

無法

休息, 這些牆壁 ...

夜晚的寒冷

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

无法

休息, 这些墙壁 ...

夜晚的寒冷

Bio Sketch

Robert D. Wilson is Co-Owner of Simply Haiku.

To the Lighthouse: Mood Haiku & Tanka

Mood haiku and tanka are the sub-genres of mood poetry, a type of poetry with the focus on moods, which are created by the poet for the readers and to evoke certain feelings in them. Mood is sometimes described as the “emotional landscape” of the poem. It is the feelings that the reader gets from reading the poem as a whole.

Selected Mood Haiku:

tiny sips

to make it last

autumn twilight

Bill Kenney

night chill

rearranging the order

of canned soups

Fay Aoyagi

falling leaves ...

reading the same line

over and over

Brendon Kent 

house clearance

room by room by room

my mother disappears

Alan Summers

living alone

telling one cry of a crow

from another

Elmedin Kadric

the news on mute ...

I'm quiet and quieter

as my old dog sleeps

Chen-ou Liu

                                                                 to be continued ...

Selected Mood Tanka:

at dawn

on a mountain pass

in the drifting fog

almost imperceptible

the smell of green tomatoes

Kenji Miyazawa 

into a pair of stars

we will turn—till then

let us never recall

autumn’s voice

we heard in the same bed

Akiko Yosano 

with each quiver

it is laying an egg

a white moth

why did it enter my mind

this frosty night?

Samio Maekawa

dusk gathers

with the alchemy

of ravens . . .

alone, in a clearing

my heart picked clean

Robin Anna Smith

and when 

the sand runs out? 

the stillness 

of the hourglass 

and I are one

Denis M. Garrison

a drizzly day,

with yellow leaves pasted

to wet black pavement --

returning the library books

she left behind

Larry Kimmel

migrant

detention

sunset

ladders

the sky

LeRoy Gorman

New Delhi draped

in layers of toxic haze

this sense of dread

as October rolls around

chokingly dark... and darker

a girl

sticks her tongue out

at snowflakes

her mother's smiling face

in the shelter window

Chen-ou Liu

                                                                 to be continued ...