New Haikuist Club 5th issue: Dec. 10,1997

NAKAI, Tomo

負けちゃった顔より大きい仁王の手

make chatta kao yori okii niou no te

Temple guard statues

have very big hands---

far bigger than my skull

NAKAI, Hirokazu

帰り待つ家の明かりにオリオン座

kaeri matsu ie no akari ni orion za

On my way home

Lights glitter in the houses

Orion in the sky

A lighted home

waits for a man's return ---

Orion glitters in the sky

WATANABE, Hiroyuki

教え子の駅員の息白き真夜

osiego no eki-in no iki shiroki mayo

In the midnight

a station staff breathes a white breath ---

A former student!

AKINAGA, Eriko

賢治詩碑りんご剥きくれし館主かな

kenji shi hi ringo muki kureshi kanshu kana

An innkeeper peels

a rosy apple for me

at the monument of Kenji's poem

Jerry Gordon

Knitting on the train,

A serious faced woman smiles

when her phone rings

毛糸編む女がにこり携帯鳴る

keito amu on-na ga nikori keitai naru

Davina Robinson-Soga

A young woman sleeps

Standing on a crowded train,

Dreaming in gestures

立ち眠り満員電車は夢の中

tachi nemuri man-indensha wa yume no naka