Irish Haiku Society

 

Italy

autumn day –

an island in the brown pool,

coffee-machine

 

-- Laura Forgnone (English version by the author and Anatoly Kudryavitsky)

 

 

 

winter day –

in my aunt's drawyer,

a collection of butterflies

 

 

 

red stain

on the carpet –

a snail retreating

 

 

 

lamp burning hot –

a spider escapes

into darkness

 

 

 

October sun –

the last fly strikes

against the pane

 

 

 

turtle pausing    my father's foot

 

 

 

falling leaves

at sunset –

last dragonfly

 

 

 

cherry blossoms in her hair –

the girl buying

a wedding dress

 

 

 

morning fog

young mushrooms

outside my door

 

-- Sara Aguzzoni (English versions by the author and Anatoly Kudryavitsky)

 

 

 

magpie

carrying a crystal –

second sun in the water

 

 

 

the wind in cherry-trees

the pool wearing

a white veil

 

-- Claudia Sandroni (English versions by the author and Anatoly Kudryavitsky)

 

 

 

falling leaves –

black butterflies

against the setting sun

 

-- Elisabetta Tonazzi (English version by the author and Anatoly Kudryavitsky)

 

 

 

a spider

on the white sand –

sea water leaves froth

 

-- Milena Delussi (English version by the author and Anatoly Kudryavitsky)

 

 

 

Bulgaria

 

November sadness –

a waterdrop

down the pane

 

 

 

after rain,

slimy mushrooms among

rotting leaves

-- Ivelina Doicheva (Engslih version by the author and Anatoly Kudryavitsky)

 

 

 

winter solstice –

the fly's

frosen flight

 

-- Ana Doicheva (Engslih version by the author and Anatoly Kudryavitsky)

 

 

 

 

Romania

 

fading moon –

out of the mist,

morning birds' song

 

 

 

softly lit by moonlight,

a sunflower head

on the table

 

 

 

black smoke

coiling up against the moon:

mother's hair

 

 

 

first snow –

children cut the icing

off a cake

 

 

 

the scent of pinewood

blends with my breath –

his perfume

 

 

 

radiant sunbeams

a spider in the centre

of his shining web

 

 

 

steep riverbank –

a duck hides beneath

translucent icicles

 

 

 

how many rainbows

this sunny morning!

mother's necklace

 

 

 

piano music...

a cherry blossom petal

stuck to the wet pane

 

-- Anita Beloiu (English versions by the author and Anatoly Kudryavitsky)

 

 

 

Sweden

 

winter rain –

a withered fir-tree

sliding down the slope

 

-- Svante Welin (English version by the author and Anatoly Kudryavitsky)

 

 

 

Germany

 

Yellowed envelopes...

salty water

in the rock pool

 

-- Volker Gebhart (English version by the author and Anatoly Kudryavitsky)

 

 

India

 

Indian summer –

a dragonfly's shadow

finds its way in the grass

 

 

 

geeze heading

into the yellow sunset –

Indian summer

 

-- Hrishi Ballal

 

 

 

Mongolia

 

Misty sunrise –

tears of birds

shining on leaves

 

 

 

Autumn night –

a girl sighs,

sound of a falling leaf

 

-- Tsogbadrakh Dashdondov (English version by the author and Anatoly Kudryavitsky)

 

 

 

Gabon/France

 

washing on the line

perfume

escaping

-- Francis Landao (Gabon/France)

(English version by the author and Anatoly Kudryavitsky)

 

 
Congo

 

thinking of

buying new clothes -

cherry trees in blossom

 

-- Guy Roger Bakekolo

(English version by the author and Anatoly Kudryavitsky)