Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi)

再びは生れ来ぬ世か冬銀河　　細見綾子

futatabi wa umarekonu yo ka fuyuginga

            I would not be born

            in this world again

            winter Milky Way

                                                Ayako Hosomi         

from Haiku Saijiki electronic version edited by Kadokawa Shoten, published by Kodansha Sophia Shuppan, Tokyo, Japan, 2018

Fay’s Note:  Ayako Hosomi (1907-1997)

冬の蝶おのが影より薄くあり　甲斐由紀子

fuyu no chō ono ga kage yori usuku ari

            winter butterfly

            it is paler

            than its own shadow

                                                            Yukiko Kai

from Haiku Shiki (Haiku Four Seasons), June 2023 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo

独り言落として枯野から帰る　　山路　花

hitorigoto otoshite kareno kara kaeru

            dropping a monologue

            I return

            from the withered field

                                                            Hana Yamaji

from Haiku Shiki (Haiku Four Seasons), June 2023 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo

音なく雪　死にも跫音ないだらう　　佐藤りえ

oto naku yuki     shi  nimo kutsuoto naidarō

            snow without a sound

                    a death does not have

                     footsteps, either

                                                            Rie Sato

from Haiku Shiki (Haiku Four Seasons), June 2023 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo

鯨みな戦争のこと知つており　　仲　寒蟬

kujira mina sensō no koto shitteori

            whales

            all of them know

            about a war

                                                Kansen Naka

from Gendai Haiku, #720, June 2025 Issue, Gendai Haiku Kyokai, Tokyo, Japan