HAIKU NOIR -3.

HAIKU NOIR – 3.

Haiku responses by Gabriel Rosenstock, in Irish and English, to old photographs with versions in Japanese by Mariko Sumikura (Kyoto) and in Scots by John McDonald (Edinburgh)

(Jules Aarons)

an dtiocfaidh sé

cad is dóigh leat?

síc ag marcaíocht ar chamall

 

is he going to turn up

whad’ya say?

a sheik on his camel

 

彼が来る

きみはどう言う

駱駝の長老

wull he win til
whit think ye?
a sheik on’s caumel

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/fc/64/91/fc6491f6c55abcbf4ea721aa97905591.jpg

(Jules Aarons)

ní chailltear go brách aon ní –

siopaí fuinneoige

ó laetha ár n-óige

 

nothing is lost forever –

shop windows 

of our youth 

 

失うものなし

我らが青春

ショウウインドゥ

naethin’s tint fir aye –

shap windaes
o oor youtheid
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/d6/37/d6/d637d65c3ead5931d24d52430e97a59a.jpg

(Berenice Abbott)

 

a Rolls Royce it ain’t

but it’s all I got –

popcorn man

 

いや ロールスロイスじゃない

が、俺の一切じゃ

ポップコーン屋

naw, it’s no a Rolls Royce
bit’s aw a’ve gote –

popcorn chiel

 

ní haon Rolls Royce í

ach níl agam ach í –

fear an ghráin rósta

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/552676185500478838/

(Boris Yaro)

牛の声

耳ざわりよく

好天の丘

 

cantie tae hearken tae . . .
the rowtin o the coos
on the sinny braeside

 

aoibhinn le clos  . . .

géimneach na mbó

ar thaobh na gréine den chnoc

pleasant to hear  . . .

lowing of cows

on the sunny flank of a hill
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/468444798713676628/

(William Carter)

マヨを出た

アメリカンドリーム―

目覚めれば

a gaed frae Mayo
follaein the Yankee drame –

syne waukent oop

d’fhágas Maigh Eo
chun aisling Mheiriceá a leanúint –

is dhúisíos

I left Mayo

to follow the American dream –

and woke up

http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/95625103658/william-carter-the-bowery-new-york-city

(Garry Winogrand)

手をつないで！

ロシアが爆弾

落とすんだ

 

haud ma haun!
yon Ruskies micht drap a bomb
onie meenit

beir ar lámh orm!

d’fhéadfadh na Rúisigh buama a scaoileadh

nóiméad ar bith

take my hand!

the Russkies could drop a bomb

any minute

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4065/4252209294_e88d31147c_o.jpg

行くところ

父のごと　子のごと―

イスタンブールのヨーグルト売り

 

thayr he gaes
lik faither lik sin –

the yoghurt cadger o Istanbul

 

mar a bhíos an cú mór

bíonn an coileán –

díoltóir iógairt Iostanbúl

 

there he goes

like father like son –

the yoghurt seller of Istanbul

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/302867143667468618/

(Rimaldas Vikšraitis)

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/452400725046038992/

a berserk cuckoo

sings all day:

oh, lithuania, lithuania

 

気が立つ郭公

ひねもす歌う

ああリトアニア、リトアニア

 

a wud gowk
croons the day lang:

oh, lithuania, lithuania

 

cuach mhire

an lá ar fad:

ó, a liotuáin, a liotuáin

 

(Romualdas Pozerskis)

the day agane
a peerie chiel gies aw’s laneliness
tae the sea

今日もまた

侏儒が孤独を

海に放る

arís inniu

bronnann firín a uaigneas go léir

ar an muir

today again

a little man gives all his loneliness

to the sea
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/259097784790092684/

(Leonard Freed)

待つ甲斐はあるもの

ローマ　トラステヴェーレ

聖夜の皿

aye wirth bidein fir –

Yule denner in Trastevere
Rome

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/6c/77/56/6c7756097846a83d0806096c975aa0fe.jpg

is fiú feitheamh leis –

dinnéar na Nollag in Trastevere

an Róimh

always worth waiting for –

Christmas dinner in Trastevere

Rome

(Leon Levinstein)

 

暮らしあり

いつものように

八番のバスからの眺め

life
as eeswal . . .
gliskit frae a nummer echt bus

 

an saol

mar is gnách  . . .

radharc ó bhus uimhir a hocht

life

as usual . . .

view from the number eight bus

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/556898310141745586/

 

愛しパパ

ご帰還はいつ？

兵の宿

 

dear faither
whan’ll ye be hame?
airmy hooer-hoose

a dhaidí dhil

cathain a bheir sa bhaile?

drúthlann mhíleata

dear daddy

when are you coming home?

military brothel
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/460141286908674700/

(Joseph Czarnecki)

それを見よ

血も凍りつく

アウシュビッツの落書き

 

tak tent
the bluid’ll jeel…
Auschwitz graffiti

 

féach air

reofaidh an fhuil  . . .

graifítí Auschwitz

look at it

the blood will freeze  . . .

Auschwitz graffiti
https://fansinaflashbulb.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/the-lost-art-of-auschwitz/

(Pool/Getty Images)

国境ある冥府へ！

涙いつ止む

韓国よ

tae hell wi mairches!
whan’ll the greitin en?
Korea

to hell with borders!

when will tears stop flowing?

Korea

go hifreann le teorainneacha

deireadh le deora!

an Chóiré
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/481463016392052077/

(Romualdas Požerskis)

simmer days . . .
pruivin the furst pree
an the hinmaist

 

夏の日や・・・

初キスの味

終いキス

laetha an tsamhraidh . . .

blas na chéad phóige

blas na póige deiridh

 

summer days  . . .

taste of the first kiss

and the last

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/506655026808211357/

laetha an tsamhraidh . . .

blas na chéad phóige

blas na póige deiridh

 

summer days  . . .

taste of the first kiss

and the last
Gabriel Rosenstock’s latest volume of haiku is Stillness of Crows.

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