HAIKU NOIR – 4.

HAIKU NOIR -4 : Haiku in Irish and English by Gabriel Rosenstock in response to old photographs, with versions in Japanese by Mariko Sumikura (Kyoto)and Scots by John McDonald (Edinburgh).

(Richard Kalvar)

サンタ老（多分いないが）

神に祈りし

（多分いないが）

 

santa (whae michtnae exeest)
incaain tae a god
(whae michtnae exeest)

 

santa (nach ann dó seans)

ag guí chun dé

(nach ann dó seans)

santa (who may not exist)

praying to a god

(who may not exist)
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/409686897329122738/
(Rimaldas Vikšraitis)

 leaving the door open –

all his dreams

take flight

 

戸開け放し

夢は枯野を

駆け回る

 

throuch an apen door
aw’s drames
teuk flicht

 

d’fhág sé an doras ar leathadh –

theith a chuid aislingí

go léir

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/156218680801760292/

lonely little man  . . .

if only his goat

could talk to him

 

ひとりぼち

牧童の夢は

山羊話すこと

 

lanely bodach . . .
gin anely his gait
cud collogue wi’m

firín uaigneach . . .

dá mbeadh a ghabhar

in ann labhairt leis

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/302022718741685082/
(August Sander)

世の女

沈む目が好き

鼠捕り器の行商人

 

weemen
faw fir’s waesome een –

the moose-faw cadger

 

is breá leis na mná iad  . . .

a shúile brónacha –

díoltóir gaistí luch

women love them . . .

his sad eyes –

mousetrap vendor
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/467811480017653867/
(Robert Häusser)

he irons

his own underwear –

head waiter

 

自らで

下着をアイロン

給仕長

 

he airns’s
unnerweir himself –

heid waiter

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/51439620721751209/
smúdálann sé féin

a chuid fo-éadaigh –

príomh-fhreastalaí

(Bruce Gilden)

馴染み三店

サンタクロース

いまや出世す

hauf blootert –

santa claus awmaist fit
tae face the warl

dhá dtrian meisce air –

santa beagnach réidh

chun aghaidh a thabhairt ar an saol

three parts drunk –

santa claus almost ready

to face the world

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/405957353891501107/
(Gérard Castello-Lopes)

新聞売り

男が止まる

明日判り

 

news staund . . .
a chiel hovers ettlin
tae ken about yestreen

seastán nuachtán . . .

stopann fear chun fiosrú
faoin lá inné

news stand . . .

a man pauses to find out

about yesterday
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/135108057543140561/
(Vladimir Bazan)

まだ思う

ずっと思う―

天国に鼠おる？

 

fir lang eneuch
she’s wunnert –

are thayr mice in heaven?

 

tá sí á rá léi féin

le fada anois –

bhfuil lucha ar neamh?

she’s been wondering now

for a long time –

are there mice in heaven?
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/166844361172058089/
(Robert Häusser)

もう友だちじゃない・・・

ベンチを叩く

雨の音

 

lang tint freens . . .
blatter o weet
on a bink

cairde nach bhfuil linn níos mó  . . .

cleatar na báistí

ar bhinse

 

friends no longer with us  . . .

clatter of rain

on a bench

http://36.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk44i4vpG11qdjto7o1_1280.jpg
(Mary Ellen Mark)

ラスベガス

壁の法王

何も見ず

 

a wa
in Las Vegas . . .
the Pape seis naethin

 

falla

in Las Vegas . . .

ní fheiceann an Pápa faic

 

a wall

in Las Vegas . . .

the Pope sees nothing

https://fansinaflashbulb.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/mary-ellen-mark-1940-2015/
(Michal Pedziwiatr)

boyhood days

krek krek krek –

the voice of the corncrake

 

少年時代から

クルッ　クルッ　クルッ―

ウズラクイナの声

 

youtheid days
krek krek krek –

the vice o the craik

 

laethanta na hóige

creic creic creic –

traonach

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/94716398391726977/

(W. Eugene Smith)

弱い獣

我らと違わず

本当は

hen-hertit beastie!
we dinnae differ ower muckle
gin truith be tellt

timorous beastie!

we are not so different

if the truth be told

ainmhí beag faiteach!

ár ndála féin

go deimhin
https://fansinaflashbulb.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/w-eugene-smiths-germ-free-animals/

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/383157880773132005/

(Fan Ho)

ó chéim go céim

is ann don ghealach –

compánach na mara

in all of its phases

the moon is there –

companion to the sea

 

種々相に

月の影あり

海の友

 

in aw’ts phases
the muin’s aye thayr –

marra tae the sea

(Vladimir Bazan)

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/171066485824518164/

鳥はよし！

話たっぷり

日々の

it’s weill fir the burds!
they collogue
ilka day

nach méanar do na héin!

is iad i gcomhrá gach lá

lena chéile

it’s well for the birds!

they have their conversations

daily

(Lou Bernstein)

お国だと！

お国って何だ？

バナナ汁

 

the nation!
whit’s yon?
bananny bree

 

an náisiún!

cad is náisiún ann?

anraith bananaí

the nation!

what’s a nation?

banana soup
https://fansinaflashbulb.wordpress.com/2015/07/04/the-pursuit-of-happiness/
(Harry Burton)

観劇券？

誰が要るんだ！

タイムスクエアのラマ

tickets fir a shaw?
whae needs thaim!
a lama in Time Square

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/underrated-iconic-photos
ticéid amharclainne?

cén gá atá leo!

láma in Time Square

theatre tickets?

who needs them!

a lama in Time Square

Something different:

https://www.theculturium.com/author/gabriel-rosenstock/

 

Gabriel Rosenstock’s latest haiku volume is called Stillness of Crows.

 

 

 

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