October 2019, Tanka                   

2019年10月 短歌

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1

あらくさの下葉深きゆ湧き出づる虫の音ジーと道貫けり

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welling from the depth

of wild grasses’ lower lobe …

the chirping

of insects’ songs

through the path

2

風ゆれて黄花コスモスさはだちぬ今日の元気とシャッターをきる

a gentle breeze…

yellow cosmos smiling

to me …

I activate a camera shutter

for today’s energy

3

朝露にぬるる芒の影ふかくあやしの雲はただよひひろぐ

magical clouds

floating in the sky

spread

the deep shadows of silver grasses

wet with morning dew…

4

あはれなり…蝉をからめし蜘蛛の糸その亡骸を宙天におく

pathos …

silk web twining

a cicada

leaves its lifeless body

amid the sky

5

残月は十六夜なるか身わがみに無き二夜明け空にをさむる

is the moon at dawn

Izayoi?

after two days and nights

when I was not mine

I let myself to the void

※Izayoi / 十六夜 is Japanese and it means “six-day-old moon”. 

6

百穀の神のほほ笑み溢（こぼ）れむか高ひかる日に稲穂煌めく

God of grains

brimming over with smiles…

the sun

shining high

ears of rice-plants brighten

7

昼ふけてをとめ歩みし谿あいに蜻蛉の翅みどり透かしも

daytime deepens…

a girl walking

in the valley 

sees Edenesque green