#Haiku Happenings #3: Fay Aoyagi’s Today’s Haiku features Tsutomu Koike!
Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi)
卒業すどの子もみんな活火山 小池つと夢
sotsugyô su dono ko minna kakkazan
graduation…
all the children
are live volcanos
Tsutomu Koike
from “Shûchakueki” (The Last Stop), haiku collection of Tsutomu Koike, Gendai Haiku Kyokai (Modern Haiku Association), Tokyo, 2019
Fay’s Note: Japanese school year ends in March and ‘graduation’ or ‘graduate’ is a spring kigo.
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