powdered snow - <br />a crow’s eyes above <br />the no parking sign <br /> <br />sudden shower <br />four wasps investigate <br />a window gap <br /> <br />the rain <br />almost a friend <br />this funeral <br /> <br />almost lost <br />in the shimmer of water <br />several ducklings <br /> <br />an attic window sill <br />a wasp curls <br />into its own dust <br /> <br />==================== <br />PUBLICATION CREDITS: <br />==================== <br /> <br />'powdered snow' <br />Joint Winner, Haiku International Association, Japan,10th Anniv. Haiku Contest (1999) <br />The Mie Times, Japan (1999) <br /> <br />'sudden shower' <br />Commended byThe Japan Times (2002) <br /> <br />'the rain' <br />'Azami' haiku magazine, Osaka, Japan <br />No.28 September (1995) <br /> <br />'almost lost' <br />HI journal #42, Haiku International, Japan, January (2001) <br />This haiku was used and translated for an article read at the Baiko Women's College, Oct.1996 by Nobuyuki Yuasa (editor/translator of the Penguin Classics book 'Oku no Hosomichi' pub. in 1996, on Basho.) <br /> <br />Japanese romaji (romanised version) by Nobuyuki Yuasa: <br />mizu haete hikari ni kasumu kogamo kana <br /> <br />'an attic window sill' <br />Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan (Sept 2002) <br />Japanese newspaper with the world’s largest circulation, around ten million subscribers.<br /><br />Alan Summers<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/five-english-language-haiku-with-japanese-publication-credits/
