English Original:
yesterday
will be the same
for tomorrow never changes –
the kite of my days
cut from the string of Life
Japanese Translation by Hidenori Hiruta
昨日また明日も変わらず同じかな我が世の凧は糸切られけり
Akita International Haiku Network (Oct. 30, 2010)
A Room of My Own: Toy Forest Tanka
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*Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words*, CC: "US-made bombs"
a toy forest
in his biscuit tin ...
the boy holds it tight
as US-made bombs drop
silencing ...