English Original:
my world
is coiled on rolls of film
and projected nightly
on the screen of my mind –
when is the reel world not real?
Japanese Translation by Hidenori Hiruta
我が世界心のフィルム写し撮り夜ごとに映り実在すなり
Akita International Haiku Network (Oct. 30, 2010)
Poetic Musings: Mother and Ocean Haiku by Kobayashi Issa
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mother I never knew,
each time I see the ocean,
each time --
*The Essential Haiku*, 1995
Kobayashi Issa
Commentary: L1 establishes both the emotional atm...
