Tadami Yamada's English Haiku Poem (2)

   My life

   on the Beastmen's Earth

   The moon is clear



   I was born this world

   I'm dumfounded at confusion of people's mind

   Today the first fees of Kannon



   When my soul is separated

   the dream will only freeze



   White beard

   leave lousy

   Cold rain



   Slightly I heard

   "Being Scolded" a song

   in the rain



   Coronavirus influenced

   A postcard I've received

   A rain of cold



   A snowy heron

   sees in shallow water

   fishing in winter



   It's been merely name "Daikan"

   But passed the day

   It's light snow today　　



   First snow

   but it's near February

   Hands inside my kimono



   Take an umbrella,

   Reach out wondering if

   it's sleet or snow



   First snow

   Kasajizo*

   on a forked road


     【*Note】Kasajizō ; The Jizō Bodhisattva (Ksitigarbha) 

was entrusted by Buddaha to rescue sentient beings 

suffering from the reincarnation of Rikudō (Six roads ; 

hell, hunger, brute, obsession, human, heaven).

   The Jizō faith in Japan is said to have been from

the Nara period (710~793). As the times went down,

Jizō faith reached a compromis with Dōsoshin who the

guardian deity of boundar of the land and also traveler's

guardian. Therefore, many stone Jizō statues are found

on the roadside. Although Jizō is a bodhisattva, the

statue is a figure of monk.

   Kasajizō is a folk tale born from the Jizō faith. 

   A gentle old woman put a kasa (sedge hat) on the 

snow-capped Jizō Bodhisattva statue. One night, six 

Jizō Bodhisattvas visited the old woman and donated 

money and rice to thank her.



   The greatest cold

   It's light snow disappears on

   the surface of the river



   Changing what I wear and

   put it out again, a cycle of

   three cold days and four warm days



   The pruning branches

   seems to have to be done now

   Soon, spring will be coming



   One or two birds

   are coming to show their faces

   Spring is coming next door



   After the cold

   My painting brushes vigorously

   on the left and right



   Spring and autumn many times

   Today's spring

   at the mercy of years' waves



   Seventy-six my own age

   I'll soon be

   Oh! now there spring be



   Spring, oh spring!

   Let's compare love

   to flowers



   The beginning of spring

   In the mountains of the back door

   A breeze blowing, trees rustling 


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