Tadami Yamada's English Haiku Poem (3)

  Blockade of COVID-19 against disaster                                                                                                       No one talks about the shallowness                                                                                                               and depth of spring together


   A little coldness linger

   on the work desk ever,

   I sit alone



   Seeing pussy willows

   recalled my former house

   on the brook's shore



   The deep mountains

   that place, that stream,

   that pussy willow in my mind



   Long time ago, not now

   on a bank of the Ryuzawa river

   A pussy willow I remember



   The lonely shadow

   of a man's journey

   on side by a pussy willow



   The cheeks were stroked

   and laughed, In the baby's hand

   a pussy willow



   It is elegant spring rain

   But it would be also depend

   Nowadays of the COVID-19



   Ah daisy!

   It's doing destroy

   the deceased house



    Ah! daisies of field,     

    where the burials of

    a married couple of



   Do let's attach to 

   a Long-lived-daisy to

   the pass away person's list


【Note】Hinagiku : A daisy, also known as an English

daisy in America. In Japan, there is another name for

Chōmeigiku (Long-lived chrysanthemum).




    It's time for the animals

    to wake up from hidernation, a lizard

    in the old tree cave　



    Oh! a new tree 

    that grows on the skeleton

    of a fallen tree



    Aged yet and old yet

    I'll want to look that

    Herbs put forth young shoots



    I'm obsession  

    it's more obsession,

    I step on the wheat



    When I picked up

    one fruit

    The anniversary of Meisetsu's death


 【Note】Meisetsu-ki: The anniversary of Méisètsu's 

death. A samurai of feudal Matsuyama, Motoyuki 

Naito (1847-1926), a pen name is Méisètsu, on

February 20, 1926, he died in Azabu, Tokyo,

leaving behind a haiku, "Tada tanomu yutanpo

hitotsu no samusa kana (It is the cold of a hot

water bottle that asks for it)".



    Oh the spring breeze!

    It feels like I'm dreaming shallow,

    and drinking with solo


　　

   "Unknowingly"

   Surprised and laughed at

   the spring breeze　



    I inserted a branch of plum

    in the fence of another house

    that had cut down old plum



    The house on the mountain

    has a branch of plum

    that are still hard

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