山田維史英語俳句：Tadami Yamada's English Haiku Poems (1)

     The dawning crows that can

      be counted with the small holes of

      the fallen persimmons　　　



     The fallen persimmons

     After the birds have been biting them

     It's the turn of ants



     In the wild grass mowed    

     But a lily that lumberjack left uncut 

     I conjecture he did might 



     Oh! the Gemini meteor shower 

     I became an old, and now

     am laughing heartily human world



     As if a rapid stream

     Clouds going in year's drawing to a close

     A winter crow too goes



　 I bundled dead branches and

     put them by the gate of my life

     of a small grass heritage



　 I bundled dead branches

     to look back by my life's

     not forked road

 


　 Bundled dead branches

     and also myself

     Oh to be on a dream road!



     The Ox year

     Intend to go at like cow's pace

     because still corona virus influence 



    The Ox year

    Let's walking slow at like cow's pace

    My born underneath the Taurus



   New Year's Day

   The first dream is the Kantan's dream

   But real senses, That's indeed



   Sense a faint fragrant

   It is coming spring

   To my old body also



   I only existence just here

   That's worthy of the gods and Buddha

   To come to me Spring



   Morning worship 

   to offer porridge of seven herbs

   to the Buddhist ancestors



   Azuki porridge

   Sweetness has also drawn

   with a little salt's efforts



　Cook red beans

   to pray for crossing

   the final days New Year



   COVID-nineteen sickness

   People pray

   to red beans



   A faith of old commonn

   But, people pray to red beans porridge

   with their anxieties



   Amur adonis

   The light of the sun

   from the soil



   Like the world's light

   Amur adonis bears

   its name*

             【＊】Amur adonis; This plant name stands for fortune and longevity in Japanese. 

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