Tadami Yamada's English Haiku Poems (5)

      Fluffy fluffy,

      Spring mountains laughing

      In pale green



      Aralia elata

      Herbal cycad and Aralia cordata

      Today's supper in early spring　　



      Aralia elata

      Herbal cycad and Aralia cordata

      Spring In a bamboo basket



      The buds of Aralia elata,

      Roste or vinegar with miso

      Which is a favorite of you? 



      Early spring. Let me put 

      In my mouth the Aralia cordata, 

      Before it becomes a big tree



      Is this a herbal cycard?

      To imagine, the Jōmon jar has

      A vortex of spring



      The mystery-solving

      Thought-provoking

      The spiral of a herbal cycard


　【Note】Early spring wild plants such as buds of

Aralia cordate (Taranomé), Aralia elata (Udo) and young

herbal cycad (Kogomi) are made into tempura, baked

and miso, or made into a salad. It is a traditional 

Japanese food culture that enjoys the wild taste.



　Great East Japan Earthquake


      "Three point eleven" 

      Had became the season word

      It's so sadness　　



      Spring mud

      Would you, oh the sea, say so?

      It was your work!



      To call to the spring sea

      But there are people

      Who never return



      Going to the sea

      Pray Buddhaists' ancestors in Spring Equinox.

      Pilgrimage of their tear rosaries



      Even if you fall down,

      If you get up and walk,

      The spring sea　　



      The lie of the nuclear power plant

      Their spring, its arrogant

      Eat do your excrement



      Since abandoned the people

      The country is desolated

      Snakes come out from hole



      Stepping on the spring grass,

      There is a person who is making

      One's way at the wildness　　



      Steppe on the spring grass,

       I recall an old house

      That was here then



      On the way

      To worship the deceased,

      A Mother-child- grass flower



      Oh the voice of waves!

      What do you want what do I do?

      Ura-akashi, the shell fishing open today


 【*Note】Ura-akashi is the opening of the shore,                                                                                                                     and is also the opening day of shellfish fishing. 

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