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...................................... First Haiku of the Year 2007
It all started with a mail from Isabelle Prondzynski :
Dear Gabi san, dear all,
It has been lovely reading about the "firsts" of the year... such customs and traditions help us to understand our own world better... even if that world is very far away from Japan...
... they are a glimpse of the haiku life!
Jst an idea... would it be fun ~~ and would it be in keeping with tradition ~~ if we created a page in Worldkigo with all our first haiku of 2007?
Isabelle
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first sun -
a ray of hope
in every heart
erste Sonne -
ein Strahl der Hoffnung
in jedem Herz
© Photo and Haiku by Gabi Greve Japan
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... FIRST HAIKU 2007 ...
sunny morning
prefects at the gate...
back to school
new faces,
new books and school uniforms...
welcome to high school
Cyprian Awino, Kenya
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dawn's light
the coolness
of New Year's Day
Gillena Cox, Trinidad
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sand grains
empty the hour glass
a New Year
January cold--
not even a sparrow
at my window
John Daleiden, Iowa, USA
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silence of the leaves
the grandness of nature deadly
in a coffee table bonsai
Daswani Dalip, India
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one one
a world of hope
in this first light
first washing —
even the numbing cold
full of promise
Norman Darlington, Ireland
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hey geranium
blooming in the window
it's winter!
Billie Dee, USA
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Haiku by the FALCONS from Kenya
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silver moon
plucking one scale
from the first tarpon
night owls
so many fish
to throw back
empty cast
the silver moon
plays tricks
slow ride home
the bait well
full of stars
Paula Fisher, Key Largo USA, from a fishing trip
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new year's fireworks
the neighbor's radio
louder than ever
Carlos Fleitas, Montevideo, Uruguay
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In the Philippines, one of the rural customs for the new year is to fill the rice bin (or container) on or before new year to prevent hunger in the family throughout the year. It need not be really full, but never empty at all. Like in most Asian countries, Filipinos are rice eaters, their staple food.
new year
a full rice bin
to prevent hunger
Victor P. Gendrano, Philippines
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first sunbeam –
a wild boar digging dirt
with its front hoof
Origa, Olga Hooper, USA
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a man peeing
against a building
happy new year
This is, unfortunately, the first thing I saw after leaving a New Year's party on The Bowery in NYC!
Judy Kamilhor. USA
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Doris Kasson, USA
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wind turbines
begin to stir—
new year's morning
Bill Kenney, USA
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A New Year--
beach debris disappears
with the tide
New Year's Eve--
ducking the kiss
of a stranger
power outage--
making room in bed
for the dogs
Carole MacRury, USA
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the first streetcar --
passengers congratulate
the New Year
the new calendar
is just opened --
glasses of champagne
Tomislav Maretic, Croatia
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Kitsune Miko (Sandy Vrooman), USA
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year's first dream
coming true before its end-
crossing the border
Cristian Mocanu, Romania
In Japanese tradition the first dream one has during the year is going to influence the rest of the year. If it's a pleasant one, the year will be good. It was a practice even to serll one's auspicious dream for big money. Some legends even tell of people having their exact dream fulfilled.
In Romania this New Year's Day also ment our country joining the European Union. The first and most obvious consequence thereof was the supression of border control and of the humiliation of having to show a heap of papers and a lot of money (as a proof you had it, so they were just shown not given as a bribe) in order to be free to travel west.
Thousands of people crossed the border to Hungary on foot, had a coffee in Hungary, then came back. Among them some elderly people who would never have had the money they were supposed to show...
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fireworks....
in the sky a million
red n blue stars
into this year
much smoke sent skyward
chasing bad spirits
sulphorous smoke
the dragon
faces east
Shanna Moore, Hawaii
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Spreading its boughs with
Cherry blossoms pink-white
Japan loves Vancouver.
Aju Mukhopadhyay, India, 2007
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midnight it is
year two thousand and six
is now last year
lightened sky
fireworks soar skywards
welcoming the new year
a moonlit night
out I stand and scream
happy new year
Caleb David Mutua, Kenya (Peacock, Nairobi)
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first dream
my boss appears
with a trumpet
Sakuo Nakamura, Japan
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bags on their backs --
smartly dressed students
moving in all directions
Anthony Njoroge, Kenya
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nikki kau/ moo ichi nen o/ kau kibun
a new year diary
seems to assure me another year
to live on
karuta-tori/haha wa himago to/ii shoubu
the children have
a well matched card game
with their great grand mom
Hisanori Ogane, Japan
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New Year's morning--
half a haiku scribbled
on a party napkin
Linda Papanicolaou, USA
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neighbours’ old beech tree
topless into the new year --
winter gales
new year in church --
past, present, future all there
for an instant
Isabelle Prondzynski, Ireland
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two ancient trees -
suddenly in front of me
a gate
Pia von Prondzynski, Ireland/Germany
They are of the same height and look a bit like twins, though where one of them grows a large branch to the right the other one has a the same kind of branch growing to the left.
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first sunrise ...
the mountains and fields
taken by snow
Carol Raisfeld, USA
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slipping in
beneath the kitchen door
-first sunlight
First appeared in Clouds Peak-06
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first temple bell-
I wake up
to my husband's snore!
camera shot:
the first sunrise caught
in thick city smog
first breath
she looks deep
into her open palms
My mother always believes that her kismet lies in her hands!
And the first thing she does everyday is to look deep into her open palms and all the more on New Years!
Kala Ramesh, India
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new year's night
somebody moved the first man
on the chessboard
Neujahrsnacht
Jemand bewegte die erste Figur
auf dem Schachbrett
Hubertus Thum, Germany
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a shop-cleaner scrapes off
the portrait of Father Christmas...
students on streets
the queue at the bank
grows longer and longer...
fidgeting clients
Patrick Wafula, Kenya
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初凪の海に日矢差す夕の刻
first calm
evening sun arrows
into the sea
Etsuko Yanagibori 柳掘 悦子
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still half asleep
on the same pillow -
our fist smile
© Photo and Haiku by Gabi Greve, 2007
eating good luck
for the New Year -
red and white lotus
Look at it HERE !
Gabi Greve
Inari Fox Eyes -
I try hard to see
the new year
Look at it HERE !
Gabi Greve
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7 comments:
This is wonderful!
I put your site in my favourites !
A friend from Canada
Gabi! :-)
The site looks great!
I enjoyed reading everyone's poems.
Dear Gabi-san,
Happy New Year,
I've enjoyed your haiku and many other haiku of foreign friends. Thank you very much.
A Japanese friend.
Dear Gabi San,
A good collection- thanks,
Warmly, from India
A first haiku...
I wish I could feel like the person described by Buson:
Saitan o shitarigaonaru haikaishi [Blyth gives "saitan wo"]
The year's first poem done
with smug self-confidence--
a haikai poet.
tr. Sawa & Shiffert
The First Day of the Year;
A haikai master,
With a complacent air.
tr. Blyth
According to Blyth, "this was written in 1777, when Buson was sixty two years old."
And finally, a translation by Herbert Jonsson, from a long article entitled, "Haikai Poetics: Buson, Kitoo, and the Interpretation of Renku Poetry."
which you can find here:
http://www.diva-portal.org/diva/getDocument?urn_nbn_se_su_diva-1322-2__fulltext.pdf
The hokku is from Buson's preface to
"the 'Yahanraku,' a collection published for the New-Year of 1777. It is actually the direct preface to the initial renku, a renku that not only consists of thirty-six verses, but is also composed by thirty-six poets. The preface is followed by Buson's hokku.
'The music of the Gion-festival
does not harmonise [sic] with the tone of the autumn wind.
The sabi-shiori of the Shoomon
should avoid this party celebrating the coming of spring.
Therefore will our haikai this day
follow the tone of the
youthful man of the east
(The sixth year of An'ei, first meeting)
Making a New-Year poem, the triumphant air of a haikai master"
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Having said all of the above, still I write haiku, poor as they may
be.
New Year's Day:
the same resolutions
as last year
1/1/07
first full moon
of the year
rises
clear of the haze
1/3/07
And finally, speaking of calendars, here is a haiku by Buson for
which I don't know the Japanese:
The old calendar
fills me with gratitude
like a sutra.
tr. Robert Hass
--Larry
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