Poets in wartime : Yasuhiko Shigemoto (Japan - Hiroshima)
Hiroshima-ki uo mo yakedo shi uki shi hi yo
Hiroshima Day -- when the fish also floated with burst intestines
SPRING
Hibakuju ya kaki wa arata ni tsukuroware
A-bombed tree enclosed with a fence newly mended
Genbaku no domu ni komoru kasumi kana
In A-bomb Dome mist staying motionless
Hibakuju ya nisei no ko-no-me ide somuru
A-bombed tree -- second generation trees are starting to bud
Koi-no-neko ya genbaku domu kake nukeshi
Cats in love ran through A-bomb Dome screaming
SUMMER
Bakushinchi heiwa no ike no mizusumashi
A-bomb blast centre water-striders are swimming on the Pond of Peace
Enten ya genbaku shikiten akago naku
The sun is blazing -- a baby crying bitter in the A-bom rite
Hotaru tobu genbaku domu no yume o miru
Mysterious dream -- fireflies are flying about in the A-bomb Dome
Genbaku no shikiten kokage nadowa naku
A-bomb ceremony there is no trees' shade anywhere
AUTUMN
Genbaku no domu no naka mo ryoya kana
O the full-moon light -- flooding the interior of the A-bomb Dome
Hibakuju no ko-no-mi o hirou kodomo kana
A-bombed tree -- children picking up the fallen nuts
Chichi haha no ryuto kata yose hanare zaru
Father and mother their lit paper lanterns floating side by side
Gennbaku no domu taizen taifu-ka
A-bomb Dome standing calmy as it was ather the typhoon
WINTER
Shimogakoi saruru kinenju bakushinchi
Memorial trees all protected from the frost A-bomb blast centre
Orizuru ni hatsuhi sashikuru genbaku-hi
New Year's first sunshine on folded paper cranes at A-bomb monument
Yami ni tatsu genbaku domu no seiya kana
Christmas Eve -- A-bomb standing in the dark
Hibakuju mo kareki no nakama bakushinchi
A-bomb blast centre the A-bombeb tree is also among the leafless
WATASHI NO HIROSHIMA HAIKU II / MY HAIKU OF HIROSHIMA II, by Yasuhiko Shigemoto. Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 99 pp., 2005, 857 yen (paper).
ISBN 4-87440-886-9
68 haiku
Yasuhiko Shigemoto
18 Nabara Kabe-machi
Asakita-ku, Hiroshima 731-0215
Japan
Review of his book by David Burleigh quoted in Gabi Greve's pages: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/1865
http://www.fureai-ch.ne.jp/~haiku/
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My Haiku of Hiroshima (1995)
Copyright Yasuhiko Shigemoto, 2005