Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Turning Japanese

Since we had some snow at the weekend - quite a heavy dump between midnight and 2am on Sunday; hopefully the last of this rather schizophrenic winter we've been having - I thought I'd offer you this additional haiku this week. One of 'mine', but translated/adapted from a Japanese original.


Flying flakes of snow:
How charming they seem, and yet
Also terrible.


This is the original (romanized version; sorry, can't handle Japanese script on here!), by one of the leading female haiku poets of the 20th Century:

Kaza-hana o
Utsukushi to mite
Ushi to mite

Hoshino Tatsuko (1903-1980)

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