Three tankas for the first anniversary of my friend’s death / 亡き友の１周忌に３首 20190314a

君逝きて早も一年(ひととせ)シンビジウム残雪を背に今日も咲きたり

one year has already passed

since you left this world --

against the remaining snow

cymbidium blooming today too

This photo is from my friend.

 岩山を渡(と)し空に舞ふ鳥を追ひ目指す峰までなほ如何ほどや

walking the rocky mountain

chasing birds flying in the sky …

how far

is it still to the mountain-top

your goal?

 

ねがはくは今日聴く鳥は白鳥にあれ君に添ひ吾(あ)も聴かるるに

I hope

the birds you hear today

are swans …

I can also hear them

accompanying you

※    晩秋にシベリアから飛来した白鳥が帰還する季節になりました。この頃、

頭上で白鳥が啼く声をよく耳にします。

It is the season that swans which came flying from Siberia in late autumn return.  These days, I often hear their whooping call.

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Tanka...Mt. Chokai in March 鳥海山 20190310a

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　昨日はとても良く晴れ、久しぶりにすっきりとした鳥海山を見ることができました。

実は車を運転していいる時に見た鳥海山に感動し、帰宅後、昼食を摂ったあとに写真が撮れる地点まで戻って撮りました。

  Yesterday, March 9th. 2019, was fine very much.  I could see the beautiful Mt. Chokai for the first time in a while during winter. However, it was while driving.  I was so fascinated with it that I backed to the place to enable me to take pictures of Mt. Chokai after lunch at home

青冴えの三月（やよい）の空に鳥海の峰より裾に真白にそびゆ

a clear blue sky

in March ...
awe-inspiring

Mt. Chokai in pure white

from the top to the foot

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Tanka...Spring Fragrance 春の香 a201903

あかときに春の香かすかにしのび入り窓凍らざる朝到来す

at daybreak

spring fragrance creeping

into air faintly

the morning comes

without windows freezing

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Tanka...Frontier Spirit

経験値  不吉予測すも拒みえず此より実験観測はじむ

even though

empirical value predicted ill omen

I couldn't refuse...

from here, I set off experiment

and observation

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Tanka...It's natural 然もしかり

このままにわかるるならば然もしかり我らが磁力かほどと思ひ

if we break up as it is

it's natural...

because

our magnetic force

must be only at this degree

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Tanka...It's natural 然もしかり

このままにわかるるならば然もしかり我らが磁力かほどと思ひ

if we break up as it is

it's natural...

because

our magnetic force

must be only at this degree

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Tanka ...Frozen Lake 凍ゆる湖

その狂気 凍ゆる湖(うみ)に沈めたし

オフィーリアは浮かび来るもなし

madness ...

I want to sink it 

under the frozen  lake

Ophelia doesn't 

rise to the surface

※日本語の短歌は2018年5月号の短歌誌「 未来」に掲載された作品です。
 As for the Japanese original tanka, it was published at Mirai Tanka Association's monthly magazine Vol. May, 2018.

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