Tanka...Vernal Street Lamp

ほっかりと曇天ともす街灯の鶸色（ひわいろ）にして芽桜に添ふ

lightly floating ...

street lamps in vernal color

lighting up the cloudy sky

accompany buds of sakura

©2019Rika Inami稲美 里佳

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香山望海有叹》 文/田宇 四表光华生万象，波澜只望复何如？ 云中有限空劳雁，海上无穷不足鱼。 日月为风真可远，乾坤乃气实堪虚。 新人故夜清寒句，未入桑田竟入书。 【<Looking at the Sea in Xiangshan City> Author/Tian Yu The prosperity on all sides makes people feel surging. But what if the endless waves can't be in my hands? As far as I can see, the clouds in the sky are not as high as a goose. Although the sea is endless, it is not as good as swimming fish swimming far. The sun and the moon can be seen as a gust of wind and light farther away. Heaven and earth are just like air. A young man like me wrote poems on an ancient land. I don't want it to be immortal. I just want someone to understand it.】

©田宇

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街灯の灯りは薄く鶸色で溶け込む街に桜の若芽

©Ryuuji Suwa

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night fell on the streets..
filled the world with darkness..
light crept through Windows following my senses ...
my heart flew away over the seas 
reached the north land of cold ... but it full of soul's warmness.

copyright © Doreia Yaseen

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I adore the rain
My tongue savors each sweet drop
I'm in bliss today

Haiku #436
By Craig J. Burt 3/16/19

Tanka ...Higanake 彼岸明け a 201904

各々の選(よ)りし場に発(た)つ彼岸明け一期一会のやさしさに満ち

finishing higan --

each leaves for the place

where each chose

… filled with tender heart

of once-in -a-lifetime chance

※Higan is the equinoctial week in spring and autumn in Japanese.

In this work, it means "Vernal Equinox".

©2019Rika Inami 稲美 里佳

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《答友有题》 文/田宇 纵剪幽光同璧月，繁华破艳与流尘。 三尊酒对无知己，一笑萍逢是故人。 寂寞常嗟难过日，芳菲每叹错容身。 当头请趁相停处，落杏违期自看春。 【<Answer a Friend's Question> Author/Tian Yu Even if the quiet moonlight is sheared to the heart, It's just that it's too short to last long. Judging friendship by the amount of alcohol you drink, It's not as emotional as the old knowledge I met in other places. When lonely, people always want to be quiet. Where is the time flowing to our youth? Now that we meet, we don't have to cover up any more. Let's be happy in spring, a season of flowers.】

©田宇

Tanka...Cedar Trees 杉木立 20190322 a 201904

杉木立 斑雪(はだれ)の森に黒々と花粉となりて君は入りしか

cedar trees  

in shadowy black 

stand

in the dappled-snow forest ...

do you enter me as pollens?

©2019Rika Inami 稲美 里佳

My Favorite Tanka...Shojin Zen 精進膳

春彼岸 精進膳をそなへむか先祖に一つ無縁に一つ

offering shoujin-zens 

during vernal equinox week --

one is 

to my ancestors' spirits

the other is to the deserted's 

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"The neglected" is the spirit who has no living relatives.

©Rika Inami 稲美里佳

この歌は以前お盆の歌の初句を変えて春彼岸にしました。

It is Spring Equinox Week March 18 to 24, which is one of the most important events for Japanese Buddhists. I have to offer some special foods including Shojin Cooking to my dead ancestors in this term. In brief, Shojin Cooking is Zen Cooking. The photo is Shojin Cooking for the beginning of the equinox week on 18th. March .

Tanka ...the beginning of vernal equinox week 彼岸入り a201904

彼岸入り 野ざらしの髑髏（しゃれこうべ）とふ君さするごと木魚拭きたり

the beginning

of vernal equinox week --

as if caressing you

a weather-beaten skull

I clean a wooden-fish

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木魚は魚を模して作られたということですが、

髑髏に似ていると思います。

木魚について→https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%A8%E9%AD%9A　

Wooden-Fish is said to be made in imitation of a fish.

However, I think it looks like a skull.

More info about Wooden-Fish →　https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_fish

©2019Rika Inami 稲美 里佳

Akita International Haiku/ Tanka 秋田インターナショナル俳句短歌 March 2019

色映ゆる花見えずとも雪原にわたる風の音けふは春めく

even though

I can't see colorful flowers

today's wind

over the snow fields

brings a tune of spring

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こちらはその中の1首です。

My 10 Tankas are published at Akita International Haiku, Senryu and Tanka Network https://akitahaiku.com/ . Please check out the website and click the title <稲美里佳の短歌：Tanka by Rika Inami 20>, and then you will read all of the page.　Or click

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Tanka...Congrats on passing the exam! 合格おめでとう！

<<受験に合格された皆さまへお祝いの一首 / Tanka to all of you who passed the entrance exam>>

おめでとう！ 合格Telによぎりしは溢れむばかりの君のほほえみ

Congratulations!

on passing the entrance exam

flashing through

my mind with your phone is

your smiles full of happiness

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この歌は以前からのものですが、気に入っている歌です。

今春は「叶えられた希望」という花言葉がある連翹の写真を添えました。
Now, it is a season of the announcement of the entrance examination pass in Japan.
This tanka is one of my favourites.
This spring, I posted it with attaching  Forsythia, 
whose flower language is to be fulfilled wishes.

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