Akita International Haiku Network, Japan

Delighted that Akita International Haiku Network, Japan under its Haiku beyond Earth, publishes my 10 haiku and 5 nature photographs on its website today. The haiku have been translated into Japanese by Hidenori Hiruta san—many thanks to him. 🙏💐

HAIKU and PHOTOS to Akita’s “Haiku Beyond Earth”

Haiku by Neena Singh ( India)

solitary walk
a heron and I
share a nod

鷺と我孤高の歩み会釈する

• 
  sun on its wings
  a blue damselfly
  scatters light

太陽を翼に乗せる糸蜻蛉青色の身が光を散らす

• winter rain…
  the red cedar shades
  a soldier’s grave 冬の雨レッドシダーの陰に降る兵士の墓に寒々と降る

ripening figs–
fruit bats circle
the darkening sky

-Presence #79

蝙蝠を魅する無花果熟れ始む

• hospice visit…
  beside her empty bed
  the clock ticks
• ホスピスの訪問受ける空ベッド

half-filled birdbath
on the water’s edge
a tiny snail

水盤に半分の水蝸牛

• the silent love
  that left too soon…
  faded chrysanthemum

菊褪せて無言の愛を残しけり

• the lake mirrors
  two painted storks:
  spring dawn

– Poetry Pea Journal, 2:24

湖が鸛二羽映し出す春の夜明けの湖面に映る

• autumn dusk
  a wood snipe rises
  from the marsh
• Akitsu Quarterly, Fall/Winter 2024

秋の暮れ湿地飛び立つ森の鴫

• winter migrant…
  a northern shoveler
  swoops the lake

– Poetry Pea Journal, 2:24

渡り鳥嘴広鴨が湖に

Haiku beyond Earth「天上俳句会」Haiku by Neena Singh

My gratitude to Hidenori Hiruta san for his great effort in showcasing haiku poets from all over the world.