Freedom Haiku Anthology

Yugoslavia, October 2000

 

 

 

Gongs are sounding
Freedom Port
late autumn

Gong odjekuje
Lukom Slobode
pozna jesen

Fumiko Sato(1945-), Japan

 

In front of
the freedom flag
a peacock's spread tail

Ispred
slobodarske zastave
paun siri rep

Tateo Fukutomi(1936-), Japan

 

Each mouth opened
face face face laughing
face face face in full freedom

Sva usta otvorena
lice lice lice smeje se
lice lice lice u punoj slobodi

Yutaka Hasegawa(1950-), Japan

 

Thousands of nights
we are sing
for the freedom

Hiljadama noci
pevamo
za slobodu

Mayumi Mizuno(1957-), Japan

 

One shooting star
after another--now
I'm reading the Bible.

Jedna zvezda padalica
za drugom -- sada
citam Bibliju.

Yoshihiro Ishida (1924-), Japan

 

Freedom is
our fortress--
autumn sky

Sloboda je
nasa tvrdjava --
jesenje nebo

Masako Tsuzawa (1927-), Japan

On earth
freedom
stars decorating
dark blue sky

Na zemlji
sloboda
zvezde kite
tamnoplavo nebo

Kei Hayashi (1953-), Japan


Freedom on the island
surrounded by the rough sea--
winter gulls

Sloboda na ostrvu
okruzena uzburkanim morem –
zimski galebovi

Hajimu Hirakita (1932-), Japan

 

Freedom:
the boundless wind
on the prairie

Sloboda:
beskrajan vetar
u preriji


Tohta Kaneko (1919-), Japan

 

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