A Winter Haiku by Walter Penna (Japanese Translation by Maurizio Brancaleoni)

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canned red kidney beans

wait for Winter on a shelf

 

棚の上缶詰小豆冬を待つ

tana no ue kandzume azuki fuyu o matsu

 

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More Fabulous Haiku by Walter Penna

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now plagued by wordplay

punished by prompt plethora

prepare some proverbs

 

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nor days nor nights - the...

endless life one is left with...

becomes one's phantom

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avoid the street yet

now like Issa sweep the step

dust off 'Good mornings'

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it is late so soon

from being early so long

let it feel timeless

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Spring anoints blind hope

hands the texture of forest

bear witness turn sod

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When Metaphor plays -

a Finnish farmhouse dance night

finishes at dawn

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Little Collins Street

like dear Gertrude van Seltzig

cries out for haiku

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linguists, linguini,

lingerie - long lists lean like

lizards licking lunch

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feel for an orange

draw off peel that draws the eye

segment my pleasure

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time stands still and waits

for our awareness to call

survey so-called once

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Issa at Eastbourne -

oh for the sake of saké

let the mermaids see!

 

'Imagine'

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slapped down like wet fish

some glisten lie caught complete

some ask with one eye

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Issa's jasmine tea

cools untouched as he withdraws

into the same world

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watch new life unfurl -

a sense of close remoteness

reaches into us.

 

'On ferns in Spring'

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Time and man measure

the long shadow of the wind

where the grasses wave

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walk to Seahouses

my inner Issa smells shell

as it becomes sand

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with day's dark decease

beginnings and conclusions

linger in our dreams

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no scat lays a trail

so go out the wrong entrance

get lost hurriedly

'In search of the Engine Room, Tottenham Hale'

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a late night silence

slinks through the world's solitude

paws at weariness

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post midnight quiet -

no early June revellers

are heard rejoicing

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nest like no other

woven by Kobayashi

from his oldest broom

'WARNING - Contains haiku'

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the corner unlit

needs mobile screen to assist

5-7-5 moments

Walter Penna, the Cornish poet resident in London considers himself Cornish European, writes haiku and other poetic forms. Influences – Bashô, Robert Frost, Ogden Nash, Hilaire Belloc, Chekov and Théophile Gautier among a lifetime of others. haikua

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Haiku by Walter Penna

All rights of the texts presented here remain with the author.

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try another line

see if spinnerbait catches

verse in black water

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Eastern or Western

soup is soup hunger hunger

guilt feeds on judgement

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Walter's Room*

my namesake's room sits

from where see across the park

as if with his eyes

*Currently the Poet's Room, made available to local poets at the Jacobean Forty Hall, Enfield, UK. Walter was the last occupant of this room up under the eaves when the estate was privately owned.

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no dishwasher here

crockery flows in the sink

thought finds its own way

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a dog called Riley

acting hot water bottle

scooches some comfort

Katunga

pale 3rd cut Lucerne

these square-shouldered pasture blondes

await collection

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offduty nurses

swarm cling-ride on running boards

to Mount Tambourine

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empty bowl remains

ready soup remains unmoved

eyes consume such hope

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rows red tipup seats

crowd the overcrowded aisle

leave narrow passage

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from its high dark branch

loud music finds non-dancers

with vulture shoulders

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semi-precious gems

now mislaid Apache tears

mock my sense of loss

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Imbolc

A single haiku

A plural (I drop the s)

But the day lengthens

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Leap Year bides its time

sudden measured proposals

need some other spring

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the time to write comes

when a present tense swings by

lays it on the line

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ladle dips dips stops

soupseller goes to buy silk

the heat is turned off

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in the Stallion Bar

old French Legionnaires sit talk -

fish swim in the tank

 

Walter Penna, the Cornish poet resident in London, considers himself Cornish European, writes haiku and other poetic forms. Influences – Bashô, Robert Frost, Ogden Nash, Hilaire Belloc, Chekov and Théophile Gautier among a lifetime of others. haikua

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