“We all try our best / in our busy, busy lives / to write poetry.”
100 RUSSIAN HAIKU FOR AKITA 2017/05/30
On May 29, 2017, Alexander Dolin says in his e-mail as follows.
Please find attached the file containing 100 haiku by the Russian poets, members of our almanac “Wild Flowers”.
Here we have the works by the winners of a special contest organized for the further promotion of Russo-Japanese poetic contacts on the basis of haiku.
I would appreciate if you could publish the file on the Akita International Haiku… website – better in this bilingual format. Probably the Japanese translation is not so necessary, but of course, if you would like to provide some of the poems with a Japanese version it might be an additional contribution to the project.
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Nailya Akhunova
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Дождливый день.
У фонтана -
Выходной.
A rainy day –
a day off
for the fountain.
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Трели соловья.
На нитке тишины
Мелкий жемчуг.
A nightingale sings –
smoll pearls
on the thread of silence.