song of the katydid

song of the katydid–

even the field cow

a connoisseur

#haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue, Old Pond Comic by Jessica Tremblay

Make up your mind, Snail! (Richard Wright)

Make up your mind, Snail!

You are half inside your house,

And halfway out!

• Haiku by Richard Wright (Haiku: This Other World), cartoon by Old Pond Comics.

being an orphan

being an orphan

I cast no light…

firefly

haiku by Kobayashi Issa (English translation by David G. Lanoue), illustrated with a cartoon by Jessica Tremblay (Old Pond Comics)

In the distant hills

In the distant hills

A patch where sunlight touches

The withered meadows.

                                                             – haiku by Shiki (trans. by Donald Keene)

 

Haidan – May 2016 issue

Since January 2016, Old Pond Comics is published in Japan. I’ve been working with Emiko Miyashita, a haiku poet who is writing a monthly column on haiku translations for the new journal Haidan. Every month, Emiko sends me three haiku and I provide a haiku-cartoon to accompany her article.

The publisher sends me copies of the journals, but only months after publication, so Emiko occasionally sends me pictures of what the article looks like as soon as she gets her copy.

Here’s a photo of the May 2016 issue showing beautiful Japanese items on her desk. She gave me permission to share this.

Haidan (May 2016 issue). Photo by Emiko Miyashita.

 

Here’s the comic:

In the distant hills

A patch where sunlight touches

The withered meadows.

— Kyoshi (haiku translated by Donald Keene)

the setting place

 

the setting place

for the spring sun…

wisteria blossoms

– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa (translated by David G. Lanoue), illustrated by Jessica Tremblay

Letter Z

NaHaiWriMo #5: letter z

the spring breeze pushes

the spring breeze pushes

somebody

down the slope

– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, Tr. David G. Lanoue, ill. Old Pond Comics

the setting place

the setting place

for the spring sun…

wisteria blossoms

– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, Tr. David G. Lanoue, ill. Old Pond Comics

Native (NaHaiWriMo #8)

This is my submission to NaHaiWriMo for days # 7/8 nearest/native.