Monday, September 5, 2011

Haiku

I wrote a haiku the other week:

とんぼたち
空でいっぱい
セミがなく

The sky above
is filled with dragonflies;
Cicadas cry

explanation!
In haiku, many words are associated with certain seasons. Dragonflies mean fall, while cicadas represent summer. There is also a play on words with "naku." It has two different kanji (Chinese characters). One means to cry as in human crying, the other is used to represent insect voices (or cries). I purposefully did not use a kanji in my haiku because it has both meanings here. As the sky is filled with dragonflies, the cicadas cry as summer ends.

1 comment:

  1. Nice! And you claim to be not very good at Japanese - I can't even write stuff like that in English.

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