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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 17h

spring chill--
men are always heading
to the battlefield

--Miwako Fujimoto

花冷や男はいつも戦場へ　藤本美和子

(花冷, "blossom chill," is the kigo for a cold day in spring)

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Prune Juice Journal @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to PJ's prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning: #Censor (with or without the word in your senryu)

What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on humans
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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 1d

the pale purple
of the saffron
going into mourning

--Miwako Fujimoto (b. 1950)

サフランのうすむらさきの服喪かな藤本美和子

Take 2:

the saffron's pale purple mourning...

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 2d

indoor heating--
the student
isn't sleeping lightly

--Saō Murakami

暖房や生徒の眠り浅からず　村上沙央

(In other words, he is sleeping deeply, but Murakami uses the negative form for ironic understatement)

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 3d

the autumn fly
becomes a letter
in the headline

--Saō Murakami

秋の蝿見出し一字になりきって　村上沙央

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 4d

swimming across
the river, child in arm --
A-bomb anniversary

--Tetsu Hayashi (1926-2008)

子を抱いて川を泳ぐや原爆忌　林　徹

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 5d

rice-planting ceremony
the cattle cheerfully mooing

--Tetsu Hayashi

花田植牛ほがらかに吼えにけり　林　徹

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 6d

scorching heat--
each living creature
has two eyes

--Tetsu Hayashi

炎天や生き物に眼が二つづつ　林　徹

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 7d

crescent moon
in the chestnut tree
my wife's birthday

--Tetsu Hayashi (1926-2008)

栗の樹に三日月妻の誕生日　林　徹

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 9d

I meant to take a nap
but decided to bake a cake instead

--Teiko Inahata

昼寝するつもりがケーキ焼くことに　稲畑汀子

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 9d

at some point
the winter moon came out
our parting

--Teiko Inahata

何時の間に冬の月出てゐる別れ　稲畑汀子

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 10d

the fireworks fade
but the darkness from before
is no longer there

--Teiko Inahata

花火消え元の闇ではなくなりし　稲畑汀子

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 10d

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 10d

mitsumata flowers
three times three is nine
three times three is nine

--Teiko Inahata (1931-2022)

三椏の花三三が九三三が九　稲畑汀子

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 11d

after father died
the laurel tree withered
in the womb

--Onifusa Sato

父死後の胎内に枯れ月桂樹　佐藤鬼房

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 11d

transient world:
the snow surrounds
our black fortress

--Onifusa Sato

仮の世のわが黒砦雪しまく　佐藤鬼房

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 12d

all in vain
the black, thick
sound of rain!

--Onifusa Sato

徒労のみ黒き茂りの雨音よ　佐藤鬼房

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 12d

birthday
I swallow down the salty
pickled greens

--Onifusa Sato

誕生日鹹き漬菜を呑みくだす　佐藤鬼房

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 13d

in awe of the swan
craning its neck
I don't like Dalí

--Onifusa Sato

頸捩る白鳥に畏怖ダリ嫌ひ　佐藤鬼房

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 13d

summoned
to the sand dunes beneath
the evening moon

--Onifusa Sato

夕月の砂山に呼び出されたる　佐藤鬼房

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 14d

carrying my epitaph
into the citizens' bar

--Onifusa Sato

墓碑銘を市民酒場にかつぎこむ　佐藤鬼房

"citizens' bar": ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B8%...

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 14d

a tree stump
a foolishly straightforward axe

--Onifusa Sato

切株があり愚直の斧があり　佐藤鬼房

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 15d

I wait for spring
as small
as a string telephone

--Onifusa Sato

糸電話ほどの小さな春を待つ　佐藤鬼房

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 16d

if I must die
in the moonlight
let it be Siberia

--Onifusa Sato

月光とあり死ぬならばシベリアで　佐藤鬼房

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 16d

the sound of sun
sinking into sand
red spider lilies

--Onifusa Sato

砂に陽のしみ入る音ぞ曼珠沙華　佐藤鬼房

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