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[Japanease]
Sky so blue that a pink shell looks as if it may fall apart.The "sakura-gai" is a clam as small and delicate as a baby's fingernail and the pink color of cherry blossoms. When I visited Mie prefecture a few years ago, I found some of these pink shells at a beach for the first time in my life.It was a fine day with not a cloud in the sky. I collected many pink shells under the blue sky. These shells looked so fragile that I hesitated to take them home because they might fall apart. I put some pink shells on the palm of my hand to look at them closely. Under the bright spring sunlight of the true blue sky, they seemed ready to break apart right on my palm before I could take them home. This haiku is a portrait of a pink shell, but this fragile shell reminds me of a woman in love. She, too, is vulnerable and fragile.
[season words] a pink shell On a warm day, forgetting the English word I just looked up.A few years ago I started taking English conversation lessons. I study as hard as my time allows. I look it up in the dictionary every time I see an unfamiliar word. But I often find myself forgetting the word as soon as I close the dictionary.To begin with, my purpose was to be able to speak English when I travel abroad or to have nice conversations with my foreign friends. I would be more serious about studying if I were to work or study abroad. My determination to study sometimes relaxes when I travel abroad only once or twice a year. "I just looked it up a moment ago! Well, let me see now, what was it again?" On a warm spring day, I am completely relaxed as I study my English.
[season word] warm day A balloon I just bought is eager to fly away.When I was small, I asked my grandfather to buy me a red balloon.But my balloon flew high into the sky the instant my finger let loose of the string. I wanted that balloon so badly, but my balloon flew away just as soon as I got it. Sometimes there are things I really want, even though I know I might loose them or break them. But this thing that I want always seems to wish to escape from me the moment I have it in my hand. It may be that I wish so badly to own these things, precisely because they give me the feeling that not matter how careful I am they will be lost or broken someday. Perhaps "love" is an example of this kind of thing.
[season word] balloon Melancholy spring mood, suddenly disturbed by a ship's whistle.I wonder whether it is because my life cycle has changed or because of theenergy of this new season's life-renewing power. Whatever the cause, inspring, for some unknown reason, we often get a sudden feeling ofmelancholy.I felt this way once when I was visiting a port town one spring day. As Iwas sitting alone in a chair in a small caf I was brought back only for a moment by the sudden sound of a ship'swhistle. Before the lingering sound of the whistle had disappeared, my mindwas lost again in my own thoughts. It was as though I wished to enjoyfloating in my melancholy spring mood.
[season words] melancholy spring mood translated by Mineko Azuma
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