gleich
hinter dem abgenutzten Mond—ein Coywolfs
Schrei
• I'm not sure if there's a translation, yet, for
Coywolf in German, being that the word is a relatively
new English language neologism. Frequently, Germans
just adopt the English word.
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just
beyond the threadbare moon—a coywolf's
cry
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along
with the grasses—the fox's ears turning
white
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from
one pumpkin to the next—a strolling
crow
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reading
the letter, she's followed by September's
leaves
• There are certain species of English grammar,
in the space of a haiku, that are difficult to
reproduce in German (and vice-versa), so when I
translated the original English version into
German, I changed the haiku. Then I decided I
liked the German haiku better and changed the
English version. I guess that makes this a translation
of the German original. Also, there's a pun on the
German Blätter which, as in English and leaves, can
also be read as the pages of a book.
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striding
among the window's stars—the long-leggèd
spider
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Gespinste
voller Mondlicht des Herbstes—die dicke
Spinnen
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webs
full of autumn's moonlight—the fat
spiders
Also, in the comment section of the last Haiku.
Rillie Tate wrote a haiku that I initially misread
but both of us agreed that we liked the misreading.
And I liked it so much so that I wanted to include
it with today's post.
night-
bridge—a boy sleeps on the thin, wooden
shadow
By Rillie Tate
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ebenso
traurig—die Stille des See-
laucher
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also
just as sorrowful—the loon's
silence
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