A Poem and the Pictograph in EL for This Month   June 01
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This is an EL( Earth Language ) experimental page with  English and Japanese.

  June is the beautiful season with wild flowers in Europe, they say.  Although it's wet with fireflies in most of Japan. I recalled a colorful scene in the Oregon wilderness, when I saw this poem in  Paper Lanterns  by Debi Bender. Please imagine it.
 6月は、日本では梅雨ですが、欧米ではさわやかな野花の季節の場合が多いようです。今月はデビ・ベンダーさんの俳句を取り上げました。 Paper Lanterns の中から選びました。   
 
wildflower Original:
path begins at heaven
along the way
wildflowers

in Japanese:
天からの小道野花にふちどられ

in EL:



Characters in the pictograph and the EL translation:
{66( plant ),68}: flower ( as a picture-like fundamental character; plural flower characters express those large amount )(象形で「花」;複数並べて数多く並ぶのを表現)
{23,66}: grass(es) ( as a picture-like fundamental character )(象形で「草」)
{37( nature ),17( above )}: heaven(天)
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{10( place ),14( to go through, way )}: path, way, road(道)
{gc( preposition ),22( original direction )}: from, beginning at(〜からの)
37: natuyre, natural (自然の)
{gc( preposition ),13( same ),21( heading )}: along(〜に沿って)
{ 01( point ), 34( for a pronoun ): the( pointing a thing in the topic )(その)
From the author, Debi Bender( May 20, '01 ):
Your letter has amazed me, honored me and thrilled
me today. What an incredible, impressive and wonderful thing you are
doing.  I have not had opportunity to read all the pages yet, but have
just begun to browse your EL site. Thank you for including one of my
haiku!! It is a fine surprise to see it in English, Japanese and EL
altogether.

Debi is hosting this EL page at her site, and it's neater than this with another color!!:
Wouldn't you like to  learn and enjoy Haiku through her sites?
http://www2.gdi.net/~dmine/paperlanterns/hypversind.html
The World Haiku Club
// Their new online magazine, World Haiku Review


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