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.This is an EL( Earth Language ) experimental page with English and Japanese.
Original:in Japanese:
天からの小道野花にふちどられ
in EL:

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Characters in the pictograph and the EL translation:From the author, Debi Bender( May 20, '01 ):
{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)
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
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