Haiku and the Pictograph in EL, "summer butterfly" - August 2005
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This is an EL (Earth Language)
experimental page to enjoy
the
image of a haiku/short poem originally in English/Japanese.
When you can't see the Japanese parts, please
don't mind and just skip those parts.
地球語の文字や文字絵を用いて詩的表現や翻訳を試みる実験のページです。
I've been busy in July because of two exhibitions of "Peace Butterflies";
and had no time to prepare this corner in the usual way. Then I chose my
own haiku of a butterfly for this month.
Haven't you had an experience like this on summer hikes?:
a butterfly sticks to a rock looking like it's listening to sounds from
far deep under a rock by a stethoscope.
Sometimes it shakes its wings, but soon stops moving.
Being with it for a while, I feel like listening to whispers of wind
where I used to play with butterflies in my childhood.
The butterfly also might be far from its home.
７月は１８年ぶりの展覧会（それもいきなり２箇所同時で）、Peace Butterfliesの準備に追われて、
俳句を選んで使用許可を得る時間がなくなり、下手な自作でお茶を濁してごめんなさい。
イベントとリンクして蝶のタイトルですが、ちなみにわたしの家紋も蝶です。
みなさんは、夏の小道で蝶のこんな光景を見かけませんか？
聴診器で岩から聞こえる地球の音に耳傾けるように
小さな岩の上に蝶がぴたっと貼りついて、
ときにふるるっと羽をふるわせて、またじっと動かなくなります。
しばらく蝶とともに居ると、岩の向こうから
昔蝶と戯れた野山の風のささやきが聞こえるような気がします。
English
haiku:
summer butterfly
listens to a rock
__ far from home
Japanese:
夏の蝶岩の声聞く郷遠く
EL translation:
Symbols in the pictograph:
: butterfly (蝶), 
: the earth (地球), 
: the sun (太陽), 
: wind(風)
* To haikuists:
A quick sketch with EL ideograms like this pictograph might be useful for
making a haiku remembering the scene through it later.
Symbols in the EL translation:
{
season {
time,
nature,20out}: summer (夏)
{
sheet,
:main part of 
insect}: butterfly (蝶)
(grammatical
symbol): to form a d-verb: meaning that the subject becomes in the
condition shown by the following character/phrase; or the subject does the
following action. (Ｄ動詞符)
{
(recognition),
ear(s){human
ear shape,
sense}}:
listening to (聞き分け、Ｄ動詞符がつくと｢聴く})
(grammatical symbol alone): to show that the following character or phrase
is an accusative case of a d-verb
and that might be influenced by the action of the subject. (Ｄ動詞の目的語の標識)
{
nature, 
infinite,
hard/stable}: rock (岩)
{
the mouth by the shape, 
wave: a part of 
sound}: voice
(声・鳴)
(multiple dots): to indicate a pause (ま)
{
much, 
out}:
far (遠い)
{
preposition mark, 
(the returning/original direction)} : from (〜から)
{
life, }: birth
(誕生)
{
place,}: land
(土地)
The original and translations by Yoshiko
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