I'm such an ignoramus about poets/haikuists( poem/haiku
also: ), and I had not noticed that the author of last month haiku,
Mr. Christopher Herold was the editor of '
The Heron's Nest' which I had visited before. Thank you very much
for the kind mails, Christopher. I found this haiku by
Mark Brooks( a Native Texan in Texas, and the editor of
Haijinx ) in the section of
'a haikai journal/editor's choices' in the Heron's Nest. I imagined
that the author lived far from his mom, and he called her after this scene.
My birthday is also on this month, and in my case, an icicle
drops into my heart on that day even living in San Francisco, a land
of everlasting spring. Because my birthday is Pearl Harbor Day, and
I'm a Japanese in the US. On every birthday, I warm up the icicle to think
of bringing global peace with a diversity.
先月の作者から、自分は俳句サイト｢鷺の巣」の編集者だとのお便りをいただき、私の無知に恥じ入りました。それで｢鷺の巣」にお訪ねして、その中にこの俳句を見つけました。
'a haikai journal/editor's choices'のなかの
Mark Brooksさん(Haijinxの編集者）の俳句です。彼はお母さんと離れて暮らしていて、このあとお電話をされたのではないかなぁとか想いました。私も１２月生まれなんです。でも私の場合には、誕生日のたびに心につららが刺さります。なぜって、アメリカの暦のパールハーバー・デーがその日だからです。渡米以来、粗食し平和を祈りながらこのつららを解かすのが誕生日の習慣になってしまいました。
original
haiku:
mom's birthday-
the phone line drops
an icicle
Japanese translation:
電話線つららを落とし母の誕生日
EL translation:
{62((generation)before),67(life),19(female)}:
mother (to modify the next character) (母の)
(* When this pictograph was made, 17 was used instead of 62; later the
combination was changed)
{
{22(origin),67} birth, 
{36(time),44(sun)} day: birthday(誕生日)
{
{36(time),42(wave)}(sound 音),
{03(line) for 14(way of something go through)} (a line for something
going through なにかが通る線)}: telephone line(電話線)
(e-verb symbol)
(fall)
(to show an object which
actually becomes an e-verb situation):
vt. drop something after .
(のあとのものを落とす)
(one)
{
{34,59(water)}((a) drop of liquid しずく), 
{24(hard),59} (ice 氷)} (icicle つらら): one icicle (つららひとつ)
. 
. 
. 