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Have you played a Himalayan singing bowl?
My husband has a couple of old ones, and borrowing one of them, I sometimes meditate with it. In a cold season, the sound becomes more transparent, I feel.
The poet, Geert Verbeke (born in Flanders-Belgium) expresses the sound in his haiku in the Haiga-page in his website. Here I translated one of them into EL. If you are curious about singing bowls, he is also the author of "Singing Bowls, An ABC."
*GEERT VERBEKE's WEB HOME PAGE / BLOG REIZEN - JOURNEYS /
BLOG SCHRIJVEN - WRITING
His web pages have a wide variety of haiku with beautiful photos taken by himself.
Also many of his haiku-related literatures have been published in other languages.
Thank you very much Mr. Verbeke, presented me a couple of your nice haiku books.
ヒマラヤのシンギング・ボールをご存知でしょうか？
家人のものを借りて私もときどきこれで瞑想します。
鉢を叩くのではなく、鉢の周りを棒で擦りながら回転させると
鉢から響くとは想えない音色が止むことなく湧き上がります。
このシンギング・ボールの本「Singing Bowls, An ABC」の著者でもある、
フランダース（ベルギー）生まれのGeert Verbekeさんが
シンギング・ボールの音をこんな俳句（↓）で表現されました。
原作の俳句は、著者のウェブサイトの俳画ページに載っています。
上記のウェブサイトやブログページから彼自身の写真を配した
さまざまなタイプのモダンハイクをご覧になれます。
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The original English haiku The Dutch verse |
The Japanese translation by hoo 川は深海に動き入り 鉢歌う The EL translation by hoo       
   
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The symbols in the pictograph
: wave, :
ocean
The symbols in the EL translation
{ 
water
flowing 
place}: river
(河川)
: verb mark ()
: movement, move (vi. with )
{
preposition
mark, 
heading
direction}: to, for (～へ)
{
much,
under}: deep under (底深い)
{always having waves,
place}: the sea, ocean (海)
: multiple instances of dot are used to indicate a
pause (複数の点でポーズを表す)
: one (１つの)
{
receive/vessel,
tool)}: vessel, bowl (器)
: hyphen
(connecting the left and the right ideograms, it shows one concept) (左右の文字をつないで１概念を表示するハイフン)
{
mouth,
short form of
"sound"}:
voice, making any kind of voice including speaking,
crying, barking, mewing
and singing (vi. with ) (声・鳴)
:
singing bowl (（一時的設定として）鳴鉢)
(*this is a temporary setting, distinguishing from 
(beat-bowl for beating sound)(この場合には叩いて音を出す鉢)
{
action, 
open energy}: performance, :
perform (vi.) (演ずる)
*
means singing and
means "sing." (歌う)
In the EL translation, I used "singing bowl" instead of just
"bowl," so the verb got simpler avoiding doubled expression.