Haiku and the Pictograph in EL, "bring to the willow" - March 2006 -
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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。
When I was reading the "Haiku Ireland" web site that
Angelee in India introduced to me,
I found this warm-hearted haiku in -haibun-
‘Barbed-Wire & Butterflies’by
Jim Norton
that was awarded 4th place in the Nobuyuki Yuasa International Haibun Competition
2004.
In the early spring sun light, I hope the bristled buds of willows gently
shine on the kids,
who lost their moms by the waterside calamities that occurred in recent
years on this planet.
The plant name "willow" is not set up in EL yet; so here I expressed
the plant
as the waterside tree with bristle covered buds.
Although there is a way to show the name using only two characters.
今月は、インドのアンジェリーさんがご紹介くださったHaiku Irelandの
2004年度の俳文受賞作でJim Norton
さんの ‘Barbed-Wire
& Butterflies’の中に出ていた俳句です。
この1年余りの間にアジアやルイジアナの水辺で家族を無くしたこどもたちに、この句を届けたくなりました。
willowは、ふつう日本でいう猫柳のこと、温かくなりはじめた日差しを浴びて、
毛に包まれた花芽がふっくらふくらむやさしさ・・
地球語の「柳」の文字は、2文字設定が可能ですが、まだ設定していないのでここでは少々長めに表しました。
The original English by Jim Norton:
bring to the willow
all the weeping of your heart
motherless chicks
The Japanese translation:
柳にこい母なき雛よ泣きにこい
The EL translation:
The symbols in the pictograph:
: tear (s)(涙),
: bird (鳥)
The symbols in the translation:
: the head mark for requesting to do something (
: want)
The word following this head and between
and shows
the one called for the request. (~してください)
the
grammatical notation to form a d-verb: meaning that the subject of
this sentence becomes in the condition shown by the following character/phrase;
or the subject does the following action. In this case, the subject of this
verb is 'motherless chicks'.
{
{exist,
received} have/possess, heading}:
bringing,
: bring (vt. ) (もってくる)
{
preposition symbol, the heading
direction}: to, for (~へ)
{
water, {
limit, place} edge}: waterside
(水辺)
{
nature, plant} (tree
shaped fundamental ideogram): tree (木)
{
preposition, joined}:
with (~で、~とともに)、~つきの)
{
hair, covered}:
bristle covered/hairy (毛で覆われた)
{
plant, heart} (flower
shaped fundamental ideogram): flower (花)
to show that the following word or phrase is an accusative
case of a d-verb, and that is influenced by the action of the subject. English
doesn't need this kind of mark, but EL needs it because of the free sequence
for subject, object and verb.
{
{ front,
pronoun indicator} you; this hand-sign is pointing front by the thumb
in front of the chest,
plural}: (plural) you/your (あなたたち(の)
{{
eye, water} tear,
{heart,
sense} feeling}: sorrow, sad, weeping heart (悲しい気持ち)
{
change, move,
space }(a wings-opened bird shaped fundamental ideogram): bird (鳥)
{
wonder,
life} (early life time surrounded many 'wonders' to live): child (早期の命・こども)
: bird's child/children: chick/chicks (雛)
You can compound
(plural) on top of to show
chicks, but EL need not always to distinguish if a noun is single or plural;
also here (your) shows it's
plural, so I just took the simpler way.
{
preposition,
denied} : without (~なしの)
{
life,above,
in/female}:
mother (母親)
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