Children in Haikufrom Around the World

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A DOZEN TONGUESA DOZEN TONGUES 2000

Children in Haikufrom Around the World

REDMOONPRESS

A DOZEN TONGUES 2000 Children in Haiku from Around the World

© 2000 Jim Kacianfor Red Moon PressAll Rights Reserved

ISBN 1-893959-10-4

Red Moon PressP.O. Box 2461Winchester VA22604-1661 USA

This volume preparedin cooperation withthe World Haiku Association.All profits from this volumebenefit UNICEF.

Special thanks for this volume toall the poets and translatorswho have donated their workin the name of international haiku.

For KAZUO SATO.

A DOZEN TONGUES 2000

Chen Minghua

vijverrimpelingenje koude handjeplaagt nog wat

the pond ripplingyour small cold handis still teasing

l’etang onduleta petite main froidetaquine encore

wippender teich—rotkalt deine kleine hand,immer wieder scherzend

il laghetto ondeggiala tua piccola fredda manoancora gioca

Chinese

unduiri pe lacmicuta ta mana recenu da pace apei

la lageto ondetasvia eta malvarmeta manoankorau turmentetas

nemiran ribnjaktvoja hladna rucicajos zadirkuje

temblando la charcala pequeña mano fríaesta todavía bromeando

Krusning på dammenDin lilla kalla handfortsätter att retas

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Geen kinderenin de zandbak van het parkalleen herfstbladeren.

Jos van Hest

No childrenin the park’s sandboxjust autumn leaves.

feuilles d’automne—au bac a sable du parcpas d’enfants

Im Sandkastenim ParkHerbstblätter nur.

non ci sono bambininel sabbione del parcosolo foglie d’autunno

Nici un copilla groapa cu nisip din parcdoar frunze de toamna

Dutch

neniu knaboen parksabloludejonur autunaj folioj

no hay ningun niñoen el cajón de arena del parquesolamente las hojas de otoño

Inga barni parkens sandlådabara hôstlôv

pesak u parkuumesto razígrane decejesenje lisce

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among the fireflieschildren playing pasttheir bedtimes

Gary Hotham

parmi les lucioles—les enfantes jouent aprèsl’heure de se coucher

zwischen glühwürmchenspielen kinderschlaffrei

in mezzo alle lucciolebambini giocano dopol’ora di letto

jucandu-seprintre licuricicopiii uita de culcare

English

medju svicimazaigrana deca zaboraviseda je vreme za krevet

inter lampiroj—infanoj ludas post laenlitighoro

Bland eldflugornaleker barnenefter laggdage

tussen glimwormpjes—spelende kinderenna bedtijd

entre las luciérnaga—juegan los niñosya pasó su hora de dormir

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couleurs de l’étémêlées aux cris d’un enfantqui n’est pas le mien

Jocelyne Villeneuve

sommerfarben—das geschrei des kindeseiner anderen

colori d’estate—il pianto di un bambinoche non e’ mio

culorile verii—tipetele unui copilcare nu-i al meu

letnje boje—plac detetakoje nije moje

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French

los colores de veranoel llanto de un niñoque no es mío

someraj koloroj—ploroj de infanone la mia

zomerkleuren—de kreten van een kindvan een ander

summer colors—the cries of a childwho is not mine

Sommarfârger—gråten från ett barnsom inte âr mitt.

Die Kinderballonsschwinden im Sommerhimmel,dann die Dämmerung

Gunther Klinger

nell cielo d’estatei palloni dei bambini diventano piccolie poi il tramonto

cer de vara—baloanele copiilor devin micisi apoi amurgul

el cielo de veranolos globos de los niños se hacen menudosen el crepúsculo

letnje nebo—sve manji su deciji baloni,i onda sumrak

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German

Sommarhimmel—barnens ballonger blir sma,sa skymning

somera cieloinfan-balonoj malgrandigas,poste la krepusko

Kinderballonnenslinken in de zomeravond,dan schemering

summer sky—children’s balloons growing tiny,and then twilight

ciel d’été—les ballons des enfants rapetissentet puis le crépuscule

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insieme guardano la televisioneanche alla nonnapiacciono i pupazzi

Michelina de Gruttola

împreuna la televizor—chiar si bunicii îi placdesenele animate

gledamo televizijucak i bakauziva u crtacima

Tillsammans framför TVockså farmortycker om tecknade serier.

juntos mirando la televisiónaun la abueladisfruta los dibujos animados

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Italian

kune rigardi televidilonec al anjoplacas la pupteatrajoj

together watching televisioneven grandmotherenjoys the cartoons

Ensemble devant la télévisionmême Grand-Mèreaime les dessins animes

alle guckenzusammen fern trickfilme mag auch oma

samen televisie kijkenzelfs omageniet van de tekenfilms

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los cosmos florecidoslos pijamas de los niños¡Qué cortos son!

cosmos in bloomthe children’s pajamashow short

zu kurz—die blumen der morgenröckeblühen

kosmosoj kun florojla pijamoj de infanojkiom mallongaj

bloeiende cosmosde kinderpyama’szó kort

Japanese

stelute infloritece scurte suntpijamalele copiilor

kosmos cvetadecija pizamatako kratka

Kosmos i blomningbarnens pyjamasså korta

cosmos in fiorei pigiama dei bambinicome sono corti

cosmos en fleurles pyjamas des enfantscomme ils sont courts

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Tatsuo

pe fereastra ziditaun copil a desenato perdea

Constantin Abaluta

detecrta zavesuna zazidanom prozoru

la ventana enladrilladaun niño ha descorridouna cortina

Ett barndrar for en gardinover det igenmurade fonstret

Een kindtekende een gordijnop het dichtgemetselde raam

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Romanian

A childhas drawn a curtainon the bricked-over window

iu infanodesegnis kurtenon surbrikita fenestro

auf das zugemauertefenster zeichnet ein kindeinen vorhang

un ragazzotira una cortinasulla finestra chiusa di pietre

un enfanta tiré un rideausur la fenêtre murée

geknaboj prenasleontodojn ce l’ kampo—nek ricaj, nek male tie

Russian

les gosses cueillentdes pissenlits au pré—ni riches, ni pauvres la . . .

ragazzi raccolgonole cicorie nel pratonon sono ricchi o poveri

culegand papadiicopiii bogati si saracisunt la fel pe pajiste

löwenzahnpflücken kinder geldfreiauf der wiese

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Mikhail Finerman

u poljudeca beru maslacak—nikog bogatijeg

los niños en el pradorecogiendo los dientes de león—por allá, ni rico, ni pobre

Barn plockarmaskrosor pa angen—varken rika eller fattiga dar

kids are pickingdandelions at the meadow—neither rich, nor poor there

kinderen plukkenpaardenbloemen in de wei—daar is rijk noch arm . . .

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igraju zmurke—cvece u njenoj kosi skocisa svakim korakom

Branka Jegdic

el escondite—en el cabello de ella floresun salto con cada paso

Kurragomma—blommorna i hennes harhopar vid varje steg

verstoppertje—in haar haar dansen bloemenbij elke stap

cache-cache—les fleurs dans ses cheveuxsautillent a chaque pas

hide ’n’ seek—flowers in her hairhop at each step

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kasludon sxikun floroj en la harojsaltet’ je ciu pas’

Serbian

versteck-dich-spiel . . .ihr hüpfen blumen im haarbei jedem schritt

de-a ascunsa—florile din parul eisalta la fiecare pas

nascondino—fiori nei suoi capellisalta ad ogni passo

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Campanitas de cristal risas de niños en el jardín.

Berta Montalva

Sma glasklockorBarnens skratti tradgarden

kristallen klokjeshet gelach van kinderenin de tuin

tiny crystal bellschildren’s laughterin the garden

kristallglöckchenim gartenkinderlachen

Clochettes de crystalle rire des enfantsau jardin

kristalaj sonoriletojridado de infanojen la gardeno

Spanish

piccoli campanelli di cristallola risata dei bambininel giardino

clopote mici de cristalrasete de copiiin gradina

nezni kristalni zvoncideciji smehu vrtu

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Pojke i skogen.Kastande sondagsstassenleker han naken.

Dag Hammarskjöld

In het bos gooitde jongen zijn nette pak uiten gaat naakt spelen.

The boy in the forestthrowing off his Sunday bestplays naked.

le garçon dans la forêtjette ses habits du dimancheet joue nu

il ragazzo nel boscosi toglie il vestito di festae gioca nudo

Sonntagskleidungausziehend, spielt der Junge nacktim Wald

knabo en arbar’dejetas bonkostumonnude ludas

Swedish

decak u sumiskinuvsi praznicnu odecuigra nag

El niño en el bosquese quita la ropa dominguerajuega desnudo

In padure baiatulisi da jos hainele de duminicasi se joaca gol

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Authors

CONSTANTIN ABALUTA was born in Bucharest, October 8, 1938,he is both a licensed architect and a freelance writer. He haspublished more than 20 books of poetry, several story booksand translations from modern poets and prose-writers (DylanThomas, Wallace Stevens, Samuel Beckett, and Boris Vian,among others) He has won literary prizes in Romania andabroad, and his name is to be found in numerous Who’s Whodictionaries.

MICHELINA DE GRUTTOLA has been writing haiku for the pasteight years. Her work has appeared in Raw NerVZ Haiku andthe Boston Haiku Society News. Having lived in the US formany years, her first impulse is still to write in her nativelanguage, Italian, though she is proficient in both Italian andEnglish.

MIKHAIL FINERMAN was born in the USSR in 1946. He took akeen interest in Zen and wrote his first hokku in Russian in the70s. His poems were included in the prestigious anthologySamizdat Veka (Self Publishing of the Century) (Polifact 1997).

DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD was a Swedish diplomat and Member of theSwedish Academy. From 1953 to 1961 he was Secretary-General of the United Nations.110 haiku poems can be foundin his book Markings.

GARY HOTHAM has been writing haiku for over 30 years and stilldoesn’t know how to stop. A major collection of his poetry waspublished in 1999: BREATH MARKS: Haiku to Read in the Darkby Canon Press.

BRANKA JEGDIC is an up-and-coming poet from Montenegro,Yugoslavia. Her work has appeared in Haiku Novine, a respectedhaiku magazine published in Yugoslavia, as well as in Knots:The Anthology of Southeast European Haiku Poetry.

¸ˇ ˇ GÜNTHER KLINGE, the long-time president of a pharmaceuticalcompany with subsidiaries in Austria and Ireland, was born inBerlin in 1910. In addition to haiku, he paints and plays theviolin, piano and organ. An active outdoorsman, Klinge livesin Munich and is president of the German-Japanese Associationof Bavaria.

CHEN MINGHUA, a Chinese born in Vietnam, came to the UnitedStates in 1979. He is an electronic engineer in Los Angeles andchief editor of New World Poetry Bimonthly since 1990. He hasauthored three collections of poetry, all written in Chinese.

BERTA G. MONTALVO was born in La Habana, Cuba in 1919. Shehas lived in exile in Miami, Florida since 1963. Ms. Montalvowrites haiku, short and children’s stories, poems and politicalarticles. Published widely in literary magazines and periodicalsaround the world, she has three volumes of haiku and onevolume of poetry in print. Her most recent children’s book isabout to be published.

Of TATSUO the editors have no information beyond his poem.

JOS VAN HEST has studied Dutch and dramatics. He writes andtranslates children’s books. His latest picture book is calledTinus heeft tien tantes (Tinus Has Ten Aunts). His books have beentranslated into Chinese, Turkish, Arabic and Papiamento.

JOYCE VILLENEUVE was a widely published poet in both Frenchand English. She was born and lived her whole life in Canada,where she acquired degrees in Economics, Library Scienceand French Literature. She published many books and was therecipient of numerous awards throughout her life, whichended prematurely in 1998.

Translators

BERTRAND AGOSTINI is an Associate Professor of English at École Superieured’Agriculture and Université Catholique de l’Ouest in Angers, France.This year he is a Visiting Associate Professor of Languages at ClemsonUniversity, South Carolina. In 1998, with Christiane Pajotin, he wrotea book on Jack Kerouac’s haiku: Itinéraire dans l’errance: Kerouac et le haïku(A Wandering Itinerary: Kerouac and the Haiku).

DIMITAR ANAKIEV is a prize-winning poet, the author of numerous haikucollections, co-editor of Knots: The Anthology of Southeast European HaikuPoetry, and the haiku journal Green Apples, co-founder of HASEE, theHaiku Association of South East Europe, and owner of Prijatelj HaikuPress in his adopted homeland of Slovenia.

D-RO ISTVAN BIERFARISTO (DR. STEVEN BREWER), is a specialist in constructedlanguages with particular expertise in Esperanto. He writes haiku inEsperanto and has performed haiku readings at Esperanto conferences,including “La Zne Haikoj de Istvan Bierfaristo” and “La Ampoezio deIstvan Bierfaristo”. Steve has translated his haiku into English for localand national haiku readings.

ION CODRESCU was born 16 December, 1951, Cobadin, Romania. He isa poet and painter, founder and editor of Albatross, internationalEnglish-Romanian haiku journal, and president of the ConstantzaHaiku Society. He has published widely, including, most recently, AForeign Guest (1999), and Mountain Voices (2000), and won many literaryprizes in Romania and abroad.

RAFFAEL DE GRUTTOLA has been a past president of The Haiku Society ofAmerica and is its present treasurer. He is a founding member of theBoston Haiku Society. He has worked on a number of projects translatinghaiku from Italian into English as well as English into Italian.

KAI FALKMAN is the Ambassador at the Swedish Ministry for ForeignAffairs. He is the President of the Swedish Haiku Society, which hehelped form in 1999. He is a writer, and a translator of Japanese haiku.His Between the Lines, a consideration of the art of translation of haiku,is due out from Red Moon Press late this year.

STANFORD M. FORRESTER received his M.A. degree and completed hisPh.D. coursework in Spanish Literature at Boston College. Currently,he is the editor of bottle rockets, a haiku monograph. Stanford works atYale University Press in the marketing department. He wishes to thankBeatriz de Santiago Fourquet for her generosity of spirit and time. Heand his wife, Mary, are expecting their first child as we go to press.

WIM LOFVERS is president of the Dutch Haiku Circle and editor of theinternational haiku journal Woodpecker. He is the creator of the Dutchhaiku diary and has his own small-scale publishing company, ’t HogeWoord, which specialises in miniature haiku booklets. Wim is theauthor of several haiku booklets, including Westenwind, poging tot eenkleine Westerse haiku-filosofie (West wind, attempting a small Western haikuphilosophy). ARNOLD VERMEEREN is editor of the Dutch/Flemish haikuquarterly Vuursteen (Flint) and organiser of the biannual Dutch languagepostal kukai. He has been a member of the Japanese haiku group Fuyoh(Rose Mallow) for almost four years. Arnold is currently working on a firstminiature haiku booklet, together with six other haiku and tankawriters, to be published by 't Hoge Woord.

PETER MEISTER teaches German at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.He wishes to thank Taeko Horowitz (Japanese), Irena Buksa (Slavic)and Edith Phillips (German) for giving him the benefit of their nativeintuition.

BAN’YA NATSUISHI is the penname of Masayuki Inui. He holds an M.A.in Comparative Literature and Culture from the University of Tokyo,and is currently Professor at Meiji University. He has published over adozen books of original haiku and essays on its practice, including AFuture Waterfall (Red Moon Press 1999), his first full-length book ofhaiku translated into English.

ZINOVY VAYMAN composed his first poems at the age of 12 in Siberia.Thirty years later he discovered haiku in English while attending classesat the Kaji Aso Studio in Boston.

JIANQING ZHENG is a professor of English/Creative Writing at MississippiValley State University, Itta Bena, MS, USA. He has published haikuand other poems in Chinese and English, and has translated a fewhundred poems.

is owner and operator of Red Moon Press, sponsor of theDOZEN TONGUES project. He is also a poet (Out of the Stones:Selected Haiku of Jim Kacian will appear this Fall fromApokalipsa Press); a writer (his How to Haiku is scheduledfor release Fall of 2000 by John Weatherhill PublishersInc.); an editor (of books like the Red Moon Anthologyseries, and of journals such as Frogpond); and one of thefounders of the World Haiku Association.

JIM KACIAN � PROJECT CREATOR

wishes to express his gratitude to be working with suchcommitted and talented people, the artists who wrotethese pieces and the artists who have translated them.He dedicates this work to the memory of Anna Hopkins,all of the dedicated youth service profes-sionals he hassupervised and worked with over the years, and all of thegreat youngsters he has been privi-leged to know andlove—especially his son, Anthony.

ANTHONY J. PUPELLO � PROJECT EDITOR

was born in 1949, the second child (of eleven) of a Ten-rikyo minister. He spent his childhood in Nara, theancient capital of Japan, and his high school years inHawai’i. He studied Fine Arts in college, and upon re-turning to Japan and beginning family life has beeninvolved in many aspects of the graphic arts, includingthe design of parade floats. He is an ordained minister,and cites this as the energetic core of his many activities.

KUNIHARU SHIMIZU � GRAPHIC ARTIST

THE DOZEN TONGUES PROJECT

is a charitable project of Red Moon Press. Each yearhaiku is gathered on a chosen theme from aroundthe world in twelve languages widely in use in inter-national haiku. Each poem is translated into theother eleven tongues, as well as Esperanto. Thethemes are selected for their universality, as proofthat the things we value are more powerful than thecultural differences which sometimes separate us.

Each year a non-profit service organization is chosenwhich Red Moon Press feels is in close alignmentwith the theme of that year, and all profits from theproject are donated to it. In this, our inaugural yearof the project, and with the theme of “Children inHaiku from Around the World,” our charitablesponsor and beneficiary is UNICEF. We hope youwill join us in supporting their valuable andnecessary work.

As part of our ongoing interest in environmentaland ecological issues, Dozen Tongues 2001 will takeas its theme “Our Vanishing Wilderness.” Oursponsoring beneficiary is The Nature Conservancy.

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