April 25, 2004

ハハコグサ何処より来て庭に咲く
卯月は我に子を抱かせり

Where are you from, cudweed
To my garden to dwell in?
April has given me
A child to hold tight

Hahakogusa: Gnaphalium affine D.Don

April 24, 2004

今年また涼風鳴らすスズランを
植えた人あり彼岸に住まう

Here come again the clusters of
Cooly ringing lily bells this year
A person once planted them
Now she resides in heaven

April 23, 2004

ビル風に花房揺らすライラック
香り纏いてスーツの過ぎる

Bunch of lilac flowers
Are shaking in the strong wind
Blowing though buildings
A woman in suits passes by wearing its scent

April 22, 2004

草むらに見え隠れするヒナゲシを
毒盛る御手も忘れたるらむ

Com poppies are seen and hidden
In grasses growing thick
Hands to give poison
Must have forgotten them

April 21, 2004

光吸い我はみどりと柿の葉は
今このときの寵児となれり

Absorbing all the light
Green leaves of persimmon
Claim their freshness,
The beloved children of this season

April 20, 2004

藪深きヤマブキ生うる庭に在る
古アパートの孤老泰然

Yamabuki; Kerria japonica
Cf. 3 December 2004

April 19, 2004

朝露に挨拶せんとツユクサを
中空を飛ぶ自転車で狩る

In order to greet morning dews
I fly in the sky by bicycle
Looking for purple dayflowers

Tsuyukusa: Commelina communis

April 18, 2004

一点の朱色垂らせりフリージア
慚愧の念を揉み消す間なく

A drop of scarlet is in freesia
It gave me no time
To smother up the shame

April 17, 2004

清新の朝祝福の花水木
白き光のシャワーくぐりぬ

Hanamizuk; dogwood: Cornus florida
Cf. 6 November 2004 and 7 December 2004

April 16, 2004

照り返すムラサキカタバミ延々と
生きる力は群生にあり

Lively wood sorrel grows on and on
Reflecting sunshine
Its vitality is in clumps

Murasaki-katabami: Oxalis corymbosa

April 15, 2004

かたばみのちいさききいろひそやかに
存在証明提示しており

Small yellow spots of tiny flowers
Are silently but sternly
Demonstraiting their identification

April 14, 2004

その奥に蜜抱く壺ひややかに
ムラサキケマン触れる指先

They are vases
Holding honey in their bottoms
Cold murasakikeman
Touch my fingertips

Murasaki Keman: Corydalis incisa (Thunb.) Pers.

April 13, 2004

泡を盛る器広がり差し招く
林の奥の宴に参ず

Foam is bubbling on the plates wide
Inviting me to the depth of the woods
Let me join the feast now 　

April 12, 2004

化粧して寄り合い語る楽しさを
思い出させる海棠の頃

Kaidou is in full bloom
To remind me of
The joy of putting on make-up
And getting together for chatting

kaidou: Malus halliana Koehne

April 11, 2004

めぐりくる息吹街路に点々と
みどりやわらか銀杏蘇生す

cf. 21 October 2004

April 10, 2004

散る花を知らぬアヤメの涼しさよ
黙礼の人足早に行く

Cool irises!
They are ignorant of
Cherry blossoms falling
People pass by just nodding

April 9, 2004

トチノキの若芽ほどけるきららかな
入学の朝スーツを纏う

In a brillant morning
Young leaves of tochinoki are released
Students wear suits
For the entrance ceremony

tochinoki: Aesculus turbinata Blume

April 5, 2004

木漏れ日の樹下に見上げる眼差しに
会う心地して歩踏み出せり

Light falls through tree leaves
I look up to feel I met
Somebody's gentle eyes
I step forward again

April 4, 2004

花蘇芳吹き出す枝や春愁の
バス待つ夕べ饒舌を聞く

Along the twigs of Hanazuou
Grow the flowers
In spring gloom at a bus stop
I hear talkativeness

Hanazuou: Cercis chinensis Bunge

April 3, 2004

いよいよの門出の朝に居並んで
ここぞと開くチューリップかな

Finally comes
The morning of departure
Tulips bloom just in time
To celebrate it faithfully

April 2, 2004

散り際に萼（うてな）赤らみ大樹さえ
花の奥なる焔（ほむら）に染まる

cf. 9 November 2004 Cherry : Prunus