Monday, December 31, 2001

消えてゆく時の残り香胸に秘め静かに焚く火絶やすことなかれ

Have the vanishing scent of time in heart
Never quench the fire you make quietly for ever



Sunday, December 30, 2001

不器用が機械の前でかく汗はつれなく暮れる時の冷たさ

An inefficient PC user sits at the machine with disappointments
Perspiring and feeling cold after long vain trials



Saturday, December 29, 2001

年の瀬に伝える思い限りなく痛み語らう音無き対話

Our conversation does not have sound
We share pains at the end of a year



Friday, December 28, 2001

焼き網に蛤こらえて口開けず合わさる殻の模様つながる

Clams on a brander would not open the shells
Tightly closed in same colors on both sides



Thursday, December 27, 2001

「北風と太陽」の逸話反芻し斯くありたしと願う北風

Remembering the fable of "North Wind and the Sun"
The chilly wind wishes to be the Sun



Wednesday, December 26, 2001

布団干す天日の温み両腕にかき抱き見る宙の透明

I hold tight the warmth of sunshine in the dried futons
Look at the transparency of space



Tuesday, December 25, 2001

解きほぐし白日に晒す寒さより不問の淵に立ち止まりたし

I would rather keep away from the gulf of inquisitiveness
Than to analyze and expose freezing secrets  



Monday, December 24, 2001

それぞれの聖夜更けゆき闇に問う深き赦しの真の在処を

I ask the growing darkness of the individual holy night
Where the true tolerance is 



Sunday, December 23, 2001

銀嶺は秩父連山抜きん出て陽光纏い邪念鎮める

The silver ridge of Mt. Fuji is highly beyond Chichibu mountains
Wrapped in sunshine it calms down evil spirits



Saturday, December 22, 2001

今暫し矛を収めて順繰りにゆず湯に浸かる静けき夕べ

A momentary cease-fire enables a family to take a bath
Scnted with yuzu in a quiet evening at midwinter



Friday, December 21, 2001

積年の怨念という物の怪に憑かれて騒ぐ心哀しき

How sad it is to see anger piled up for decades
Burst out as if it's caught by a ghost 



Thursday, December 20, 2001

言い難きことば吐き出す老婆あり受け止む胸の亀裂する音

An old woman makes the clean breast of her thought desperately
Nobody hears the breaking sound of the listener's heart



Wednesday, December 19, 2001

武蔵野の落日を見る影一つ吹き曝されて闇に溶けゆく

A lone shadow watching the sunset in Musashino 
Is blown in the wind to melt into the dusk



Tuesday, December 18, 2001

特急のシートに埋まり瞬間の眠りに沈む砂袋かな

Burried in a seat of an express train
I am a sandbag, fast asleep for a moment 



Monday, December 17, 2001

早々と仕事終いの人々が声を掛け合う「今年」の重さ

People finish works and exchange year-end greetings:
Oh, the heviness of the word "this year"  



Sunday, December 16, 2001

縦横に町歩きする道すがら風に捲かれて人は散り散り

Walking about in town we know so well
We are spread by the gust to be lost 



Saturday, December 15, 2001

幾筋も越え行く川は平原のベージュカラーに青色刻む

Strings of rivers I go across in the field
Blue lines in the infinite beige color



Friday, December 14, 2001

物思う前の我が身に楽天家在りしことさえ薄れる師走

December is when I forget the simply happy existence
I had known before I was involved in this suffering



Thursday, December 13, 2001

残菊の朽ち行く原に降る雨は雪より惨く万物に凍む

Rain falls on the last chrysanthemums
Soaking all more cruelly than snow



Wednesday, December 12, 2001

止め得ぬ涙乾かす妙薬は燃やす新たな炎に如かず

The only magic that can dry endless tears
Is nothig but a freshly lit fire 



Tuesday, December 11, 2001

ユウジンとしてならよしと聞き慣れた宣告受ける疑似「優等生」

"You're all right as a friend" is what I've heard:
A repeated sentence to a mock "model student"



Monday, December 10, 2001

カーナルにウィルス一つ棲むという警告アイコン悪魔の形

A warning :Virus PWS-gen Hooker is in the system kernel
With an icon shaped in a devil



Sunday, December 9, 2001

殺気立つ無言を受ける反射板舌戦前に立て直しおり

Bloody silence calls for the reflector
I take it out for the wordy war



Saturday, December 8, 2001

物憂げに熱暑の原に煉瓦干すアフガン少女裸足で立てる

Standing wearily an Afgan girl stands barefooted
In the heated field to dry bricks



Friday, December 7, 2001

煌めきの街吸う夜の大ホール満席にする人のか細さ

The night town with illumination is absorbed into a concert hall
How slim is the person who makes it fullhouse!



Thursday, December 6, 2001

手短なメール受信す午前零時末尾に曰く A Happy Birthday

I received a brief mail at midnight
Reading A Happy Birthday at the end ofit



Wednesday, December 5, 2001

拒まれて頭下げつつ辞去すれば冬枯れの園堅き要塞

My visit being declined, I withdrew bowing outof a school
A forceful defense in the wintery stillness



Tuesday, December 4, 2001

振り向かずバーバリーコートを翻し旅立つ人に降りかかる雨

Rain falls on a traveller in a Burberry coat
Departing without looking back 



Monday, December 3, 2001

静寂の音立てながらとめどなく舞い散る紅き葉の中を行く

With the sound of silence red leaves are falling
I walk through their dance



Sunday, December 2, 2001

あるがまま--叡智の歌は煩悩の重みを載せて揺れるシーソー

Let it be, a song of wisdom goes up and down
With lusts on both ends of a seesow



Saturday, December 1, 2001

去る日々と来る日の狭間口閉ざし花のなごりの前に佇む

For a while between the days past and come
I stand wordless in front of the rest of flowers of the year