はなのこよみうたのこよみ　

Calendar in Flowers and Poems

　

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31 December 2004

門松を義母と立てたり繰り返す
気丈な指図胸に畳みつ

I settled branches of pine at the gate
For the new year's celebration
With my mother-in-law
Listening to her repetitive directions

　

30 December 2004

札納め檜に呼ばれ立ち止まり
境内満たす静けさを飲む

I came to return the sacred talisman
To a shrine with cypress trees
I guoped the silence at their feet

Hinoki: Chamaecyparis obtusa

　

29 December 2004

メダカ消え動かぬ鉢を置いた筈
ヒアシンスのびる朝昼夜も

After medaka family was gone
I put the still life, a pot
But hyacinth is ceaselessly
Growing day and night

Hyacinth : Hyacinthus orientalis

　

28 December 2004

親の葉と相似形した青い葉に
破れて枯れていく未来あり

Green leaves are exactly
The miniature of the old ones
Having the destiny to grow
Old and die

　

27 December 2004

雲を突くメタセコイアも枯れ色に
染まればどこか触れたき風情

When it turns into the dry color
Even metasequoia, an aloof tree
Invites people to touch it

Metasequoia: Metasequoia glyptostroboides

　

26 December 2004

平板な道行く人を振り向かせ
浮き釣り木はイルミネーション

To the decorative flowers
People passing by turn
Ukitsuriboku is the illumination
Of the plain lane

Ukitsuriboku: Abutilon

　

25 December 2004

センダンの葉は既に落ち枝々は
鈴なりの実を空にかざせり 　

All the leaves have fallen
Clusters of beans are on twigs
A sendan tree is rustling
Agains the icy sky

Sendan: Melia azedarach

　

24 December 2004

藤色は葡萄酒色に凝縮し
ヤブランの実に聖夜は迫る

Purple is condensed
To the dark wine color
Yaburan has fermented
Christmas Eve is coming

Yaburan: Liriope platyphylla
cf. 27 September 2004

　

23 December 2004

霜色の葉も美しき十二月
白妙菊の静かな主張

The beauty of the frost color
Of leaves in December
It's a quiet assertion of shirotae-giku

Shirotaegiku; dusty miller: Senecio cineraria

　

22 December 2004

ときならぬ三色菫植えるわけ
問うもおろかな冬枯れの野辺　

It's no use asking
The reason why they plant
Viloets at this time of a year
If you see the dead color of the field

Sanshikisumire: Viola tricolor var. hortensis

　

21 December 2004

切り株に枯葉踊らす日没を
迎えて寒き雑木林は

Dried leaves are dancing
On an old stump
Calling the desolate sunset
Over a copse　

　

20 December 2004

緩やかに花から実へと変身し
龍の髭伸び命を示す

Stealthily from flowers to beans
Ryu-no-hige (dragon's beard) transforms
Giving the evidence of life

Ryu-no-hige: Ophiopogon japonicus

　

19 December 2004

枯れ野原桃色の葉はほどければ
まだら緑と仕組まれており

In the dried brown field
The pink leaves are designed
To transform into motley green

　

18 December 2004

些かも面白みなき植栽の
はずが万年青の赤きふくらみ

Totally an uninteresting plant
It should have been
Look at the red swellings of rhodea

Omoto; rhodea: Rohdea japonica

　

17 December 2004

パーティーの後の女のドレスほど
崩れながらも十月ザクラ

Now they are as shapless as
Women's dresses after a party
Blossoms of Jyuugatsuzakura are

Jyuugatsuzakura: Prunus × subhirtella cv Autumnalis

　

16 December 2004

キンカンのにがさ甘さに勝れると
幼きわれは拒んでおりぬ

I refused to eat kumquat
For its bitterness overcoming
Sweetness in my childhood

Kinkan:kumquat: Fortunella

　

15 December 2004

ありふれた鉢花ならずゼラニウム
空しきこころ染める刹那に

Not ordinary flowers
Are geranium in a pot
Which color my vacant heart
Immediately

geranium: Pelargonium × hortorum

　

14 December 2004

ころころとネズミモチなる小枝かな
陽を浴びるものみな輝いて

A cluster of gray ovals. nezumimochi
Are growing on the twigs
Everything shines under the sun

Nezumimochi: Ligustrum japonicum

　

13 December 2004

シクラメン朽ちかけているひとひらは
52枚目残り香といふ

The petal of cyclamen decaying
Is the fifty second one
Leaving the color of a woman

Cyclamen: Cyclamen persicum

　

12 December 2004

心なき命名知らず野に生きる
掃き溜め菊の伸びやかさかな

Indifferent to the naming,
"Chrysanthemums in the dirt"
Live just freely in the field

Hakidamegiku: Galinsoga quadriradiata

　

11 December 2004

空き地にはヒメツルソバを敷き詰めて
束の間の無為愉しむばかり

An open lot is covered with
The carpet of Himetsurusoba
nviting you to enjoy the time
The moment of laziness

Himetsurusoba: Persicaria capitata

　

10 December 2004

棘を立て誰をも拒むそぶりして
光抱ける木立アロエは

Pretending to scare away all
With prickles
Aroe is holding the light softly

Kidachiaroe: arborescens var. natalensi

　

9 December 2004

いずこから届けられたか豆腐屋と
電気屋に置く鉢の可憐さ

Where have they been brought
To the front of a tofu shop
And an electric shop
The flower pots of loveliness? 　

　

8 December 2004

背伸びしてなお届かざる梢の実
鈴の音ならす木枯らしの中

You have always been out of my reach
Like the fuirts at the top of a tree
In the ringing wind of winter 　

　

7 December 2004

ハナミズキ実の衰えて房をなし
影絵の先になお残る赤

The shrinking seeds of dogwoods
Are making clusters
At the tip of a twig in a silhouette

Hanamizuki; dogwood: Cornus florida
Cf. April 17, 2004 and 6 November 2004

　

6 December 2004

風通る崖下路にひゆひゆと
冬の音を振る小花の下がる

Slightly swaying in the wind
On the way to the town valley
They are the bells calling winter

　

5 December 2004

げに固き天狗の団扇差し出して
冬支度する楓の古木

Stretching out the hard fans
Of Tengu, the demon of mountains
An old maple tree is redy
For coming winter

　

4 December 2004

サテン地の明るい服を召しませと
ジャコバサボテンたわわにたれる

Put on bright satin clothes
Plump buds of Christmas cactus say
Bending down heavily

Christmas cactus: Schlumbergera truncata

　

3 December 2004

山吹の花思わせて色めく葉
ただ枯れ果てる命はないと

The colored leaves of yamabuki
Remind me of their flowers
claiming their power of life

Yamabuki; Kerria japonica
Cf. April 20, 2004

　

2 December 2004

豪奢なる深紅の守り従えて
ポインセチアの花の小ささ

Protected by the scarlet followers
Small flowers of poinsettia
Grow just in the middle

Poinsettia: Euphorbia pulcherrima

　

1 December 2004

キャベツとは言わせないわと葉牡丹は
柔らかな芯解いてひろげる

Don't call me the cabbage
Habotan loosen its core
To open the leaves

Habotan; ornamental cabbage: Brassica oleracea var. acephala

　

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