多分だが磯巾着は義理堅い 坪内稔典
tabun daga isoginchaku wa girigatai
I say perhaps
a sea anemone
has high moral
Nenten Tsubouchi
from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine) , December 2011 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo
多分だが磯巾着は義理堅い 坪内稔典
tabun daga isoginchaku wa girigatai
I say perhaps
a sea anemone
has high moral
Nenten Tsubouchi
from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine) , December 2011 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo
Indeed, the sea anemone certainly has high morals as long as it’s content to be a sea anemone…. Learning to be who we are is the great challenge of humanity. If we only could know for sure????