Today’s Haiku (February 8, 2011)

戦歿の友のみ若し霜柱　　　　　　三橋敏雄　

senbotsu no tomo nomi wakashi shimobashira

only a friend died in the war

remains young

frost columns

Toshio Mituhashi

from “Gendai no Haiku” (Modern Haiku), edited by Shobin Hirai, Kodansha, Tokyo, 1996

Fay’s Note:   Toshio Mitsuhashi (1920-2001)