Today’s Haiku (July 13, 2015)

月明かり眠りを知らぬ天道虫　　寺田 人
tsukiakari nemuri o shiranu tentomushi

            moonlight

            a ladybug not knowing

            how to sleep

                                    Jin Terada

from “Shûkan Haiku” (“Haiku Weekly”) #398,  12/7/2014 Issue, http://weekly-haiku.blogspot.com

Fay’s Note:  Characters for ‘tentômushi (or ‘tentomushi’) , a summer kigo, in Japanese are ‘Sky (or Heaven)-Way-Bug.’

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