Fall Haiku for Beginning of School
By Yamaguchi Seishi 山口誓子
(Translated by Takashi Kodaira and Alfred H. Marks)
霧のこゑ ごゑ学校の 形して
Kiri ni koe goe gakkou no katachi shite
Voices in the fog,
Voices assuming a shape ---
The shape of a school.
月よりも 上空を飛ぶ 白鳥座
Tsuki yori mo Joukuu wo tobu hakuchou-za
Higher than the moon,
the white swan constellation
flying through the sky.
西までの 天路月にも 遥かなる
Nishi made no tenro no tsuki ni mo haruka naru
Even for the moon,
the heavenly journey west
is a distant one.
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