This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Melbourne-based poet, Takanori Hayakawa.
低くとぶ子鳥よ空が重たいか
low flying fledgling –
is the sky too heavy
for you?
広島忌千羽鶴胴突きぬかれ
Hiroshima memorial —
thousands of paper cranes
pierced by strings
紅格子越しのおぼろ夜脂粉の香
red lattice screen
on a hazy night –
fragrance of cosmetics
Takanori Hayakawa
Australian Haiku Society 