The cancan		A homeless in the street
Passing-by girl		Memorial Cathedral in Hiroshima
A side road in Hong Kong		Aki tunnel
A mass in Catholic		Fishing as a play
The cherry flower		Double cherry blossoms
Sacrifice festival in Morocco		A little girl
Haiku Thirteen		Haiku Fourteen

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The cancan Accompany on the trumpets Girls were dancing on the stage Violently hard music "Paaaaaaaan! Papapapapan! Papapapapapapan!" Stylish girls highs up their legs Reciprocally Vehement dance! Sometimes Flip up their skirts Healthy and younger dance Strong moving A little of Sex appealing Not a dance in skin show Though No artistic dance I couldn't see refined art Only young age could do that This cancan dance In a short time I was enjoyed to see Forget for some time It is good to divert Rejuvenate myself I do not want to see all the time But good thing isn't it!

Itsuki Hiramatu March 6, 2000

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He is waking around In the street, searching a small money Like an old coot His wear and skin is scruffy His hair is long with disheveled His one leg is bare foot in the winter season Another one was a worn-out shoe Like a beggar man with long unkempt beard He is checking a change into a return slot Some public telephone booth Or some vending machines One after another It is hard to find out a coin someone left The neighborhood is a bustling street The store has a wide variety of goods Doesn't he pilfer from? Doesn't he beg for? His way of obtain the money is little probability He might be put through in that way once! Feeling a pity with him I prepare some small money I look his eye in silence Hand to him some coins "Oh! you gave me so many money for me I may kneel down on the ground to you As the Shogun's procession goes by To expression on thank you" You do not need to do such thing, I retorted "Though nobody gives me the money" "Tha~nk yo~u!" He walk away with screeching voice I like it how he is appreciated for And I found a sparkle in a dirty homeless

Itsuki Hiramatu March 10, 2000

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You comes Toward for me Leisurely, quietly, Walk slowly In the afternoon Finishing my job time Yesterday we met with Around the same position Are you an office lady? When passing by You do not look my face Under oblique direction Young lady A little bit of plump In the same time We are passing by each other No talking and no greeting As I said "Hi" You went fast passed by It made us with age difference? Do you think I am a bad man? I am not a stalker, so Do not so deviate from me. Nothing in particular It does not mean ask you date with me. If things go well That will be all right! It is my own convenience idea

Today You and I Recognized from distance Around the position again You passed far from me Waked with light-footed I took a notice Your change in your body Your belly is big Oh! You have a baby! In this condition A sort of the loss my heart? I do not hope passing by you From now on!

Itsuki Hiramatu March 14, 2000

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Nothing have to do with Catholic Church There is in here, But Was not available for me so far I could go in this building Why I didn't get inside until now? Reinforced concrete steel construction Grand area :1230 sqyds Length (total):173ft. Width (total): 66fts Height: dome (inside) 88ft. dome (outside) 93ft. Tower: 150ft. Tower with cross: 188ft. An imposing appearance A solemn atmosphere Main altar has a big mosaic picture The Second coming of Christ Stained glass in the windows Artistic paint with composed color The Virgin Mary statue in the right side Many seats forms in an orderly line I'm not a Christian Why I feel some holy sentiment? High ceiling is making these atmospheres? It might be attracted with such a large space Then it is not like a feeling as Get in a big empty warehouse This church was erected in memory Of the first atomic bomb, dropped on Hiroshima As an augury of peace for all nations Symbolizing the true and for peace Among the peoples of the world

Itsuki Hiramatu March 19, 2000

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A side road in Hong Kong

A beautiful port town Referred to as the Pearl of the Orient Is Hong Kong! Looking at junk on the sea Exotic scene in China culture Stir up my interest all the more High population density Many high-rise, live wired city Not only the surface There was a side road indeed! Narrow and messy back street Opened numerous market The common people lives in here vividly Everything is a rarity or a curiosity Dilapidated stalls and coarse roofs Close at hand and cloudy with people This atmosphere with in disorder The hustle and bustle of small alley Strange to say That charmed me Being swallowed in them Being buried in them Forgetting the time passes Melt into and vanishing As it is! Forever! Attack to my heart with such as feeling These sentimental emotion Never taste in a clean city and town Without exception in Hong Kong Urban planning step forward These places will be fade away ever And going away some sentiment I felt, too

Itsuki Hiramatu March 20, 2000

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Aki tunnel

Waking in Aki tunnel Travel to work at commuter time This tunnel gave me short cut to go A two-lane road of pavement and a sidewalk Under cross the railroad A gentle curve line through about 300 meters At first a downhill Feel pleasantly cool Oncoming cars throw a cold wind to my face Emitting an exhaust gas and sound A resonator makes power up these not beautiful sounds Nowhere to go a cloud of dust raises and hit my face Another lane was Traffic jam in the tunnel Have nothing to do drivers Might be looked at me Unseemly walking a side I do not have self-confidence on my shape To cover my confusion From the center of the tunnel Begin to take a morning jog It is a kind of exercise before my job As a pretext at that Show my willing to do To the drivers Going up the slope with vigorously Toward the exit Like feeling popped out from the dark Keep with my running The sunshine bashes on me Come on Boring my work Hopeful of Safety and peace Today as well!

Itsuki Hiramatu March 25, 2000

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A mass in Catholic

Take part in Sunday liturgy This is first experience for me Small underground's room in the church International person living in Hiroshima Gathered on Sunday in the morning A priest comes from Belgium Begin to speak about Bible "There maybe dark moments in life when we don't know where We stand. When we are groping in the dark of the night: A serious illness, a partner or a lost child, grave financial adversities, Trouble with one's children, a friendship betrayed, a crisis of faith. We feel deserted by people and by God. What then? It is more easily said than done to keep trusting in God. But it is only way. Jesus passed through night like and God lost his only Son. With Jesus we pray for deep and lasting trust." They sang a psalm with together Play an organ Good harmony! Peace feeling! Intervals Speech of a priest And again gospel songs Drift around an innocent atmosphere Prayer's hymn is clean Be infected by their beautiful voice My heart is washed out People go to mass Took a ceremony of baptismal in order And sing a song again Everything runs in good order End of sacred rite All of believer dismisses Adding with happy mind!

Itsuki Hiramatu March 30, 2000

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Fishing as a play

Most popular recreation People love fishing At the sea and the river With the rays of the sun It might be very healthy In my young ages I went fishing Bate a hook with a lugworm Cast my line in the sea from on a bank For a while I was waiting some response Make no response Impatient! Wind up a thread of the rod soon. No bait with a hook Again bate a hook on the bank My hands is smelling of a bait I am not familiar with this odor Sticking a stench in my fingers And Swing a fishing line by the wind I am not used to manage Wind the thread itself round Impossible to unbind Is this troublesome! Is this unpleasant thing! However my friends Fish up one after another While Watching their fishing I became aware I am not fit for the fishing. Life is same Each man is useful In his own way I could realize that In this moment!

Itsuki Hiramatu April 3, 2000

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The cherry flower

In this time All together blossom beautiful flower Blend with a white and pink color! Not gaudy either simple color! It is a very tender color! Feeling an easy and safe color! These colors paint at Here and there in the city Too innumerable to count the cherry flowers We know that is not keeping so long It begins fall before long Hit by the wind or the rain The petal is falling by now Non process of the withered time The cherry flower dies beautifully See at background with a moat Dark green of the water A weeping cherry by reflection It is like a thing Comes from sprit world The cherry blossoms Are closely related That is They made our mental structure while a long term. We do not tell about every one of that Though How does people see? The blossoms of the cherry Even after that scattered Coming into leaf By adding with fresh green Still go on entertain us

Itsuki Hiramatu April 8, 2000

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Double cherry blossoms

Double cherry blossoms A double-flowered cherry tree is now the best time to see. The Mint Bureau in Hiroshima opened the premises for citizen. I took a train at Itsukaichi station. I could pick up a taxi. Though I chose to go by walking. It takes 20 minutes from the station. It is good exercise for me, because shortage of going on foot. While I walking, a feeling of reality comes up that spring season is true. Many flowers including tulips are in bloom beautifully. People grow some flowers for their family. That space is not so wide, using a little vacant space or small land. On the way these flowers made me enjoy. The premise in the Mint has a few hundred double cherry trees. These kind of cherry trees are now full blossoms. By hands of specialist bring up the cherry in this around. Many people comes in and a little of atmosphere of festival. Some people are taking a picture stand by the cherry flowers. Today is fine, it is better to say slightly cloudy weather. There is some kinds of cherry blossoms.---Have they? The front line of cherry blossoms goes up to north ago. But, a condition of sunshine, undulations, weathers and type of trees so on. Congestion and return back a front line. Various elements give us much variation on flowers.

Itsuki Hiramatu April 22, 2000

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Sacrifice festival in Morocco

Three days of May in every year, Morocco dyes all red. It is because it holds the "sacrifice festival" wrapped by an enthusiastic atmosphere. This festival is the history just thing, which does the origin in the Old Testament. It is demanded to offer a son that the places usually to offer a sheep for God even if to try the faith heart of believer Abraham After it wavers in its mind, he offers a son, and God recognizes the faith heart as him, it is said that it came to kill a sheep from it. The story that it can't help feeling God's ill will, though this three-day question will kill and kill the sheep of the livestock thoroughly since then. With the guillotine, cut the neck of the sheep in two with a single stroke. Both a road and an open space become covered with blood by the thanks. It is merrymaking just like a Japanese New Year if it is seen for the Moroccan people though it is gruesome from the viewpoint of image. Many people fit it to this time, and it is said that a rest is taken. Of course, it isn't only killed. It eats up thoroughly. The menu of three days is almost decided. A stew of the shoulder meats and the internal organs for the first day. A part of the head for the second day. A part in where was left saffron is put in and cooked with the garlic and so on for the third day. It really eats to the marrow of the bone, and devotes itself. Needless to say a sheep is precious property for them. Because it disposes of it as boldly as this, it will be thrown into the confusion as well. Is it means the compensation of the son of Abraham as big as?

Itsuki Hiramatu April 22, 2000

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A little girl

A casual feeling Walking a side walk Happened eye to eye contact "Good afternoon!" A little girl said a greeting to me With good reverberations A satchel strapped on her back On the way go home from the school How pretty! When also we met last time This is twice Greeting itself wonderful thing! Every kid does not She is now one grade Quite innocent little girl Quite spotless little girl How fine! She can greet properly! Like me stranger. It provable well brought up Who are her parents? I do not know Hopeful as it is! But it might be difficult isn't it? Recent public security Became worse than that Increasing a kidnapping That aside, I saw If I could say so A little girl was like an "Angel"

Itsuki Hiramatu April 24, 2000

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In Japanese: meni mabusi.......5 kigino sinryoku...7 syukkeien.......5

English Translation: dazzling for my eyes fresh verdure of every trees in the syukkeien garden

Itsuki Hiramatu April 24, 2000

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Haiku Fourteen
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In Japanese: takebayasi.......5 takenoko medasi...7 honnorito.......5

English Translation: At bamboo grove Bamboo comes into buds Faintly flush feeling!

Itsuki Hiramatu April 25, 2000

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