Nobota Hito explained (sort of)

Wow, my first Japanese haiku! I'm so proud of me. Haikus just don't work 
in English- I tried them for years. Our language isn't built right, and we have 
too many syllables in all the interesting words. The way our accents fall 
also tends to make the 5-7-5 structure sound stilted, or disjointed. But in 
Japanese, it's positively lyrical. Of course, Japanese can make Monday 
morning on the Tokyo subway lyrical, so that's not saying too much.

The accent pattern goes something like this: "KI no niOi... HAna ga taKAi 
ga, oMOiDAsu". Of course, that's more with rising pitch than loudness, so 
even the concept of accent is different from English. (Miko and K-chan- if I 
messed up the accents, tell me!)

While I'm at it, I might as well give a phonetic description of how to say the 
words: "kee no nee-oh-ee / hah-nah gah tah-kah-ee gah / oh-moh-ee-dah-sue" 
(though you should soften that final syllable until it's almost just an "s").

As for meaning, well, it's allegorical, of course. Pick one. I meant over half of 
the ones I could think of personally, so the odds are on your side.

Notes on the translation: If it sounds stilted, that's because I was trying to 
place all the words on the correct line. That's not necessarily the way one 
would translate a sentence, but it's poetry, and it's *my* poetry, so I decided 
to go for meaning, placement, and tone more than comprehensible English.