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I don’t know how, but some suns ago I ran into this page full o’ haiku & made the mad mistake to try understanding it through Google Translate. The poetry I received touched me in places so touchy that I had to share them.

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Scaffale:
電信柱（なだらかな緑の山を）

Google Translate:
Telephone pole (a gentle green mountain)

A succinct contrast ’tween humble, e’erlasting nature & the lightning-striking shadow cast by the modern technology brought on by this telephone pole stabbing into the earth like an upside-down sword.

Actually, I have a feeling this isn’t e’en that off o’ a translation.

It gets weirder.

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Scaffale:
少年の死んだ日

Google Translate:
Boy dead day

My favorite holiday.

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Scaffale:
夕方（姉は小さな妹をすかし）

Google Translate:
Evening (My sister watermark a little sister)

That’s what happens when li’l sis uses the 30-day free trial o’ big sis’s eyeliner.

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Scaffale:
夕方（子供が　泣かずに）

Google Translate:
Evening (to not cry children)

A truly Issaesche haiku wherein the perspective is reversed, with the wolves warning o’ the dangers o’ the world’s true monsters: undisciplined children running @ them & possible tugging @ their tails or ears.

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Scaffale:
春（この冷たい目をした）

Google Translate:
Spring (was this cold eye)

Stop watching me in April showers, Spring.

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Scaffale:
餅をつく

Google Translate:
Tell a rice cake

I told e’m.

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Scaffale:
私は甲虫

Google Translate:
I beetle

The cruelly tantalizing title for a Kafka-Asimov crosso’er that’d ne’er happen. The world is a worse place.

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Scaffale:
（ある少女に）

Google Translate:
(Keep yourself silent)

Must be the polite way to tell someone to shut their trap.

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Scaffale:
生ひ立ち II

Google Translate:
Freshness II

Not as good as the original.

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Scaffale:
雨（雨とくさ　くさ）

Google Translate:
Rain (rain cloudsiness)

Well, I know this translation can’t be correct, ’cause “cloudsiness” isn’t e’en a real word.

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Scaffale:
（何といふ）

Google Translate:
(What is it?)

“Epic” by Faith No More.

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Scaffale:
（提燈が一つ）

Google Translate:
(One lantern is one)

“Ayn Rand writes haiku.”

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Scaffale:
赤子に

Google Translate:
In a baby

Eww.

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Scaffale:
切り通し

Google Translate:
cutting

Emo haiku.

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Scaffale:
（茶ぶだうが）

Google Translate:
(Stupid)

I told you to translate, not editorialize, stupid machine.

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Scaffale:
II　胃病患者（兎　兎　健康な兎）

Google Translate:
II Stomach disease patient (rabbit healthy rabbit)

This one’s apparently “incomplete,” as opposed to such complete works as “woman” & “face.” I guess we’ll ne’er know if the patient o’ercomes his pain & eats the health-supplying rabbit’s supple meat or not.

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Scaffale:
骨牌の占ひ

Google Translate:
Occupation of bone tiles

The noble, but forgotten craft.

I think this is the title o’ some “Angry-Men” British play.

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Scaffale:
縫物をする人へ

Google Translate:
To those who do sewing

We sew-lute you.

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Scaffale:
言葉（彼女は私の中に）

Google Translate:
Language (she is in me)

English As She Is Spoke 2.0.

Strangely, most o’ the haiku seem to just be random words like “woman,” “horse,” “face,” “night,” & “November.” & many o’ these e’en I can confirm are those words—’less there’s some subtle extra meaning in those words that I don’t know.

Dawn, rare snow—
shivering, I see
squirrels outside.