花の雨震災深部の駅に立つ
Cherry blossoms are trembling, wet in the rain,
I am in a town wounded by the sinister quake,
before the break of dawn .
被災児の指に懸かりし春の虹
A Rainbow ! A girl who became homeless in the quake cries
and whose finger touches the spring rainbow beyond.
もらい湯のタオルを肩に春の星
With a towel on my shoulder,
I return home looking up at twinkling spring stars,
after bathing in a warmly offered bath ,
a bath after so many troubled days !
Haiku written by Eiko Ashizuka