A winter Gaiku
Gaiku (Gaelic Haiku)
Solas fuar na
Gealach Gheamhraidh ‘s reòthadh
geal air an talamh
Cold light of
The Winter Moon and frost
white on the land
23/12/2009
24/3/2008
A lunar Gaiku
Stoirmeil a nochd
agus Gealach a’dearrsadh
bho sgothan dubha
(stormy tonight/and a moon shining/from dark clouds)
Introducing Gaiku
I was reading about Haiku and thought, wouldn’t it be interesting to write Haiku in Gaelic? It’d be the same format of 5-7-5 syllables (ok, they’re not really syllables in Japanese but in this case they are). So I’ve come up with Gaiku (Gaelic Haiku) and here’s the first one:
Bha mi air an traigh
trath anns a’mhadainn an dè
coimhead air nan tonn
(I was on the beach / early in the morning yesterday / watching the waves)
