Haiku: Using Juxtaposition
Prompt: write a haiku using juxtaposition.
囀や蒼いギターを爪弾く
Birds chirping,
I, strum the blue guitar,
With my fingers.
囀: さえずり
The birds chirping in spring. They usually chirp for love.
爪弾く: つまびく
Using fingers to play instruments.
Another read of this same kanji is つまはじく, which means expressing dissatisfied feeling.
Comment:
I came up with this haiku in the morning. I woke up and heard birds singing, then somehow I thought of people playing guitar to express love just like birds sing for love. I am not sure if I should put “for love” in my translation. Without it, it might be hard to find the connection. I wrote “blue guitar” and “with my fingers” because I had a blue guitar and using those words can make the haiku vivid. In addition, there is a song called 「ギターと孤独と蒼い惑星」, this is actually one of the reasons why I chose to use 「蒼い」 instead of 「青い」.