stacking and washing
the chopsticks, I'm reminded
of our bond

--Shinko Tokizane

箸重ねて洗う縁をふと思う　時実新子

#senryu #translation

[TRANSLATION] KOBUKURO - Message Card

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#KOBUKURO #コブクロ #歌詞 #translation #翻訳 #ポップス #JPOP

#amquerying Why does dystopian fiction from non-Western countries so often get read as political commentary first and fiction second? #WritingCommunity #DystopianFiction #HorrorWriters #BookSky 💙📚 #Translation

Thank you to @poetshouse.bsky.social for mentioning my translation!

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#Translation

folding cranes
executing them
one by one

--Sakujirō Sumi (1926-2016)

鶴を折るひとりひとりを処刑する　墨作二郎

#senryu #gendaisenryu #translation

Every language has a word for the unfair beliefs that hold people back. Here's how the world says it.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/stigma-2026-09-09

#wordoftheday #dailyword #languagelover #worldlanguages #translation

Every language has a word for the unfair beliefs that hold people back. Here's how the world says it.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/stigma-2026-09-09

#wordoftheday #dailyword #languagelover #worldlanguages #translation

Reach for the moon with your writing project!

100% Human
#Editing ~ #Translation ~ Content Writing
#Literary ~ #Academic ~ #Travel

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#WritingEditingPublishing
#proofreading #ContentWriting #Spanish

"German intestine" eh... 😁 #Translation

to compete
➡️
se mesurer aux autres

Ex.:
🇬🇧 A new year means new opportunities to learn and compete.

🇫🇷 Une nouvelle année s’ouvre sur de nouvelles occasions d’apprendre et de se mesurer aux autres.

#xl8 #translation

Prune Juice is seeking volunteers for its 50th issue to help field submissions! We are particularly in need of Arabic, Hindi, and African language translators. If interested, please reach out to prunejuice(at)gmail.com.

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dragged along
while repeatedly attempting
to compose myself

— Shizuko Mikasa

いくたびか身構へながら引きずられ

#senryu #translation

sweetness, tears—
are those merely
a woman’s weapons?

— Shizuko Mikasa

あまつさえ涙は女の武器などと

#senryu #translation

behind what lies behind
in that darkness
a flower blooms

-- Shizuko Mikasa

裏の裏のその闇に咲く花があり

#senryu #translation

above the air raid,
a cool, starlit sky
of night

— Nobuko Inoue

空襲の上は涼しい星の空

#senryu #translation

becoming a snow child,
finding rest
beyond the aborted child

- hiroko hasegawa

雪ん子になって水子よりいこい

#senryu #translation

a man whose wife has died
not in the least
interesting

- Shinko Tokizane

妻が死んだ男さらさら興味なし

#senryu #translation

mother still alone
adds to the water
she steps across

- Emiko Morinaka

母はまだ一人でまたぐ水を足す

#senryu #translation

the winter chrysanthemum—
that ugly thing called
endurance

- Shinkō Tokizane

寒菊の忍耐という汚らし

#senryu #translation

my journey
has no return ticket—
a cruel journey indeed

— Kawakami Santaro (1955)

わたしの旅は帰りの切符がない無残な旅ではあるが——

#senryu #translation