Mizu no Oto - Every Image Has its Haiku - Edition #48 (English/Spanish)
haiku by Ermes Pradel
¡Bienvenidos a la edición número cuarenta y ocho de Mizu No Oto, que tendrá lugar tanto en español como en inglés!
Welcome to the forty-eighth edition of Mizu No Oto, which will take place in both Spanish and English!
[ES]
Es un momento difícil para nosotros aquí en Italia.
El virus Covid-19 está golpeando el mundo violentamente, dejando a China y expandiéndose hacia el oeste.
Nuestro país fue uno de los primeros en comprender completamente el alcance de esta epidemia, gracias también a uno de los mejores sistemas de salud pública del mundo, y ha tomado medidas drásticas para contener la infección.
Una secuencia de decretos del Primer Ministro ha restringido progresivamente los viajes, cerrado las escuelas, las actividades comerciales no esenciales y ha restringido la libertad de salir.
Vivimos confinados a la casa.
Las únicas tiendas abiertas son los supermercados y las farmacias, en las que solo algunas personas pueden ingresar a la vez. Todos los demás deben esperar en línea, respetando la distancia mínima de un metro entre persona y persona.
Muchas compañías han colocado a sus empleados en vacaciones forzadas o han establecido teletrabajo.
Solo podemos salir con autocertificaciones que atestiguen las necesidades de trabajo, las necesidades de salud obligatorias o las compras esenciales para vivir.
Las camas de cuidados intensivos en los hospitales están abarrotadas, se han establecido hospitales temporales y de campo. Los trabajadores de la salud a menudo están sujetos a cambios extraordinarios y los médicos y enfermeras retirados incluso han sido llamados nuevamente al servicio.
La gente trata de mantener una apariencia de normalidad, desafortunadamente alguien desafía los decretos y el riesgo de una denuncia penal (o peor, el contagio) al ser atrapado por la policía urbana fuera de su municipio de residencia sin una razón válida.
Pasamos los días en casa, o en el viaje más corto entre el hogar y el trabajo, dedicándonos en nuestro tiempo libre a limpiar, cocinar, leer, mirar películas, jugar con niños, ver amigos en videollamada ... alguien organiza flash mobs en los balcones o desde las ventanas abiertas, donde cada uno canta o toca un instrumento, con resultados más o menos agradables para los vecinos.
Lo curioso es ver que los otros países pasan gradualmente de burlarse de nosotros, o incluso de acusarnos de haber traído el virus a Europa, para adoptar medidas que son completamente similares a las nuestras, pero con menos eficacia debido a servicios de salud inferiores.
No soy una persona particularmente patriótica, pero creo que cuando todo esto termine, recordaré muy bien quién nos insultó.
Pido disculpas por desahogarme, pero quería presentar el tema de las fotos de esta edición.
Decidí poner tres. Eligen la que parece tocar más las cuerdas de su alma.
[ENG]
It is a difficult time for us here in Italy.
The Covid-19 virus is hitting the world violently, leaving China and spreading west.
Our country was one of the first to fully understand the scope of this epidemic, also thanks to one of the best public health systems in the world, and has taken drastic measures to contain the infection.
A sequence of Prime Ministerial decrees has progressively restricted travel, closed schools, nonessential business activities, and restricted the freedom to leave.
We live confined to the house.
The only stores open are supermarkets and pharmacies, where only a few people can enter at a time. All others must wait in line, respecting the minimum distance of one meter between person and person.
Many companies have placed their employees on forced vacations or have established telecommuting.
We can only go out with self-certifications attesting job needs, mandatory health needs, or essential shopping for living.
Hospital intensive care beds are crowded, temporary and field hospitals have been established. Health workers are often subject to extraordinary change, and retired doctors and nurses have even been called back into service.
People try to maintain an appearance of normality, unfortunately someone defies the decrees and the risk of a criminal complaint (or worse, contagion) by being caught by the urban police outside their municipality of residence without a valid reason.
We spend our days at home, or on the shortest trip between home and work, spending our free time cleaning, cooking, reading, watching movies, playing with children, watching friends on video calls ... someone organizes flash mobs in the balconies or through the open windows, where each one sings or plays an instrument, with more or less pleasant results for the neighbors.
The funny thing is to see that the other countries gradually move from making fun of us, or even accusing us of having brought the virus to Europe, to adopt measures that are completely similar to ours, but less effective due to inferior health services.
I am not a particularly patriotic person, but I think that when this is all over, I will remember very well who insulted us.
I apologize for dropping this rant, but I wanted to introduce the subject of the photos in this edition.
I decided to put three. Choose the one that seems to touch the strings of your soul the most.
[ES]
Así es como funciona este concurso:
Nosotros publicamos una foto.
Usted escribe un haiku inspirado en esa foto con su propia publicación (use #haikucontest como su primera etiqueta) o un comentario en la sección de comentarios.
Puedes leer el haiku de otros y votar por uno (uno solo) de ellos, respondiendo al comentario especial de Bananafish en la sección de comentarios.
Los autores de Mejor Haiku, Elección Popular y Mejor Comentario de Voto serán premiados con 1 SBI y nombrados en la publicación de proclamación específica.
La fecha límite para enviar su haiku es de siete días a partir de esta publicación. La proclamación será publicada aproximadamente uno o dos días después.
[ENG]
Here is how this contest works:
A photo is posted.
You write a haiku inspired by that photo with your own post (use #haikucontest as your first tag) or a comment in the comment section.
You can read other’s haiku and vote for one of them, answering to the special Bananafish comment in the comment section.
The authors of the Best Haiku, Popular Choice, and Best Vote Comment WIN 1 SBI each!
The contest deadline for both posting haiku and voting is the payout of this post (7 days from the publication). There will be another post with the winners proclamation after 1-2 days from the deadline.
The Prizes:
Los requisitos / The requirements:
• El haiku debe estar relacionado con la imagen del post / The haiku should be related to the prompt image.
• Un haiku no tiene título / A haiku has no title.
• Idiomas permitidos: inglés o español / Allowed languages: English or Spanish.
• La forma de haiku en español es: un verso de 5 sílabas, un verso de 7 sílabas, otro verso de 5 sílabas; se permiten sinalefa y el conteo métrico de las sílabas.
• The English haiku form is: a short (3-4 syllable) verse, a longer (5-6 syllable) verse, another short (3-4 syllable) verse.
• Debe haber el kireji (切 れ 字), un corte entre los versos primero y segundo, o entre el segundo y el tercero; el corte puede ser gramatical, como un signo de puntuación, o puede ser un corte en el significado, como dos imágenes en contraste / There should be the kireji (切れ字), a cut between the 1st and the 2nd verses, or between the 2nd and the 3rd; the cut can be grammatical, as a sign of punctuation, or it can be a cut in the meaning, like two different images.
• La fecha tope para publicar su haiku y emitir sus votos es hasta el pago de esta publicación / The time window to post your haiku and cast your votes is up to the payout of this post.
Imágenes del prompt (elija una) / Prompt Images (choose one):
[photo by @marcoriccardi] Esta foto fue tomada en el parque cerca de mi casa. Muestra cómo, a pesar del día casi primaveral, nadie disfruta del sol o juga con el columpio. / This photo was taken in the park near my house. It shows how, despite the almost spring day, no one enjoys the sun or plays on the swing.
[photo by @f3nix] Esta foto muestra uno de los grandes carteles publicados por nuestra administración municipal, que invita a la gente a permanecer en la casa a excepción de las necesidades obligatorias. El blanco y negro y el edificio abandonado en el que se situa el póster aumentan deliberadamente la sensación de gravedad / This photo shows one of the large posters published by our municipal administration, which invites people to stay in the house except for mandatory needs. The black and white and the abandoned building in which the poster is placed deliberately increase the feeling of gravity.
[photo by @marcoriccardi] En esta foto, uno de los muchos balcones que muestran mensajes de incitación y patriotismo con los que la gente trata de animarse ("Todo estará bien") / in this photo, one of the many balconies that display messages of incitement and patriotism with which people try to cheer themselves up ("Everything will be fine").
Do you want to know how we evaluate the submitted haiku? These are the characteristics we search for:
• Kigo (季語), an explicit or implicit reference to a season, that defines the time of the year in which the haiku is composed or referred to.
• Sabi (寂), the sense of the inexorable passage of time, the beauty or serenity that accompanies the advance of age, when the life of the objects and its impermanence are highlighted by patina and wear or by any visible repairs.
• Wabi (侘寂), the taste for frugal and natural things, rustic simplicity, freshness or silence; it can be applied to both natural and artificial objects, or even non-ostentatious elegance.
• Mono no aware (物の哀れ), empathy with nature and human life; the "feeling of things", nostalgia, regret for the passing of time, understanding of the changeability and of the transience without suffering.
• Yūgen (幽玄), sense of wonder and mystery; it represents the state of mind produced by the inexplicable fascination of things, the feeling of an 'other' universe, full of mysterious unity.
• Karumi (軽み), beauty in simplicity; poetic beauty reflected in its simplicity, free from preconceptions and moral judgment.
• Shiori (しおり), gentleness; the levity and the delicate charm that radiates from the verses, where things are evoked in the reader without aggressiveness or excessive explicitness.
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Saludos especiales amantes del haiku, en estos tiempos de cuarentena planetaria.
Hagamos como las flores del campo cuando pasa el viento fuerte: aferrada a su pedacito de tierra, se dobla un poco y espera.
Haiku lovers, special greetings in these times of planetary quarantine.
Let us do like the flowers of the field when the strong wind passes: clinging to its little piece of land, it bends a little and waits.
Gracias por el amable pensamiento! Me gusta mucho tu metáfora! Ahora, estoy esperando un buen haiku para animarme
I haven't heard anyone blame the Italians although I wonder why it started in Italy. You have 5G in North Italy already?
Most blame the Chinese since the plagues always start there even the one in Medieval time acvording to a teacher.
Some say it's made in.a lab by the Chinese, most say the USA did it to blame the Chinese.
It there's anyone or anything to blame it is overpopulation + lack of hygiene + travelers + christians/religious people. Look at the situation in Iran, look at the Netherlands it's most where Carnaval was celebrated.
Perhaps my kid is right if people ignore are too stupid they do not deserve to live. In the Netherlands the minister wants us to get sick and build an immune system against it. 70+ is no longer welcome and we have only 1200 beds and perhaps 2k. It says enough. We are overcrowded, don't care and life goes on (so are school examens). 💕
I seldom see children play outside these days. After school it's homework, dinner at 6 pm and bedtime.
We have a garden so can go outside like we used. No neighbors just us and the wolves 😁
Well, it was mostly Germany, Austria, Slovenia and France that started to close borders and claiming the first European contagion was Italian, but do you want to know the truth?
The first infected was a German man, who for work traveled from Wuhan area in China to Germany, to Northern Italy. He infected a lot of people back in January, but the Germans did not realize it, because they began to make tampons long after we Italians. This is why it seems that the European epidemic started here: we were the first to notice it, thanks to our extraordinary doctors and a system that fortunately is not yet too disastrous!
To be honest I think the virus is way longer here as Januar or December.
Hungary has closed borders, Belgium came one day later and the Dutch... I doubt it's closed at all. Tomorrow at 3 pm my daughter has an interview at a shop (kind of drugstore).
Most countries lie if it comes to this illness and ignored it as long as posdible.
No worries no one hates the Italians Dutch people love to go over there. You have the bigbproblem with all those migrants and tourists. Good the borders are closed and time to send them back.
Stay safe and ignore the news. We all hear something different and if it comes to it we are more busy with us, our own lazy governments as with those of other countries. At least yours is doing a better job as ours. Way better.
Stay safe and take good care of yourself. 💕
Sinceramente agradezco esta publicación porque la responsabilidad debe empezar por nosotros mismos. El desahogo es importante pero lo más importante es hacer público el problema junto a palabras de aliento. Un gran abrazo desde Venezuela.
I sincerely appreciate this post because the responsibility must begin with ourselves. Relief is important but the most important thing is to make the problem public with words of encouragement. A big hug from Venezuela.
Muchas gracias! Nos abrazamos muchas veces desde lejos, seguimos haciéndolo!
Saludos fraternos a los amantes del haiku, en estos tiempos de cuarentena mundial. El mundo necesita respuestas a la pregunta de porque no lo detuvieron antes. Tener esta historia contada de primera fuente desde tu país es alentador, la fuerza que hay dentro del ser humano por ayudarse y sobrevivir es inagotable. Las fotografías que compartes son un testimonio de lo que están pasando y al mismo tiempo un reflejo de lo que a todos nos va a tocar, porque creer que somos inmunes a toda esta tragedia.
Fraternal greetings to lovers of haiku, in these times of world quarantine. The world needs answers to the question of why they didn't stop it earlier. Having this story told from the first source from your country is encouraging, the strength that exists within the human being to help and survive is inexhaustible. The photographs you share are a testimony of what is happening and at the same time a reflection of what is going to affect all of us, because we believe that we are immune to all this tragedy.
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Mi participación
testigos inmóviles,
no hay sonrisas
De hecho, será difícil, ¡pero lo haremos! Y la poesía nos ayudará a darnos corazón
¡Que Dios nos bendiga y proteja a todos!
Este es mi ejercicio:
https://peakd.com/hive-148441/@zeleiracordero/every-image-has-its-haiku-english-spanish
En soledad,
la primavera llora
en el parque
In solitude,
spring cry of sorrow
in the park
Thank you for your passionate cry of empathy. Beautiful haiku, we can feel your mono no aware directed toward us all in this difficult time
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Thank you Very much.
Thank you!
woof 🐕❣
Amigos y amantes del haiku, aquí les dejo mi entrada para esta 48 edición:
https://steemit.com/haikucontest/@oacevedo/mizu-no-oto-every-image-has-its-haiku-edition-48-english-spanish
Verde esperanza:
Por la salud del mundo
"Todo irá bien"
Green hope:
For the health of the world
"All will be well"
Por favor, cuídense mucho. Les abrazo virtualmente.
Todo irá bien! es un lema hermoso y esperanzador para todos. @oacevedo Un abrazo virtual.
Gracias por ese abrazo virtual, vamos a repetir y usar mucho esa frase, porque todos vamos a salir de esta virosis, gracias por tu haiku @oacevedo excelente.
Aquí estamos igual... Ánimo, fuerza, honor y videojuegos!! jijijji
https://steemit.com/haikucontest/@salvao/my-haiku-for-mizu-no-oto-47-edicion-bilinguee-esp-eng-poema
El miedo viene
con cadenas psíquicas.
La vida calla.
Fear comes
with psychic chains.
Life is quiet.
Ahahahah (dejame reìr en italiano, lol)... ànimo, fuerza, honor y MUCHOS videojuegos, al menos hasta que entienda algo más sobre esto Hive (no quiero hacer algo que dañe el Bananafish)
Sí, hay que dar tiempo para ver cómo evolucionan steemit y hive. Yo he conseguido FM 2020 gratis en Steam, y tengo pendientes el red dead II y dragon ball kakarot en play. jijiji
Seguramente los seguiríamos y los buscaríamos estén donde estén @bananafish