What does this mean?

[Heru]

桜がで
風の音楽に
囀るだ

I'm guessing it's a haiku, but I don't quite get it.

The best i got was.
at the sakura (tree?)
In the winds music
it sings? singing? (a bird is singing?)

[chryuop]

I think you are looking at 2 separate phrases there, but I might be wrong.
I see it as "it's a cherry tree and it sings in the wind". I doubt I got it right tho hee hee. Above all the dictionary form of a verb followed by the copula is completely new to me.

[Heru]

Originally Posted by chryuop

I think you are looking at 2 separate phrases there, but I might be wrong.
I see it as "it's a cherry tree and it sings in the wind". I doubt I got it right tho hee hee. Above all the dictionary form of a verb followed by the copula is completely new to me.

Oo that makes sense too!

[Nagoyankee]

Sighs... Poetry in broken Japanese.

[alanX]

Originally Posted by Nagoyankee

Sighs... Poetry in broken Japanese.

I think it's improper Japanese...but I'm no professional.

Here's my take which is obviously going to be wrong because I'm Alan...

Cherry trees.
The music of the wind chirps.


To Jspeakers.....how much fail was that on scale 1 to 10?

[burkhartdesu]

Here's my shameful brokenーJapanese haiku from the 9th grade:

くらい空、
しずか　な　叫び
ぼく、　おちる。

[alanX]

Originally Posted by burkhartdesu

Here's my shameful brokenーJapanese haiku from the 9th grade:

くらい空、
しずか　な　叫び
ぼく、　おちる。

more like the most awesome one in the world....
*tries to interpret...*

black sky?
silent scream
i fell


pretty much OWNS.

I've never made one. This is inspiring though, lol.

[chryuop]

But what is it? A special kind of poetry?

[Nyororin]

Originally Posted by Nagoyankee

Sighs... Poetry in broken Japanese.

That quote in itself is a bit of poetry.

[Nagoyankee]

Originally Posted by Nyororin

That quote in itself is a bit of poetry.

The evanescent beauty of the sakura helps even the most illiterate Japanese man turn into a poet. For two weeks per year, that is...