Prof. Noriko Mizusaki has her degrees in English and American Literature after studying at Nosada University and Harvard. She is a member of Japan Universal Poets Association, United Poets Laureate International, Japan Writers’ Association. She has poems published in various anthologies and publications in Japan. Her awards include the Koriyama, Arima and Norikus from Japan; 2008 Excellency in World Poetry Award from the International Poets Academy, Chennai; 2009 Golden Prize from the Medhustan Academy, Kolkuta, India; 2010 T.S. Eliot Price (ed. Italy), 2011 22nd World Congress of Poetry Prize for Recognition and appreciation in Excellency in Poetry, Larissa, Greece.
She is listed in Poems of War and Peace/Voices from Contemporary Japanese Poets, and For a Beautiful Planet/ Voices from contemporary 16 poets of Japan.
I am Hayato1
What is this?
The goddess of the harvest
Is hiding herself to sleep
Behind the rock door closed
The door of the heaven is closed so it is all dark on the earth
Pitch-dark
The sun never shines
Crops wither out
Never growing
No rain
The field dried
It split all over
Rivers dried
The river beds were splintered to curl up
People starved
No food
No water to drink
Babies have no milk and die one after another
What should we do?
We have to open the door
That rocky door where the goddess is hiding herself
"Hayato” the native people in the southern part of Kyushu, recorded in “Kojiki”: The Ancient History, the first official recorded of Japanese history, edited around the 7th century. They were supposed to be engaged in festival events including the music and dancing performance for praying to gods.
