Haiku 16: First dream

Here is today's haiku:

初夢や秘めて語らず一人笑む

And in romaji:

hatsuyume ya himete katarazu hitori emu

And English: "First dream: a secret not told, smiling to myself."

This is a haiku by Ito Shou (you can use Google to translate Shou's Wikipedia article to English). The new year is coming soon, and so too are our first dreams of the new year. English Wikipedia has an article about this dream tradition, called Hatsuyume. Apparently, dreaming of an eggplant is a good sign:

from Leiden University Library

My vocabulary for today:

夢
ゆめ
"dream"