marți, 31 octombrie 2023

IndianKUKAI #43

 

The 2nd Place

 

divorce agreement -

        I give up

   my half moon

 

Dan C. IULIAN, Bucharest-Romania

 

https://www.trivenihaikai.in/post/indiankukai-43-results

34th ITO EN Oi Ocha Shinhaiku Contest

 

Merit  Award

 

snowflakes -

a windmill grinds

the clouds

 

Eduard TARA, Age 54-Romania

 

moving day

my bro filling his truck toy

with cherry blossoms

 

Cezar-Sebastian CIOBICA, Age 11-Romania

 

https://itoen-shinhaiku.jp/en/result/

sâmbătă, 28 octombrie 2023

Drifting Sands Haibun, a Journal of Haibun and Tanka Prose

 Editor:  Keith Polette

 Childhood

In this featureless landscape, with sands cornering in, not even a stork would make life meaningful. Stifling day, wilted grass, empty well . . . Dust clouds swallow  rain clouds, but the eyes have become accustomed to the sand kites. A small, barefoot shadow makes her daily way to the old flowering acacia tree at the edge of the village, where the townsmen drop their rubbish. Her stroll is not a waste of time. Sometimes, under that tree, toys grow.

childhood —
two mismatched buttons
some doll’s eyes


Lavana Kray

joi, 26 octombrie 2023

L'Ours dansant – Le journal gratuit du haïku N° 32 – Octobre 2023


 

sur les cerises 

les rayons du soleil – 

un autre miroir 

Ana DROBOT, Roumanie


 un sans-abri rêveur – 

son ami qui allait à l’école 

est rentré fusillé 

Calotă RODICA, Roumanie


http://www.100pour100haiku.fr/ours/oursdansant_numero32.pdf

miercuri, 18 octombrie 2023

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Contest, 2023


International

Honourable Mention

wind shakes
the last cherry petals—
new moon

Maria Tirenescu
Cugir, Romania


https://vcbf.ca/winning_haiku/2023-winning-haiku/?fbclid=IwAR0GDp02L6ild4_JO-CaX2rrFhayGBdbbtWfYx7RXpZVdyGRIgCwUidJCkg

LOTHLORIEN POETRY JOURNAL VOLUME 26

 Honeycomb – Flash Fiction/Haibun

                              



I knock on our house door, but it's not my mother who opens. Seeing my doubt in front of the door, the wind smacks it against the wall. Something that looks like a being, a steamy silhouette wearing a long flowery printed dress swirls around, engulfs me, while its imprints fly all over the room. What a fresh, plum blossom scent! Suddenly, the wind calms down, the clouds wash out, and the ghost is gone, but all these white petals left on the floor are a sign that I'm not the only one coming home now and then... 


honeycomb – 

a butterfly alights 

on the sweet knife




Five Photo Poems – (words only)    


air raid - 

hot bread breeze

from across the border 


mother’s ground - 

the wind wears 

a crown of chrysanthemums

hay bed - 

La vie en rose 

on the radio 


shed snake skin 

on the path - 

face lifting day 


WWW blocked - 

I walk along the path 

of other creatures


Lavana Kray


vineri, 13 octombrie 2023

77th Basho Memorial English Haiku Contest


Honorabale Mention


the first swallow 

I feel the itch 

to travel again 


また旅に出たき心や初つばめ 


Mona Iordan, Romania

http://www.basho-bp.jp/en/?p=167



duminică, 1 octombrie 2023

Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 4: Sparkles, October 2023

 


primul ger

în livezile de nuci

ruguri aprinse

 

the first frost

in walnut orchards

burning pyres

 

Mirela Brăilean, Romania


cer fără nori –

doar galben sub piersicul

plantat de bunicul

 

cloudless sky –

 just yellow under the peach tree

planted by grandpa

 

Maria Tirenescu, Romania



sfârșitul verii

doar culoarea soarelui

încă în nuanțe calde

 

the end of summer

just the colour of the sun

still in warm shades

 

 Mirela Brăilean, Romania



ora de geometrie –

copilul cere să calculeze

o rază de soare

 

geometry lesson -

the child asks to calculate

a ray of sun

 

Ana Drobot, Bucharest, Romania



otava uscată

adunată în căpițe -

amurg senin

 

the dry hay

is gathering in the hayracks -

clear twilight

 

Maria Tirenescu, Romania


alzheimer...

canarul îi trezește

o amintire

 

alzheimer's...

the canary wake them up

a memory

 

Mircea Moldovan, România


chipuri palide –

în fiecare titlu de ziar

știri despre război

 

pale faces –

in every headline

news of war

 

Ana Drobot, Bucharest, Romania




câmp de rapiță

chiar și croncănitul corbului

capătă luminozitate

 

rape field

even the crow`s croak

gains brightness

  

Cezar Ciobică, Romania

 

o lămâie coaptă

atârnând pe-o ramură-

când va cădea?

 

a ripe lemon

hanging from the branch -

when will it fall?

 

Vasile Moldovan, Romania

 

https://enchanted-garden-haiku.blogspot.com/2023/10/enchanted-garden-issue-4-sparkles.html