Cityscapes – cafe latte - By Cafe Haiku on 17/01/2025

Haiga by Steliana Cristina Voicu, Romania

https://cafehaiku.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/cityscapes-cafe-latte/

ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray - 31 ianuarie

 Ana Drobot changed herself today in Bucharest, Romania.

snake bracelet--
the way I change
when I wear it

 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15602945

ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray - 17 ianuarie

 tundra swan lands on a lake in Japan--winter’s return
--Florian Munteanu (Bucharest, Romania)

***

 Simona Brinzaru loves when fluffy snowflakes fall in Transylvania, Romania.

 the snow comes
slowly…
so does love

 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15584134

HAIKU DIALOGUE – All the World’s a Stage – Break a Leg - long list - January 29, 2025

 

gala evening –
a black cat waits
at the performers’ entrance

Daniela Lăcrămioara Capotă
Romania

 

 https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialogue-all-the-worlds-a-stage-break-a-leg-long-list/

HAIKU DIALOGUE – Dreams – Future and Past – commentary - January 15, 2025

 

hoping to be
the captain of a ship…
ducklings on pond

Mircea Moldovan
România

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window with daisies –
I remember you
from an old dream

Steliana Cristina Voicu
Ploiesti, Romania

***

 

migratory birds –
when my child wants wings
instead of the arms

Dan C. Iulian
Romania

***

 https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialogue-dreams-future-and-past-commentary/

HAIKU DIALOGUE – Dreams – Future and Past – long list - January 8, 2025

 

first dream –
it is already lost
in my thoughts

Ana Drobot
Romania

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 first dream of the year –
mom’s kiss
on my cheek

Daniela Lăcrămioara Capotă
Romania

***

 

summer solstice
my daydreams turn
into an epic

Mona Iordan
Bucharest, Romania

***'

 https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialogue-dreams-future-and-past-long-list/

Per Diem - Haiku of the Day ianuarie 29, 2025

 

https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-of-the-day-2025/

L'Ours dansant – Le journal gratuit du haïku N° 45 – Janvier 2025

 

FLORILÈGE THÈME : LE CIEL

le bébé dans le berceau 

le ciel tantôt à droite 

tantôt à gauche 

Rodica P. CALOTA, Roumanie

l'heure du thé 

le cri d'un faucon 

brise le ciel en deux 

Mircea MOLDOVAN, Roumanie

les nuages épars 

tout le bleu du ciel 

dans ses yeux 

Mirela BRAILEAN, Roumanie 

 www.100pour100haiku.fr

Haikuniverse - January 19

 

haiku by Cezar Florescu

vigil
still there
Orion

 

 https://haikuniverse.com/

HAIKU DIALOGUE – Dreams – Future and Past – January 15

 

window with daisies –
I remember you
from an old dream

Steliana Cristina Voicu
Ploiesti, Romania

 

 

migratory birds –
when my child wants wings
instead of the arms

Dan C. Iulian
Romania

 

 https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialogue-dreams-future-and-past-commentary/?fbclid=IwY2xjawH2d_ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHTaG2wE2YnyJWpVWA5-aFXF_0nrBv3An2J7o1DLT39RXDfbjunVg8_csmA_aem_jGTGtjGUGaF5APTgp1gHJQ

The 29th International “Kusamakura” Haiku Competition

Non-Japanese section

Tokusen (Second Prize)

mountain railway station -
the steam train leaves behind
a fog dragon

Capotă Daniela Lăcrămioara
（Romania)

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Nyusen (Third Prize)

alambre de espino
algunos ríos nunca
llegan al mar

Eduard TARA
（România)

https://kusamakura-haiku.jp/backnumber/2024/2024.pdf?fbclid=IwY2xjawH1_yBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHeOtcejSsy3wt4grVCN85VkiBW7AQKNvy6ZGk06qLu84KZ6e1kT_cqYNDQ_aem_I1TLLS7DWXWgSCLJ-BcWjA#page=14

Akita International Haiku Network - Haiku beyond Earth- Haiku by Florin Golban as a New Year Gift

 

A New Year Gift

　Haiku & Photos by Florin Golban (Romania)

　

edge of the day –
a man of the street
wears his shadow

日の暮れる通りの男影纏う

　

winter time –
the rooster crows
once again

冬来る雄鶏再度声上げる

　

a bird’s song
in the cherry blossoms
a brief visit

束の間の桜の花に鳥の歌

　

yoga class
here, there,
everything

あちこちのヨガ教室や行き渡る

　

short fall day –
the shade of the pine
up to the moon

秋入日松の木陰の月に映ゆ

　

armistice day
the cricket song
crosses the border

休戦の記念日祝すクリケット国境を越え歌声響く

　

gust of wind –
the last leaf
in the balance

突風に最後の一葉耐え忍ぶ

　

fans in the wind
slip on the sea
two gulls

鴎二羽扇の如く海風に

　

the empty fields
clouds in the sky
human figures

空き野原人形の如空の雲

　

Christmas gift –
by the fireplace
father’s stories

クリスマスギフトは父の物語暖炉のそばで熱気を帯びる

　

Translated into Japanese by Hidenori Hiruta

 

 

Photos

　

　

Haiku Poet

　

Florin Golban (profile)

　

Florin Golban, born in 1975 in Romania, lives & works in Bucharest, as a entrepreneur and writer.

His poetry and short prose have been published in various magazines worldwide.

He published 3 poetry books and contributed to several poetry and prose anthologies.

Member of the Romanian Haiku Group, CEO of Sembazuru Art and is passionate about rock music.

Florin Golban, Romanian writer, editor of the haiku page in Arges magazine.

January 13, 2025 (Mainichi Japan)

 

leafless trees

patients in the courtyard

of the oncology clinic

--

Mirela Brailean (Iasi, Romania)

Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay 

 

 https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241226/p2g/00m/0su/025000c?fbclid=IwY2xjawHx_UVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHacDXPiQh5t8gY2Rh9nxuLbmBRNYx2yKzs24QR3a40udBxlSxPLeyQrR0A_aem_g-Yzj4kMhV9jmKz0KhSnTQ

January 9, 2025 (Mainichi Japan)

 

a big quince

refusing to fall

full moon

--

Cezar Ciobika (Botosani, Romania)

Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay 

 

 https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241226/p2g/00m/0su/022000c?fbclid=IwY2xjawHs18dleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdpc_I5pbCLtZW11iYZ-kPV2N5sPqRAxL4VeHk_1_9XSt6RL5fs9vQXpnA_aem_zFKJHGrHbrK7E3CsMJOKPw

The Pan Haiku Review numărul 4 (decembrie 2024)

haibun & tanka-bun edition

Winter 2024

PHR4 editor: Alan Summers

Parking lots

There was still grass here last year, now it’s a new parking lot. A burning-hot asphalt carpet laid over the flower bed, in front of my grandparents' house, where I have always returned, enjoying the orchard, and the little lake that has dried up in the meantime.

Fewer trees, many more parking lots, so they cut down the orchards too.

The only one left is chainsaw redefined, I feel it's my grandfather's walnut tree, by the way he holds the head bowed, looking at his beloved land.

 

the branches of a tree

tied up behind its back –

tightlipped birds

Lavana Kray

 

Omnibus

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

Lavana Kray

 

THF Monthly Kukai — December 2024

 Honorable Mention

nursing home
at dad's dark window
a bonsai
     — Mircea Moldovan
 
A somber scene — a father living in a nursing home with only a small bonsai by the window. In years past, he might have been surrounded by family with a large tree to celebrate the season. Bonsai can symbolize many things, so this haiku might be a bit of a Rorschach in how the last line is read. But they can represent the cyclical nature of life, so for me, the last line lifts this haiku and ends it on a note of acceptance.

https://thehaikufoundation.org/thf-monthly-kukai-january-2025/

The European Top 100 haiku authors in 2024

Mirela Brăilean                                  

Cezar-Florin Ciobîcă                         

Mona Iordan                                     

Dan C. Iulian                                      

Lavana Kray                                      

Mircea Moldovan                              

Capotă Daniela Lăcrămioara              

Florian Munteanu                               

Steliana Cristina Voicu     

   

https://haikueurotop.blogspot.com/2024/