FLORILÈGE
THÈME : LES FÊTES
arbre de Noël
ça scintille dans les tendres
chansons des enfants
Mihaela COJOCARU, Roumanie
jour de fête
essaim de mouches
autour des gigots
Rodica P. CALOTĂ, Roumanie
la fête des mères
toujours dans mon téléphone
son numéro
Mirela BRAILEAN, Roumanie
Réveillon de Noël
seules les voix des chanteurs
remplissent la maison
Mirela BRAILEAN, Roumanie
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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
Ana Drobot, Romania
wet season –
the underwater world
in virtual reality
wet season –
my imagination
runs dry
hot tea –
even our smiles
grow warmer
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steaming
sesame seed bagels…
queue at the new pastry shop
--Steliana Cristina Voicu (Ploiesti, Romania)
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Florian Munteanu might have received a black forest cake filled with cherries in Bucharest, Romania.
the last night before
evil spirits fly on the earth
cherry tree birthday
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haiku by Steliana Cristina Voicu
pastry moon –
my sister baking
pain au chocolat
a new sound
from an old instrument
spring thaw
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Cezar-Florin Ciobica (1971- ). From "Frogpond", 37 (3), Autumn 2014, The Journal of the Haiku Society of America. Issue edited by Francine Banwarth and Michele Root-Bernstein.
The kigo "spring thaw" in this haiku matches perfectly with the first two lines. "A New Sound of an Old Instrument" is the title of the 1979 album by Moondog featuring music played on the Breil pipe organ. In the above haiku, "from" is used instead of "of," so we can conclude that it is not referring to a recording of the Moondog album being played as the snow and ice melts, but that the instrument actually exists in front of the poet. Furthermore, since "an" is used rather than "the," we can infer that the instrument does not belong to the poet but rather is being played by someone else. And since the actual kind of instrument is not concretely stated, we can infer that "old" refers not to the physical age of the actual instrument but rather that it is an old kind of instrument. Here we come full circle back to Moondog in imagining it might be a pipe organ. The spring thaw resonates not only with the new sound produced from an ossified preconception of the kind of music that instrument should play, but also shows that the poet's feelings themselves have been freed by the music.
Selected and commented on by Dhugal J. Lindsay
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250227/p2g/00m/0su/015000c
februarie 2025 / theme - sky
Second Prize a whole life in a patch of sky bedridden — Mirela Brailean In the first two lines, we are invited to think of life in a big way, as big as the sky. But the poet keeps the scale of human life in perspective. It is “a whole life,” but seen in just a “patch of sky.” Still . . . there is something breathtaking in the gesture. The third line provides context, even as it offers multiple readings. There is great sadness in a life confined. Perhaps all that can be seen from the bed is a bit of sky through a window. But with those first two lines, it could also be read in an expansive way, as a life unfettered by earthbound limitations. A powerful and moving poem.
https://thehaikufoundation.org/thf-monthly-kukai-march-2025/
snowflakes
first light after
cataract surgery
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Cezar Ciobika (Botosani, Romania)
Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay
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