Haiku in English: Best of 2014

Annual Selection 2014: 

Hisashi Inoue's way of writing

Selections and comments by Isamu Hashimoto

empty park

the poplar's shadow glides

on the slide

— Cezar-Florin Ciobica (Botosani, Romania). Posted 2 times.

Comment:* We have a "slide haiku" in Japan. "Sunday quiet ... / kindergarten petals / blow down the slide (Thomas Heffernan).

spring fever

in the street banner a lion

ready to jump

— Dan Iulian (Bucharest, Romania). Posted 1 time.

Comment:* A unique imaginatio

wedding without groom—

alone in the rain

white tulip

— Stelianna Cristina Voicu (Prahova, Romania). Posted 2 times.

Comment:* My way: without a groom / in the rain / a white tulip.

June market:
the old woman making
a chamomile mandala

— oana boazu (Galati, Romania). Posted 2 times.

Comment:* Just now I am sipping a cup of chamomile mandala tea that will be so helpful for my health.

back to school
tapping on my shoulder
a crane feather

— Cezar-Florin Ciobica (Botosani, Romania). Posted 2 times.

Comment:* So susceptible and delicate.

after apple harvest
forgotten in the orchard
a basket of stars

— Steliana Cristina Voicu (Prahova, Romania). Posted 2 times.

Comment:* Then a little boy came back toddling.

fish market:
not a single puddle
without a moving reflection

— oana boazu (Galati, Romania). Posted 2 times.

Comment:* A very busy year-end scene

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