ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray

April 29, 2016 at 09:06 JST

(Illustration by Mitsuaki Kojima)

A sand castle . ..

just like my kingdom

in the dream

--Adina Enachescu, Ramnicu-Valcea

Cat’s eyes

by makeup artist . ..

greenery

Ana Drobot, Bucharest

Dandelion fluff--

the taste of my

first ice-cream

Ana Drobot, Bucharest

The 141th. WHA Haiga Contest （04/2016)

http://www.worldhaiku.net/wha_haiga/141/haiga141.html

Haiku from Ohanami Haiku Recital, Sofia, 2016!

the love letter

I’ve never written…

cherry blossoms

любовното писмо

което никога не написах…

вишневи цветчета

Florin Florian, Romania

cherry blossoms –

a bee interested

in her tattoo

вишневи цветчета

пчела проявява интерес

към татуировката й

Eduard Tаra – Romania

Even party –

the last snowflakes dance together

with the cherry tree’s petals

вечерно парти –

снежинки танцуват

с вишневи цветчета

Vasile Moldovan, Romania

cherry trees in bloom –

my parents renew

their vows

вишните разцъфтяват

родителите ми подновяват

обещанията си

Dan Iulian, Romania

Cherry blossoms –

light in the orchard

and in my soul

Вишневи цветчета –

светлина в градината

и в моята душа

Constantin Stroe, Romania

https://vidahaiku.wordpress.com/one-hundred-and-one-cherry-blossom-haiku/more-haiku-from-ohanami-haiku-recital-sofia-2016/

Mainichi Haiku in English

Haiku: April 22, 2016

April 22, 2016 (Mainichi Japan)

before carnival

trying on a lot

of chemo wigs

--

cezar-florin ciobica (Botosani, Romania)

Selected by Isamu Hashimoto

http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160322/p2g/00m/0fe/092000c

Haiku: April 15, 2016

April 15, 2016 (Mainichi Japan)

season change...

instead of sea shells

empty Coca Cola bottles

--

Ana Drobot (Bucharest, Romania)

Selected by Isamu Hashimoto

http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160322/p2g/00m/0fe/086000c

Second International Haiku Contest “Cherry Blossom” – Bulgaria April 2016

Dear haiku friends,

We have the pleasure to announce the awards from the The Second International Haiku Contest „Cherry Blossom”, organized by Bulgarian Haiku Union in Sofia, Bulgaria. Thank you for your participation in this contest, dedicated to the beauty of the Japanese sakura!

THIRD PRIZE

Daniela Lăcrămioara -  Galaţi, Romaniа

Earth Hour –
cherry blossom
moonlit 

Даниела Лакрамиоара – Галац, Румъния

Часът на Земята
вишневия цвят
огрян от лунна светлина

RUNNERS UP:

Daniela Lăcrămioara – Galaţi, Romaniа

refugees convoy –

beyond borders
bloomed cherry

Даниела Лакрамиоара – Галац, Румъния

конвой с бежанци  –
отвъд границите
разцъфнала вишна

*
Adina Enachescu - Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania

Not one at all
welcomes me in the station
only the cherry blossoms

Адина Еначеску - Ръмнику Вълча, Румъния

Никой 
не ме посреща на гарата
само вишневия цвят  

http://kulturni-novini.info/news.php?page=news_show&nid=23405&sid=21

Annual Selection 2015 Haiku English in Mainichi

Judge’s comments: Three essential ways to make a better haiku

Selections and comments by Isamu Hashimoto

1. Lavana Kray

(Iasi, Romania)

**

family tea party—

mom asks

who is everyone

Comment: Sorrowful, but this is happening everywhere in this floating world.

flock of cranes

dwindling

in a funnel shape cloud

Comment: The second line comes from the eyes of a haijin.

2. oana boazu

(Galati, Romania)

*

calligraphy:

two wild hawthorns

completely leafless

polar vortex—

spinning the whirligig

near the fireplace

dramatic makeup—

over a ruined building

the sunrise

sea storm

the fishery lantern

barely blinks

3. Ana Drobot

(Bucharest, Romania)

***

Victorian fireplace—

her shadow and his

running about the room

Comment: I wish I had such a gorgeous Victorian fireplace. Now I am using a movable foot warmer.

morning train—

someone starts

peeling an orange

Comment: The author takes a train for work and regains some fresh power with the splash of the fruit.

spring-time—

how fast the river goes

into the mill

his eyes

look into mine—

therapy

I dive

into the swimming pool...

silence

Comment: The one word “silence” in the deep water is appropriate

about to land

crawling through the fields

the plane’s shadow

.

Comment: This is a good example of the shadow in a haiku making the object more clear and vivid.

bright morning—

the light bulb still on

in my orange juice

4. Cezar-Florin Ciobica

(Botosani, Romania)

**

ice fishing...

the hole too small

for the full moon

Orion...

the old hound

groans in sleep

Comment: The third line is an excellent haiku punch line.

spring dreams

mom remembers

who I am

Comment: Congratulations! Mom’s consciousness will be clearer, I hope.

5. Stelianna Cristina Voicu

(Prahova, Romania)

**

dawning...

the lighthouse alone

supporting the sky

Comment: An excellent mere description of the surroundings. “Supporting” is the best choice of word.

6. Dan Iulian

(Bucharest, Romania)

**

long twilight—

the cry of the last crane

suspended in the air

Comment: The first line is effective and irreplaceable, though we have lots of these “suspended cries.”

Dana Iulian

(Bucharest, Romania)

**

caprice for violin—

the nightingale puts

once more sharp

Comment: The author has a keen ear for music.

Caprice: capriccio.

7. Razvan Pintea

(Bucharest, Romania)

**

gray morning

turning off

red casino lights

Comment: Win or lose, the morning sun will rise in the east.

8. Vasile Moldovan

(Bucharest, Romania)

**

Above all

the full moon

alone

Comment: Beautifully alone.

http://cdn.mainichi.jp/…/…/19/20160419p2a00m0na021000q/0.pdf

Chrysanthemum Nr. 19. April 2016

http://chrysanthemum-haiku.net/en/current-issue.html

Lavana Kray

whistle stop -

in the half clean window

a poppy field

kurzer Zwischenstopp-

im nur halb sauberen Fenster

ein Mohnfeld

*

black sky

leaning on the poplar fluffs-

divorce papers

ein schwarzer Himmel

lehnt sich auf den Pappelflaum -

Scheidungsunterlagen

*

island of chalk

on asphalt -

self-portrait

Kreideinsel

auf dem Asphalt -

ein Selbstportrait

Vasile Moldovan

in front of the train

vor dem Zug

passing over the barrier

über die Schranke hinweg

a wedding of butterflies

eine Schmetterlingshochzeit

Steliana Voicu

one hour till the concert  —

the sky a symphony

of sakura notes

eine Stunde bis zum Konzert  —

der Himmel eine Sinfonie

aus Kirschblütennoten

*

eternal blue

between the mountains —

at first light

a deer sips

the earth's sky

*

ewiges Blau

zwischen den Bergen —

beim ersten Licht

nippt ein Reh

am Erdenhimme

Genjuan Haibun Contest 2016 Results

An (Cottage) Prizes:

Arm in Arm with Iza – Maria Tirenescu (Romania)

Arm in arm with Iza

It’s snowing big flakes. I’m sitting by the stove, reading in a poetry book. I startle when I hear on the radio the song: "How many flowers are there on Iza upstream /  I have planted them all with my beloved... "

            I close my eyes. Iza is the river flowing behind my grandparents' house in Săcel, a village in Maramureş, in Northern Romania. I like how the name "Iza" sounds. It's a girl's name. Perhaps older peoples knew a legend on it, but I cannot recall that someone has ever told it to me. I know many things about Iza River… as if reading from a book: "Iza springs from Mount Bătrâna (Old Woman ), gathering tributaries from steep slopes. Downstream the river has dug a cave underneath Mount Măgura. She springs again out as Iza’s Blue Spring. "

I was there many years ago. I picked flowers and strawberries in the clearing.

Raining on Şetref –

Iza’s waters reflect

the blue sky

            It is sunny in a glade named Preluca Izei. One can hear the birds chirping.

Cuckoo on a beech –

numerous waterfalls

through the gorge

My imaginations carries me downstream the Iza river. I arrive at the watermill. From there only few steps are left to my grandparents' house.

Grandmother’s spinning –

the house of thick beams

is next to a walnut

           Dozens of creeks flow into Iza, which crosses the village Săcel from east to west.

            On the banks of Iza, the hemp is in retteries. Peasants have brought the hay in and gathered it into haystacks by their houses. Winter lasts here five months, and they will thus have enough food for their livestock. The woods are already turning rusty.

            I can hear again the song on the radio. I leave the book of poems on the table. I open a photo album. From it my grandparents, my parents are smiling at me...

https://hailhaiku.wordpress.com/2016/04/

AKISAME #33

Revista a Societatii Europene de Haiku

în competiție -

concertul din Ateneu

și corul de greeri

Adina Enachescu

Romania

Mainichi - haiku in english

April 12, 2016 (Mainichi Japan)

the old hour glass...

sand shadow running

on the white wall

--

Vasile Moldovan (Bucharest, Romania)

Selected by Isamu Hashimoto

http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160322/p2g/00m/0fe/083000c

Les Ateliers D’EXpressions - LES ADEX, No 60 - avril 2016

Lavana Kray trimite, de pe revista publicată pe hârtie:

Illustrez ce poème:

La campagne 
c'est la cerise
sur le gâteau
des villes


Eric Lechevalier 

http://www.lesadex.com/pages/1ntro.htm

Écrivez un poème pour illustrer ce tableau

convoi de réfugiés -

les cries d'une femme donnant naissance

à son enfant

 http://www.lesadex.com/pages/1ntro.htm

  
Revista se poate citi aici

Din Haiku Canada Review Vol 10 Nr 1

LES PÉCHÉS CAPITAUX
Haïkus réunis par Claude Rodrigue


l’avare —
mon voisin garde le soleil
dans son jardin

Ana Drobot

les fêtes sont passées —
il neige sur des montagnes
de nourriture

Lavan Kray

http://haikucanada.org/

La revue du haïku Ploc!, No. 64

divorce -

 on a tout partagé sauf

 les ronflements du chien

hamac de jardin -

 le pivert recasse l'écorce

  de mon rêve

noce du papillon -

son ange m' empêche

  de bouger

Lavana KRAY (Roumanie)

la balle antistress -

au-dessus du gratte-ciel

  le soleil ne bouge pas

Ana DROBOT (Roumanie)

În revistă este publicat un articol despre poemul într-un vers cu exemplificări de poeme scrise de Ion Pillat. În continuare sunt poeme ale poeţilor români. Am făcut print screen revistei, pentru că pdf. nu poate fi copiat. Cine doreşte să citească revista, are link-ul de mai jos.

  

 http://www.100pour100haiku.fr/revue_ploc/ploc_revue_haiku_numero_64.pdf

LIRENVAL 2016 – Concours de haïkus sur le thème du Jardin Haïkus primés

Catégorie adulte 

Autres haïkus primés 

Jardin public -
Un bébé qui dort
sous les feuilles mortes

Lavana

bataille des frontières...

les racines de nos jardins

s'embrassent par-dessous

Lavana

 http://www.lirenval.com/Salon%202016/Haiku/Resultats%20concours%20haikus%20adulte.htm

 

Les Haïkus primés - Catégorie Enfant (collège ou individuel) 
 

1^er prix

Verdure - je respire

Dans les vagues des feuilles - mystère

Et l'air me caresse

Andrei  Octavian  - Targoviste - Roumanie

 

 

3^ème prix

La nuit m'inonde

L'ombre sur les eaux des parfums

Quelle splendeur, le jardin!

Andrei  Octavian  - Targoviste - Roumanie

http://www.lirenval.com/Salon%202016/Haiku/Resultats%20concours%20haikus%20enfant.htm

Ribbons, a journal of the Tanka Society of America. Winter issue(back cover)

when the sun sinks low

refugees' shadows conglobulate

over the wired border...

a tender lullaby

softens the wind

"Over a million refugees have entered Europe, or died trying, in the last few years but, as has been said before, it is difficult to understand and feel what a million individuals are experiencing. A picture is worth a thousand words, and the picture I saw of a refugee dead on the beach let me feel more directly what is happening in Europe than the knowledge that there are a million refugees.

The best tanka, with the compressed intensity and specific imagery that the form encourages, can paint a twenty-plus word picture that rivals what a visual artist can evoke. Lavana Kray's tanka let me see the refugees, both their struggle and uncertainty in the first three lines and, with the shift in the last two lines, their hope. Whether deliberate or not, by pointing to the “refugees shadows” and by hearing “a tender lullaby” but not showing us the refugees themselves, the tanka mirrors the the refugees situation: they are still at the “wired border” and have not reached a place where they can show themselves.

Lavana Kray is Romanian but wrote this powerful poem in English. I had to look up “conglobulate” in the Oxford English Dictionary. Though rarely used today, it means “to collect into a rounded or compact mass” and gave me a sense of what it must be like for the refugees to huddle together at sundown.

When I asked her about the poem, she wrote, “During the past few years, the news keeps showing images of the millions of refugees. I have watched children pushed under or thrown over some fence, and carried from one place to another, in the hope that things will be better beyond that fence and they will find a new home. My forefathers were refugees, too, so I am doubly sensitized to these people. Mixing this reality with my imagination, I poured all my thoughts and feelings into this tanka.

Anytime I need an English word, I look for it in a dictionary. Reading the definitions, I find other words, and I often fall in love with words for their musicality. Some words cling to me, and I have to use them. “Conglobulate” is one of those words. It rolled around in my mind until I found a place for it in this poem."

                           David Rice 

http://www.tankasocietyofamerica.org/ribbons

Descoperite azi, chiar daca au fost publicate mai de mult

1. 

NeverEnding Story - First English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku and Tanka Blog

English Original
wet glasses --
I dry the moon
with my shirt
Ardea, 5, 2015
Lavana kray


Chinese Translation (Traditional)
眼鏡起霧 --
我用襯衫
擦乾月亮

Chinese Translation (Simplified)
眼镜起雾 --
我用衬衫
擦乾月亮

" The fresh image of "drying the moon" with one's shirt lifts the poem out of the ordinary."
                                                                              Chen-ou Liu 
http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.ro/

 2.
cloudy her evening eyes after washing off her makeup
    - Ana Drobot 

 http://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.ro/

The Shiki Monthly Kukai March 2016 Results

Kigo Theme: DEW

morning dew -

fading away the summer

on her kimono

Ana Drobot

(Bucharest, Romania)

(1,1,1) = 6 pts

 *

 wrinkles

in every dew drop -

scything

Lavana kray

Romania

(0,1,1) = 3 pts

**Totally unexpected!

*

on a dew-drop

seeing the blue sky –

the sun rises

Miorita Alba

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

Free Format Theme: DRIFTWOOD

driftwood –

scent of a memory

from a distant forest

Andrei C. Szava

(2,3,7) = 19 pts

**Absolutely love this!

*

hot night -

using driftwood

as a doorstop

Miorita Alba

(1,0,5) = 8 pts

 *

driftwood -

a rusty fish hook pricks

my barefoot

Lavana kray

Romania

(1,0,0) = 3 pts

 *

giving her comfort

the therapist's kind words...

driftwood

Ana Drobot

(Bucharest, Romania)

(0,0,2) = 2 pts