luni, 27 iunie 2016

The World Haiku Review

 WHR June 2016



Editor’s Choice


antique shop
browsing in search
for lost time

Cesar Ciobika


Yes, time! The age-old theme.  À la recherche du 
temps perdu …Valentin Louis Georges Eugène
Marcel Proust needed a vast number of pages
to write about it. Cesar needs only eight words
in three lines to do the same. One thinks of us
humans being caught by the Newtonian time. 
What I call the Indian Time might be the mother
time of all times. Clocks can lose time. We only
waste it. With tide it waits for no man. Time is
relentless. Time is indifferent. But time is also
a healer. Time can sometimes solve problems
for us, too. We can readily answer if someone
asks what time is it now, by looking at our watch 
or clock. However, we haven’t got a foggest idea
 if he asks what is time.

The definition of ‘antique’ is as vague as that
of ‘classic’. In Latin, it just means “ancient”.
We often use it when we think something is
very old. A rough guide in my art historian days 
in Britain, covering a wide-ranging areas
including antique, was “any objects more
than one hundred years old of monetary 
and aesthetic value”. So, I was writing about
anything from the treasures of Assyria or
ancient China to the Victorian monstrocity. 
Whatever it is, it is a concrete and specific 
physical thing which reminds us of the past.
Scientifically, it is partof the concept of the
Newtonian time, though its time never
gains or loses but just passes incessantly
and continually.

If there are no gains or losses in the
Newtonian time, ‘lost time’ is that
which you and I would feel as if we have lost. 
Therefore, it is a far more complicated time 
horizon, involving not only the physical
time but also emotional, personal, 
psychological and imaginary or imaginative
factors.

Why do we keep things? Apart from
necessities such as a bread knife or bedlinen, 
we keep them for their cultural or sentimental 
values, for possible monetary appreciation,
for status symbol, or simply for satisfying our
greedy andinsatiable possessiveness. 
Some people would increase their
possessions in order to ease their 
stresses and anxieties. Others would
keep some objects as a relic of 
the loved one they have lost either by death,
by becoming a missing person, or by lost love. 
Others, presumablylike Cesar, would 
wish to regain knowledge, understanding 
and appreciation of a particular bygone
period(s) of time, such as the Ukiyoe 
floating world of the Edo Japan, or the
Dickensian England.

Whatever lost time Cesar was searching
for, his conduct or thought behind it is 
symbolic of all of us humans and therefore
is universal  and ‘timeless’. This cannot
be anything other than a great haiku. 
Many congratulations!

A.Neo-classical Haiku

Haiku of Merit



father's day
a swarm of fireflies
lights the absence

Cesar Ciobika

temple stairs…
a butterfly rests
on a snail's shell

Cesar Ciobika

B.Shintai Haiku

Third Place
My shadow shrinking,
fearful of crushing
lilies of the valley

Ecaterina Neagoe

Honourable Mention

lavender field
time to change
my hair color

Cesar Ciobika

Again pas de deux -
among withered leaves
the flower of the wind


Ecaterina Neagoe

Zatsuei  (Haiku of Merit)

rape field
the tourists' breath
turning yellow

Cesar Ciobika

We listen to the rain -
in the gazebo with lattice
the smell of hay

Ecaterina Neagoe


C.Vanguard Haiku

First Place

antique shop
browsing in search
for lost time

Cesar Ciobika

Honourable Mention

jasmine bush
out of the blue the scent
of her body

 Cesar Ciobika



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