Revista Cirrus: tankas de nos jours, nr. 7, primavara 2017

http://www.cirrustanka.com/issues/7_Cirrus_printemps_2017.pdf

ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray

April 29, 2016 at 09:06 JST

A sand castle . ..

just like my kingdom

in the dream

Adina Enachescu (Ramnicu-Valcea, Romania)

Cat’s eyes

by makeup artist . ..

greenery

Dandelion fluff--

the taste of my

first ice-cream

Ana Drobot ( Bucharest, Romania)

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201604290002.html

Mainichi haiku in English

Haiku: April 22, 2017

Fog

I can't

log in

--

Cezar Ciobica (Botosani, Romania)

Selected by Isamu Hashimoto

Caribbean Kigo Kukai -116

Thursday, April 27, 2017

RESULTS 

1
cherry blossoms -
welcoming me in the empty house
the doormat
--Ana Drobot (Bucharest, Romania)
VOTES: **1*** SCORE: 03
COMMENTS:

3
Under the barn eaves
swallows chirping anew...
Welcome home!
--Vasile Moldovan, Romania
VOTES: 3*1*** SCORE: 06
COMMENTS:

5
In the morning
a buttuerfly on the curtain-
welcome guest
--Constantin Stroe, Romania
VOTES: 211*** SCORE: 07
COMMENTS:

16.
childhood home
a warm welcome from
the lilac scent
--Cezar
VOTES: 21**** SCORE: 04
COMMENTS: Old homes always have a comforting scent, as does this one, which instantly puts us to ease. This haiku captures the moment perfectly.

18
welcome springtime-
afterlife
in buds
Dan Iulian, Bucharest-Romania
VOTES: **1*** SCORE: 03
COMMENTS:

http://wwwcaribbeankigokukai.blogspot.ro/2017/04/116.html

The 152th. WHA Haiga Contest

Judge and comments by Kuniharu Shimizu ....(blog)

 

http://www.worldhaiku.net/wha_haiga/152/haiga152.html 

NHK WORLD - Haiku Master of the Week - April 2017

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/haiku_masters/gallery201704.html?week=4

Revista Ploc, Nr. 68

http://www.100pour100haiku.fr/revue_ploc/ploc_revue_haiku_numero_68.pdf

petit déjeuner -

si les fleurs de prunier

seraient en chocolat?

• Steliana Cristina VOICU (Roumanie)

quitter la platitude -

enrouler les cheveux

dans les vieilles lettres

• Lavana KRAY (Roumanie)

billet gagnant -

partagé par sa centaine

d'amantes légataires

• Rodica P. CALOTA (Roumanie)

le Monde Multicolore

- Sidonia POJARLIEVA (Roumanie)

Quand tu plantes des fleurs,

se meurent deux ou trois feuilles.

Quel beau sacrifice !

Étincelles aux yeux,

une flamme dans l’âme –

affection sans bornes…

La pluie de printemps.

Elle chuchote aux âmes ouvertes :

La Nature éclôt… 

Haiku Contest Wild Plum 2017

Third Prize

end of summer –
stitching the clouds
with a skipping stone

Eduard Tara, Romania

Haiku is wonderful in its simplicity. I clearly feel the atmosphere of late summer here, when it is too cold for bathing in the lake or river and you have to find another way to spend time. What an interesting idea is stitching the clouds with a skipping stone! The author shows us a world we can only see through the eyes of a child. I absolutely love this haiku.

– Maria Tomczak

Honorable Mentions
 

old hands
getting new wings –
snow angel

Lavana Kray, Romania

 https://wildplumhaiku.wordpress.com/haiku-contest/

 

Mainichi Haiku in English: Best of 2016

Vasile Moldovan

night of New Year

churches, mosques, temples, synagogues

under the same fireworks/ Jan. 2, 2016

Comment: Haiku knows the best way to achieve world peace.

At the nightfall

the hunter's knapsack

stuffed with tales/ March 15, 2016

the old hour glass ...

sand shadow running

on the white wall/ April 12, 2016

Comment: An excellent "shibui" (subdued) composition of color

up and down

here and there

a wandering dragonfly /Oct. 3, 2016

Comment: My version of the final line: "adragonfly." "Wandering" is redundant.

Cezar-Florin Ciobîcă

fog

and so on.../ Jan. 19, 2016

Comment: A thin-fogged two-liner with a jab: "and so on."

before carnival

trying on a lot

of chemo wigs / April 22, 2016

Comment: Japanese wigs are superb, they say. Why not try some?

Summer's end

even the moon

has freckles/ Oct. 13, 2016

Comment: Good humor.

Ana Drobot

new moon—

I try to draw the smile

of the Cheshire cat  /Jan. 20, 2016

season change...

instead of sea shells

empty Coca Cola bottles/ April 15, 2016

butterfly...

I once had

Everything / Aug. 31, 2016

Comment: I sympathize with the author for some reason. Butterfly" is a very good choice of word. The small letter of the first word is the result 

Oana Boazu

the railroad tracks

heading the same direction—

overnight snow / March 12, 2016

deeper night—

the crow can't be spotted

anymore/ Sept. 23, 2016

4 am—

autumn rain more profound

than my sleep /Nov. 2, 2016

no coffee—

the world falters

with every step /Dec. 21, 2016

Comment: This is a bit overstated. However, in the second and third lines, we feel some "newness."

Lavana Kray

more light in my life...

a moth enlarging

the curtain hole /  May 7, 2016

arms around the tree—

I'm listening

to upcoming book / Sept. 3, 2016

General comment: These evoke a strange feeling.

Steliana Cristina Voicu 

Earth's sky—

Kerala tea plantation

in sunlight  /May 20, 2016

quinces lights

filling

Grandpa's old room / Sept. 20, 2016

Comment: Nostalgic "quinces lights" outside late Grandpa's room

Capotă Daniela Lăcrămioara

fifty—

my mirror getting acquainted

another wrinkle / June 22, 2016

Juliet's balcony—

only honeysuckle

climbs / July 11, 2016

Cinema verite—

a gust of wind

in her white dress /  Aug. 22, 2016

Comment: The author knows how to use colors efficiently like in black and white films.

Discolored

here and there on the tiles—

old piano cabaret  / Sept. 1, 2016

Comment: "Discolored" and "old" are closely related. My way: discolored tiles / here and there / piano bar.

Dan Iulian

Firefighters' Day—

in the hand of the child

a four-leaf clover / Aug. 29, 2016

Comment: Recently I haven't picked up a happy clover. Tomorrow I'll walk to a nearby ground.

fat pumpkin—

I'm reconciling myself

to my roundness / Oct. 27, 2016

Comment: Dan, don't you think you'll be a slender man?

https://cdn.mainichi.jp/vol1/2017/04/10/20170410p2a00m0na017000q/0.pdf

ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray

April 21, 2017 at 10:00 JST

Mist . ..

his answers

when I ask why

--Ana Drobot (Bucharest, Romania)

Chrysanthemum Nr, 21

HAIGA

HAIKU

Ana Drobot

literature —
highlighting a passage
autumn sunlight

Literatur —
beleuchtet eine Passage
Herbstsonnenlicht

first lesson —
on the white sky
flying cranes

erste Lektion —
an einem weißen Himmel
fliegen Kraniche

snowdrops...
fading away
my winter clothes

Schneeglöckchen ...
verschwinden langsam
meine Wintersachen

vernal equinox —
for a brief moment
 we touch each other

Frühlingstagundnachtgleiche —
für einen kurzen Moment
berühren wir uns

Lavana Kray 

the old hands
getting new wings —
snow angel

alte Hände
bekommen neue Flügel —
Schneeengel

Steliana Voicu 

Lady's Bedstraw in bloom —
a girl picks up
the moonset

Gelblabkraut in Blüte —
ein Mädchen sammelt
den Monduntergang auf

http://www.chrysanthemum-haiku.net/media/Chrysanthemum_21.pdf

CATTAILS - April 2017

Lavana Kray ne trimite:

blooming trees — 
repainting my birth date 
on the gravestone

xxx

pomi înfloriți -
retușez data nașterii
pe cripta mea

http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattails_APRIL2017_copy3.pdf

Din Prune Juice Issue 21

Ana Drobot ne trimite: 

Romania freezing cold - 

I close all windows 

on my desktop 

frigul iernii – 

închid toate ferestrele 

de pe desktop

https://prunejuice.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/pj-21-rev.pdf

NHK WORLD - Haiku Masters - April

SUBMISSION CATEGORY 1

HAIKU THIS PHOTO

 

 

chainsaw sound -
the last tree saves itself
by budding  

Lavana Kray / Romania

  xxx

sunet de fierăstrău -

ultimul pom se salvează

înmugurind

*

 far away
from the crowd -
spring silence 

Eduard TARA / Romania

*

 stork nest in the storm -
children cling to each other
around the pillar  

Lavana Kray / Romania

 xxx

cuib de barză în vânt -

copiii se înlănțuie

în jurul stâlpului

SUBMISSION CATEGORY 2

ORIGINAL PHOTO HAIKU

Theme: Please choose your own theme

 

partaj de bunuri -

rochia ei neagră adună

boabe de rouă 

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/haiku_masters/gallery201704.html 

Haiku in the Workplace

Theme: Vocation

on the bank a brood-hen
watches the ducklings’ swim —
vocation of mother
     — Vasile Moldovan

https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2017/03/29/haiku-in-the-workplace-the-vocation/

Atlas Poetica 27, Cherita poems

Lavana Kray ne-a trimis:


Cherita combine the demands of flash fiction to tell a story with the tanka demand for lyricism. The cherita (chair-ee-tah) was  invented by ai li.

A cherita consists of a one-line stanza, followed by a two-line stanza, and then finishing with a three-line stanza. It can either be written solo or by up to three partners.


 1

migration - 

the scud of birds

before the wind

amid a swirl of leaves

I do my plans to leave home

as I did every year

2

broken hourglass -

the humming table fan
spreads units of time

and I pretend

I meet you right now

falling in love again

3

soft light -

a butterfly shaking off

old spider webs

in the painting class

where the students focus

on a nude

http://atlaspoetica.org/

 http://atlaspoetica.org/?p=1685

http://www.winfredpress.com/the-cherita-form/

Results of the EUROPEAN QUARTERLY KUKAI #17 - Spring 2017 Edition (topic: birds)

Valentine’s day –

in the park I share my cake

with pigeons

#083 Daniela Lăcrămioara Capotă, Galaţi, Romania

(5-7-6) = 35 pts

first bird -

the air I breathe in

full of songs

#003 Eduard Tara, Iasi, Romania

(3-3-4) = 19 pts

bird's song - 

the years before

blood tests

#006 Ana Drobot, Bucharest, Romania

(2-3-3) = 15 pts

first cranes

emptying out

the classroom

#233 Cristina Apetrei, Botoşani, Romania

(2-2-1) = 11 pts

curious magpie - 

under a plastic bag 

snowdrops rising 

#142 Mihail Buraga, Bucharest, Romania

(1-3-1) = 10 pts

At the noon

down among the shades

a skylark's echo

#028 Adina Enachescu, Râmnicu-Vâlcea, Romania

(2-1-1) = 9 pts

A fleet of geese

on the wing-

victory!

#036 Vasile Moldovan, Bucharest, Romania

(2-1-0) = 8 pts

the flap of a wing -

plum petals floating away

with the wind of spring

#010 Liliana Negoi, Moşteni, Ulmi, România

(1-1-2) = 7 pts

flying

over mountains -

my eagle head cane 

#061 Lavana Kray, Iasi, Romania

(2-0-0) = 6 pts

The sea silence-

on the empty beach

cry of gulls

#037 Constantin Stroe, Bucharest, Romania

(1-1-0) = 5 pts

flute music –

the flight of a white stork

embracing the moon

#084 Steliana Cristina Voicu, Ploiesti, Romania

(1-1-0) = 5 pts

I had a dream -

surely be true

by bird's wings

#119 Mariana Tanase, Braila, Romania

(1-1-0) = 5 pts

moldav hawk russian eagle summit - 

yesterday Cantemir Peter 

today Dodon Putin 

#200 Nicu Stopel, Bucharest, Romania

(1-1-0) = 5 pts

wildlife care centre -

the old eagle forgotten

by the spring wind

#146 Dan Iulian, Bucharest, Romania

(1-0-1) = 4 pts

gentle breeze

through checkpoints

the skylark's song 

#232 Cezar-Florin , Botoşani, Romania

(0-1-2) = 4 pts

morning birds chirping -

I cannot control my thoughts

breaking out loud

#222 Miruna Covor, Bucharest, Romania

(0-1-1) = 3 pts

unwritten songs -

with peacocks baked clay

sepulcher  Pharaoh

#150 Silvestru Miclăuş, Roma, Italy / Romania

http://europeankukai.blogspot.ro/

ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray

March 31, 2017 at 08:00 JST

that last story

at the fireside--

melting ice

--Vasile Moldovan (Bucharest, Romania)

Rain of sakura . ..

falling in love (again)

with you

--Steliana Voicu (Ploiesti, Romania)

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201703310007.html