MAINICHI haiku in English

raspberries --

seeds of a sunset sky

in the boiling jam

--

Steliana Cristina Voicu (Prahova, Romania)

Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180625/p2g/00m/0fe/130000c

Daily best 3 Haikus, 22 iulie 2018

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‎Doina Maria Tudor‎
●
averse de pluie -
si lourdes les branches du noyer sur le toit
【美音訳】
にわか雨
屋根の上のクルミの木の枝はとても重い

THIRD PLACE

14
valentine's day
unfolding an old
love letter
Cezar Florescu 

VOTES:222*** SCORE:12
COMMENTS: The poem - the starry sky - shows the beauty of haiku and why we keep writing ...

world cup - 
deep inside it
emptiness

--Ana Drobot (Bucharest, Romania)
VOTE:311*** SCORE: 08
COMMENT 1: This haiku shows the uncertainty and the expectations involved in the tournament.Nice juxtaposition between line one and line three.Good haiku.
COMMENT 2: I like the expression of attitude through image, even though I don’t entirely share the attitude.

before the payday
nothing in my pockets...
only the eastern wind

--Vasile Moldovan, Romania
VOTES:2***** SCORE:02

sharp crash of thunder
a grasshopper leaps into
the scarecrow’s pocket
--Cristina Apetrei

VOTES:211*** SCORE:07
COMMENTS: beautifully and humorously shown fear of the storm


https://wwwcaribbeankigokukai.blogspot.com/

First edition of Santoka International Haiku Contest

1st place

Eduard Tara, Romania

young leaves –

enough place

for everyone

http://www.santoka.rs/en/haiku/

Atlas Poetica 33 : A Journal of World Tanka Published by Keibooks

1

white salon

and the same piano

like back then —

I have time for a waltz

maybe you’ll come

x

salonul alb

și același pian

ca atunci –

mai am timp pentru un vals,

poate vii

2

abandoned horse

in a snowy field —

I hear

the loneliness galloping

softly around

x

cal abandonat

pe-un tăpșan cu zăpadă

împrejmuită –

singurătatea sună

a galop în surdină

3

boat facing the sky

from the bottom of the sea —

your lost shadow

and mine

awaiting each other

x

în adâncul mării

o barcă întoarsă

cu fața spre cer –

două umbre se-așteaptă:

a ta de ieri, a mea de mâine

4

black clouds

chasing a muddled bird

with no mate —

if I turned around

you might think I’m crying

x

s-au strâns nori,

hăituind o pasăre

fără pereche –

daca m-aș întoarce

ai putea crede că plâng

5

black oil slick

washed up on the beach —

looking

in the dead dolphin’s eye

I see a part of me

X

mareea neagră

s-a întins lăbărțat

pe plajă –

în ochiul delfinului mort  

văd o parte din mine

Lavana Kray

http://atlaspoetica.org/?p=1909

Haikuniverse

haiku by Maria Tirenescu

returning home –
my mother's garden
is full of weeds

 July 18th, 2018

 http://www.haikuniverse.com/

ITO EN Oi Ocha Shinhaiku Contest

old pier

a child cools his feet

in the clouds

Eduard Țară

Asahi Haikuist Network

river of light--
paper lanterns guide
the ancestors' souls
--Vasile Moldovan (Bucharest)



http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201807060003.html

Tanka Society Of America - Ribbons Spring/Summer 2018

 

 

this pressed flower
still stirs me...
if I were a leaf,
I'd become your book mark
after death

xxx

floarea presată
încă mă mai tulbură...
dac-aș fi frunză,
ți-aș rămâne semn de carte
după moarte

 Lavana Kray

 http://www.tankasocietyofamerica.org/ribbons