First VSANA stone viewing haiku contest

  February 1–March 31, 2020

2nd Honorable Mentionfirst dawn
all those mountains
I climbed in my dreamsEduard Tara Comment: This haiku is a good example of a “new year” haiku, the fifth season recognized in   Japan. These words in line one “first dawn” are considered a “kigo” which is a word or  phrase associated with a particular season, used in traditional forms of Japanese haiku. A New Year haiku can sometimes be difficult to write well, but Eduard has mastered it here. Nice work Eduard!

 Commended Haiku

 waves come and go

   the coolness of beach pebble

   steady on my palm

   Rodica Stefan (Mona Jordan), Romania

 dream a waterfall

   the need of a mountain

   will arise soon

   Vavara Koutiva, Romania

http://www.vsana.org/index.html

Mainichi -- Haiku in ENGLISH

April 24, 2020 (Mainichi Japan)

quarantined...

only the moonbeams

enter my room

--

cezar florescu (Botosani, Romania)

Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200325/p2g/00m/0et/107000c

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April 22, 2020 (Mainichi Japan)

dusting off
the family album -
spring wind

--

Violeta Urda (Bucharest, Romania)
Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200325/p2g/00m/0et/105000c

GINYU - INTERNATIONAL HAIKU MAGAZINE No. 86 / 2020

 Selected by Ban'ya Natsuishi

diapazon -
în coșul pieptului
fluieră mierla

tuning fork -
a wheezing ouzle 
in the rib cage

2
vârtecuș de praf
dintr-o lume în alta -
mai cade o stea

swirl of dust
from one world to another -
falling stars

3
drum accidentat -
nu mai suflă mama-n rană
numai vântul 

bumpy road -
it's not mother, but the wind 
that soothes my wound

Lavana Kray

The Caribbean Kigo 'International Haiku Poetry Day' Kukai 2020.

Theme for this kukai was social distancing


SECOND PLACE
13
confined at home...
again around the world
with Phileas Fogg

--Cezar Florescu
VOTE: 313*** SCORE: 14

COMMENT: Reading always helps us escape on bad days, all the more so today. Fine contrast between the imaginary travel around the world and our house arrest.
COMMENT 2:The imagination compensates for what is missing in reality. We fulfill our needs in dreams and fantasies
COMMENT 3: I enjoyed your literary reference, and the little lift in the last line.
COMMENT 4: Takes me back to my childhood

RESULTS CONTINUES

1
lockdown -
only his warm words
reach me

--Ana Drobot (Bucharest, Romania)
VOTE: 3***** SCORE: 03

3
my daughter’s birthday -
I show her the present
via the video chat

Mona Iordan, Romania
VOTE: 2***** SCORE: 02

10
confinement
the cock's song
in D minor

--Florin Golban, Bucuresti, Romania
VOTE: 221*** SCORE:09

COMMENT: I must confess I had to find out what D minor is, discovering that it’s considered the saddest key; so all the poem comes alive, giving a strong sense of melancholy.
COMMENT 2:Through the anxieties of this lockdown, life outside in nature's world carries on...a light-hearted haiku trying to make light of a heavy situation. Nice 'sonic' tone in this brief poem.
COMMENT: I don't think you can say what scale a rooster is using, but I think the idea is that the bird also suffers due to the pandemic too or maybe the man hears it in a different way than as usually, making a shrill noise, to show that he no longer tolerates the self-isolation...


12
self-isolation
the plum tree near the window
my only friend
--Cristina Apetrei
VOTE: 121*** SCORE: 08

COMMENT: The isolation imposed can make a person sick... man is not accustomed to stay at home as in a cage, that's why looks for help from nature. a blossomed tree next to the window is a way to don not become insane... its image is a lesson of survival...

http://wwwcaribbeankigokukai.blogspot.com/

ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray

April 17, 2020
by David McMurray


pandemic--
I drink herbal tea
all alone
--Vasile Moldovan 

(Bucharest, Romania)
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13297340

En un éclair, Édition n° 58 mars 2020

Concours

PENSEES – 2 7 poètes / 71 haïkus reçus

Les haïkus qui ont retenu l’attention du jury :

odeur de confiture - /pensive vieille femme /sous le prunier sec                           

Lavana Kray

COLERE – spéciale édition

Si peu de haïkus reçus que nous avons le plaisir de vous les délivrer dans leur totalité.

ciel noirci –

les cerisiers fleuris apaisent

la colère divine

mal de passion –

le brouillard entrecoupé

par la colère d'une cloche

Lavana Kray

la mer échouée

dans une coquillage 

juste le murmure des vagues

à l'abri 

de la colère du vent –

deux feuilles à ma porte

le blizzard 

en éteignant dans le danse

d'un seul flocon de neige

Dan Iulian

The Bamboo Hut Number 2 2020

the storm
struck a bird's nest in the door -
string by string
our life song lost
its harmony

dandelion fluff
in and out of the murkiness
of my room -
if I were a gust of wind
I would close the door behind you

by fireplace
trying to fit a new hand
to the old doll -
I kept in my rebuilt life
a secret place for you

Lavana Kray

http://thebamboohut.weebly.com/number-2-2020.html