ESUJ-H

 judges Emiko Miyashita and Tetsuya Kotaki

The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Distinguished Books Award Short List for 2020

 

 Réka Nyitrai's debut volume "While Dreaming Your Dreams" published at Valencia by

Danny Ya Mono

last summer has made it to the shortlist of the Touchstone Distinguished Books Award 202.

 

She  also has two monoku long-listed for the individual poem category:

 

dusk between the fragments of a prehistoric bird I recognize my mother’s beak

Réka Nyitrai, NOON: journal of the short poem 16

 

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behind a mountain mother's face becomes a lake

Réka Nyitrai, Modern Haiku 51:3

L'ours dansant n° 7

 

 

déforestation –

l’ours descend

au bar du village

Rodica P. CALOTĂ, Roumanie

 

 

 un thé à la terrasse –

la cuiller mêle doucement

les souvenirs

 Rodica P. CALOTĂ, Roumanie

 

 

près de moi

le chef agite son long couteau

restaurant à sushi

Mona IORDAN, Roumanie

http://www.100pour100haiku.fr/ours/oursdansant_numero07.pdf

The Haiku Foundation - Haiku Dialogue - March 2021

 

selected by Marietta McGregor, Guest Editor

under the canopy

trying to catch

a slippery dream

sub umbrar

încercând să prind

un vis lunecos

(Mona Iordan)

https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialogue-finding-peace-and-contemplation-in-hidden-corners-photo-one/?fbclid=IwAR23RIwmTNJG300Qbwvj6KdoqdtYjC9skh6GwS6e_gGmquRYSGTYTMXJK7E

The 35th annual Sakura Cherry Blossom Haiku Contest

 English Category, theme: resilience

Adult – Third Place – Eduard Tara

abandoned garden
the forget-me-nots
more than ever

Adult – Honorable Mention – Dan Iulian

another earthquake—
in the child’s backpack
Lego bricks

http://international.ua.edu/sakura/haiku-contest/

SECOND ANNUAL MAYA LYUBENOVA HAIKU CONTEST – THE WINNERS

2nd place

snowdrops
where the snowman melted
end of pandemic

Cristina Apetrei, Romania

кокичета
където снежният човек се разтопи
край на пандемията

Commendation

*
first buds
buying another
pregnancy test

Cristina Apetrei, Romania

първи пъпки
купувам още един
тест за бременност

Jury:
Marta Chociłowska
Iliyana Stoyanova
Frank Williams

https://vidahaiku.wordpress.com/maya-lyubenova-international-haiku-contest/the-second-annual-maya-lyubenova-haiku-contest/second-annual-maya-lyubenova-haiku-contest-the-winners/?fbclid=IwAR3aUbSD_aMTuUvW8MBjC-iXPkJbFU1pzwoDhl0e-6fsPG6DdiDzJb5fbF0

Cold Moon Journal

21 martie 2021

plum blossoms -

the first dresses I bought

from Japan

By Ana Drobot

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/

Bones no. 22, March 15th 2021

endless rain using a French verb to shut the door 

Réka Nyitrai

http://bonesjournal.com/no22/bones22.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1lb7tog6i6ByBJ_GT6Fum_TwDGj3EYTef8RboeYXIPaq7cZiv12i06juk

Cold Moon Haiku Journal, March 14, 2021

 

By Daniela Lăcrămioara

under construction -

a crow in the tree

with a branch in its beak

4TH EDITION OF SANTOKA INTERNATIONAL HAIKU AND HAIGA CONTEST

 HAIGA 

PRVO MESTO/

1ST PLACE 

CRISTINA ANGELESCU 

RUMUNIJA/ROMANIA

pruned tree - 

I’m thinking of the children 

I didn’t have 

potkresano drvo 

mislim o deci 

koju nisam imala 

http://www.santoka.rs/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HAIGA-ZINE-4.pdf

4TH EDITION OF SANTOKA INTERNATIONAL HAIKU AND HAIGA CONTEST

HAIKU

VISOKO POHVALJENI/

HIGHLY COMMENDED 

EDUARD TARA 

RUMUNIJA/ROMANIA

falling together 

two maple leaves 

into an empty nest

padaju zajedno

 dva lista javora u

 prazno gnezdo

一緒に落ち 

同じ塒に 

初紅葉

http://www.santoka.rs/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HAIKU-ZINE-4-1.pdf

GOLDEN TRIANGLE HAIKU CONTEST 2021

 "it was identified by our judges as a strong submission....in our top" si  "it was selected from over 2,800 number of submissions haiku",  for "colorful printed signs" displayed in tree boxes along some of Washington DC’s most iconic streets from March through early May 2021.  

https://goldentriangledc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2021_haiku_combined_FINAL.pdf

Mainichi -- Haiku in English: March 19, 2021

March 19, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)

lockdown --

our neighbourhood

wrapped in fog

--

Ana Drobot (Bucharest, Romania)

Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210225/p2g/00m/0su/117000c

Creatrix 52 - Haiku

March 2021

 red maple leaves

our path sealed

for winter

Mona Jordan

https://wapoets.com/creatrix-52-haiku/?fbclid=IwAR0-IbpTXLLjNZuZV6vBK427Se05vai9P1E90b5oqIa9aWp0ncKDDEQ5CYA#Top

Mainichi, Haiku in English

 March 10, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)

silent night

muttering on the oven

the old teapot

--

Cristina Apetrei (Botosani, Romania)

Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210225/p2g/00m/0su/099000c

Cold Moon Journal, March 6, 2021

 

wisteria –

the days I fancied myself

an apprentice geisha

Ana Drobot

The Cicada's Cry Winter 2020 edition

 JM Reinbold, Editor.

 

 http://thecicadascry.blogspot.com/

The Mamba - Journal of Africa Haiku Network - ninth issue (February 2021)

 

https://africahaikunetwork.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/mamba-11-1.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2e0dUPc-WZ42X9xFB9tFF1E5OcYy8DD6MRk5K98w8BMoASh3Ns-zcmKoU

Cold Moon Haiku Journal March 7

 

By Vasile Moldovan

while we wait

for the covid vaccine

the moon rises

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2021/03/by-vasile-moldovan.html

Cold Moon Haiku Journal March 6

 

By Mirela Brăilean

listen to

the wolves' howling

I'm no longer alone

 

 https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2021/03/by-mirela-brailean.html

Haikuniverse March 4, 2021

 

Prune Juice, March, 2021

 https://prunejuice.wordpress.com/2021/03/01/issue-33/

March 2, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)

 

soft rime

mom's veins

more visible

--

Cezar Florescu (Botosani, Romania)

Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay

soft rime

mom's veins

more visible

--

Cezar Florescu (Botosani, Romania)

Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay

Failed Haiku Kyoka Issue 63 edited by Susan Burch

 

Results of 35th Indian Kukai

 

7th place(x3)

#24

unopened letter - the first magnolia buds before my door

Ana Drobot Bucharest, Romania

(3,3,2)= 15 points

 

 

 

 8th place(x3)

 

 

#78

rereading old letters... out of the blue the sound of her warm voice

Cristina Apetrei Saveni,Romania

(2,3,2)=14 points

 

 

 

11 points(x3)

 

#77

unfolding the letter among my mother's lines forget-me-not seeds

Cezar Ciobica Botosani, Romania

(3,1,2)=11 points

 

 

 6 points(x6)

 

 #28

refugee tent - in a foreign language spelling “hope”

Dan Iulian,

 Bucharest,Romania

(2,2,0)= 6 points

 

 

 

#71

a little note . . . your love spelt in capital letters

Mona Iordan Bucharest, Romania

(1,1,1) = 6 points

 

 

 5 points(x6)

 

 #22

office skills – grandpa is still searching in the mailbox

Capotă Daniela Lăcrămioara Romania

(2,0,1) = 5 points

 

 

 

 3 points (x9)

 

#97

old love letters - joys and sorrows in time become nostalgia

Mihail Buraga Bucharest, Romania

(0,0,1)=3 points

 

 

 2 points (x11)

 

 

# 51

 

love letter in the mud of the road – black clouds

Maria Tirenescu Cugir, Romania

(0,1,0) = 2 points

 

 

 

1 points (x6)

# 9

outdated news a letter under the leaves in the mailbox

Mirela Brăilean România

 

 

 NO POINTS THIS TIME,SORRY

#3

No letter in the mailbox... in email a lot

Vasile Moldovan Bucharest, Romania

 

 

#48

 

traces in the snow: letters from a world too hard to read

Csanad Szava, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

 

 

 http://indiankukai.blogspot.com/2021/03/results-of-35th-indian-kukai.html