INTERNATIONAL HAIKU MAGAZINE, GINYU No.99 / HAIKU GALLERY

 Selected and commented by Ban'ya Natsuishi. Recommended (1,3, 5, 7).

tunete -

copii tăcuți încercuind

groapa soldatului

rolling thunder -

silent children around

the soldier's tomb

2

armistițiu -

din când în când mai cade

o nucă la geam

armistice -

from time to time it still falls

a nut on the window

3

Ziua Copilului -

pe scaunul tatălui

casca de soldat

Children's Day -

on daddy's chair

his war helmet

 

4

petrolier la mal -

vântul face un delfin

dună de nisip

oil tanker in shore -

the wind turns a dolphin

into seif dune

5

zbor de fluturi -

un avion împroașcă

ceva lipicios

flying butterflies -

an airplane is spreading

something sticky

6

jazz pe faleză -

de pe aripa egretei

picură petrol

jazz show on the beach -

the wings of an egret

dripping with black oil 

7

flori presate -

la povestea din jurnal,

nicio amintire

pressed flowers -
no memory

for a story in the diary

Lavana Kray

August 25, 2023 (Mainichi Japan)

 picnic lunch

a few mosquitoes

bite first

--

Ciobika Cezar (Botosani, Romania)

Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230725/p2g/00m/0su/058000c

August 23, 2023 (Mainichi Japan)

 coming back home --

the smell of elderflowers

scattered by the wind

--

Mihai Moldoveanu (Prahova, Romania)

Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230725/p2g/00m/0su/057000c

BLACK & WHITE HAIGA/HAISHA - blog Lavana Kray - 1/25/23

 

https://ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/2023/01/mircea-moldovan-nicu-dranda.html

BLACK & WHITE HAIGA/HAISHA - blog Lavana Kray - 2/08/23

 

https://ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/2023/02/mirela-brailean.html

BLACK & WHITE HAIGA/HAISHA - blog Lavana Kray - 2/14/23

 

https://ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/2023/02/cristina-angelescu.html

BLACK & WHITE HAIGA/HAISHA - blog Lavana Kray - 2/24/23

 

https://ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/2023/02/cristina-angelescu_24.html

BLACK & WHITE HAIGA/HAISHA - blog Lavana Kray - 3/12/23

 

https://ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/2023/03/mircea-moldovan-daniel-s-gelu.html

BLACK & WHITE HAIGA/HAISHA - blog Lavana Kray - 3/26/23

 

https://ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/2023/03/cezar-ciobica-paul-alexandru_26.html

BLACK & WHITE HAIGA/HAISHA - blog Lavana Kray - 4/14/23

 

https://ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/2023/04/cristina-angelescu.html

BLACK & WHITE HAIGA/HAISHA - blog Lavana Kray - 5/10/23

 https://ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/2023/05/cristina-angelescu.html

BLACK & WHITE HAIGA/HAISHA - blog Lavana Kray - 08/01/2023

 

https://ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/2023/08/mircea-moldovan-nicu-dranda.html

BLACK & WHITE HAIGA/HAISHA - blog Lavana Kray - 10 august 2023

 

https://ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/2023/08/mircea-moldovan-nicu-dranda_10.html

BLACK & WHITE HAIGA/HAISHA - blog Lavana Kray - 16 august 2023

 

https://ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/2023/08/cezar-ciobica-paul-alexandru.html

Swirlingsakura Haiku Challenge

First kiss -
a cherry blossom tree
after the storm
--Mirela Duma, Romania

 ***

It’s snowing softly-
the cherry tree is in bloom
once again
-Fratila Genovel Florentin, Romania

 ***

From all over
the ineffable scent
sakura
-Mirela Brăilean, România

 ***

Folk dancers
dressed in florals kimonos
swirling sakura
-Mirela Brăilean, România

 

 

Consulate General of Japan in Toronto

 https://www.toronto.ca.emb-japan.go.jp/files/100510489.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3q10XNh6lJ1BJAJ5l7eXorwCbGNMfx4oPJ1RH8jeqo06Mln6xX7Bq40ns

HAIKU MEETINGS LUDBREG 2023

 June 10, Croatia

 

 

 

Writing on the “Peace” / Écrire sur la « Paix » / 「平和」を詠む

 Mona Iordan 

 dark basement again/the little girl is singing/to her blue-eyed doll

 

 Steliana Cristina Voicu 

 sunflower field… / our dreams between / yesterday and tomorrow 

 

 Lavana Kray

 atomic winter / the smell of warm bread / wafted from Mars

 abandoned village / bees carrying pollen sacs / among shell debris

 spring ploughing / in a projectile remnant / water for the horse 

 refugee convoy / children stopping one by one / around a cricket

 

 Ana Drobot

 reading “War and Peace” –/ an origami pigeon/ placed as a bookmark

 pigeons flying high –/ in my notebook ink stains/ with space in-between 

 

 https://kyoto.haiku819.jp/inter-haiku-en/?fbclid=IwAR05lJNJXd58L2fcCgZTlClquxFlyaYMZs8yDk_I_qwzt-7aBAUSdaAWCWI

 

ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray - August 18, 2023

Inspired by Zen, Florin Golban composed this haiku in Bucharest, Romania.

after the sunset
looking up to
what’s not there

 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14982374

Kyoto Haiku Project / Writing on the “Peace” 「平和」を詠む

 cold eggs in the stork's nest -

around a home made table

a few war orphans

armistice day -

children out of the shelter

climbing cherry tree

Lavana Kray

the Scarlet Dragonfly Journal - August 2023

 August 9

scorched day
the shadows hiding
under the bush

            — Mona Iordan, Romania

 

 https://scarletdragonflyjournal.wordpress.com/2023/08/page/5/

 

the Scarlet Dragonfly Journal - May 2023

 May 25

May 20

multiverse —
floating in a puddle
a passing cloud

            — Ana Drobot, Romania

May 13

sidewalk
his chalk love
rained away

            — Mona Iordan, Romania

 

 May 9

https://scarletdragonflyjournal.wordpress.com/2023/05/page/10/

 

Cold Moon Journal - August 2023

 August 1, 2023

dandelion –

how deep

is your love

Daniela Lăcrămioara Capotă

 

August 4, 2023

 

 greenhouse

in prolonged monologue

with the wilted ones

Mirela Brailean

 

 

August 7, 2023

 

raven's reflection

in the colorless stained glass

Bach concert

Mircea Moldovan

 

 https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/

 

Cold Moon Journal - July 2023

 July 7, 2023

Merlot sky —

we renew our vows

25 years after

Steliana Cristina Voicu

 

 

July 12, 2023

 

 

night walk

the charisma of a statue

without hands

Mircea Moldovan

 

 https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/

 

Cold Moon Journal - June 2023

 June 2, 2023

jasmine moon –

the pond reflecting me

inside your arms

Steliana Cristina Voicu

 

June 3, 2023

 

 

in the airport

butterflies and planes

ready to take off

Vasile Moldovan

 

June 13, 2023

 

falling Sakura

one thought for each

haiku friend

Mirela Brailean

 

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

Cold Moon Journal - May

 May 03, 2023

flying carpet

resting on the wall —

my therapist asks me

to bring free associations

for my dream

Ana Drobot

 

 May 24, 2023

burdened

by its own fragrance

lilac bush

Vasile Moldovan

 

***

bell’s echo

a stork baby

learn to fly

Mircea Moldovan

 

 https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/

ESUJ-H: English Haiku, August, 2023

watermelon--
the red smile 
of the child
                           
                                                                    Steliana Cristina Voicu    

***

 air raid alert--
bees moving pollen 
around

                  
                                                                     Lavana Kray

 https://www.esuj.gr.jp/event/5_index_detail.php

ESUJ-H: English Haiku, June, 2023

spring field
on the farmer's forehead
deep furrows


                  
                                                                      Mona Iordan

 

 https://www.esuj.gr.jp/event/5_index_detail.php

Asahi Shimbun ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK, August 4, 2023

even in this storm, the river flows into the sea

--Mirela Brailean (Iasi, Romania)

 

 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14971358

Asahi Shimbun ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK, July 7, 2023

swift breeze--
the origami boat
among the stars

--Ana Drobot (Bucharest, Romania)

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14949022

 

 

Asahi Shimbun ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK, June 30

 ------------------------------
FROM THE NOTEBOOK
------------------------------

A glimpse of armored skin rising from a moat nudged Simona Brinzaru to create this fairy tale in the quiet castle town of Transylvania, Romania.

waterfall
the hidden carp
still trying to be a dragon

 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14942646

Asahi Shimbun ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK, June 16, 2023

------------------------------
FROM THE NOTEBOOK
------------------------------

 

Florin Golban bent an ear earthward and an eye skyward in Bucharest, Romania.

after the rain
listen to the steam
how it grows from the ground

* * *

after the storm
the night wipes off
the colors of the rainbow

 

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14931763

 

Asahi Shimbun ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK, May 19, 2023

------------------------------
FROM THE NOTEBOOK
------------------------------

 For the first time, the summit takes place in Hiroshima--inspiring hope that participants pay their respects at the Peace Memorial Museum. Mirela Brailean offered a prayer from Romania.

the greatest hope for
the new Year of the Rabbit
peace around the world

***

 Simona Brinzaru moved to the quiet town of Transylvania, Romania.

 our house
I’m passing by
today is another day

 

 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14909232

The Japan Society - Haiku Corner

 Week 20

spring showers
so many nameless weeds
to uproot

Mona Iordan

***

summer rain…
a collared dove snuggles
at my window

Steliana Cristina Voicu

 

Week 22

 

children playing -
a basket of daisies
spills on the field

Steliana Cristina Voicu

***

retirement home –
a butterfly visits me
in the garden

Capotă Daniela Lăcrămioara

 

 Week 24

dozing in the garden…
grandma wakes me up
with roses sorbet

Steliana Cristina Voicu

 

Week 26

 

summer insomnia -
one more ice cube
in my raspberry mocktail

Steliana Cristina Voicu

 

 Week 27

vanilla pudding…
I meet the morning sun
in my kitchen

Steliana Cristina Voicu

 

 Week 29

summer breeze
an egg cloud becomes
a dragon

Mirela Brailean

 

Week 31

a water lily
so fresh in the snow -
first tattoo

Ana Drobot

 

Week 32

grass-grown field -
the pathway with crickets
leads me back home

Dan C. Iulian

https://www.japansociety.org.uk/?pg=haiku-corner&fbclid=IwAR2qAdpNOq6mri-uKz05v0reuUrOaBDmXiDjg_0bEI7O3_6Z5srSb0Wnwd0#a

 

 

 

HAIKU DIALOGUE – Times of Transition – From youth to adulthood (1)

August 9, 2023

 

 

my father
asks for my copy of “Peter Pan” –
coming of age

Ana Drobot
Romania

***

family album –
my smile
in black and white

Daniela Lăcrămioara Capotă
Romania

 ***

I grew old
in a sunday –
the first tie

Mircea Moldovan
România

 ***

mom’s last days lifting her up lifting me up…

Mirela Brailean
Iasi, Romania

 https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialogue-times-of-transition-from-youth-to-adulthood-1/

HAIKU DIALOGUE – Rooms – Looking In (2) & Introduction to Times of Transition

 August 2, 2023

Christmas Eve—
in Grandma’s storeroom
the last vanilla pod

Steliana Cristina Voicu
Ploiesti, Romania

https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialogue-rooms-looking-in-2-introduction-to-times-of-transition/

 

HAIKU DIALOGUE – Rooms – Looking In (1)

July 26, 2023

watercolours on the table—
preparing the story
that I’m going to tell today

Daniela Lăcrămioara Capotă
Romania

https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialogue-rooms-looking-in-1/

 

August 14, 2023 (Mainichi Japan)

rain on the window --

the painter cleaning

his canvas

--

Claudia Codau (Paris, France)

Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay 

 

 https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230725/p2g/00m/0su/048000c

August 1, 2023 (Mainichi Japan)

at the onsen --

only the language barrier

between us

--

Claudia Codau (Paris, France)

Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay 

 https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230725/p2g/00m/0su/035000c

July 28, 2023 (Mainichi Japan)

day moon

a beetle carves

the lily's light

--

Ciobica Cezar (Botosani, Romania)

Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay 

 https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230626/p2g/00m/0su/030000c

June 30, 2023 (Mainichi Japan)

ball of sardines

the little lies we tell

to survive

--

Mirela Brailean (Iasi, Romania)

Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay 

  https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230525/p2g/00m/0su/077000c

ENCHANTED GARDEN, ISSUE 3: BEYOND, AUGUST 2023

 

 

bedridden -

with no travel limit

the imagination

 

țintuit la pat -

fără limită de călătorie

imaginația

 

Mirela Brăilean, Romania

 

bedridden...

every night travelling

among the stars

 

țintuit la pat...

călătorind noaptea

printre stele

 

Cezar Ciobîcă, Botoșani, Romania

 

train arrival 

in grandma’s carryon

a meowing kitten

a sosit trenul

în bagajul bunicii

miaună un pisoi

 

Luminița Suse, Canada

https://luminitahaiku.wordpress.com

 

Cu trenul spre Cluj –

In depărtare se văd

Cheile Turzii

 

By the train to Cluj –

seeing in the distance

Turda Gorge

 

Maria Tirenescu

 

croazieră pe mare –

din cuib în cuib sosit și în

,,Cuibul Rândunicii”

 

sea cruise –

from nest to nest arrived and in

"Swallow's Nest"

 

Mihaela Cojocaru, Constanța, Romania

https://enchanted-garden-haiku.blogspot.com/2023/08/enchanted-garden-issue-3-beyond-august.html