Enchanted Garden, Issue 9: Amber, August 2024

https://enchanted-garden-haiku.blogspot.com/2024/08/enchanted-garden-issue-9-amber-august.html

ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/David Mc Murray

 19 iulie 2024

FROM THE NOTEBOOK

There’s no room left at Capota Daniela Lacramioara’s vacation home by the seaside in Galati, Romania. 

summertime spiders
already at the cottage
all rooms occupied

Florian Munteanu followed the trail of an escargot in Bucharest, Romania.

snail
a summer cottage
all inclusive

Florin Golban’s cactus flowers once a year, but only overnight.

back at home
the Queen of the Night
lighting the way

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15348661

THF Monthly Kukai — July 2024

 

       Theme: green

 In July there were 182 submissions from thirty-one countries across six continents.
          

One hundred one voters casting ballots determined the  results.

Third Prize
 
 
hospice window
my mother counts
shades of green
     — Cezar Ciobica (63 points - 5; 4; 5; 3; 1)
 
A deeply moving haiku. The opening line sets the scene, and the reader anticipates heartbreak and sadness to come. But there is a sense of renewal in the last line. In spring and early summer, the world bursts open in shades of green; at the same time, some of us are in hospice. The haiku reflects the cycle of life. What do we see when we look beyond ourselves? In these days of hospice, the mother looks to new life outside her window.

https://thehaikufoundation.org/thf-monthly-kukai-august-2024/

ESUJ-H: English Haiku

dog days

a few puppies chasing

the ice cream van

Cezar Florescu     

                                                         

dandelion fluff --

for the ballet song

maximum volume

Ana Drobot       

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