vineri, 9 mai 2025

Haiku Poets of Northern California Contest, 2024

 Third Place

by the seashore 

echoes in the wind--

your whispers

from the depths

i feel them as a calling


Cristian Matei

Bucharest, Romania 

I love the emotional quality of this tanka. The seashore has always spoken to me. and the depths ever present. I love that here they are felt not just calling, but as "a calling"! This is more than an allure, It is an imperative. What must we do? And why. There is mystery here. The personal quality of the call is held in the tanka, where mystery so beautifully resides.


Honorable Mentions

the evening falls

over the linden in bloom--

the fragrance 

shaping your face

drawn from my memory

Cristian Matei

Bucharest, Romania  

Lyrical and evocative, the powerful fragrance  brings the poet to a creative ecstasy. The words "shape" and :"drawn" are  exquisitely used. The face is drawn out of the past in memory and perhaps, could even be a drawing (drawn) artwork itself.


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