August 30, 2025 (Mainichi Japan)

 dog days

a puppy licking

the sprinkler

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Cezar Ciobica (Botosani, Romania)

Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250725/p2g/00m/0su/053000c

Haikuniverse, a daily haiku or micro-poem

 

haiku by Dan C. Iulian

 

what a vanity –
to catch the butterfly’s flight
in a haiku’s net

 

https://haikuniverse.com/haiku-by-dan-c-iulian/

Under the Bashō 2025, Haiku

 

Dan C. Iulian

 Published: 28 July 2025

scorching heat –
a butterfly softens
the daylight

 

https://underthebasho.com/the-journal/under-the-basho-2025/haiku.html

 

INTERNATIONAL EJCA SPRING HAIKU CONTEST 2025

 

First Place

(Best Overall - English language Haiku)

 

Dan C. Iulian

weeding the garden -                     
kneeling grandfather holds
the sky on his shoulders

 

Shajin Watanabe: This poem is a unique nod to spring honouring an elderly man who holds the world on his back while completing the simple spring task of weeding. Imagery pays homage to the process and respects the importance of growth cycles. The older man nurtures the rebirth of the young garden by ridding it of its obstacles. The idea of him kneeling and taking care of the garden encaptures the form and function of the earth in spring time.

 

https://ejca.org/Spring-Haiku-Competition

 

 

KYOTO / Haiku Project Writing on the “Peace” / Écrire sur la « Paix » / 「平和」を詠む IULIE 2025

 Lavana Kray

1. when your road / only leads into a ravine / take a paraglider!

2.  watery eyes / and no one to see you? / take a stroll in the woods 

3. sound of swarming bees / the straight and the shooted tree / have the same flowers

4. rumbling horizon / in the underground bunker / a few wedding signs 

 

5. underground lessons / on the broken teacher’s desk / fresh autumn flowers

Mihaela BĂBUȘANU: 

peaceful premises-/ resounds loud from the speakers/ Nothing Else Matters

Dan C. Iulian: cessation of fire – / in the wind the explosion / of a few blowballs news from the frontline – / an upright green blade of grass / behind the army tank

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https://kyoto.haiku819.jp/

https://kyoto.haiku819.jp/inter-haiku-en/

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2025 Hexapod Haiku Challenge

 

18 & Older Honorable Mentions

bottom drawer -
among so many dusty things
a few young moths

–Vasile Moldovan, Romania

https://ento.psu.edu/about/facilities/frost/hexapod/2025-selections

NZPS International Poetry Competition 2025

 

HIGHLY COMMENDED

nursing home courtyard—

shadows slowly gliding

to darkness

Cristian Matei, Romania

I find this haiku in equal measure poignant and (dare I say it) haunting.

https://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/haiku-results-nzps-international-poetry-competition-2025/