Mainichi - haiku in english

Haiku: March 12, 2016

the railroad tracks

heading the same direction--

overnight snow

--

oana boazu (Galati, Romania)

Selected by Isamu Hashimoto

http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160220/p2g/00m/0fe/094000c

The 2016 Golden Haiku Contest - results

Runners Up

Flying petals —
the black cat’s eyes
blink drowsily
— Virginia Popescu

Old walls —
a blooming lilac
paints the sky
— Virginia Popescu

pruning the trees
of public garden —
crow eggs on asphalt
— Lavana kray

little girl
pushing a baby stroller —
plum petals over doll
— Lavana kray

flea street vendor —
the straw hat turning
into a bird nest
— Lavana kray

old cherry tree
ready to be cut down
blossoming overnight
— Lavana kray

sweeping forbidden!
the girl hangs a banner
in the cherry blooms
— Lavana kray

small spring garden —
some love letters
in the mud
— Maria Tirenescu

morning glory  —
I wish I knew more
about her dreams
— cezar-florin ciobîcă

the child blows
away dandelions’ fluff…
end of spring
— Ana Drobot

by moonlight
the leafing reed plot
hither and thither
— Vasile Moldovan

 http://goldentriangledc.com/2016-golden-haiku-winners/

 

 

Tageshaiku

Haiku-ul zilei

Samstag, 13. Februar 2016

grown-up child -

in the old garden

no more snow

(erwachsenes Kind - 

im alten Garten / kein 

Schnee mehr)

Ana Drobot, Romania

http://tageshaiku.blogspot.ro/2016/02/grown-up-child.html

Results of The Indian Kukai # 15

78 participants took part in 15th Indian Kukai, 

and they came from 25 different countries. 

The theme of this edition was ASH.

FOURTH PLACE 

fields of ash - raindrops explodes one by one 

-Mihail Buraga

[ Bucharest,Romania]

( 3,3,4 ) = 21 points

.............................

ashes... the history lessons they know by heart

- Ana Drobot
[ Bucharest, Romania ]

( 5,0,0 ) = 5 points

My mother's body only a handful of ash... nothing else

- Vasile Moldovan
[ Bucharest, Romania ]

( 1, 0, 1 ) = 4 points

old cowboy in love – wood ash stirred in water for stomach burning

- Miruna Covor
[ Bucharest, Romania ]

( 1,1,0 ) = 3 points

spring wind – she scatters the ash from the last cig together

- Dan Iulian
[ Bucharest-Romania ]

the Club of Rome - global warming think tank full of cigar ashes

- Nicu Stopel
[ Bucharest, Romania ]

from now on the words as the ash – breaking up letter

- Capotă Daniela Lăcrămioara

[ Galaţi ,Romania ]

http://indiankukai.blogspot.ro/

Wild plum, spring-summer 2016

https://wildplumhaiku.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/wild-plum-spring-summer-2016.pdf

A Hundred Gourds 5:2 March 2016

http://www.ahundredgourds.com/ahg52/index52.html

spring snow –
still more layers
to the onion I peel

Ana Drobot – Romania

almond blossoms –
from petal to petal
silk moon

Steliana Cristina Voicu – Romania 

flash floods –
all over the streets
white swans

Ana Drobot – Romania 

a homeless man
who was playing a flute
on the street corner
fell suddenly in the rain …
a donor card in his pocket

Lavana Kray - Romania 




standing
on the sky
this rainy day –
life in the bustling city
keeps me down-to-earth
Ana Drobot - Romania

din brass bell: a haku journal

Haiku by and About Women

Welcome to the March 2016 issue of brass bell: a haiku journal.

This issue showcases small poems by and about women. March 8 is International Women's Day and we write in  celebration of women and girls.

You will notice the way certain themes and references appear in more than one haiku, like threads connecting women to one another.

Poems have been received from Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Poland, Romania, and The United States.


cherry blossoms —
a daughter tries on her mother's
wedding dress
    - Ana Drobot

orphanage room —
children call me:
mom!
    - Lavana Kray

mother sews a kite
onto my little apron —
blue sky
    - Maria Tirenescu
 
lime trees in bloom —
on watch at the window
girl and moon
    - Virginia Popescu

http://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.ro/