grande solitude -
le chocolat partagé
avec les fourmis
Rodica P. Calotä
Liniștea nopții
Acum o săptămână
marți, 20 octombrie 2020
duminică, 18 octombrie 2020
vineri, 16 octombrie 2020
marți, 13 octombrie 2020
Mainichi - Haiku in English
Haiku: Oct. 13, 2020
leaves in the wind --
postponing again
leaving home
--
Dan Iulian (Bucharest, Romania)
Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay
joi, 8 octombrie 2020
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, 2020
A. International
Hounourable Mention
No flower
in the cherry tree –
even the house is empty
Maria Tirenescu
Romania
B. Youth
Youth Top Winner
cherry petals
renewing the scarecrow’s
shabby coat
Andreea Buzuc, Romania
Youth Sakura Awards
cherry blossom rain
trying on for the first time
my mom’s wedding dress
Anca-Iuliana Chermaneanu, Romania
cherry petals
floating on the wind
first dance lesson
Giulia Iacob, Romania
Youth Honourable Mentions
cherry petals
jumping quietly
among koi fish
Maria Maiovski, Romania
confined at home
waving at the cherry tree
outside the window
Ciobica Seby, Romania
https://www.vcbf.ca/haiku-invitational/winning-haiku/2020-winning-haiku#start-international
miercuri, 7 octombrie 2020
12 th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest, 2020
Selected Haiku Submissions Collection
Division1b: General Public (Non-Japanese applicants)
Steliana Cristina Voicu (Romania)
rush and serenity…
how gently the summer fades
into the autumn
Vasile Moldovan (Romania)
parental home –
the grass has plagued it
until the threshold
Vasile Cojocaru (Romania)
In the deserted house
the clock has stopped –
time runs away
Rodica Ștefan (Romania)
at dawn
no one to greet me
the morning glory alone
orange irises
the sun sinking
into the lake
Cezar-Florin Ciobîcă (Romania)
second honeymoon
the loudness of our vows
in the waterfall
Remembrance Day
in my dad’s war diary
a dry forget-me-not
Capotă Daniela Lăcrămioara (Romania)
departures –
from the same branch
a bird and a leaf
in isolation –
I share the picnic basket
with a dove
Mircea Florea (Romania)
May night –
beggars sleeping
on poplar fluff
swirling petals –
the old sleigh next to the fence
snowy again
Cristina Apetrei (Romania)
petals in the wind
remembering
our last dance
rotten cross –
ants turning it into
a cathedral
http://samidare.jp/basho/box/12th%20english%20haiku%20contest%20(results)pdf.pdf
vineri, 2 octombrie 2020
World Haiku Review -Autumn 2020
EDITOR’S CHOICE HAIKU
coronavirus -
he strives himself to prove of God
that he exists
Dan Iulian (Second Place)
This haiku poses ‘the’ big question – a forbidden one, the taboo
for a long time. A catastrophic event like COVID-19 inevitably evokes an urge
to ask the most fundamental questions. Many say that COVID-19 has happened for
God or gods to punish our sins. Others use it as yet another proof that He or
gods did not, or could not, prevent it from happening to save us. Still others
feel that God or gods categorically have nothing to do with it. We are in a
mental and emotional wasteland under COVIS-19 not only because of its voracious
appetite to infect but also because we don’t know much about it. Fear of the unknown
is liable to lead to blind belief in super-human or supernatural forces.
Neither science nor the government is guarantee of reassurance or remedy.
Dan Iulian is more nuanced and delicate. We don’t know who this
‘he’ is in line 2 (I have advocated strongly that pronouns should be avoided in
haiku, except ‘I’ and when it is obvious whom a particular pronoun is referring
to). More difficult to decipher is line 3 where there is a double entendre.
‘He’ can be the same person as the one in line 2, or ‘he’ can be the god, even
if it is not written as ‘He’, which is a convenient feature of haiku tending to
be written in small letters. So, one interpretation could be that there is a
man (perhaps the author himself) who is trying hard to say to God that he (the
man) is still
alive and that he wishes to be saved from the ravages of the
virus.
The more controversial but common interpretation would be that the
person in the haiku finds his belief in God shaken in the face of COVID-19 and
is struggling to fight off the lingering doubt that He does not exist after all
if He allows such disaster to humanity as COVID-19 to happen and does not do
anything at all to save us from the infection and/or death or serious cases
emanating from it, or even to help our doctors, nurses, care workers or
academics, and indeed all our citizens who are desperately fighting against the
virus. From the haiku I hear painful and pitiful voices saying, ‘Where are
you?’, ‘Why and how could you forsake us?’
This desperate cry is beautifully and subtly related by Albert
Camus in an almost imperceptible change which occurs within the priest who
first oppressively and agrily chides the citizens for their sins causing the
plague but gradually realises that his condemnation is wrongly directed.
Neo-Classical
Haiku Section-Zatsuei (Haiku of merit)
from an empty gondola
rising moon
Steliana Cristina Voicu
Shintai Haiku Section-Honourable Mention
marriage picture
taken off the wall
the brighter spot
behind
Mona Iordan
Shintai Haiku Section-Zatsuei (Haiku of merit)
white birch
cut in the
bark
the heart
still growing
Mona Iordan
Vanguard Haiku Section-Second
Place
coronavirus
-
he
strives himself to prove of God
that he
exists
Dan Iulian
Vanguard Haiku Section-Zatsuei, Haiku of Merit
self-isolation
turning my
balcony
into a
greenhouse
Cezar Ciobika
corona outbreak -
in my
drawers
piles of
love poems
Ana Drobot
social
distance -
the roses
are planted
apart
Ana Drobot
coronavirus-
measuring
whose loneliness
is greater
Dan Iulian
without social distancing –
the tree
full of
birds
Capotă Daniela Lăcrămioara
with masks and gloves
we look at
each other
like two
strangers
Vasile Moldovan
Neighbor‘s
bed is empty-
he is gone,
maybe home,
maybe in
eternity
Vasile Moldovan
artificial
lung -
every
breath of air is worth
its weight
in gold
Vasile Moldovan
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