A Little Haiku Contest
by haiku magazine IRIS, Ivanic Grad, Croatia
Theme:
2010 – International Year for the
Rapprochement of Cultures
Judge: Boris Nazansky
11
Equally graded awards
an'ya, La Pine, Oregon, USA
patchworked in
this seamless sky
-
bits of cloud bits
Rajna Begovic,
Belgrade, Serbia
by an old
temple
in different languages
-
silence
Krysztof Kokot,
Nowy Targ, Poland
Jordan's
West
Bank
rag
doll
without one
leg
Malvina Mileta,
Nedešćina, Croatia
A
suitcase from India
brought fragrance
the mediteranean.
John Parsons, Topcroft, Bungay,
United Kingdom
Keralan
roadside
under dry palm
fronds
grandmother's break
stone
Dejan Pavlinović, Pula, Croatia
playing their
way
through foreign
words
little
strangers
Patricia
Prime, Auckland, New Zealand
suicide
bombing
yet still we
celebrate
the Year of the
Tiger
Zoe Savina, Pallini
– Attikis, Greece
Demonstration
in
Sacramento
small
cries
becoming stepping stones
for large
ones
Sandra
Simpson, Tauranga, New Zealand
lost in the souk
-
a henna-stained
hand
reaches for
mine
Tatjana Stefanović,
Belgrade, Serbia
a tiny
rainbow
connects the clouds
-
a rafter's
song
Božena Zernec,
Krapina, Croatia
joy at the
museum!
early manfs relatives
arrived
for Xmas - from
Paris*
*On
December 17, from Parisf atelier of artist Elisabeth Daynes
arrived the dolls of Krapina early men, for a new
exhibition in the Museum of Krapinafs early man.
HE RESULTS OF THE 6th
INTERNATIONAL KLOSTAR IVANIC
HAIKU CONTEST IN
ENGLISH 2009
This year we received
241 haiku written by 75 authors from 25 countries. The judge, Prof. Vida Pust Skrgulja decided as follows:
1st Prize /
1. nagrada
fishing
late
kasni ribolov
the boat
full
camac se napunio
of one
cricket
jednim cvrckom
Darrell Lindsey
Nacogdoches,Texas,
United States
2nd Prize /
2. nagrada
strong
waves jaki valovi
returning an empty
shell
@@@@@@@@vracaju
praznu skoljku
to the
sea moru
Zeljko
Spoljar
Zapresic,
Croatia
3rd Prize / 3. nagrada
in the
market na
trznici
only the beggar's
dog
samo prosjakov pas
stares at the
eyes
@@@@gleda u oci
John
Parsons
Bungay,
Suffolk, United Kingdom
Commendations / Pohvale
a dry
leaf suhi list
travelling putuje
along the
highwy
autocestom
Zeljko Funda
@@ Varazdin, Croatia
departing tran
...
vlak na odlasku
...
in a gust of
spring
rain u
pljusku proljetne kise
a lasting
kiss dugi poljubac
Verica Zivkovic
@@ Starcevo
kod Panceva, Serbia
in perfect
silence
savrsena tisina
the
lake u
jezeru
reflects
us nas odraz
Tanu Deo Sharma
Topeka,
Kansas, United States
by a
river
pokraj rijeke
listening to the
silence
slusajuci tisinu
of its
flowc
njezina tokac
Sasa Vazic
Beograd/Batajnica, Serbia
old city
bridge
–
stari gradski most -
pigeons on
wings
golubovi na krilima
of stone
angels
kamenih andjela
Scott Mason
Chappaqua, New York, United States
outside the
café
ispred kafica
wind rattles
the tables
vjetar lupa stolovima
the spider
spins
on
pauk dalje tka
Peg Duthie
Nashville,
Tennessee, United States
late
autumn
kasna jesen
so many
things
tolike su stvari
visible
vidljive
Petar Tchouhov
Sofia,
Bulgaria
abandoned city -
napusteni grad -
only the tree
shadows
samo se sjene drveca
move with the
wind
krecu s vjetrom
Jacek Margolak
Kielce, Poland
car windows
–
prozori auta -
a bumble-bee
is
just
kroz njih bumbar
passing through
samo preleti
An'ya Petrovic
La Pine,
Oregon, United States
Selected
Haiku / Odabrani haikui
angling by
night
nocni ribolov
my fish hook
gets
stuck
udica mi je zapela
in the Great
Bear
u Velikom medvjedu
Vasile Moldovan
Bucharest, Bulgaria
waning moon
–
opada mjesec -
cherry blossom
froth
@@@pjena cvjetova tresnje
at my feet
kraj mojih nogu
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Nathalie
Buckland
Nimbin, NSW,
Australia
the dry river
bed
suho korito rijeke
on a shadow
of fruit
tree
@@@@@@@na sjeni stabla
vocke
crowds of
butterflies
@@@mnostvo leptira
Oprica Padeanu
Bucharest,
Romania
in the city park
–
@@@@@@@@u gradskom parku -
down the sliding
board
niz tobogan sklizne
first raindrop
slides
@@@@prva kisna kap
Dragan J. Ristic
Nis, Serbia
a bird
lands
@@ptica sleti
upon the
Buddhafs headc
na Budinu glavuc
unbroken
silence
tisina traje
David Simmonds
Sidcup, Kent,
United Kingdom
first schoolday
–
prvi dan skole
-
in the lime
hollow
@ u duplji stare lipe
two
schoolbags
dvije torbe
Dan Norea
Constanta, Romania
caught
myself
uhvatih se
whistling today;
someone
kako fuchkam; netko je
inside me is
happy
sretan
u meni
Phil Madden
Abergavenny, United Kingdom
pumpkinfs
flower
cvijet
tikve
on manure
heap.
na kupu gnoja.
my shadow,
too
i moja sjena
Tatjana Stefanovic
Belgrade, Serbia
The authors will
receive a joint collection in Croatian and English as a gift during November
2009.