My Haiku Pal

          Zoran Raonić

by Bogdanka Stojanovski
Novi Sad, Yugoslavia

A long Shadow

... Haiku is the cardiogram of a natural condition ...

kanta pod strehom
- uskoči jedna
iskoče dvije kapi

a pail under the eaves
- one drop jumps in
two jump out

monahinja
metlom tjera jesen
oko manastira

with a broom
a nun chases the autumn
around the monastery

 

nakomila
činiju kukuruza -
mjesec u krilu

grinded
bowl of maize -
moon in the lap

 

na strehi
i na brcima
- ledenice

on the eaves
and on the mustaches
-- icicles

 

mlad mjesec
do pola pojedena
kruška na grani

new moon
half eaten pear
on a branch

jesenje nebo -
za borbenim avionom
odletje gavran

autumn sky -
a raven follows
a combat aircraft

 

livida
poslije lentje kiše --
svijetlost isparava

the meadow
after a Summer rain --
light evaporates

svakog jutra
moj orah sve duzu
sjenku daje

every morning
my walnut-tree makes longer
and longer shadow

 

Zoran Raonić

Zoran Raonić was born in Đurđevica Tara, in the river Tara canyon, the 19th of March in 1956.

His poetry have been published in various magazines, publications, collections and anthologies. He is the author of six books of poetry :

Fairy dancing circle (1993, poetry)
Four phases of the moon (1996, haiku)
The division of fire (1997, poetry)
Second circle of fire (1998, poetry)
The moon in the lap (2000, haiku)
Behind the weir (2001, poetry)

His haiku has been published in Yugoslavia,( Mostovi, Paun, Svitak, Haiku novine, Haiku pismo, Listak, Haiku moment ... ), abroad (Ko, Azami, Yellow moon, Modern haiku, Haiku headlines, Woodpecker, Haiku Canada, Newsletter, Europoesie, Orfeu Mushimegane, Prijatelj, Letni casi, Green apples ... ),and at the Aozora pages on the Intemet. Some of his haiku has been awarded several prizes, and his poems got recommendations on competitions and festivals of haiku, as well as the prizes for the poetry of classic form. His haiku contributed to various haiku anthologies in Yugoslavia and abroad, such as Haiku sans frontieres (Canada), KNOTS ...

Zoran is a member of the Writers' Associations of Montenegro, Yugoslavia.

Contact address: Zoran Raonić, 84210 Pljevlja, Skerlićeva 14, Yugoslavia