Seventh Mainichi Contest
2003.

(People from Balkans)

International Second Prize

 

Summer afternoon-
an old woman staring at her shadow
on the old house wall

Tomislav ® Vujčić (Serbia and Montenegro)

 

The snow covered road
Why am I undoing my hair
and making tea again?

Tatjana Stefanović (Serbia and Montenegro)

 

with a heavy bag
a woman displaces the tiredness
from hand to hand

Marija Mimica (Croatia)

 

No guests
A waitress sunbathing
her shaven legs

Borivoj Sekulić (Serbia and Montenegro)


Honorable Mention (English and French)

 

Before the storm
Sea gulls under the sky
Dazzling white

Elena Manta Ciubotariu (Romania)

 

houses of the grandfather
destroyed, totally ruined-
latrine stays only

Ivo Antić (Slovenia)

 

Japanese islands
rising from under water
bulky crab dorsa

Botea Cohn Jules (Romania)

 

In my postbox
letter and ray of sun rising
both from Japan!

Svetlana Stanković (Serbia and Montenegro)

 

Clear night sky
The coins in the fountain
glitter with the stars

®eljko Funda (Croatia)

 

silence and calm-
two swimmers enter
the setting sun

Vjera Majstrović (Croatia)

 

Calm water
Between two moons
the owl flies off

Ljiljana Djuričić (Serbia and Montenegro)

 

Information : Jasminka Nadaskic Djordjevic (Serbia and Montenegro)

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