9th Annual Mainichi Haiku Contest

(haijins from Balkans only)
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/haiku/mainichi/9th.html

International Section

Second Prize
(English and French)

L’ancienne écluse—
par la porte pourrie passe
un serpent

Valentin Dan Tiberiu (Romanie)

Winter sunshine
Smell of sprouted potatoes
in the cellar

Bagovic Rajna (Serbia & Montenegro)

Honorable Mention
(English)

at daybreak
hunter’s moon and my supper
entirely cooled down

Marinko Spanovic (Croatia)

Fog dispersed
Showing the mountain
but without the peak

Ljiljana Krstic
(Serbia and Montenegro)

Summer solstice
Old man and the river
synchronize their walk

Ivan Nadilo
(Croatia)

The first white snowfall
It would have made me happy
a long time ago

Botea-Cohn Jules (Romania)

Dried creekbed
absorbs a warm rain
and a willow’s scent

Ana Rucnov
(Serbia and Montenegro)

The paws of a dog
on a haiku newspaper—
afternoon on the beach

Dusan Mijajlovic Adski (Serbia and Montenegro)

An obituary on the wall
Cherries are ripe
and birds eat them

Borivoje Sekulic (Serbia and Montenegro)

The moon’s sward—
an owl’s shadow soars flat
atop the fir tree

Branislav Brzakovic (Serbia and Montenegro)

A scream from the dark—
a night bird flew away from
the cemetary wall

Zoran Antonic
(Serbia and Montenegro)

spring wind makes
the best
hairdo

Jurica Rozic (Croatia)

Honorable Mention
(French)

le crépuscule d’automne
sur le square les deux clairons
jouent pour eux-memes

Dragan J. Ristic (Serbia and Montenegro)

Dans le camp des réfugiés
les enfants jouent
sans rire
Zoran Nikolic Mali (Serbia and Montenegro)

Tout était brulé
dans la pinede sauf
les boîtes de biere

Ivan Pahernik
(Croatia)

Son image dura.
Les fibrilles rougies de l’ampoule
éteinte tout a l’heure

Svetomir Djurbabic (Serbia and Montenegro)

Ce jour, impossible
de becher dans le verger—
escargots en rut

Serban Codrin (Romania)

Rien qu’une épave
au pont de la barque de peche
un nenuphar joune

Ana Udrea (Romania)