Aozora haiku publication : February 2000

Predrag Pešić-Šera (Vitina, Smederevo, Yugoslavia)

Prote Mateja 86/1, 11300 Smederevo, Yugoslavia
Submitted by mail

on the path I wait
for the snake to go away
it's waiting too

Itoen'97 Tokyo, Japan

Beneath a chestnut tree
I gaze at branches
full of stars

Frogpond, Winchester, USA

Cherry tree in bloom ~
in its branches' shade
a butterfly on the stone

Modern Haiku, Madison, USA

Heated sun.
A dog beneath my shadow
find its shade.

Leaflet, N.Sad, Yugoslavia

Bird flies away.
Cold egges
left in the nest.

Yellow Moon, Australia

The linden has rustled !
The latest news
from my garden.

Lotos, Valjevo, Yugoslavia

II-I Prize:
Mountain wind
whispering stirrs
shepherd's fire

Haiku Poetry competition
Nis '98 Yugoslavia

Turtle's shadow
creeps into its shell
both legs and head

Autumn wind--
tosses on the rose
the last pomegranate

English tr. Jasna Batizic

Josip Hohnjec
Slovenski trg n°2 (I/7), 22300 Stars Pazova, Yugoslavia
Submitted by mail

A flicker of light
in a well illuminates
the yellow leaves.

Distant star -
owing to goodnight kiss
joyfull grandchild.

raven at flight--
a whistle of wind spreads
over the meadow

Autumn sun --
the cloud that passing by sky
hides it for instant.

I draw down a jalousie.
Shadows of goods in the room
lose their shape.

Thunder crash --
for a moment in the trembling grass
gleam of lightning.

Cold night --
at silent fireplace
flame is smoldering.

In the meadow
surrounded with pines --
shine of stars.

Waiting for wedding gests --
at the morning sun
lilacs blossoming.

Jasminka Nadaskic Djordjevic
(Smederevo, Yugoslavia) Dior@SezamPro.YU

the heat is pressing
from the deepness of the cloud
a bird is straying

Sparrow in the sill, Novi Sad,1998 - SUIEN, 1999 -
HAIKU DAWN, 1999

along the railroad
poppies waving to trains
horses grazing ...

Mainichi,08/98 - Woodpecker, 09/98 -
SUIEN, 1999 - Point Judith Light, SpringField,1999

carried by the wind
a butterfly drops into
dandelion's field

SUIEN, 01/99

Goran Milenic
(Bosnia - Netherlands)

Long shadows
and a lonely bus
on the dusty road.

A river and a man
day to day more and more
further from their sources.

the tulips die--
only the windmills
remain in the field.

Winter twilight.
The city backed out
in its suburbs.