Aozora haiku publication : May 2001

Manuela Miga
Bucarest, Romania

stifling heat - a fly licking the eye of a stale fish

The Daily Yomiuri review award, Tokyo, 1994

on the Venetian blinds
the old acacia shadow -
Tomcat napping

Excelence Award at ITOEN - New Haiku Contest, Tokyo, 1996

sunset, / with you I'll paint/ the Easter eggs! -

quiet of the evening- the poppies' call/ is burning harder-

singing its mantra / the cricket reaches / the source of stillness-

artesian wells -/ the crescent moon waters / its faint glimmer-

barely in bloom / unadmired irises / already wither-

back to the earth / dreaming of the summer green - / leaves still alive-

the first drizzle / wailing of crickets / helpless, the moon-

first snow - / a rosebud arises / white defeated by white

Haiku from " 99 Haiku Exercices"

Alenka Zorman
Ljubljana, Slovenia

mrzla noc -
na klopi
ljubimca

cold night - -
on the bench
lovers

zbudim se -
na steni
tvoja senca

awaked - -
on the wall
your shadow

tiha noć -
moja dlan
na tvoji sliki

silent night - -
my palm on
your photo

brez tebe -
samo nemir
in tiha noć

without you - -
only restlessness
and silent night

 

Jasminka Nadaskic Djordjevic
Novi Sad, Yugoslavia

ridji konj vuče
sumorno svoju senku
kola ih prate

roan horse
towing its shadow -
the cart follows

staza samo do
groblja - dalje i nema
kud da se ide

path ends at graveyard -
there is no more
where to go

jesenja kiša -
u šumi, list po list,
pokvašen

autumn rain -
in forest, one by one,
leaves are going wet

zelena bara
iznad i ispod isto -
žalosna vrba

a green pond surface --
over and under
a weeping willow