EUROPEAN QUARTERLY KUKAI #14 - Summer 2016 Edition (topic: flowers)

4th place--27points

 

 

clear sky -

sunflowers and migrants

facing to west 

 

 

14th edition – 218 authors from 48 countries

http://europeankukai.blogspot.ro/

One of my tanka poems, hand painted by the visual artist Ron Moss

Ron Moss is a Tasmanian visual artist, poet and lover of haiku. His poetry has won international awards and been translated into several languages. Ron’s art is sold as limited edition-prints and originals. He has been featured in poetry journals and has designed several book covers.

http://www.ronmoss.com/ 

The Bth International Tanka F'estival Karuizawa - Award of Excellence

old manor...
dragging out
his few remaining days,
dad plants
chrysanthemums

http://www.kajinclub.com/6english1/englishversion.html

European Haiku Prize (EHP) - 3rd Prize(tied)

"The 2016 edition of the prize has seen an extraordinary and unexpected participation of over 500 poets, 1,600 haiku and 79 Countries wordwide (way more than we ever expected in the beginning)!!"

 The European Haiku Society (EHS), in collaboration with the Italian Haiku Association (IHA), the ANPH Haiku Archive and the Manyoshu Publishing,

boatload of refugees...

the wind plays with a doll

on the shore

http://www.haikusociety.eu/2016/06/08/2016-ehp-winners-announcement/

The Judging Panel of the first edition of the European Haiku Prize (EHP):

• Luca Cenisi (Italy, EHS President)
• Gabriel Rosenstock (Ireland, poet, haikuist and translator)
• Garry Eaton (Canada, haiku poet, Digital Librarian of The Haiku Foundation THF)
• Yasuko Anami (Japan, haiku poet, haibunist and essayist)

ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray/June 3, 2016

(Illustration by Mitsuaki Kojima) 

Long wait for rain...

old diary turns

into paper boats

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201606030002.html 


June 17

 

(Illustration by Mitsuaki Kojima)

 

Refugee tent -- a little girl running to the rainbow

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201606170004.html 

Haiku Master of the Month

Haiku Masters & Selection Committee:

 Michio Nakahara 

 Kit Pancoast Nagamura

 Toshio Kimura 

 Takashi Yasui 

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/haiku_masters/#post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYyJB3qAPa8 

A Hundred Gourds 5:3 June 2016

HAIKU

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steaming rain –
smell of apple pie
flooding the street 
x
ploaie cu spume -
un miros de plăcinte
inundă strada 

  http://www.ahundredgourds.com/ahg53/index53.html

UHTS, Cattails May 2016

după furtună -

botez epava bărcii

cu numele meu

Tanka
------- 
refugees
camping on the outskirts
of the village—
the sound of a violin
moaning at intervals

x

refugiați
amplasați la o margine
de sat—
se aude o vioară
din când în când

http://www.unitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/index.html 


 

NHK WORLD - HAIKU MASTERS GALLERY - May 2016

Category 1: Haiku this photo

blossom park -

an old man enjoys playing

a hopscotch

Category 2:Original photo haiku 

 

war news -

knitting anew the sweater

for her son 

 

birthday -

gathering of moths

on my paisley shawl 

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/haiku_masters/gallery.html 

The 142th. WHA Haiga Contest （05/2016)

Judge and comments by Kuniharu Shimizu ....(blog)

pui de somn -

mă acoperă matern

floarea de cireș

 http://www.worldhaiku.net/wha_haiga/142/haiga142.html

Ginyu, International Haiku Magazine No.70

Selected and commented by Ban'ya Natsuishi

1
stop the war!

the wheat sleeps
under snows

 

2

refugee camp -

a baby starts laughing

in his sleep

 

 

3

after a long rain

I walk the way that you left...

the moon full of mud

4

black balloon sky -

the sickle moon

gives it a prick

 

"Very nice haiku in English!Emotioan and intelligence well balanced in your haiku"

            

                       Ban'ya Natsuishi

 

The Bamboo Hut - Spring 2016, Journal of English Language Tanshi

1
for the first time                 
on the seashore...
this photo got
several wrinkles
too

2
succesfull chemo...        
dead leaves
playing
with her hair
in the dark ginnel

3
black oil slick                            

washed up on the beach_
tourists
taking selfies
with the grounded fish

4
wind chugging...           
on a clot
of dead leaves,
a refugee woman
breastfeeding her baby

 

5                     

my life          

as the colorless fluid
of sky ...
a wounded crane looks
at the migrating flock

 

http://thebamboohut.weebly.com/current-issue.html 

Revue & Éditions du tanka francophone, numéro 28 - juin 2016

 Thème de la nuit, sélection de 27 tanka sur 94 reçus



1

Le gong de minuit                          

fait tomber les ailes de l'horloge

une après l'autre...

je tiens à t'écrire quelques lignes

mais c'est l'encre qui tremble

2

Des réfugiés                                  

qui passent leurs jours de grissaille
en plein air...

quelqu'un joue de la flûte
jusqu'à l'aube

http://www.revue-tanka-francophone.com/ 

Daily Haiga

The Mainichi - May 7, 2016

more light in my life...

a moth enlarging

the curtain hole

 Selected by Isamu Hashimoto

 http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160423/p2g/00m/0fe/087000c

 

Moongarlic, issue 6 - May 2016

never missed
a full home so much...
in the abandoned house
someone lit a candle
in the window

http://www.moongarlic.org/

Renga ½ Kasen - Ioana Dinescu (Sabaki), Lavana Kray, Sorin Boc

The 141th. WHA Haiga Contest （04/2016)

Judge and comments by Kuniharu Shimizu ....(blog)

 

http://www.worldhaiku.net/wha_haiga/141/haiga141.html 

The Mainichi - Best of 2015 haiku in English, selected by Isamu Hashimoto

http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160419/p2a/00m/0na/023000d

Chrysanthemum Nr. 19. April 2016

stuck in snow -

black birds skirring 

to and fro

Chrysanthemum Nr. 19. April 2016

 1

whistle stop -

in the half clean window

a poppy field

x

kurzer Zwischenstopp-

im nur halb sauberen Fenster

ein Mohnfeld

2

  

black sky

leaning on the poplar fluffs-

divorce papers

x

ein schwarzer Himmel

lehnt sich auf den Pappelflaum -

Scheidungsunterlagen

3

island of chalk

on asphalt -

self-portrait

x

Kreideinsel

auf dem Asphalt -

ein Selbstportrait

 http://www.chrysanthemum-haiku.net/media/Chrysanthemum_19.pdf

NeverEnding Story First English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku and Tanka Blog

first snowflakes
on the wreckage
of a boat...
the same dog from yesterday
waiting on the shore

Eucalypt, 7, 2014

  Chinese Translation (Traditional)
初雪
覆蓋一條船
的殘骸 ...
昨天來的那隻狗
仍在岸邊等候 Chinese Translation (Simplified)
初雪
覆盖一条船
的残骸 ...
昨天来的那只狗
仍在岸边等候


"Lavana's tanka is concise with vivid imagery and tightly structured with a strong emotional undercurrent. Each line adds something significant to the poem, culminating in the final line, which strongly underlies the dog's unwavering loyalty to its master. And we all know that even in cold weather (as indicated in L1), the dog will come to the shore and wait for its master's return tomorrow, the day after tomorrow,...

This heartfelt tanka reminds me one of my haiku, which was inspired by a real-life event:

ghost bike
locked to the lamppost...
a beagle at dusk

Croatian Translation

bicikl kraj puta
lzakljucan za stup lampe...
bigl u sumrak

Iris, 1, 2015

Note: A ghost bike is a bicycle set up as a roadside memorial in a place where a cyclist was killed"

                                Chen-ou Liu
http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.ro/

Les Ateliers D’EXpressions - LES ADEX No 60 - avril 2016

Illustrez ce poème:

La campagne 
c'est la cerise
sur le gâteau
des villes


Eric Lechevalier 

http://www.lesadex.com/pages/1ntro.htm 

Les Ateliers D’EXpressions - LES ADEX ,No 60 - avril 2016

Écrivez un poème pour illustrer ce tableau

convoi de réfugiés -

les cries d'une femme donnant naissance

à son enfant

 http://www.lesadex.com/pages/1ntro.htm

HAIKU CANADA REVIEW - SPRING 2016

LES PÉCHÉS CAPITAUX
Haïkus réunis par Claude Rodrigue

les fêtes sont passées —
il neige sur des montagnes
de nourriture


 http://haikucanada.org/home/publications.php?style=1&page=1003

Association pour la promotion du haïku - Ploc¡ la revue du haïku N° 64 – Avril 2016

1

divorce -

on a tout partagé sauf

les ronflements du chien

 

2

 

hamac de jardin -

le pivert recasse l'écorse

de mon rêve

 

3

noce du papillon -

son ange m'empêche

de bouger

 

 

Ce numéro a été conçu et réalisé par

Sam Cannarozzi 

http://www.100pour100haiku.fr/revue_ploc/ploc_revue_haiku_numero_64.pdf 

LIRENVAL 2016 – Concours de haïkus sur le thème du Jardin

Haïkus primés - Catégorie adulte

 

Jardin public -
Un bébé qui dort
sous les feuilles mortes

 

bataille des frontières...

les racines de nos jardins

s'embrassent par-dessous

http://www.lirenval.com/Salon%202016/Haiku/Resultats%20concours%20haikus%20adulte.htm 

Ribbons, the triannual journal of the Tanka Society of America. Winter issue:Volume12, Number1

The editor of the journal puts one tanka that appears in each issue on the back cover of that issue.

This time it was my tanka on the back cover of winter issue. There are a few comments of the editor that appear in a column of the journal:

"Over a million refugees have entered Europe, or died trying, in the last few years but, as has been said before, it is difficult to understand and feel what a million individuals are experiencing. A picture is worth a thousand words, and the picture I saw of a refugee dead on the beach let me feel more directly what is happening in Europe than the knowledge that there are a million refugees.

The best tanka, with the compressed intensity and specific imagery that the form encourages, can paint a twenty-plus word picture that rivals what a visual artist can evoke. Lavana Kray's tanka let me see the refugees, both their struggle and uncertainty in the first three lines and, with the shift in the last two lines, their hope. Whether deliberate or not, by pointing to the “refugees shadows” and by hearing “a tender lullaby” but not showing us the refugees themselves, the tanka mirrors the the refugees situation: they are still at the “wired border” and have not reached a place where they can show themselves.

Lavana Kray is Romanian but wrote this powerful poem in English. I had to look up “conglobulate” in the Oxford English Dictionary. Though rarely used today, it means “to collect into a rounded or compact mass” and gave me a sense of what it must be like for the refugees to huddle together at sundown.

When I asked her about the poem, she wrote, “During the past few years, the news keeps showing images of the millions of refugees. I have watched children pushed under or thrown over some fence, and carried from one place to another, in the hope that things will be better beyond that fence and they will find a new home. My forefathers were refugees, too, so I am doubly sensitized to these people. Mixing this reality with my imagination, I poured all my thoughts and feelings into this tanka.

Anytime I need an English word, I look for it in a dictionary. Reading the definitions, I find other words, and I often fall in love with words for their musicality. Some words cling to me, and I have to use them. “Conglobulate” is one of those words. It rolled around in my mind until I found a place for it in this poem."

                                   David Rice  
http://www.lulu.com/shop/tanka-society-of-america/ribbons-winter-2016-volume-12-number-1/paperback/product-22637011.html

Good news to share with you(Haiku text book)

I've recently received from Richard Gilbert, Faculty of Lettersn, Kumamoto University,Japan:


"Along with my colleague here in Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan, we are planning to publish a textbook containing international haiku in English for teaching university-level English-language education. We would like to include your haiku shown below in the book.

the scent / of roasted chestnuts – / a postcard from home /

We look forward to international students studying English learning from your work and becoming more familiar with your poetry.  Our source for haiku in our textbook (and your work we are asking to present) is sourced from the LHA Archive (http://livinghaikuanthology.com). In this way, international students here can easily access more of your work online. We will self-publish the book as a non-profit work, and any proceeds will be used for educational haiku research activities".

WILD PLUM HAIKU CONTEST 2016

bubuit de nori -

vatele noastre de zahăr

se lipesc între ele

"As my Third Place Choice, a haiku with striking color contrast via black clouds and pink cotton candies (at least that’s the color I perceive), although nowadays I believe cotton candy can be just about any color. Having said this, another reason for choosing this one is because of its 3 “l” sounds in line one, carried over to its double “c” sounds in line two, which lets it roll off the tongue nicely. I also can easily visualize the cotton candies sticking to one another, and looking like puffy clouds."

—an’ya, principal editor of UHTS cattails

https://wildplumhaiku.wordpress.com/haiku-contest/ 

La Lettre de Haïkouest Édition n°42, mars 2016

Palmarès Vivement (janvier 2016)

 5 ème Prix 
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une femme à la porte –
les enfants d’orphelinat s’entassent 
dans les fenêtres

 

NeverEnding Story - First English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku and Tanka Blog

English Original
wet glasses --
I dry the moon
with my shirt
Ardea, 5, 2015
Lavana kray


Chinese Translation (Traditional)
眼鏡起霧 --
我用襯衫
擦乾月亮

Chinese Translation (Simplified)
眼镜起雾 --
我用衬衫
擦乾月亮

" The fresh image of "drying the moon" with one's shirt lifts the poem out of the ordinary."
                                                                              Chen-ou Liu 
http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.ro/ 

The 140th. WHA Haiga Contest （03/2016)

Judge and comments by Kuniharu Shimizu ....(blog)

EUROPEAN QUARTERLY KUKAI #13 - Spring 2016 Edition (topic: people)

13th edition of EQK was attended by 211 authors from 43 countries
 

SECOND PLACE:

#025 Lavana Kray, Iasi, Romania
(9-3-5) = 38 points

(from: IND,POL,SRB,CRO,BIH,CRO,GER,GER,UKR,-MGL,GER,GHA-ROM,FRA,BUL,ITA,NZL)

refugees convoy -
a newborn baby smiles
in his sleep

The Artistic Muse - Poehemians

when the sun sinks low
refugees' shadows conglobulate
over the wired border...
a tender lullaby
softens the wind

*Previously published on Tanka Society of America (Winter 2015)

http://www.theartisticmuse.com/poehemians-featured-poetry.html 

Golden Haiku Contest 2016

                    

        RUNNER UP

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1
pruning the trees
of public garden —
crow eggs on asphalt
2 
little girl
pushing a baby stroller —
plum petals over dolls
3
flea street vendor —
the straw hat turning
into a bird nest
4
old cherry tree
ready to be cut down -
blossoming overnight
5
sweeping forbidden!
the girl hangs a banner
in the cherry blooms

http://goldentriangledc.com/2016-golden-haiku-winners/