WHA Haiga Contest (04/2016)

family reunion
the Great Wall of China
has missing puzzle pieces

Familientreffen
an Chinas Großer Mauer
fehlen Puzzleteile



Mural in Progress

A Rengay by Maria Tomczak
and Gabriel Sawicki

watercolor -
the world in and out
blurred by rain

imperfect symmetry
of an art model's breast

mural in progress
a monarch butterfly
gets trapped inside

first date
he pretends to understand
the modern art

one more lipgloss layer
just in case

unoccupied portraitist
adds one more picture
to his face book

Wandgemälde in Ausführung

Ein Rengay von Maria Tomczak
und Gabriel Sawicki

Aquarellfarbe -
die Welt drinnen und draußen
verschwommen im Regen

ungenaue Symmetrie
der Brust eines Kunstmodells

Wandgemälde in Ausführung
ein Monarchfalter
wird darin eingefangen

erstes Rendezvous
er gibt vor zu verstehen
was moderne Kunst ist

noch eine Schicht Lippenglanz
nur für den Fall

der arbeitslose Portraitkünstler
fügt ein weiteres Bild
seiner Facebook-Seite hinzu

hüpfende Steine
mit der Strömung des Flusses
zurück in der Zeit

Chrysanthemum 19

April 2016

funeral service

on the coffin jumps

spring rain 

The Mainichi

historic church
camera lenses
avoid the beggar

European Quarterly Kukai

Haiku otrzymało 28 punktów.

still life

her finger blurs shadows

of the fresh fallen apple

martwa natura

jej palec rozciera cienie

opadłego jabłka

natură moartă

dagetul ei estompează umbrele

mărului proaspăt căzut

translated from English into Romanian by Cristina Oprea

Sharpening the Green Pencil 2016
pokonkursowa antologia

World Haiku 2016: No. 12

still life

between the sketchbook pages

the kireji

mackerel sky

a yogi turns the horizon

upside down

gossamer threads

your embrace weaker

than before

Akitsu Quarterly

Spring 2016

WHA Haiga Contest (03/2016)

winter field

the crows devour

the last light

polje zimi

vrane žderu 

prošlu noć

zimowe pole

kruki pochłaniają

ostatnie światło

Haiku zdobyło trzecią nagrodę w konkursie chorwackiego magazynu IRIS. Jurorem był Jim Kacian.
Jego komentarz do haiku:

The proffered scene is like a classic photograph, reminiscent of the work, perhaps, of John Berger from his days in the Pyrenees — natural, sharp, highly contrasted. What raises the poem above the strict delineation of place, however, is the violence of the verb. Light must be clinging to that snowfield, and yet what compels the poet is its disappearance, embodied by the blackness that is the crows. The crows, then, become the emblem of the death of the day, light-eaters, with all the foreboding such creatures conjure in our imaginations. As winter is already a time of diminished light, their infernal work seems all the more apparent, and appalling.

                                                                                                                        Jim Kacian

hand-knitted scarf

the length

of her sleepless night

Haiku zajęło pierwsze miejsce (25 punktów) w Shiki Monthly Kukai February 2016.

southern wind
 travels on the wings

of returning geese

Haiku otrzymało 3 punkty.