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K L O S T A R I V A N I C, C R O A T I A, 2006: RESULTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEST FOR HAIKU IN ENGLISH

This year jury received 582 haiku written by 122 authors.
Judges were: Prof. Ruzica Mokos and Prof. Vida Pust Skrgulja

1st Prize

in noon light
a brown pine needle
spinning above the ferns

Marshall Hryciuk, Toronto, Canada

2nd Prize:

calm water -
a fallen leaf of a willow
rocking the Moon

Dusko Matas, Zagreb, Croatia

3rd Prize:

Winter dawn.
Sunrays clinking
on icicles.

Antonina Kazalamheva, Bulgaria


Commendments:

weeding the garden--
the smell of the sun
on my fingers

Jim Kacian, Winchester VA USA

Nigt.
A star
in the horse's eye.

Alexandra Ivoylova, Bulgaria

foggy morning--
the gravedigger alone
with crows

Tony A. Thompson, Lufkin, Texas U.S.A.

a begging man-
the snow flakes don't melt
in his palm

Turgay Uceren, Turska


cherry's fruit
wrapped in the song
of nigtingale

Stjepan Rozic, Croatia

step by step,
fog climbing
the rocks

Darrell Lindsey, Nacogdoches, Texas USA


old couple on the walk
a red poppy trembles
in the breeze

Alenka Zorman, Ljubljana, Slovenija

winter sunset
silhouettes of crows
line the roof ridge

Sue Mill, Australia


White peak in the pond –
the first snowflake is touching
another snowflake

Eduard ŢARĂ, Romania


spring thaw
a piece of a great-river
caught in the ice-jam

Carmel Lively Westerman, Yuma, Arizona, USA

That star, above,
so distant, so tiny,
has its own name.

Aleksandar Prokopiev, Macedonia


a silky glow:
cornfields come alive
sunrise

Huguette R.-M. Simmonds, Tunapuna, Trinidad & Tobago,West Indies