5th Polish International Haiku Competition 2015
WINNERS
(book prizes and diplomas):
1ST PLACE:
a dandelion
in the window box
I dare not breathe
Stanka Boneva
Varna, Bulgaria
2ND PLACE:
broken glass
some of the shards
glisten
Quendryth Young
Alstonville, Australia
3RD PLACE:
a puppy
licking the moonlight
off its paws
Marinko Kovačević
Praputnjak, Croatia
COMMENDATIONS
(in alphabetical order by haiku):
a housewife sweeps up
the aroma of spring…
glow of cherry blooms
Keith Simmonds
Rodez, France
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Between one raindrop
And just the following one—
It is not raining
Alina Kizierowska
Borówiec, Poland
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fourth anniversary—
only the wind sweeps the leaves
from the grave
Robert Kania
Warsaw, Poland
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harbour light show—
a little boy points out
the half-moon
Owen Bullock
Canberra, Australia
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hidden deep
beneath the morning glory
hero’s name
Vasile Moldovan
Bucharest, Romania
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no stars tonight—
my daughter brings me
a jar of fireflies
Engin Gülez
Ankara, Turkey
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only the wind whistling
from time to time—
abandoned train station
Daniela Lacramioara Capotă
Galati, Romania
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still lake
out of the blue
a water lily
Sergiu Vlad
Botosani, Romania
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summer vacation
even the sun jumps
into the ocean
Sneha Sundaram
Jersey City, United States
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yellow blossoms
fall into a street
of yellow blossoms
Rob Woods
Darwin, Australia
SUMMARY
Congratulations to the winners and commended haiku poets on your superb poems!
The book prizes for the winners are the following bilingual (Polish-English) collections of poems by Wisława Szymborska: Tutaj/Here (1st Prize), Wystarczy/Enough (2nd Prize), Chwila/Moment (3rd Prize).
The fifth edition of the Polish International Haiku Competition has gathered 336 authors from 41 countries: Argentina (2), Australia (22), Bangladesh (2), Belgium (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Bulgaria (11), Canada (7), Croatia (17), Denmark (1), Finland (1), France (5), Germany (7), Ghana (5), Greece (2), Hungary (1), India (21), Indonesia (2), Iran (2), Ireland (1), Israel (1), Italy (5), Japan (4), Lithuania (7), Macedonia (1), Montenegro (1), New Zealand (10), Nigeria (1), Philippines (2), Poland (92), Romania (13), Russia (4), Serbia (11), Slovenia (4), Sweden (1), Switzerland (3), Tunisia (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1), United Kingdom (14), United States (47), Zambia (1).
We thank you all for such a large interest!
The organizers would like to express their gratitude to Agnieszka Żuławska-Umeda for all the help, support and time devoted to the competition.
The haiku which were not mentioned in the above results can be reused by their authors in any way.
The Polish translation of all the poems (unless otherwise stated) and comments — Rafał Zabratyński.
With kind regards — The Team:
Agnieszka Żuławska-Umeda, Final Judge
Rafał Zabratyński, Pre-Selector
Krzysztof Kokot, Originator