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(E) Croatian Haiku
http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/5650/1/E-Croatian-Haiku.html
By Nenad N. Bach
Published on 03/11/2002
 
Source: www.asahi.com/english/culture/K2002022200693.html

2002-02-22Asahi Shimbun www.asahi.com JAPANESE

ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK: DAVID MACMURRAY

The Ashiya International Haiku Festa winners included Darko Plazanin fromCroatia, to whom the Japanese Minister of Education, Science and Culture gavean Inspirational Award for his English haiku with a 3-syllable first line,intriguing contrasts and similarities:

each snowflake

flies in its own way into

the same whiteness

Also from Croatia, Stefanija Bezjak won the Haiku Grand Prize in honor ofhaiku mentor Kyoshi Takahama (1874-1959) for a similarly pithy starting line:

spring morning

mountain pastures reach

up to the skies

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(E) Croatian Haiku
Source: www.asahi.com/english/culture/K2002022200693.html

2002-02-22Asahi Shimbun www.asahi.com JAPANESE

ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK: DAVID MACMURRAY

The Ashiya International Haiku Festa winners included Darko Plazanin fromCroatia, to whom the Japanese Minister of Education, Science and Culture gavean Inspirational Award for his English haiku with a 3-syllable first line,intriguing contrasts and similarities:

each snowflake

flies in its own way into

the same whiteness

Also from Croatia, Stefanija Bezjak won the Haiku Grand Prize in honor ofhaiku mentor Kyoshi Takahama (1874-1959) for a similarly pithy starting line:

spring morning

mountain pastures reach

up to the skies

Distributed by www.CroatianWorld.net. This message is intended for Croatian Associations Institutions and their Friends in Croatia and in the World. The opinions/articles expressed on this list do not reflect personal opinions of the moderator. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please delete or destroy all copies of this communication and please, let us know!