Klemens Antusch: Haiku - Hobby and Challenge

Penalty shootout
photographers with
one focused eye

Wine tasting
homeward bent
a wobbly moon

Long-term service
the rain
against the night

Asahi Haikuist Network

Klemens Antusch - born at Johannesburg (South Africa) in 1955, resident outside Regensburg and Perth, haiku - hobby and challenge.

Silvia Kempen: Writer and Editor

growing moon -
his forefinger touches
the dark line

Haikuscope: Kurzgedicht der Woche 8. KW 2011



Flying seagull --
a boy
pulling the line

Asahi, Feb. 5, 2010



her raven-black hair
whitened with cherry petals
on her way to church

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival 2011

Silvia Kempen, *1958, lives in Apen, Lower Saxony. Board Member of the German Haiku Society and the editorial board of SOMMERGRAS. Writing haiku since 2005.

http://www.lyrikbaum.de/
http://deutschehaikugesellschaft.de/mitgliederseiten/alle-seiten/silvia-kempen/

Cezar F. Ciobîcă: Teacher and Author

thunders - 
dandelion fluff rises 
without a god

Second Place, 2011 Pen Haiku Contest  


kukai in orchard - 
a cherry petal 
settles as kireji

Honorable Mention, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, 2011  


back at 
the pawn shop - 
the moon in the window
 
Excellent Award, Fourth National Haiku Contest, Bulgaria, 2011

Cezar F. Ciobîcă, born in 1971, in Romania, lives and works in Botoșani as teacher and author. He began writing haiku in 2008 and his poems have appeared on several websites (Haiku Heute, Chrysanthemum, Sketchbook, Mainichi Daily News, Tinywords, Asahi Haikuist Network). His awards are posted on Oglindiri.  

http://catanasiu.blogspot.com

Gabriele Hartmann: Lives, Paints, Writes

full moon
a guest
I didn't invite

children's voices
shadows of magnolias and blackbirds
the same black

twilight
he arranges figures
and waits

"Chrysanthemum, 6 October 2009, feature"

Gabriele Hartmann: born in 1956, lives, paints und writes in a small village between Köln and Frankfurt. Courious?

www.gabriele-reinhard.de

Udo Wenzel: Writer and Editor

sea-gulls

carry the moonlight

across backwater

21st ITO EN 'Oi Ocha'

New haiku contest 2010 Merit Award

Hiroshima day -

the sound of the bell

over the town

Bashô's Anniversary Web Haiku Contest Award

Mie Times 2004

child soldier

peering at the sky

in his barrel

40th A-Bomb Memorial Day Haiku-Meeting

2006, Commended by Steve Wolfe

Udo Wenzel, born in 1957 in Southern Germany. Training as a bookseller, studies of sociology, diverse odd jobs. Works in the Information Technology since 1991. Lives in Hamburg since 1983. Occasionally he had been writing poems and short stories for about 30 years, got involved with haiku-poetry in 2002. Publications of haiku, essays about haiku-theory and -history, interviews, and translations in anthologies and haiku-magazines (national and international). Member of the German Haiku Society. Editor of TAUBENSCHLAG (dovecote), the litblog for short lyrics and short prose. Editor of the website HAIKU-STEG (haiku-jetty). Published his book "Taubenschlag" with short poems and short poetry in 2010 (Wiesenburg Verlag, Schweinfurt).