2/13/2012

Claudia Melchior: Haiku, Photos, Music


a cyclist carries
The Girl from Ipanema
through the town

The Mainichi Daily News 03.09.2010 and „Annual Selection 2010“



All Hallows' Eve--
grandpa puts his teeth
into a glass 
 



marked for felling...
in the treetop
a bird's nest



Claudia Melchior was born 1966 in Freiburg where she still lives and writes. She is a member of the German Haiku Society since 2006. Publications of haiku and haiga in anthologies, in the Saijiki of Hamburger Haiku Verlag, Haiku heute, Sommergras, World Haiku Review, Chrysanthemum, The Mainichi Daily News, Asahi Shimbun, Haikuscope, Lynx, Dulzinea, WHA Haiga Contest. Also musical versions of texts.


member's site at German Haiku Society

1/30/2012

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




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

1/16/2012

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/

12/28/2011

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.  



12/12/2011

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?