Haiku by Stjepan Rozic in Croatia (4)

 

Yesterday I failed to post ‘Haiku by Stjepan Rozic in Croatia(4) ’, which invited good luck to me.

This morning I unexpectedly found such an exciting mail from his wife, Ms. Djurdja Vukelic Rozic , which was a nice surprise, as follows.

 

Dear Hidenori-san,

thank you for your kind message.  Yesterday we were in the town of Krapina, there we have annual haiku meeting to the memory of Croatian foremost haiku poet Dubravko Ivancan (1931-1982), who wrote such wonderful haiku during sixties and seventies of the XX century.  He was the best friend of late Vladimir Devide.  There we met many of our haiku pals, and two of them asked me to send their haiku to your contest.  They don’t seem to get acquainted with the computer.

Here is a photo of their annual haiku meeting.

 

 

 

This is the photo:  Gallery of the town of Krapina, Croatia:  Mrs. Sonja Borovcak, The former Prefect of Krapina-Zagorje county, Mr. Zeljko Kolar, the new Prefect , His Excellency, Mr.Masaru Tsuji and many others on the 15th Haiku Day Dubravko Ivancan in Krapina, Croatia.  It’s an annual haiku meeting of Croatian haiku poets with a contest for haiku in Croatian standard language and the Kajkavian Dialect.  This year, altogether for the third time, Stjepan Rozic has taken the first prize (this year for haiku in Kajkavian dialect) and Malvina Mileta for haiku in Croatian.  On the wall, the paintings are illustrations of the winning haiku.  The first prizes are given as a gift to the winners.  Second and third prize haigas become a part of a permanent exhibition in the Gallery of the town of Krapina.

And here is another photo.

 

 

 

This is the photo:  Stjepan giving an intervju in front of his haiga

And there is also the grammar school section, too.

 

 

Here are 12 haiku about spring in Stjepan Rozic’s collection ‘SONG OF NIGHTINGALE’.

 

 

leafless thicket

sparrows performing a spring play

to the sun

 

葉のない茂み

スズメたちが春の遊びを演じている

太陽に

 

 

amidst the green tree top

only the twigs in a nest

are not leafing

 

緑の樹冠の中

巣の中の小枝だけ

葉が出ていない

 

 

the wind from North-East

combing the South-West

hairdo of the birch

 

北東からの風

南西を掃きならす

カバノキのセット

 

 

on a bough

full of the thick catkins

thick sparrows

 

大きな枝の上

茂った花穂でいっぱい

いっぱいのスズメたち

 

 

funeral procession – cooing

on the morgue’s roof

the pigeon’s counting

 

葬式の行進 ― クークー鳴いている

遺体安置所の屋根の上

ハトが数えている

 

 

early spring

a bumblebee on the motorbike

driving round flowers

 

早春

モーターバイクの上のマルハナバチ

花のまわりをドライブ

 

 

a punctured cloud

the moon jumping

from hole to hole

 

穴のあいた雲

月が跳んでいる

穴から穴へ

 

 

gazing through a window pane

the countryside sails below the clouds

to meet the wind

 

窓枠からじっと見つめる

田舎が雲の下を航行する

風を出迎えるため

 

 

up to their neck

in water, the frogs croak

a wet love song

 

首まで

水中で、蛙たちが鳴く

濡れた恋歌

 

 

from the marsh

the frogs’ heads

and their love songs

 

沼地から

蛙の頭

そして恋歌

 

 

spring rain

a young mushroom an umbrella

for a wet frog

 

春の雨

若いマッシュルーム　雨傘

濡れた蛙のために

 

 

spring croaks

from the night’s abyss –

a pond full of frogs

 

春の鳴き声

夜の深淵から

蛙で一杯の池

 

 

The next posting ‘Haiku by Stjepan Rozic in Croatia(5) ’ appears on June 15.

 

― Hidenori Hiruta