World Haiku Series 2021 (35) Haiku by Mihovila Čeperić-Biljan

a ripe grape bunch

to my lips offering

offering sweet moonlight

熟したブドウの房

私の唇に捧げる

甘い月明かりを捧げる

13th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest 2021.

(http://samidare.jp/basho/box/13th%20english%20haiku%20contest%20(results)pdf.pdf)

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in the moonlight

the first petals of the plum tree

reflecting silence

月明かりの下で

梅の木の最初の花びら

沈黙を反映する

The Asahi Haikuist Network, 3/19/2021.

(https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/14267890)

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distance learning

the garden covered

with writing

通信教育

庭が覆われる

書かれた物で

The Asahi Haikuist Network,

4/16/2021.

https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/14325869

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summer breeze

the lighthouse keeper’s pipe

on and off…

夏のそよ風

灯台守のパイプ

ついたり消えたり

Cattails Journal, April, 2021.

http://cattailsjournal.com/backissues/cattails211.pdf, april/2021.

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silence

fills up the gap

among clouds

The Haiku Foundation, Haiku Dialogue, August, 2021.

HAIKU DIALOGUE – Finding peace and contemplation… in the great outdoors… watching clouds

沈黙

ギャップを埋める

雲の間

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first primroses

courier brings hope

to our home

Anthology Säe Hoffnung aus/ Sewing Hope, Germany, 2021.

最初のサクラソウ

宅配便が希望をもたらす

我が家へ

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the fifth floor of the apartment

on a flower pillow

moon lizard

アパートの5階

花の枕の上

月のトカゲ

1st prize, Haiku circles, 2nd Haiku Contest by the Lanterna journal, Croatia, May 2021.

(https://lanterna-magazin.net/2021/07/05/rezultati-drugog-natjecaja-haiku-krugovi/)

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town balcony

the snail’s shell swells in the scent

of spice plants

タウンバルコニー

スパイス植物の香りで

カタツムリの殻が膨らむ

2nd prize, 8th Haiku Meeting in Gorski Kotar, Fužine, Croatia 2021.

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travelling …

two azures connected

with a pod of dolphins

旅行 …

2つのアズールが接続される

イルカの群れで

Honourable Mention, The Haiku Association “Three Rivers”, 8th “Gathering Croatian Haigins”, Croatia, 2021.

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a change of wind

the nightingale’s sequences

stream down my garden

風の変化

ナイチンゲールのシーケンスが

庭に流れ落ちる

Honourable Mention at the haiku competition of the City Library “Juraj Šižgorić” (Šibenik, Croatia), 2021.

(http://www.knjiznica-sibenik.hr/)

― Translated into Japanese by Hidenori Hiruta

Photo Haiga

1.

Honourable Mention,

The 10th Matsuyama International Photo-Haiku Contest,Japan, 2021.

(https://matsuyamahaiku.jp/contest/result2020_10th/eng_free.php)

2.

3rd prize for photo haiga, 5th Haiku by Mogila Competition, Oroslavje, Croatia, 2021.

3.

DailyHaiga, online journal, Canada, 2021.

https://www.dailyhaiga.org/haiga-archives/?q=Mihovila+biljan

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Cattails Journal, April, 2021.

http://cattailsjournal.com/backissues/cattails211.pdf, april/2021.

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BLACK & WHITE HAIGA/HAISHA- international blog, Romania

,https://ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/?m=1

5.

https://ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/2021/05/mihovila-ceperic-biljan.html?m=1

6.

https://ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/2021/02/mihovila-ceperic.html

Bio:

Mihovila Čeperić-Biljan

(born Mihovila Čeperić, April 17, 1968, Senj, Croatia,

Croatian haiku poet. She received a degree in Croatian language and literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka and is employed as a teacher at the Vežica Grammar School, Rijeka. She founded the Vežica Gathering of Haiku Poets, a haiku and haiga contest for schoolchildren, and edits its annual miscellany. Her pupils have won contests for haiku and haiga in Croatia and Japan. Čeperić-Biljan is a member of the editorial staff of Iris magazine. An award-winning author, she publishes poetry in her hometown Chakavian dialect as well as spiritual poems in standard Croatian. She lives in Rijeka.

Mihovila Čeperić-Biljan

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Curiosity:

Japanese garden- Primary School Vezica, Rijeka, Croatia

Video:

Haiku meetings Vežica have been held continuously since 2016 and are intended for primary school students in Croatia and our students abroad.