Haiku by Dragan J. Ristić
blessed
these May rain pours –
hymns to the earth
rainy morning –
basket full with juicy
strawberries with earth
grave of parents –
eternal peace in the earth
with the neighbors
time of satellites –
I’m still dreaming of
better life on the earth
only the dust
I brought on my hands
from the antique shop
the last sun ray
grazed the cliff –
the shriek of a falcon
calligraphy
on the first morning snow –
dogs playing
from the top of the rock
my thoughts are with a falcon –
the flight over the secretes
the closest to God –
sticking out from the hilltop
the village graveyard
the first love break –
on the shoes today
the earth again
Bio:
Dragan J. Ristić (1948, Niš, Serbia), German teacher (retired), literary translator from German (Brecht, Canetti, Fried…) and into German (some haiku books by Serbian authors), Serbian writer (five books of short stories, a book of poetry), satirist (three books of aphorisms), anthologian (the most important “anthology of the shortest German short stories”), haiku poet (one tanka book and eleven haiku books), editor-in-chief of the haiku magazine “Haiku novine” (“Haiku Newspaper”)
Akita International Haiku Network 