World Haiku Series 2022 (90) Haiku by Nina Kovačić (Croatia)

Haiku by Nina Kovačić

Drava river mud

a song in minor accompanies

falling of leaves

(IRIS Haiku Magazine Year 11^th, No. 16, Ivanić-Grad, Croatia, 2022)

a hilltop cemetery

rusted crosses grow

from the tall grass

(IRIS Haiku Magazine Year 11^th, No. 16, Ivanić-Grad, Croatia, 2022)

front-page news…

wind spreads war anxiety

over the beach

(4^th Contest organized by the “Juraj Šižgorić” library for best unpublished haiku, Šibenik, Croatia, 2022)

the unclouded sky

grenades digging a field

of dandelions

(The Kyoto Haiku Project 2022, Haiku of the world: Writing on the “Peace” / 「平和」を詠む)

echoes of a train

in a deserted village

the new ant hill

(IRIS Haiku Magazine Year 11^th, No. 16, Ivanić-Grad, Croatia, 2022)

dance of dervish / dancing dervish / dervish dance –

the wind whirls a dust

on a county road

(Previously unpublished)

wind from the south seas…

above the sodden furrows

It’s petals bloom only in the bright sunlight and remain hidden at night.

(Previously unpublished)

a bare orchard

the smell of warming earth

announces the budding

(Previously unpublished)

young leaves scent…

in the soft woodland trek

signature of paws

(Previously unpublished)

a burnt mountain edge / slope…

the new growth shoots forth

from the thin soil

(Previously unpublished)

－Translated into English by Đurđa Vukelić Rožić

My short bio:

Nina Kovačić (née Ružička) was born in Pula and lives in Zagreb, Croatia. She writes poetry and haiku and has released four books of haiku: “A Spring Tea” (2016), “The Murmur of Waves” (2022), “The Sunlit Stained Glass” (2022) and co-authored, with Goran Gatalica, “Beyond the Boundaries of Language” (Portugal, 2022). She is a member of the Croatian Cultural Association and serves on the Editorial Board of IRIS Haiku Journal. She has won multiple badminton championships for seniors in Croatia and the Balkan Region.

– my photo

– photos of my favorite & inspiring things (A turtle is a symbol of wisdom and knowledge. A gazania flower is a symbol of good fortune; its petals bloom only in the bright sunlight and remain hidden at night.)