World Haiku Series 2022 (106) Haiku by Samo Kreutz (Slovenia)

Haiku by Samo Kreutz

1.>

flirty girl

winking back at her

the morning sun

2.>

perfume bottle

well preserved in it

bird tunes

3.>

plantain syrup

calming his bad cough

a taste of rainbow

4.>

bullet train

rushing across the state

a barberry shrub scent

5.>

ripening grain …

how quickly we became

adults

(previously published on the Asahi Haikuist Network, September 2022)

6.>

fortune teller

ending her sentences

a shrieky magpie

7.>

late summer forest

I try not to disturb

falling leaves

(previously published in the Jalmurra: Art & Poetry Journal, September 2022)

8.>

the warmth

of my granny’s hands – 

a soil after the harvest

9.>

hailstorm …

in a retirement home

all the fragrances

10.>

clothesline

forgotten on it

a wet sparrow

(previously published in the Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, November 2022)

BIO SKETCH

Samo Kreutz (1975 -) lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Besides haiku (which he has been writing since 2011), he writes novels, short stories, and poetry. Up till now he has published ten books in Slovene (three of them were haiku books) and three in English (they are haiku collections, one is titled The Stars for Tonight, the second A Time Different from Ours, and the last No Bigger Than A Crumb, all still available at Amazon). His recent work has appeared on international websites (and journals) such as Wales Haiku Journal, Under the Basho, Tsuri-Dōrō: A Small Journal of Haiku and Senryu, The Heron’s Nest, Poetry Pea, Jalmurra: Art & Poetry Journal, Ink Sweat & Tears: The poetry and prose webzine, Haiku Commentary, Frameless Sky: Art Video Journal, Cold Moon Journal, Cattails: the journal of the United Haiku & Tanka Society, Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, Asahi Haikuist Network, Akitsu Quarterly, Akita International Haiku Network, and others.