Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 12, At the Sky Gates, July 2025

Translated into Romanian

lambing season

a flock of clouds

at loose ends

 

Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 11, Petulah, April 2025

Translated into Romanian

hanafubuki

the many words

for snow

Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 10: Luminaria, December 2024

Honoured to know that the editor, Steliana Voicu, nominated this poem for a 2024 Touchstone Award:

Translated into Romanian

the magic hour

tree ferns become

fountains of light

Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 9: Amber, August 2024

Honoured to be interviewed by the editor, Steliana Voicu, in this issue! Please access this interview via the "article/about" tab on this blog, or read it here:

https://enchanted-garden-haiku.blogspot.com/2024/08/enchanted-garden-supplement-interview.html

Also grateful to have the following work included in this issue:

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one-room school

grain dust sparking

in the sunlight

Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 8: Dreams Keeper, June 2024

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flying manta ray

a boy's obsession

with batman

Thrilled to receive the Editor's Choice Award for the following haiga!

Commentary by the editor, Steliana Voicu:

The butterflies seem to have been cut out of the greeting card and come to life, they are colorful and cheerful. I like the comparison between plants and children, what they will become when they grow up, because the flowers are like children: they need love and care to grow up big and healthy. The parallel is wonderful. In addition, I like that the second person is used, the author talks to the buds (and I used to talk to my flowers), this way the haiku gets an extra personality, a touch of the author's soul. What will you be when you grow up...

The ellipses mark kireji, the break, a pause of nature before budding, the bud before the flower. The pause in this haiku is similar to the moment when the skater taps the ice to soar in a jump that arouses her fans admiration, or the time it takes for the roots to make their way into the ground, only for the buds to overflow with vitality.

What flower or plant will that bud become? Maybe a flower whose beauty will be the center of the garden or maybe an ordinary vegetable...we'll let the author tell us more when the bud grows.

The butterflies are an additional piece of information, they appear on the picture, not in the haiku, but they are closely related to the haiku because they represent transformation...the bud becomes a flower, today's child is tomorrow's adult.

Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 7: Moments in the Garden, Anniversary Edition, April 2024

Translated into Romanian

rain chains

singing in our garden

calla lilies

open their pink mouths

to cup the hymn of spring

Eucalypt, Issue 24, May 2018

(note: tanka first published in Mariposa, Number 38, Spring/Summer 2018, and haiga first published in Daily Haiga, April 20, 2019)

Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 6: Urban Blossoms, February 2024

Translated into Romanian

yesterday's news

a vagrant's whiskers

dusted with pollen

 

Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 5: Secret Santa, December 2023

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Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 4: Sparkles, October 2023

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Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 3: Beyond, August 2023

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breaching orcas

we sail the long way

around

 

Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 2: Haikustyle, June 2023

Honoured to know that the editor, Steliana Voicu, nominated this poem for a 2023 Touchstone Award!

Translated into Romanian

taffeta sky

crows stitch the edges

together

Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 1: Traditions, April 2023

Honoured to know that the editor, Steliana Voicu, nominated this poem for a 2023 Touchstone Award!

Translated into Romanian

homecoming train

we leave the winter

behind