tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72104063403601305112011-04-21T13:39:09.844-07:00WORLD HAIKU FESTIVAL IN ROMANIA 2005 (WHR)<center><strong>SECOND REPORT OF THIS EXCEPTIONALLY SUCCESSFUL EVENT</strong></center>ATHENAEUMnoreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7210406340360130511.post-36725600334971719352007-01-10T10:15:00.000-08:002007-01-16T17:49:51.725-08:00INTRODUCTION by SUSUMU TAKIGUCHIWHF2005 IN ROMANIA: INTRODUCTION(reproduced from the last issue of WHR)The World Haiku Festival 2005 in Romania (WHF2005), the seventh of its kind that the World Haiku Club organised since the year 2000, was a resounding success.It was a long, seven-day event from 14 to 20 June 2005, roughly divided into two parts. Part One was a three-day world haiku conference, which took place in a beautiful ATHENAEUMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7210406340360130511.post-20080723625533180122007-01-10T10:02:00.000-08:002007-01-10T10:10:00.621-08:00PAPER BY BRUCE ROSS, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE AND IN BALANCE: URBAN AND NATURE HAIKU by Bruce Ross How can I construct my humble hut right here in the midst of Oxford Circus? How can I do that in the confusion of cars and buses? How can I listen to the ATHENAEUMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7210406340360130511.post-76788166281815841072007-01-10T09:52:00.000-08:002007-01-10T10:09:47.774-08:00HAIKU FROM THE JAPANESE CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION CENTREchosen by Sonia Coman * * * asfintit rosu—butoaiele cu vinacoperite de frunze red sunset—the wine caskscovered by leaves Murgulet Adrian sat indepartat—talpile copilului pe poteca fierbinte remote village— the child’s soles on the hot path rasarit de luna— fereastra apartamentului meupare straina moonrise—my apartment window seems somebody else’s Sanda Ion furtuna de nisip— urme vechi si noi laolalta sand storm— old ATHENAEUMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7210406340360130511.post-24011762293617137102007-01-10T09:38:00.000-08:002007-01-10T10:09:33.486-08:00TRAVELOGUE BY SUSUMU TAKIGUCHI~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Up and Down the Blue Danube and the Black Sea BY SUSUMU TAKIGUCHI Episode One: A Short Flight Across Europe The word Europe is popularly held to have meant “the land of the setting sun”. However, more prosaically it also meant “broad”, namely a region narrow from north to south, wide from east to west. Little wonder, then, that ATHENAEUMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7210406340360130511.post-85614473546114682532007-01-10T09:32:00.000-08:002007-01-10T10:09:17.604-08:00HAIKU SELECTION FROM THE DANUBE GINKOSELECTED BY SUSUMU TAKIGUCHIGINKO HAIKU * * * reflected on the waterwild willow trees…dragonflies flatter downs of willowfalling intoevening calmness Hideo Ebihara, Japan * fune yore ba uki-ha ni shiroki hana sakeri getting closer by boat,to the floating leavesa little white flower takumashiki donau yanagi no kuroki miki how robustthe black trunkof the DUNAREA willow Shinya Ogata, Japan * scattering clouds –into ATHENAEUMnoreply@blogger.com