This
is the first book published by The Association of Croatian
Haiku Poets in their new series of volumes of haiku.
Each
page of this well manufactured book has a haiku in Croatian,
followed by the English translation. A sampling of the contents:
The
village church.
A single candle lights up
the brows of saints. |
On
the islet,
the old bell-ringer rings
to himself . . . |
Father
presses olives.
We dip our bread
in the first oil. |
Of
the five titled sections, the last one, A Miners Lamp,
has many insightful and empathetic poems. A sampling:
Approaching
the pit,
the miners serious face becomes
more serious still. |
The
miner sits
wrapped up in his
exhaustion. |
A
miners graveyard.
One more grave with a plaque
EXHUMATION FORBIDDEN. |
A
small happiness:
down this gallery flows
richer air.
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