Competitions for the Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award were held annually from 2010 through 2018 sponsored by the International Academic Forum (IAFOR) based in Nagoya, Japan. The contest was the inspiration of Dr. Drago Štambuk, former Croatian ambassador in Tokyo, and was named in honor of the distinguished mathematician, Japanologist, and haiku specialist Vladimir Devidé.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 8th IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, 2018
- 7th IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, 2017
- 6th IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, 2016
- 5th Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, 2015
- 4th Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, 2014
- 3rd Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, 2013
- 2nd Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, 2012
- 1st Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, 2011
- Sources / Further Reading
- Notes
Introduction
The annual Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award was founded in 2010 at the recommendation of Dr. Drago Štambuk, former Croatian ambassador in Tokyo, and with the sponsorship of Dr. Joseph Haldane, chairman of the International Academic Forum (IAFOR).1 The annual competition was named in honor of eminent Croatian mathematician and haiku pioneer Vladimir Devidé (1925–2010). Beginning in 2016, the award added the acronym “IAFOR” to its title.
The competition was open to all poets worldwide. Submissions of previously unpublished haiku written in English in either traditional or modern style were accepted.
The contest was immediately popular and truly international in scope. Participation grew from 166 entries from 29 countries in 2012 to more than 700 from 71 countries in 2018. Drago Štambuk was chief judge for all contests. Typically the awards included one Grand Prize, 8 to 12 Runners-up, and 10 to 23 Commended haiku. On occasion a guest judge joined the panel and made an independent selection of haiku on a specific topic. There were no fees to enter the contest and no cash prizes were awarded. The table below presents the names and residences of the poets and the texts of their prizewinning haiku.
Awards ceremonies were included among the activities of the IAFOR Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship, usually held in Osaka or Kobe, Japan, and enjoyed additional support of the Haiku International Association (HIA), Haiku UNESCO Promotion Council, and The Haiku Foundation.
The IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award went on hiatus after the winners of the 2018 competition were announced.
8th IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, 2018
| Judge | Drago Štambuk | |
| Number of entries | More than 700 from 71 countries | |
| Announcement of winners | March 30, 2018, by Professor Myles Chilton at The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities, Kobe, Japan | |
| Grand Prize | Rosa Clement, Brazil | writing a haiku a sudden wind slams the door |
| Runner Up (12) | Nataša Ilić, Croatia | time is paused neither dead nor alive a frozen embryo |
| Mark E. Brager, U.S.A. | tsunami somewhere a butterfly | |
| Stephanie Visaya Bose, U.S.A. | father’s day my father hugging my son | |
| Pamela A. Babusci, U.S.A. | leap year a frog jumps into march | |
| Bojan Babić, Serbia | wars they have the plural peace is one | |
| Neal Whitman, U.S.A. | autumn moon my old dog is blind yet still howls | |
| Pamela Cooper, Canada | poaching ban— the ivory buddha smiling | |
| William Keckler, U.S.A. | winter— my hair grows faster than the grass | |
| Cezar Florescu, Romania | ceasefire agreement a turtle with broken shield spreads fully its neck | |
| Peter Newton, U.S.A. | arms race two men flexing | |
| Nikola Šimić Tonin, Croatia | eclipse the moon has bitten its bigger brother | |
| Joanne Morcom, Canada | a month behind … nursing home calendar droops on the wall | |
| Commended (20) | Mojgan Soghrati, Iran | she cleans the dusty windows first blossom |
| Aljoša Vuković, Croatia | in a missile crater the wind leafs through the new testament | |
| Roger Watson, U.K. | silent shredder graveyard of all my thoughts | |
| Daniel Gahnertz, Sweden | my son’s smile— the cat yawns. | |
| Slavica Grgurić Pajnić, Croatia | restless morning a fear of the roe deer on the clearing | |
| Harrisham Minhas, U.S.A. | housewarming dinner— the smell of wood varnish | |
| Peg Duthie, U.S.A. | short vase long stems scissors still closed | |
| Caitlin Diana Doyle, U.S.A. | i’ve lost my heart in too many elevators; now i take the stairs | |
| Raluca Ana Prahoveanu, Romania | hospital bed a child teaches his toy to pray | |
| Lyudmila Hristova, Bulgaria | autumn light equally shining apple and knife | |
| Sherzad Shafi’ Babo, Iraq | after daddy’s death i found my book in his room “freedom from the known.” | |
| Beth A. Skala, Canada | another friend on chemo mending my black dress | |
| Jacquie Pearce, Canada | between gunshots the beat of her heart in the school closet | |
| Agnes Eva Savich, U.S.A. | my child’s footprint evaporates at once deep summer | |
| Silva Trstenjak, Croatia | at the zoo— a lion chasing a fly out of the cage | |
| Seren Fargo, U.S.A. | childless— i carve the stone into a shape | |
| Detelina Tiholova, Bulgaria | northern raven i seek the darkest shade in the ink | |
| Leonardo Lazzari, Italy | convalescence — tired ivy branches look for a wall | |
| Saradha Santosh, India | in a coffin box laying and raising carpenter’s shadow . . |
7th IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, 2017
| Judge | Drago Štambuk | |
| Number of entries | More than 800 from 64 countries | |
| Announcement of winners | March 31, 2017, by Professor Myles Chilton at the Asian Conference on Literature 2017 in Kobe, Japan | |
| Grand Prize | Manos Kounougakis, Greece | among the debris the cell phone screen lights up |
| Runners Up (12) | Smiljka Bilankov, Croatia | sitting together we look at each other’s eyes and don’t see ourselves |
| Catriona Bridget Shine, Norway | together again side by side deep under the soil | |
| Jacob Salzer, U.S.A. | sinking into the moonlit field bashō’s shadow | |
| Patricia Pella, U.S.A. | seismic shift my mother forgets my name | |
| Justice Joseph Prah, Ghana | after whirlwind falling leaves bury fallen leaves | |
| Christiane Ranieri, France | returning after cremation the dog brings me your slipper | |
| Stjepan Rožić, Croatia | end of third shift baker brings hot bread and buns to his children | |
| Minh-Triêt Pham, France | hospital garden— a bald little girl playing princess | |
| Ojo Taiye, Nigeria | your kiss on my blessed rod— the sacred elixir of lust | |
| Pravat Kumar Padhy, India | tiny pebbles the softness of her talk | |
| Mohammad Azim Khan, Pakistan | moonlit night the sound of nurturing from a foxhole | |
| Dubravka Borić, Croatia | window by the sea … as the rain ceased an island almost within my reach | |
| Commended (18) | Suraja Roychowdhury, USA | our baby between us a new distance |
| Christine L. Villa, USA | dead of winter my puppy climbs up to kiss my tears | |
| Amir Hassanvandi, Iran | the morning fog, knocking not on the door woke me up | |
| Alexis Rotella, USA | d.c. riots i hitch a ride home with a racist | |
| Ružica Vasilić Marusić, Croatia | on the blue sky a flock of birds printed black letter v. | |
| Frieda Gheysens, Belgium | her weekly phone call another deceased friend my aging mother | |
| Gennady Novoseltcev, Russia | night moon in my breast pocket haiku diary | |
| Bruce Ross, USA | an old manuscript a strand of my wife’s hair still black | |
| Aljoša Vuković, Croatia | looking at fuji volcano tattoo burning on my shoulder | |
| Tracy Davidson, UK | my daughter’s journal that last entry stained with tears | |
| Kirill Giraudon, France | first of january still in the car last year’s fly | |
| Nicholas Klacsanzky, Ukraine | sparse snowflakes the loneliness of galaxies | |
| Ingrid Jendrzejewski, U.K. | yellow sunrise— the first egg cracked after miscarriage | |
| Janak Sapkota, Nepal | stillness of fresh snow over the scar of chopped trees | |
| Andy McLellan, U.K. | sudden snowstorm— we find a sheltered doorway to kiss in | |
| Ðurđa Vukelić Rožić, Croatia | in the room for two strangers ending their stories— the hospice beds | |
| Brigitte Delandsheere, Belgium | christmas in town madman embracing a willow so much love to give … | |
| Mary Gilonne, France | red coat hanging pockets still plump with grandma’s hands | |
| Guest Judge Susan Burch choices on the theme: “History, Story, Narrative” | ||
| First Choice | John Hawk, U.S.A. | stars … still amazed i found her |
| Second Choice | Marion Clarke, U.K. | belfast campus blast i sift through the remains of my neutrality |
| Third Choice | Beth Skala, Canada | pointing at sputnik my father’s hand squeezes mine |
| Fourth Choice | Patricia Daharsh, U.S.A. | in katrina’s wake the enduring sweetness of magnolias |
| Fifth Choice | Maria Duran, Lisbon, Portugal | my very soft prayer-name learning to float down the river |
6th IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, 2016
Judge | Drago Štambuk | |
| Number of entries | 680 from 60 countries | |
| Announcement of winners | April 8, 2016, by Dr. A. Robert Lee at The Asian Conference on Literature, Librarianship & Archival Science 2016 in Kobe, Japan | |
| Grand Prize | Suraja Roychowdhury, U.S.A. | sunny afternoon a shadow on the mammogram |
| Runners Up (10) | Davor Marinković, Serbia | instead of moonlight the bank commercial at my window |
| Sandip Chauhan, U.S.A. | flowing river … the spot where I poured his ashes | |
| Harvey Jenkins, Canada | a morning’s labor knead bread is awake under tea towel | |
| Zlatka Timenova, Portugal | old house a baby’s shoe in the corner | |
| Saw Kee Wah, Malaysia | full moon— foreign worker in streetlight reading a letter | |
| Ivanov, Belgium | fresh grave a thief took three roses for a wedding | |
| Rosa Clement, Brazil | spring afternoon my hammock fills with me | |
| Juha Nikki, Finland | snowflakes drift down some melt on a hare’s nose others survive | |
| Helen May Williams, U.K. | every step we take we lurch against gravity— walking miracles | |
| Nataša Ilić, Croatia | printed paper thrown into the fire black characters are gleaming | |
| Commended (22) | Vitali Khomin, Ukraine | two snails rightly divide the grape leaf |
| Lynn Tara Austin, New Zealand | hum of bees— the om | |
| Gregory Lance Skala, Canada | dishes left too many days geckos in my sink | |
| Dubravko Korbus, Croatia | ripe summer a small waterfall spins a single yellow leaf | |
| Nina Kovačić, Croatia | on a cold doorknob I feel loneliness behind the walls | |
| Vladimir Šuk, Croatia | start of spring … the sky cracked on the pond ice | |
| Maya Lyubenova, Bulgaria | new moon … I don’t recognize my shadow after the first chemo | |
| Pham Minh-Triêt, France | black-and-white photo— my father younger than I | |
| Diana Teneva, Bulgaria | I read carefully the moles on your skin— Braille letters | |
| Ajaya Mahala, India | planned city— roads run straight to the hospital and to the graveyard | |
| Azi Kuder, Poland | night at the morgue a fourth isn’t here to play bridge | |
| Jasminka Predojević, Croatia | summer has ceased … twig of a weeping willow catching a straw | |
| Lysa Collins, Canada | winter night fleece lined slippers still hold his shape | |
| Joëlle Ginoux-Duvivier, France | time of visit— the old lady in her armchair waits for nobody | |
| Aparna Pathak, India | morning raga a loud yawn before it ends | |
| Gérard Krebs, Finland | library silence— her bite into a Granny Smith | |
| Ramesh Anand, India | stargazing … first knock in my moonlit womb | |
| Mohammad Azim Khan, Pakistan | poetic justice … the antelope jumps over the moon | |
| John Tiong Chung Hoo, Malaysia | all souls day after the mom’s hard work a sparkling clean grave | |
| Ruth Powell, Canada | laundromat her red socks dancing in the suds | |
| Željko Funda, Croatia | a holy service in front of the tv set a woman praying | |
| Ljubomir Radovančević, Croatia | new year’s eve the attic mice nibbling on my resolutions | |
| Guest Judge Alan Summers choices on the theme “Justice” | ||
| First Choice | Suraja Roychowdhury, U.S.A. | sunny afternoon a shadow on the mammogram |
| Second Choice | Skaidrite Stelzer, U.S.A. | first snow the red hat of a refugee |
| Third Choice | Lamart Cooper, U.S.A. | after therapy the same war |
| Fourth Choice | Earl R. Keener, U.S.A. | hallowed ground so many ringtones among the stones |
| Fifth Choice | Barbara A. Taylor, Australia | war-torn city all the coffin makers working overtime |
5th Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, 2015
Judge | Drago Štambuk | |
| Number of entries | 400 from 54 countries | |
| Announcement of winners | April, 2015, by Dr. A. Robert Lee at the Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship 2015, Osaka, Japan | |
| Grand Prize | Boris Nazansky, Croatia | pregnancy shape of the dark side of the crescent moon |
| Runner Up (9) | Rosa Clement, Brazil | spring sky a seagull enters our selfie |
| Anthony Kudryavitsky, Ireland | evening lull a seaside cave exhaling butterflies | |
| Chen-ou Liu, Canada | first glimpse of her mastectomy bra winter rose | |
| Dubravko Korbus, Croatia | silence … leaves are falling all by themselves | |
| Alan Summers, U.K. | the snow-spinning wind I dream of only big trees in my prison yard | |
| Vasile Moldovan, Romania | after the sunset a white chrysanthemum light quite alone | |
| Milan Dragović, Serbia | summer night … a worm bites through the silence in a fallen acorn | |
| Jim Kacian, U.S.A. | the shadow of the fish hides in the shadow of a leaf | |
| Nikola Ðuretić, Croatia | shining in a drop of dew all His love | |
| Commended (23) | Eduard Țară, Romania | rustling pages— in the library the echo of the past forests |
| Timothy Russell, U.S.A. | spring breeze how the broken willow still yearns | |
| Vanessa Proctor, Australia | news of war the red welt of a tick bite slowly spreads | |
| Dušan Mijajlović Adski, Serbia | a shirt hung on the birch tree branch — a man in the shadow | |
| Yukiko Yamada, Japan | old temple reflected on its floor red maple leaves | |
| Susan Burch, U.S.A. | how his breath catches when I undress — double mastectomy | |
| Emmanuel Kalusian, Nigeria | the homeless man tides up his new residence approaching storm | |
| Detelina Tiholova, Bulgaria | roadside poppies the prostitute is knitting a crown | |
| Sergio Francisco Pichorim, Brazil | All Souls’ Day In an empty grave bugs’ home. | |
| Fareed Ben-Youssef, U.S.A. | atrophied right hand poetry loves frailty so write with what’s left | |
| Darrell Lindsey, U.S.A. | evening visitor— a leaf steps inside on a gummed shoe | |
| Štefanija Ludvig, Croatia | picture on the wall man’s eyes look at me unblinking | |
| Julie Warther, U.S.A. | between there and here the essence of a snowflake | |
| Iulian Ciupitu, Romania | so many shooting stars — and yet the sky remains in its place | |
| Scott Mason, U.S.A. | old beachcomber one eye on the horizon | |
| Raad Kareem Abd-Aun, Iraq | Uranium doses. How can a flower endure all that radiation? | |
| Daniel Gahnertz, Italy | Out of the freezer into the earth — my dead cat. | |
| Jeanne Jorgensen, Canada | Elderly nun absently picks a flower … he loves me not | |
| Svetomir Ðurbabić, Serbia | The most difficult of all that I experienced: silence of God. | |
| Vitali Khomin, Ukraine | aerospace museum the ascending moon looks in lunar rover’s hall | |
| Seren Fargo, U.S.A. | summer’s end the taste of lettuce gone to seed | |
| Jacek Margolak, Poland | braid the smell of her hair lingers on my palms | |
| Christine L. Villa, U.S.A. | shifting tides she now sings her mother’s lullaby |
4th Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, 2014
Selector | Drago Štambuk | |
| Number of entries | 290 from 39 countries | |
| Announcement of winners | by Lars Vargö, Ambassador of Sweden to Japan, as part of the Plenary Session of The Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship 2014 in Osaka, Japan | |
| Grand Prize | Anthony Kudryavitsky, Ireland | Fathers’ Day— children measure old oaks by the length of their arms |
| Runner Up (9) | Susan Burch, U.S.A. | where do I go from here— abortion clinic |
| Tomislav Maretić, Croatia | morning serenity— the day moon on the wire with the swallows | |
| Lavana Kray, Romania | butterflies wedding across a melilot plot— the monk stops scything | |
| Emiko Miyashita, Japan | Sharing a plate of gyoza and a bowl of ramen spring in neighbourhood | |
| Margaret Beverland, New Zealand | Queen Anne’s lace— a bee works each tiny flower | |
| Carole MacRury, U.S.A. | purple crocus … pushing up through last year’s leaf | |
| Vanessa Proctor, Australia | spring planting deep within an old pot cicada nymph | |
| Jim Kacian, U.S.A. | dusk on the pond— a cloud slow enough to be the moon | |
| Eduard Țară, Romania | Melting stream — the old melody escapes from the silence | |
| Commended (14) | Vasile Moldovan, Romania | Only two readers in the big library: me and the moth |
| Adrian Pickett, U.K. | Truth is a dream come true. | |
| Branka Vojinović-Jegdić, Montenegro | lunch on the grass straw replaces a toothpick | |
| Seren Fargo, U.S.A. | not a single fish biting a long shadow of a damselfly | |
| Raj K. Bose, India | drought! furrowed face of the farmer | |
| Yukiko Yamada, Japan | from a lattice door to the Buddha’s cheek autumn sunset | |
| Darrell Lindsey, U.S.A. | small spring garden— shredded love letters become mulch | |
| Jack Pemberton, U.K. | Spider shares my room: Spinning webs, living in dark— We live the same life. | |
| Gracy Dsouza, Kuwait | in her eyes tonight— that look of many years | |
| Daniel Gahnertz, Sweden | New Year’s kiss— a dog howls with shut eyes | |
| Krzysztof Kokot, Poland | the falling feather in the thicket of branches sound of battle | |
| Vessislava Savova, Bulgaria | chrysanthemums the most beautiful flowers in the coffin | |
| Kash Poet, India | winter night— in between our quarrelling baby’s first words | |
| Marios Schismenos, Greece | hold my hand today tomorrow I will hold yours yesterday is gone |
3rd Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, 2013
Selector | Drago Štambuk | |
| Number of entries | 171 from 30 countries | |
| Announcement of winners | April 6, 2013 by Professor Mark Williams of Akita International University, Japan, at LibrAsia 2013 | |
| Grand Prize | Krzysztof Kokot, Poland | knock on the door — from this and other side question marks |
| Runner Up (9) | Borivoj Sekulić, Serbia | cold bed … trying to embrace my own self |
| Lavana Kray, Romania | a butterfly on my doorknob — I wait in the rain | |
| Owen Bullock, New Zealand | a little boy looking back and back at the man in the wheelchair | |
| Vanessa Proctor, Australia | early frost … the carpenter’s hands encircle a mug of coffee | |
| Ljubomir Dragović, Bosnia and Herzegovina | autumn dusk … an old man listens to earth’s breathing with his stick | |
| Anna Jacobson, Australia | ‘small scar breaks the pattern of my thumbprint’ | |
| Silva Trstenjak, Croatia | slippery frost my friend safe by my wheelchair | |
| Willy Cuvelier, Belgium | The sun painted a white undershirt on my red skin. | |
| Commended (13) | Steve Wilkinson, U.K. | Giant redwood a speck on the hillside |
| Niiko, U.K. | old vendor— bayonets and medals eaten by rust | |
| Seren Fargo, U.S.A. | my reflection the pond more covered in leaves than not | |
| Maria Kowal-Tomczak, Poland | funeral procession the snow slowly covering the way back | |
| Brian Robertson, Canada | clearing out Mom’s house her wrinkled face appears in a cutting board | |
| Ed Bremson, U.S.A. | they haven’t changed in all these years—shadows of winter trees | |
| Susan Getty, U.S.A. | mangoes dripping from the tree. i am dripping with memories, longing. | |
Štefanija Ludvig, Croatia | by a sugar cube united ants feast sweet harmony | |
| Szilvia Auth, Hungary | autumn chill—grandma’s old shawl—I wrap my shoulders closing my eyes | |
| Dejan Pavlinović, Croatia | unzipping the world in two a ship’s wake | |
| Steven Grieco, Italy | No longer a heart, a butterfly in my chest— Spring, Autumn, both gone | |
| Eduard Țară, Romania | So many ways to say goodbye— dandelion fluff | |
| Željko Funda, Croatia | peace on both sides of cobweb |
2nd Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, 2012
Selector | Drago Štambuk | |
| Number of entries | 208 from 28 countries (7 of unknown origin) | |
| Announcement of winners | ||
| Grand Prize (shared) | Anthony Kudryavitsky, Ireland | on the steps of the Freedom Memorial, a discarded snake skin |
| Tomislav Maretić, Croatia | The rocking chair— a young pregnant woman swings her big belly | |
| Runner Up (9) | William T. Sheehan IV, U.S.A. | On top of the cliff couple prepares to take leap— ocean front wedding |
| Margaret Beverland, New Zealand | from shadow to shadow a ferret | |
| Susan Daily, U.S.A. | Twilight loosened flesh longs for the earth … | |
| Timothy Russell, U.S.A. | evening snow … two figures coming up the hill | |
| Andrea Popov Miletić, Serbia | Ninety-nine friends drinkin’ coffee all alone nobody’s on-line. | |
| Earl R. Keener, U.S.A. | autumn sunset— a field mouse nibbles at my shadow’s heart | |
| Iulian Ciupitu, Romania | Wrought iron flowers— only the time is visiting my mothers grave | |
| Darko Popovski, Skopje, Macedonia | A bus full of men is heading to the new factory. The driver looks tired | |
| Daniel Gahnertz, Sweden | barflies like fireflies but full of lies | |
| Commended (10) | Nada Jačmenica, Croatia | karst terrain a road through vastness— bleating only … |
| Dragan J. Ristić, Serbia | contention seed doesn’t sprout just everywhere— Buddha’s smile | |
| Saša Važić, Serbia | late at night tapping at my window— the same lonely sparrow | |
| John Tiong Chunghoo, Malaysia | sea death a bouquet of roses washed ashore | |
| Constantin Stroe, Romania | Solitude— only the wild flowers fragrances cross the house threshold | |
| John Parsons, U.K. | first frost her lipstick smudges bone china | |
| Malte Blegvad, Denmark | a beggar sleeps tin cup full of cat urine— spring dawns just so | |
Đurđa Vukelić Rožić, Croatia | frozen puddle— a stray dog licking his tongue | |
| Boris Nazansky, Croatia | all night long pointing to the stars hatless scarecrow | |
| Marija Pogorilić, Croatia | a homeless man on the midnight mass— warmth of a home | |
1st Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, 2011
Selector | Drago Štambuk | |
| Number of entries | 166 from 29 countries | |
| Announcement of winners | May 28, 2011, by Drago Štambuk at the Inaugural Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship 2011; LibrAsia conference, Osaka, Japan | |
| Grand Prize | Jim Kacian, U.S.A. | late autumn sun the field too small to hold my shadow |
| Runner Up (8) | Ernesto P. Santiago, Greece | spring bud the mother’s womb soon to open |
| Nada Jačmenica, Croatia | a ray of sunshine on its way to darkness— mole’s fur | |
| Timothy Russell, U.S.A. | autumn twilight— a bit of stone flakes off & becomes a moth | |
| Jesse Willett, U.S.A. | A distant meadow Hallowed ground of the vanquished Vultures fill their crops | |
| Tomislav Maretić, Croatia | hot tea-pot on the garden table— camelias in haze | |
| Willy Cuvelier, Belgium | flowering cherry in my orchard of one tree my Yoshino | |
| Jack Galmitz, U.S.A. | The Day of the Dead is celebrated every day— Ciudad Juarez | |
| Daniel Gahnertz, Sweden | digging up my cat to bury her deeper … | |
| Commended (10) | Smiljka Bilankov, Croatia | broken flower-pot the wounded orchid goes on blooming |
| Krzysztof Kokot, Poland | president’s face— on the yellowed envelope one-cent stamp | |
| Malvina Mileta, Croatia | sunset a bird on the meadow dies with its song | |
| Kate Prendergast, Australia | Snow falling — a gentle blanket covers Japan’s victims | |
| Nada Zidar-Bogadi, Croatia | weeping willow each branch weeping in its own way | |
| Tanja Cilia, Malta | funeral cortege recalling wedding procession | |
| Željko Funda, Croatia | late autumn fountain spurts are meeting the first snowflakes | |
| William Hart, U.S.A. | airport carousel a butterfly arrived riding a suitcase | |
| Anthony Kudryavitsky, Ireland | after the wedding white butterfly clinging to the ivy | |
| Borivoje Sekulić, Serbia | I put down the axe A turtledove is cooing from a barren fig tree |
Sources / Further Reading
- The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan. Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award Selected Haiku 2013. Nagoya, Japan: IAFOR Publications, 2015. E-book published by issuu at https://issuu.com/iafor/docs/selected_haiku_2013.
- The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan. Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award 2014. Nagoya, Japan: IAFOR Publications, 2015. E-book published by issuu at https://issuu.com/iafor/docs/vdha_2014.
- The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan. Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award 2015. Nagoya, Japan: IAFOR Publications, 2015. E-book published by issuu at https://issuu.com/iafor/docs/haiku-award-2015.
- The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan. The IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award 2016. Nagoya, Japan: IAFOR Publications, 2016. E-book published by issuu at https://issuu.com/iafor/docs/iafor_vladimir_devide_haiku_award_2 and also available on The Haiku Foundation Digital Library: https://thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/show/3655.
Compiled by the Haikupedia Editors
Source: IAFOR reports online
Notes
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