WINNERS OF ROMANIAN MONTHLY KUKAI APRIL 2008

We go on to publish our winners. These are the awarded poems at Romanian Kukai contest for April 2008. The theme of the contest was dandelion.

First place

Dandelion field –
only a breath of wind
and it is snow

Dan Norea


Second place

Dandelion
exposed to the wind
a man’s life

Vasile Moldovan

Dandelions in bloom
among the ancient ruins
sound of hoe

Ana Ruse


Third place

lighting slowly
in the shadow of cherry tree
a dandelion

Tincuta Horonceanu Bernevic

Mown grass-
only a dandelion
left uncut

Livia Ciupav

Golden buterflies
the wind put on wings
to dandelions

Constantin Stroe

The owner is away –
all remained at...
dandelion’s disposition

Vali Iancu

Scaterred farthings
from the bag of spring
tens of dandelions

Gabriela Marcian

Sparks of sun –
in the old man’s hand,
dandelion chain

Doina Bogdan Wurm

Translation made by Magdalena Dale. We are not native English speakers. In this way we will appreciate if you will point out the possible mistakes of the English version of our poems

WINNERS OF ROMANIAN MONTHLY KUKAI MARCH 2008

We go on to publish our winners. These are the awarded poems at Romanian Kukai contest for March 2008. The theme of the contest was spring's edginess.

First place

Without any fault
under the ploughman’s sole
a blade of grass

Loredana-Florentina Dănilă

Again spring
in the man and in the bud
the same start

Vali Iancu


Second place

After the hard winter
a nervous sparrow –
where is her nest?

Henriette Berge

Night insomnia –
stars or tears drop
from the vine arbour?

Doina Bogdan Wurm


Third place

Second hand bookshop -
among the books in the window
lilac blossoms

Dumitru Radu

March dawn
in the trap of the town
apricot in full blossom

Florică Dan

Translation made by Magdalena Dale. We are not native English speakers. In this way we will appreciate if you will point out the possible mistakes of the English version of our poems.

WINNERS OF ROMANIAN MONTHLY KUKAI FEBRUARY 2008

We go on to publish our winners. These are the awarded poems at Romanian Kukai contest for February 2008. The theme of the contest was sleet.

First place

Lone through the sleet
an old man at shopping -
the wind in his bag

Victoria Chiţoveanu


Second place

Old men in the sleet -
in the second hand window
looking at themselves

Eduard Ţară

Evening still -
the last pedestrian
walking to the sleet

Maria Tirenescu

Facing the sleet
with snowdrops in his hand
towards the cemetery

Livia Ciupav

On the weak shoulders
the bag heavier and heavier -
an old man throughe the sleet

Valeria Tamaş

In the full sleet
a vagrant and a dog
across the street Fast Food

Dumitru Roşu

Third place

Walking throughe the sleet
I hold up the red rose lost
by the wedding guest

Ana Ruse

The sleet on the road
keeps for a moment
traces of a sled

Dumitru Radu

Translation made by Magdalena Dale. We are not native English speakers. In this way we will appreciate if you will point out the possible mistakes of the English version of our poems.