We go on to publish our winners. These are the awarded poems at Romanian Kukai contest for June 2008. The theme of the contest was melon.
First place
Nobody to watch –
among yellow melons
the moon is missing
Eduard Ţară
harvest time -
only the moon's shadow
on a melon stalk
Simona Dobrescu
Second place
With all its seeds
the slice of water melon
is laughing at me
Ioan Marinescu-Puiu
Country road–
the crunch of carts
laden with melons
Adina Enăchescu
Moon in gloom -
the melons lights up
the thief’s way
Doina Bogdan Wurm
Third place
Melon thieves -
just this night the guard
would be drunk
Ana Ruse
Drizzle -
among the striped melons
the old dog…
Felicia Leş
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.