Romanian Monthly Kukai November 2015

Theme: the participants had to send a haiku poem having to do with
choosing of the sheep.*

 *The photograph belongs to  Auraş Mihaiu, from Nehoiu, Buzău, who won the Romania National Award, within this year’s contest Sony World Photography Awards 2015. He captured the moment at a sheepfold when shepherds prepare the sheep for wintering.

 

Special Prize

late autumn –

even the choosing of the sheep

gets lost in the fog

Paul-Mircea Iordache

The emptiness of autumn would be incomplete without this latest depletion: the weather, rough as it is anyway, discards all events. Thus everything, past, present and future, disappears into the mist which annihilates any horizon and any path. The fog swallows all surroundings and leaves you shivering wrapped in it. (Corneliu Traian Atanasiu)

First Place

choosing of the sheep -

last account

of my grandfather

Doina Bogdan Wurm

Second Place

choosing of the sheep –

in the sheepfold the whistling

of the autumn wind alone

Daniela Lăcrămioara Capotă

Third Place

choosing of the sheep -

the shepherd’s flute

pierces through the fog

Iubu Letiția

choosing of the sheep -

at the sheepfold in the mountains

the wind whistles

Ioana Bud

Fourth Place

late autumn –

even the choosing of the sheep

gets lost in the fog

Paul-Mircea Iordache

Fifth Place

wandering through the valleys -

only the choosing of the sheep

makes the path narrow

Bea Hurmuz

choosing of the sheep –

at the foothills

alphorn song

Mihaela Cojocaru

dad at the sheepfold

for the choosing of the sheep -

his son with the girls

Ion Rășinaru

Sixth Place

counting stars –

at the choosing of the sheep

missing donkey

Violeta Urdă

choosing of the sheep -

around the sheepfold the dogs

cannot find their place

Petru-Ioan Gârda