Romanian Monthly Kukai January 2016

Theme: ice flowers

Special Prize

first fairy-tale -
the kitchen window
with ice flowers

Gabriela Beldie

First Place

ice flowers -
making room for the sun
child’s palm

Valeria Tamaș

Second Place

alone at the window -
in-between grandma and the world
ice flowers

Dan Norea

the old lady sighing -
at her golden wedding anniversary
only ice flowers

Ion Rășinaru

Third Place

two neighbours
looking in each other's eyes –
ice flowers

Petru-Ioan Gârda

same windows -

under other eyes melting

the ice flowers

Vasile Conioși-Mesteșanu

Fourth Place

forgotten stop -
at the window of the triptych
ice flowers

Daniela Lăcrămioara Capotă

back to the village –
only the ice flowers
in the home’s window

Popescu Virginia

Fifth Place

 ice flowers at the window –
seeming more and more pale to me
the orchids

Maria Doina Leonte

broken window -
next to the act of divorce
three ice flowers

Daniela Sorina Ciurariu

Sixth Place

ice flowers -
in the poor man’s window
Christmas tinsel

Mihail Talașman

reduced universe -
towards the ice flowers
no butterfly

Argentina Stanciu