Born on August 13th 1953, a lawyer, has a Doctorate in Philosophical
Sciences, has been living and working in Vienna, Austria. A lecturer, volunteer
and haiku poet, he has published many professional articles and essays in German, Croatian and English.Haiku he has been publishing in periodicals and haiku magazines in Croatia
and abroad (Frogpond, Asahi Shimbun, Haiku Harvest, Polylog), anthologies (Wild Flowers, New Leaves – a collection of World Haiku ed. by S. Takiguchi, Oxfordshire, UK, 2002; Walking the Same Path, The Haiku Society of America 2004 Members Anthology). He has been published in the magazine Haiku, taking part in haiku meetings in Croatia. He has received several awards for haiku in English, in Japan.
1. sunce zalazi
sunce izlazi
u noćnom vlaku
the sun sets
the sun rises
in the night-train
2. znatiželjna riba
pliva prema
mojim nogama
curious fish
swim towards
my legs
3. sunce i more
rijeka života
odlazi
sun and the sea
stream of life
floating away
4. kartajući se
sa svojom kćeri primijetih
njene nove zube
playing cards
with my daughter
I noticed her new teeth
5. zvijezda repatica
djeca plivaju i igraju se naga
u moru
a falling star
children swim naked and play
in a calm sea
6. nakon koncerta
ruke umorna
od pljeskanja
at the end of
the concert - hands
tired of clapping
7. zimsko jutro
mrtva muha
među prozorskim staklima
- winter morning -
dead fly
between two windows
8. brijem zagoreni tost
u ovo hladno proljetno jutro
doručkujem sam
I shave my overdone toast
this cold spring morning
eating alone my breakfast
9. zujanje kraj uha
negdje propušta mreža
za komarce
- buzzing by my ear -
the mosquito net
torn somewhere
10. vezu, vezu, vezu
pletu, pletu, pletu
skije po snijegu
purl, purl, purl
plain, plain, plain -
skies over the snow
11. brodovi se drže
na konopima,
a konopi na buri
boats fastened
with ropes and ropes
with a stormy wind
12. podne i krik
galeba - osjećaj the feeling
ljeta
noon and the seagull
- osjećaj the feeling
of summer
1. International Kusamakura Haiku Competition 2004, Kumamoto, Japan - 3. nagrada/3rd Prize;
2. Haiku and the Pictograph in Earth Language (EL), Japan, ‘July haiku’ for 2005;
3. International Herald Tribune/Asahi Shimbun, Japan; issue from 16th & 17th of July 2005;
4.
Haiku No. 19/20 2003;5. Haiku Kalamota Contest, Island of Koločep, Croatia, 2006 - 4. mjesto/4th Place;
6.
Fish in Love, Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology, 2006;7. New Haiku Contest, Tokyo, Japan, 2006, Merit Award;
8. 10th Mainichi Haiku Contest - 2. nagrada/2nd Prize;
9. Kloštranski haiku zbornik/Kloštar Ivanić Haiku Miscellany 2004 - izbor/Choice of haiku;
10.
Vrabac/Sparrow No. 27-30, Samobor 1999/2000;11-12. Scoici de Mare/Sea Shells, haiku a ka, Antologie/Anthology, Ex Ponto, Constanta, Romania - 2007
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