Haiku
an evening walk—
a plane missed
the harvest moon
suburban grove—
nightingale's song flows
into the spring night
morning session—
rooks on the meadow
planning activities
hawk and its shadow
carrying the prey
different ways
snowing—
due to flowery stockings
I missed her face
The Work of
Stjepan Rozic, CR in the Nov/Dec 31 Sketchbook
About
Stjepan Rozic, Croatia
Stjepan Rozic
is an amateur musician, born in 1946 in Ivanic Grad, where he enjoys
his retirement. He has three sons and three grandchildren.
He has written haiku since 1996 and received a number of awards and
commendations in Croatia (The Haiku Days Dubravko Ivancan, Krapina
1st Prizes 2004 and 2007), and Japan (Itoen 1997, Kusamakura 1999,
2000, 2005, 2008, Mainichi 2004). His haiku have been published in
haiku magazines: Iris, Haiku, Kō, Moonset, on the
internet and several anthologies. He published the haiku collection
Proljetni vjetar/Spring Wind in 2005 and took part in
joint haiku collections Sedam prozora/Seven Windows,
Klostar Ivanic 2002, and Sedam novih putova/Seven
New Ways, Zagreb, 2003. He is among the founders of
the Haiku Association, "Three Rivers", Ivanic Grad and Klostar
Ivanic Haiku Meetings since 2003. Stjepan won 2nd Prize on 13th
Mainichi haiku contest, 2009.
This is Stjepan
Rozic's first appearance in Sketchbook.
