Damir Damir
Born: 1977 in Kotor, Yugoslavia
Resides: Belgrade, Serbia
Damir Janjalija (aka Damir Damir) was born on November 6, 1977 in today’s non-existent Yugoslavia. A sailor by profession, a poet by vocation, and a dharma bum by choice. His poems have been published in many significant contemporary haiku journals and anthologies, both in the country and abroad. He is the winner of several international haiku awards.
Books Published: Imprints of Dreams (Udruženje građana Trablmejker, 2012), Freedom in the Mist (Odličan Hrčak, 2013), Filigree Memories (Književna radionica Rašić, 2017).
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Website: https://www.facebook.com/damirhaiku/
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you, swallow,
and my foot in mud . . .
two autumns
Haiku reality Vol. 11, No. 19, Winter 2014, (best of issue Second Choice)
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refugee camp...
louder than thunder
an orphan's cry
Modern Haiku, Volume 46.3, Autumn 2015
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the sun at the edge
of an albatross wing -
autumn equinox
Third place, European Quarterly Kukai, VII Edition, Autumn 2014
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dreaming up life . . .
beyond the thoughts
snow falls ceaselessly
Haiku: A Concise Anthology, Cyberwit.net, 2018
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waning summer
cicada’s mating song
in every pore
Modern Haiku, Volume 48.3, Autumn 2017
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wild grass
I draw the first eye
on a daruma doll
The Heron’s Nest XIX3 (9-2017)
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another birthday
one by one, sakura petals
carried by the breeze
Runners up, Third International Haiku Contest “Cherry Blossom” – Bulgaria May 2017
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New Year’s Eve
like a warmest coat
I put on loneliness
Atoms of Haiku - Volume II, Author's United, 2016
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summer sunrise
voices of fisherman
turning azure
Highly commended, A Little Haiku Contest, Theme: Light, 2015
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Syrian truce
first snow falling
on a roofless town
Honorable mention, World Haiku Review, Summer 2017
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a gull’s cry
echoes through the open sea
last day of summer
Symposion, Vol. 66
The Temple Bell Stops, Contemporary Poems of Grief, Loss and Change
Knjižica oslikanog stiha, 2013
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fleeing the war
through a hole in my shoe
autumn rain
Symposion, Vol. 66 Haiku novine, Vol. 26
Published on the HSA "Haiku Wall" exhibited in the historic Liberty
Theatre Gallery at the Quarterly National Haiku Society of America Meeting in Bend, Oregon
on June 3-5, 2011 as part of the downtown Bend Oregon First Friday June Art Walk.
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five, seven, five
I count on my fingers…
deep fall
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winter window
this lonely face hidden
behind my breath
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Haiku novine, Vol. 26
Moonset, spring issue 2010
Diogen, 2012
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the muddy road
slowly covering in snow
New Year’s Eve
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Akita International Haiku Network, 2011
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Christmas morning
the statue of Christ
covered in dust
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Diogen, 2012
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dew on the petal
of a just bloomed lotus
I am no more
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behind barbed
wire in an empty field . . .
sunrise
Simply Haiku, Vol. 10, No. 2
Haiku novine, Vol. 27
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snowstorm . . .
the guest room empty
for a long time
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cockfight . . .
high in the clear sky,
a cruising falcon
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spring blossoms . . .
Srebrenica fields silent
with the sky
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the scent
of the sea at dusk . . .
Indian summer
Simply Haiku, Vol. 10, No. 2
Haiku zbornik Ludbreg 2013.
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folded hands
of a royal gardener . . .
end of autumn
Simply Haiku, Vol. 10, No. 2
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Good Friday . . .
black crows settled on
the church bell
Simply Haiku, Vol. 10, No. 2
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changing my grimace
the cold flow
of the Danube
Modern Haiku volume 44.2 Summer 2013
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the softness
of mother's lullaby . . .
autumn downpour
Cattails Premier Edition: January 2014
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now and then
the Black Sea waves turn white
wolf moon
Haiku Reality, Vol. 10, No 17, Summer 2013, best of issue (Second Choice)
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a landscape imprinted
in the whiteness of paper
first sunrise
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Akita International Haiku Network, 2011
Diogen, 2012
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footprints in the snow
some lead westward,
some eastward
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Diogen, 2012
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Valentine’s Day
a stray tomcat craves
for love, too
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Srpski Haiku kalendar, 2010
Knjižica oslikanog stiha, 2013
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Japanese garden
a thousand cherry petals
fallen on the ground
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Diogen, 2012
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Bad Wednesday
from a row of plane trees
only the dust remains
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World Kigo Database - Europe
Srpski Haiku kalendar, 2012
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the still sky
for a moment outshouted by
the nightingale
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Diogen, 2012
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in a prison cell,
six murderers, the day’s stillness
disturbed by a fly
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Diogen, 2012
Knjižica oslikanog stiha, 2013
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heartbeats…
in the depths of the sky
twinkling stars
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first typhoon…
on the statue of Amida Buddha
closed eyes
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Diogen, 2012
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the sky of Hakata,
like in a mirror
the sky of Kotor
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watered by blood
the mosquitoes and I
await the dawn
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Diogen, 2012
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moon after sun
shall we ever
meet, love?
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a street musician
full of September sun
a straw hat
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Haiku zbornik Ludbreg 2013.
Haiku novine, Vol. 26
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the sky
turns into gray cloud…
rainmaker’s song
Srpski Haiku kalendar, 2010
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solstice…
between mud and cloud
wandering dreams
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Diogen, 2012