Lavana Kray
Lavana Kray is from Romania. She has been nominated for Touchstone Awards 2020. The Laval Literary Society from Canada awarded her the André-Jacob-Entrevous Prize 2023, for a literary text combined with an artistic visual. She currently serves as Haiga Editor of the Cattails Review (UHTS). She is founder and editor of Our best haiga journal.
Blog : https://photohaikuforyou.blogspot.com/
Blog : https://ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/
butterfly in sight
mom is calling it
by her son’s name
ceasefire day
cherry blossom rain healing
the wounds of the earth
Folk Ku: A Journal in Honour of Master Masoka Shiki (1867-1892), King River Press, Issue 2, November 2023
september morning
first paths through war ashes
lead to the school
sudden bullet rain
laughing toddler on all fours
in the bomb shelter
Kyoto Haiku Project / Writing on the “Peace” December 2023
a seed of peace
carried away by the wind
no one plows anymore
Ginyu No.100 / Haiku Gallery, November 2023
forest dying out
plastic crosses
in graveyards
Ginyu No.100 / Haiku Gallery, November 2023
warming up
by your side
hot chestnuts
no sign of remission
a woman dancing under snowfall
in the hospital yard
Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 7:1 Autumn/Winter 2023-2024
overturned carriage
children running downhill
for the crushed melons
ESUJ-H: English Haiku / October, 2023
air raid alert
bees moving pollen
around
ESUJ-H: English Haiku / August 2023
fleeing from the war
rain of cherry blossoms
on baby's buggy
ESUJ-H: English Haiku / May 2023
ghost town
in the underground shelter
sprouting potatoes
ESUJ-H: English Haiku / April, 2023
artificial intelligence –
cutting down oak trees
for a parking lot
Ginyu #100
breaking war news –
child watching a puddle
turning back to clouds
Kyoto Haiku Project, Writing on the “Peace”
air raid –
hot bread breeze
from across the border
ripe orchard -
my hand meets yours
on the same orange
Shiki Monthly Kukai - Sept.2013
birthday -
a gathering of moths
on my paisley shawl
The Heron’s Nest Vol. XVI, No. 4 (December 2014)
refugee tent
a girl calls a butterfly
by her mom’s name
The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2016
banished family –
a milk tooth falls
on the road
The 2nd Basho - an International English Haiku Competition - 2019 (Ten Winners)
end of war -
getting a snow angel
with a single wing
European Quarterly Kukai - Winter 2018 - Second Place
the scent
of roasted chestnuts -
a postcard from home
aromă
de castane coapte -
o ilustrată de acasă
five o'clock tea -
my shadow visits
to the neighbour's yard
ceaiul de la ora cinci-
umbra mea se duce
la vecin
widow's birthday -
only the wind brings
cherry blossoms
aniversare -
doar vântul aduce văduvei
flori de cireş