Sanziana - Galium verum

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Sânziană, Sanziana

***** Location: Romania
***** Season: Summer
***** Category: Plant

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Lady's Bedstraw, Yellow Bedstraw
Galium verum

Sânziană is the Romanian name for gentle fairies who play an important part in local folklore, also used to designate the Galium verum or Cruciata laevipes flowers. Under the plural form Sânziene, the word designates an annual festival in the fairies' honor. Etymologically, the name stands for sân (common abbreviation of sfânt - "saint", "holy") and zână (a word used for fairies in general). Another likely etymology is that the word comes from the Latin Sancta Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt and moon, also celebrated in Roman Dacia (ancient Romania). Diana was known to be the virgin goddess and looked after virgins and women. She was one of the three maiden goddesses, Diana, Minerva and Vesta, who swore never to marry.



People in the western Carpathian Mountains and other parts of Romania celebrate the Sânziene holiday annually, on June 24. This is similar to the Swedish Midsummer holiday, and is believed to be a pagan celebration of the summer solstice in June. According to the official position of the Romanian Orthodox Church, the customs actually relate to the celebration of Saint John the Baptist's Nativity, which also happens on June 24.

Sânziene rituals
The folk practices of Sânziene imply that the most beautiful maidens in the village dress in white and spend all day searching for and picking Galium verum. They are instructed to remain alone and unseen, especially by any males. Using the flowers they picked during the day, the girls create wreaths as floral crowns which they wear upon returning to the village at nightfall. They are then supposed to have turned into sânziene fairies, and dance in circle around a bonfire, into which all remains of the previous harvest are thrown. People are prevented from speaking to the girls during this ceremony, as it is presumed that the sânziene spirits possessing them might otherwise be angered or distracted.

In some regions, the girls may keep the wreaths until the following year's Sânziene. This, they believe, ensures a fertility for their family's land. In addition, if they place the wreath under their pillow the night right after Sânziene, it is possible that they would have a premonition of the man they are to marry (ursitul, "the fated one"). Another folk belief is that during the Sânziene night, the heavens open up, making it an adequate time for making wishes and for praying, as God is more likely to listen.

In some areas of the Carpathians, the villagers then light a big wheel of hay from the ceremonial bonfire and push it down a hill. This has been interpreted as a symbol for the setting sun (from the solstice to come and until the midwinter solstice, the days will be getting shorter).
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. Summer Solstice (geshi　夏至) .
summer equinox

geshi byakuya 夏至白夜（げしびゃくや）
white night of the summer solstice



. Golowan Festival .
Midsummer celebrations in Cornwall

Midsummer’s Day is the church feast of St John The Baptist


sei Yohanne sai 聖ヨハネ祭 (せいよはねさい)
Feast of Saint John
senja sei Yohanne sai 洗者聖ヨハネ祭（せんじゃせいよはねさい）
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
kigo for mid-summer


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Sânziene night -
the lonely girl prefers
to dream eyes opened

- Shared by Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu -
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Denmark




Denmark is based in Northern Europe and is the smallest of the Scandinavian countries. The Kingdom of Denmark also has 2 autonomous provinces – the Faroe Islands and Greenland. The latter is over 500 times larger than Denmark but has 100 times less people.
Denmark is well known for its strong welfare state, mixed market capitalist economy and has one of the most egalitarian societies in the world.
In 2010 it was voted yet again the happiest country in the world. (Gallup World Poll)
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Das Königreich Dänemark

Danmark

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The Climate of Denmark

Denmark has a temperate climate, the mildness of which is largely conditioned by the generally westerly winds and by the fact that the country is virtually encircled by water.

The mean temperature in February, the coldest month, is 0° C (32° F ), and in July, the warmest, 17° C (63° F ). Rain falls fairly evenly throughout the year, the annual average amounting to approximately 61 cm (24 in).
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Kigo from Denmark

Spring

. Easter - påske .

. "Easter lily", wild daffodil - Påskelilje .
Narcissus pseudonarcissus


. Soap bubbles - sæbebobler .


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"Haiku på Dansk"

haikugruppen og haikunetværket
HaikuDanmark.dk

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Haiku Poets from Denmark


Johannes S. H. Bjerg

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I'm a haijin – haiku-poet. I write haiku in two languages Danish and English. In this work I try to develop a voice of my own. Haiku is traditionally a nature-based poetry-form but has developed with the conditions of the modern world. Now it concerns itself with almost every aspect of human life. And luckily so.

Some haijin (this is also the plural tense of the word) tend to insist on classical Japanese ways of writing, but many more are trying to take haiku to the 21st century. I'm one of them.
Haiku should reflect the reality of the haijin and reality these days is different from medieval Japan. Now we live with the insights of the past and thoughts and knowledge of a kind we've never experienced before. I try to make use of all the different experiences I've had during my life, all the -ism's I've encountered, the philosophies, ideas, corporeal sensations and whatever has made an impression in and on me in every kind of way.
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Hanne Hansen

to visit mother
travelling by local bus
the only passenger

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Martenitsa Bulgaria

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Martenitsa

***** Location: Bulgaria
***** Season: Spring
***** Category: Observance

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Martenitsa (Bulgarian: мартеница, pronounced [ˈmartɛnit͡sa]; plural мартеници martenitsi)
is a small piece of adornment, made of white and red yarn and worn from March 1 until around the end of March (or the first time an individual sees a stork, swallow, or budding tree).

The name of the holiday is Baba Marta. "Baba" (баба) is the Bulgarian word for "grandmother" and Mart (март) is the Bulgarian word for the month of March.
Baba Marta is a Bulgarian tradition related to welcoming the upcoming spring. The month of March, according to Bulgarian folklore, marks the beginning of springtime. Therefore, the first day of March is a traditional holiday associated with sending off winter and welcoming spring.



The same tradition is also held by those in the Republic of Macedonia, as well as in Greek Macedonia and Patras in the Peloponnese.
Romanians also have a similar but not identical holiday on March 1, called "Mărţişor". If and how these two holidays are related is still a matter of debate between ethnologists.
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back from a meeting --
on my keybord waits
a martenitsa





comparing
our martenitsa --
office fun







photos and haiku by
Isabelle Prondzynski
March 2012



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Aurel Vlaicu

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Aurel Vlaicu

November 19, 1882 – September 13, 1913
was a Romanian engineer, inventor, airplane constructor and early pilot.



Aurel Vlaicu was born in Binţinţi (now renamed Aurel Vlaicu), Geoagiu, Transylvania. He attended Calvinist High School in Orăştie (renamed "Liceul Aurel Vlaicu" in his honour in 1919) and took his Baccalaureate in Sibiu in 1902. He furthered his studies at Technical University of Budapest and Technische Hochschule München in Germany, earning his engineer's diploma in 1907.

After working at Opel car factory in Rüsselsheim, he returned to Binţinţi and built a glider he flew in the summer of 1909. Later that year, he moved to Bucharest, in the Kingdom of Romania, where he began the construction of Vlaicu Nr. I airplane; it flew for the first time on June 17, 1910.

With his Vlaicu Nr. II model, built in 1911, Aurel Vlaicu won several prizes summing 7,500 Austro-Hungarian krone (for precise landing, projectile throwing and tight flying around a pole) in 1912 at Aspern Air Show near Vienna, where he competed against 42 other aviators of the day, including Roland Garros.

Aurel Vlaicu died in 1913 near Câmpina while attempting to cross in flight the Carpathian Mountains in his aged Vlaicu II airplane.
He is buried at the Bellu cemetery, in Bucharest.



Vlaicu was posthumously elected to the Romanian Academy in 1948.
Bucharest City Airport in Băneasa was named after him.

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Haiku and Senryu

Aurel Vlaicu was a Romanian engineer, inventor, airplane constructor and early pilot.
He died on Semptember 13, 1913,
testing a airplane, crossing the Carphatian Mountains.


Aurel Vlaicu
crossing the Carpathians
viewing the abyss

Alex Serban, Romania


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Karl Marx

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Karl Marx

Karl Heinrich Marx
(5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883)
was a German-Jewish philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement. He published various books during his lifetime, with the most notable being
The Communist Manifesto (1848) and
Capital (1867–1894);
some of his works were co-written with his friend, the fellow German revolutionary socialist Friedrich Engels.


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Capital, Volume I (1867),
by Karl Marx,
is a critical analysis of capitalism as political economy, meant to reveal the economic laws of the capitalist mode of production, how it was the precursor of the socialist mode of production, and of the class struggle rooted in the capitalist social relations of production. The first of three volumes of Das Kapital, Kritik der politischen Ökonomie (Capital: Critique of Political Economy) was published on 14 September 1867, and was the sole volume published in Marx's lifetime.
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. Karl Marx .

カール・ハインリヒ・マルクス

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Haiku and Senryu

in the bank locker
my legacy to my daughter -
Marx's Das Kapital


mid-life crisis--
I settle on
Marx's Das Kapital

Manu Kant
Joys of Japan, February 2012


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Charles Dickens

(7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870)



Charles John Huffam Dickens

English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic novels and characters.

Many of his writings were originally published serially, in monthly instalments, a format of publication which Dickens himself helped popularise. Unlike other authors who completed novels before serialisation, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialised. The practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by cliffhangers to keep the public looking forward to the next instalment.The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print.

Dickens's work has been highly praised for its realism, comedy, mastery of prose, unique personalities and concern for social reform, by writers such as Leo Tolstoy, George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton; though others, such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf, have criticised it for melodrama, sentimentality and implausibility.

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google logo in February 7, 2012

チャールズ・ディケンズ


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Prince Charles leads tributes
on Charles Dickens' 200th birthday

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Duchess of Cornwall and many of the writer's descendants joined Prince Charles for a service at Westminster Abbey, with the heir to the throne describing the Oliver Twist creator as 'one of the greatest writers of the English language'.

Actor Ralph Fiennes, who is set to star in an adaptation of Great Expectations, read an extract from classic novel Bleak House before the congregation laid a wreath at Poets' Corner where Dickens was buried in 1870.
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Haiku and Senryu


Charles Dickens
in a bookstore window...
homeless youth's gaze

Chen-ou Liu
Canada


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Charles Dickens' birthday
few have great expectations
in these hard times

Armando H. Corbelle (Catbird 55)


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Russia
(Russian: Россия, tr. Rossiya; , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation
(Russian: Российская Федерация, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya; ), is a country in northern Eurasia.
It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects.
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Russian on-line HAIKU magazine "Ulitka"

The on-line magazine ULITKA (the SNAIL),
published both in Russian and in English, is dedicated to the entire variety of haikai genres, predominantly to the haiku poetry. The main objective of the magazine is to familiarize its readers with the selected works of the Russian-speaking poets, as well as with the works of the most interesting authors writing in other languages.
We also plan to publish reviews, essays, critical and research articles on subjects related to haikai.



Интернет-журнал УЛИТКА, выходящий на русском и английском языках, ориентирован на современное многообразие жанров искусства хайкай, и прежде всего на поэзию хайку. Основная цель издания - знакомить читателя с творчеством русскоязычных поэтов, а также с произведениями наиболее интересных авторов, пишущих на других языках.
Редакция планирует также публиковать обзорные, критические, теоретические статьи и эссе на темы хайкай.

...................... Editors of ULITKA

Dmitry Kudrya Владислав Васильев
Alexander Kudryashov
Natalia Levy
Natalia Sedenkova
Vladislav Vassiliev
Elina Vitomskaya

January 2006
http://www.ulitka.haiku-do.com/

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Хайкумена Рунета
http://haiku-do.com/

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Russian Haiku
by Eugene Wasserstrom
Russian haiku resists definitions.
Like primordial soup it defies geography and structure. Bound only by its language and the Internet it finds ways to mix Russian literary tradition with Japanese style and Western logic. Not unlike many who are taken by this poetry, the Russian haiku community has yet to establish a boundary between haiku and senryu, between real and imagined, between self and the world. Everything, good or bad, is possible in this virtual thought environment that sometimes reminds me of Solaris, the planet-mind from the Stanislaw Lem science fiction novel.

From early translations of Japanese classics and occasional publications in secondary literary magazines Russian haiku sprang on the Internet, appearing first on Alexei Andreev's http://www.haiku.ru. His article "What is haiku?" still serves as a reference point for many Russian haijin.
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KANKODORI - Haikai and Sumi-e by Origa
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Buddhist Temple 'Datsan Gunzechoinei'
in St.Petersburg, Russia



'The Buddha's Temple on the Neva Banks'.
Exhibition
Andrei Marhotin
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cold snap in Europe -
watching Born in USSR
on a Russian channel


origami airplane--
post-Soviet Russia
light years away


with ex-Soviet friends -
for a second
we re-create the Soviet Union


talking after ages--
my ex-Soviet girl talks
of rich-poor divide


with my ex-Soviet girl--
her increasing use of the words
rich & poor




Lenin pin-
all that is left of the Soviet past
as far as I go





watching The Sum Of All Fears
Russia even now
not more than a Hollywood flick



Good Friday--
Stalin notebooks cause a furor
in Russia

Manu Kant
Joys of Japan, 2012



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Ion Luca Caragiale



7 June 1886 – 25 November 1972
Haimanale, județul Prahova, Țara Românească, astăzi I. L. Caragiale, județul Dâmbovița, România – d. 9 iunie 1912, Berlin) a fost un dramaturg, nuvelist, pamfletar, poet, scriitor, director de teatru, comentator politic și ziarist român, de origine greacă. Este considerat a fi cel mai mare dramaturg român și unul dintre cei mai importanți scriitori români.
A fost ales membru post-mortem al Academiei Române.


commonly referred to as I. L. Caragiale;
February 13 , 1852 – July 9, 1912
was a Wallachian-born Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist. He is considered one of the greatest Romanian playwrights and writers, a leading representative of local humor, and a main representative of Junimea, an influential literary society with which he parted during the second half of his life.

Caragiale's work, spanning four decades, covers the ground between Neoclassicism, Realism, and Naturalism, building on an original synthesis of foreign and local influences. His plays constituted an important venue for criticism of late 19th-century Romanian society, while in later works of fiction Caragiale adopted the fantasy genre or turned to historical fiction.
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Mr. Goe
by I. L. Caragiale (1852-1912)

So that he could finally be promoted at the end of this school year, grandma, mommy and aunty Mitsa promised to take the young Goe to Bucharest on the King’s anniversary, the 10th of May.



Little do we care if the three dames decide to leave their comfortable spot to come to the capital just to please their son and nephew. It suffices to say that in the early morning, on the central station’s platform in the town of X, the dames, all dressed-up, along with the young Goe, are impatiently waiting for the fast train that is supposed to take them to Bucharest. It is true that once one has decided to assist to such an important national celebration, one must make an early start. The train that they are going to get reaches the north station at ten to eight a.m. Mr. Goe is impatient and he argues in a commanding voice:

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Caragiale-
write a telegram
to Mister Goe

Alex Serban, Romania


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Noah's Ark

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Noah's Ark

***** Location: Europe
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Noah's Ark
(Hebrew: תיבת נח‎, Teyvat Noaḥ in Classical Hebrew)
is a vessel appearing in the Book of Genesis (chapters 6–9) and the Quran (surahs Hud and Al-Mu’minoon). These narratives describe the construction of a large, seagoing ark by the Patriarch Noah at God's command to save himself, his family, and the world's animals from the worldwide deluge of the Great Flood.



In the narrative of the ark, God sees the wickedness of man and is grieved by his creation, resolving to send a great flood to cleanse the Earth. However, God chooses a man named Noah and "counted it righteous to him" to live and preserve mankind through Noah's family.
God then proceeds to give Noah detailed instructions on how to build the ark. When Noah and the animals are safe on board, God sends the Flood, which rises until all the mountains are covered and all life on Earth is destroyed. At the height of the flood, the ark rests on mountaintops, before the waters recede and dry land reappears.

Noah, his family, and the animals leave the ark to repopulate the Earth. God places a symbolic rainbow in the sky and makes a covenant with Noah and all living things, by which he vows to never again send a flood to destroy the Earth.

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Die Arche Noah


noa no hakobune ノアの箱舟


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Noah's ark
animal house
party time

Ben Gieske : poemhunter


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吹雪かれてノアの方舟めく客車
fubuki karete noa no hakobune meku kyakusha

snow blizzard stops
a passenger train looking like
Noah’s Ark

Tayu Misaki 田湯岬
Tr. Fay Aoyagi


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Christa Wolf

(* 18. März 1929 in Landsberg an der Warthe
als Christa Ihlenfeld;
† 1. Dezember 2011 in Berlin)



deutsche Schriftstellerin.

Christa Wolf wurde 1929 als Tochter des Kaufmanns Otto Ihlenfeld in Landsberg an der Warthe, heute Gorzów Wielkopolski, Polen, geboren. Sie besuchte dort bis kurz vor Kriegsende die Schule. Nach der Flucht vor den anrückenden sowjetischen Truppen fand die Familie 1945 vorerst in Mecklenburg eine neue Heimat. Wolf arbeitete als Schreibhilfe beim Bürgermeister des Dorfes Gammelin bei Schwerin. Sie beendete die Oberschule 1949 mit dem Abitur in Bad Frankenhausen und trat im selben Jahr in die SED ein, deren Mitglied sie bis zu ihrem Austritt im Juni 1989 blieb. Von 1949 bis 1953 studierte sie Germanistik in Jena und Leipzig, unter anderem bei Hans Mayer.

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Anfang der 1990er Jahre wurde bekannt, dass Wolf von 1959 bis 1962 als „IM Margarete“ beim Ministerium für Staatssicherheit der DDR geführt worden war. Sie hatte drei Berichte verfasst, die allerdings ein ausschließlich positives Bild der betroffenen Personen zeichneten. Entsprechend beklagte die Stasi in internen Aufzeichnungen von 1962 Wolfs „Zurückhaltung“ in der Zusammenarbeit und begann nunmehr, die Autorin selbst umfangreich zu überwachen – ein Zustand, der bis zum Ende der DDR anhielt. Auf die Frage, warum sie trotzdem in der DDR geblieben sei, antwortete sie, dass ihre Leser sie dort gebraucht hätten.

... Im Jahr 1951 heiratete sie den Schriftsteller Gerhard Wolf. Ein Jahr später wurde ihre erste Tochter Annette geboren, vier Jahre danach die zweite Tochter.

Christa Wolf starb am 1. Dezember 2011 nach schwerer Krankheit, wie ihr Verlag Suhrkamp mitteilte.
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Haiku and Senryu

slanted moonlight
on The Quest for Christa T. ...
wailing siren


Chen-ou Liu
Canada

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Christa Wolf was one of Germany's most influential postwar writers,ﾂ and her works have chronicled life in the former East Germany. She built her literary reputation with Divided Heaven, and The Quest for Christa T. successfully explored the tension between the harsh demands of society and the unquenchable desire of the protagonist for individuality.



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