SMILING CRICKET HAIKU

08 November 2016

na obranom polju

strašilo maše zbogom
svojim bundevama

on a harvested field
a scarecrow waves farewell
to its pumpkins

3. Natječaj na temu 'buča' Ivanić-Grad, 2016. / The 3rd Haiku Contest on the theme 'Gourds', Ivanić-Grad, Croatia, 2016 - pohvala/honorable mention

02 November 2016

prva prehlada ...
skupe se u nosu
jesenji sokovi

first cold. . .
gathering in the nose
autumn juices

3. Susret hrvatskih haiđina, Ivanić-Grad, 2016. / 3rd Croatian Haiku Meeting, Ivanić-Grad, Croatia, 2016 – pohvala/commended

28 October 2016

svakim uzdahom
kišni oblak sve dalje
od osušenog polja

with every breath
a rain cloud farther away
from a dried up field

Asahi Haikuist Network, 21 October 2016 (The Asahi Shimbun - Japan)

Asahi Haikuist Network, Japan

23 October 2016

teče

niz ulicu

jučerašnji snjegović

running

down the street

yesterday's snowman

The 14th Annual ukiaHaiku Festival 2016 (Jane Reichhold International Prize Category), Ukiah, USA – Honorable Mention

19 October 2016

'MLIJEČNOM STAZOM' - 'DOWN THE MILKY WAY'

Moja prva zbirka haiku pjesama iz tiska !

Predgovor i pogovor: Jane Reichhold i Đurđa Vukelić Rožić. Kratki komentari: George Swede i Chen-ou Liu.

My first book of haiku poetry out of print !
Foreword and afterword by Jane Reichhold and Djurdja Vukelic Rozic. Contributions from George Swede and Chen-ou Liu.

Info i narudžbe / Info and orders: dejan.pavlinovic@gmail.com / Superknjižara OnLine BookShop

29 July 2016

torta premala
za nekoliko svijeća
previše

the cake too small
for a few candles
too many

Haiku časopis IRIS br.9-10 /IRIS haiku magazine No.9-10 – 2016

23 July 2016

razigrana

između bure i smiraja
zavjesa

playful
between tempest and calm
a curtain

24.Samoborski haiku susreti/24th Samobor Haiku Meeting (iz zbornika/from the miscellany) 2016

17 July 2016

sparnu noć
umalo ohladi
pun mjesec

sultry night

almost chilled by
full moon

Haiku časopis IRIS br.9-10 /IRIS haiku magazine No.9-10 – 2016

11 July 2016

poskakuje
iz dlana u dlan
vrući kesten

hopping
from palm to palm
a hot chestnut

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05 July 2016

pinije uz more ...
uši još pune zrike
u šutnji sutona

pines by the sea. . .
my ears still full of crickets
in sunset silence

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29 June 2016

na žedno tijelo
u zagušljivu sobu
žedan komarac

on a thirsty body
into a stuffy room
a thirsty mosquito

24.Samoborski haiku susreti/24th Samobor Haiku Meeting (iz zbornika/from the miscellany) 2016

23 June 2016

za žege

u preplanuli pupak

uroni njen prst

during the heat

into a tanned navel

her finger plunges

Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest, (iz zbornika/from the miscellany), Romania 2016

17 June 2016

skakavci

obraslom livadom
za korak brži

grasshoppers
across an overgrown field
a step too fast

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11 June 2016

za nevere
glasnije od grmljavine
malo srce

during storm
louder than thunder
a little heart

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05 June 2016

i dalje gladak
nakon tisuće poljubaca
obraz djeteta

still smooth
after thousands of kisses
a child's cheek

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29 May 2016

do koljena
povezan sa svijetom ...
u plićaku

up to the knees
connected to the world. . .
in the shallows

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23 May 2016

zaplače
za izgubljenom granom
kivi

weeping
over its lost branch
a kiwi vine

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17 May 2016

nemir u sobi ...
polako ali sigurno
prdac

stir in the room. . .
slowly but surely
a fart

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11 May 2016

ispuni sobu
iza zaleđenog prozora
mimoza

filling the room
behind a frozen window
mimosa

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05 May 2016

slomljena grana ...
na znatiželjni prst
kapnula suza

broken branch. . .
on a curious finger
a teardrop

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29 April 2016

omjesečeno nebo ...
pod plaštom od oblaka
bdije kiša

moonlit sky. . .
under a blanket of clouds
rain awake

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23 April 2016

zgnječen
između dvije noći
zimski dan

crushed
between two nights
winter day

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17 April 2016

srce veliko
u malenom tijelu ...
radoznali dječak

the heart so big
in a little body. . .
curious boy

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11 April 2016

u dugoj kosi
prkosi pogledima
latica trešnje

in her long hair
defying the stares
a cherry petal

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31 March 2016

za maslinom
u košaru uroni
i kap znoja

after an olive
diving into a basket
a drop of sweat

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26 March 2016

niz pijesak
pred malim stopalima
pobjeglo more

down the sand
before little feet
a sea fleeing

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13 March 2016

poteče
iz majčinih grudi
noćna tišina

flowing
from mother's breast
nightly silence

A Hundred Gourds 5:2, March 2016

http://www.ahundredgourds.com/ahg52/haiku01.html

29 November 2015

solar eclipse. . .

across a dandelion

an ant

pomrčina sunca...

preko maslačka

prošeće mrav

日蝕にー

タンポポを横切ってゆく

蟻一つ

20th International "Kusamakura" Haiku Competition, Kumamoto, Japan, 2015 - 2nd prize/2.nagrada

http://kusamakura-haiku.jp/backnumber/2015/english_e.html

29 October 2015

between the rains. . .
from puddle to puddle
a rippling face

između kiša ...
od lokve do lokve
namreškano lice

Chrysanthemum 18 - International haiku magazine, 2015
http://www.bregengemme.net/chrysanthemum/media/Chrysanthemum_18.pdf

25 October 2015

at the end

faster than days

a year

na kraju

brža od dana

godina

Chrysanthemum 18 - International Haiku Magazine, 2015
http://www.bregengemme.net/chrysanthemum/media/Chrysanthemum_18.pdf

17 October 2015

a merry party
on a dried-up field. . .
cracked pumpkin

veseli skup
na osušenom polju ...
napukla bundeva

The 11th Pumpkin Festival, Ivanić-Grad, Croatia, 2015 / 11. Bučijada u Ivanić-Gradu, 2015. - pohvala/commended

05 October 2015

fast day...
stomach groans louder
than the fridge

posni dan...
trbuh kruli glasnije
od hladnjaka

The Shiki Monthly Kukai – Kolovoz/August 2009

01 October 2015

hopping
from dark to dark
a hedgehog

skokne
iz mraka u mrak
jež

'Sketchbook' ožujak-travanj/March-April 2010

BIOGRAPHY

DEJAN PAVLINOVIĆ was born in 1968 in Pula, Croatia, but spent part of his childhood in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Today he is an English and German teacher, part-time tour guide and member of the indie band The Chweger from Pula. He serves on the Iris haiku magazine editorial staff, and he is the founding editor of the Haiku HR Facebook page. He runs the Pula Gymnasium Haiku Club in his school and conducts haiku workshops for students and adults. He judges haiku competitions for both children and adults. He has been writing haiku since 2007. His work is featured in two Croatian haiku anthologies. His poems have been published in Croatia and abroad, awarded and commended on Croatian and international haiku competitions (Kusamakura Haiku Competition, ITOEN, Vladimir Devide Award, The Betty Drevniok Award, Mainichi Haiku Contest, Vancouver Cherry Blossom, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum Haiku Contest, R.H. Blyth Award, Santoka Haiga Contest, Ukiah Haiku Festival, Sōka Matsubara International Haiku Contest...). Likewise, his poems have been published in various national and international haiku magazines, newspapers, websites and anthologies (Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Blithe Spirit, Presence, IRIS haiku magazine, The Haiku Foundation, Chrysanthemum, Seashores, Senryu To, World Haiku Review, NHK TV Haiku Masters, Poetry Pea Podcast, A Hundred Gourds, The Asahi Shimbun, Haikuniverse, Under the Basho, The Mamba Journal, Failed Haiku, Ephemerae, Cattails, Wales Haiku Journal, Blo͞o Outlier Journal, Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, My Haiku Pond, World Haiku, Scarlet Dragonfly, Sketchbook...). Pavlinović’s haiku was featured on the Mann Library Daily Haiku page of Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) during the month of April 2023. He publishes his haiku both in English and Croatian on his Smiling Cricket Haiku blog. In 2016 he published his first book, ''MLIJEČNOM STAZOM - DOWN THE MILKY WAY'', a collection of haiku poetry written in both Croatian and English (foreword and afterword by Jane Reichhold and Djurdja Vukelic Rozic, and blurbs by George Swede and Chen-ou Liu). In 2021 he published ''NEXUS HAIKU'', a co-authored and co-created bilingual collection of haiku, senryu, haiku sequences and rengay, where all poems were composed equally and collaboratively during a period of three years by Michael Dudley, Tomislav Maretić and Dejan Pavlinović. Pavlinović publishes his second solo book ''LINIJE ŽIVOTA / LIFE LINES / 生命線'' in 2024, a collection of haiku poetry written in Croatian, English and Japanese (foreword by Nina Kovačić, and blurbs by Michael Dudley and Ikuyo Yoshimura).

''MLIJEČNOM STAZOM - DOWN THE MILKY WAY'' is Pavlinović's first haiku collection and it contains 100 of his haiku poems from a period of 2007-2016, including those published, awarded and commended ones on various competitions. The book is entirely bilingual (Croatian and English) since he writes and publishes in both languages. The foreword was written by the eminent American author and theorist of haiku poetry and other short Japanese forms, Jane Reichhold. The afterword was written by Djurdja Vukelic Rozic, one of the leading poets and promoters of haiku poetry in Croatia and its wider region. Respectable and awarded authors George Swede and Chen-ou Liu contributed with their short blurbs. The book received excellent reviews, among others also in notable haiku magazines, such as BLITHE SPIRIT (the official journal of the British Haiku Society), FROGPOND (the official journal of the Haiku Society of America) and the Japanese haiku magazine SENRYU TO.

''NEXUS HAIKU'' is a co-authored and co-created bilingual (English and Croatian) collection of haiku, senryu, haiku sequences and rengay. All poems were composed equally and collaboratively during a period of three years by Michael Dudley, Tomislav Maretić and Dejan Pavlinović. Working co-operatively together on the poems created an ebb-and-flow process that allowed continual opportunities for organic expressions of complementary energies; complexities of ideas; shifts of perspectives; and juxtapositions of personal and cultural experiences, perceptions, and memories. The 120 pages of the book have been enriched with Sanela Pliško's foreword and Nina Šestanović's illustrations, as well as blurbs written by Gilles Fabre and Đurđa Vukelić Rožić. The authors of NEXUS haiku are established haiku poets whose haiku poems have been awarded and commended in many Canadian, Croatian and international competitions, and have been published in numerous national and international haiku magazines, newspapers, websites and anthologies. NEXUS haiku is the winner of the 2021 Borivoj Bukva Award for best haiku collection published in Croatia, presented by the Croatian Literary Society.

''LINIJE ŽIVOTA / LIFE LINES / 生命線'' is Pavlinović's third (second solo) collection of haiku poetry comprising 100 haiku poems, including those published, awarded, and commended in various domestic and international competitions. The book has 156 pages, and is trilingual (Croatian, English, and Japanese), with the English translations of the poems done by the author himself, as he writes and publishes in both Croatian and English, while the Japanese translations are the work of Japanese poet Ikuyo Yoshimura. The foreword was written by the distinguished Croatian haiku poet Nina Kovačić, and the book features short reviews by renowned Canadian poet Michael Dudley and translator and poet Ikuyo Yoshimura. Additional contributors include Sanela Pliško (co-editor), Matko Plovanić (cover, layout, and design), and Thierry Dubois (illustrations). The book is published by TONDAK in 2024.