Vasile Moldovan

Haiku in Romanian and English
English translations by the author

 

la vamă
soarele asfinţeşte
în altă ţară

at the custom house
the sun is setting
in another country

 

 

bărci prin trestiiş –
pelicanii îşi schimbă
locul de pescuit

boats through the reed fields –
the pelicans are changing
their fishing place

 

Vasile Moldovan, born in a Transylvanian village in 1949, is co-founder (1991) and chairman (2009) of the Romanian Haiku Society. He has published five haiku books: Via Dolorosa, The Moon’s Unseen Face, Noah’s Ark, Ikebana and On a Summer Day; and together with Magdalena Dale the renku book Fragrance of Lime.