Simply Haiku - July 2003, Volume 1, Number 2

Volume 1, Number 2, August 2003

Vid Vukasovic

Vid Vukasovic has published haiku, haibun and other poems in various periodicals, collections and anthologies. These include Haiku World (William J. Higginson, Japan, 1996); The Anthology of Contemporary Yugoslav Poetry (Taiwan, 1997; Peking, 1998); and the
Knots Anthology of Southeastern European Haiku Poetry (Dimitar Anakiev, Jim Kacian, Tolmin, Slovenia, 1999).

Vid has won a number of prizes for haiku in Yugoslavia and abroad. He has published two haiku collections: Kutija od svile (The Box Made of Silk, in Serbian, Belgrade 1994); and The Little Laughing Rainbows (in English, Belgrade, 1995). He also edited the haiku web
site The Rainbow Petal. He has published two books of dramas: Srebrna kopca sna (The Silver Clasp of Dreams, Belgrade 1993); and Il Mondo di Arianna (in Italian, Bari, 1994). Two of his radio dramas won awards in 1989.

Running across the field
The boy steers his kite
Towards the rainbow

In the old fishpond
a school of young fishes
mingled with the rainbow

In every tear
Of the hungry child
At least a rainbow

In the fishpond
Mirrored the boy, his dreams
And the rainbow

A distant glider
Just approaching the rainbow
Will he ever return