Friday, Feb, 27, 2026: Two Tanka by Barbara Anna Gaiardoni

 Tanka 1 

Inspired by the Yellow Wax stone "The Great Overhang"

New Year's Eve 

in the dim light 

of the room 

the wind writes stories 

in our voids

(Originally published in VSANA, January 2026 - Link: https://www.vsana.org/ppp-44-jan-1--26)

Tanka 2 (Unpublished)

spring protest 

chocolate flowers 

in the guns 

my boots started 

to splosh

© Barbara Anna Gaiardoni

Barbara Anna Gaiardoni is an Italian pedagogist and author. Her Japanese-style poetry has been published in various magazines and translated into 12 languages. A winner of the 7th Basho International English Haiku Competition and a two-time Touchstone Award nominee (2023, 2024), she was recently named among the European Top 100 most creative haiku authors in 2025. Her work has consistently featured in The Mainichi’s "Best of" lists and received Honorable Mentions at the Fujisan Tanka Contest (2024, 2025). 

Drawing, swimming in the sea, and walking in nature are her passions.

Friday, July 11, 2025: Two Haiku by Barbara Anna Gaiardoni

 

dog-day cicada a fence post

*

view of the sea and sunset an asterisk

(Haiku Girl Summer, Aug 03, 2024)

© 2025 Barbara Anna Gaiardoni

Barbara Anna Gaiardoni is among the winners of the 7th Basho  -  an international English Haiku Competition and has been nominated twice in the Touchstone Award 2023 and 2024,

She has been recognized in The Mainichi’s Haiku in English Best list for 2023 and 2024 and received an Honorable Mention at the Fujisan Tanka Contest 2024.

Her Japanese-style poetry has been published in 250 international magazines and translated into 12 languages.

Drawing, swimming in the sea and walking in nature are her passions.

"I can, I must, I want" is her motto.

http://barbaragaiardoni.altervista.org/blog/haikuco-2/

Friday, June 7, 2024: Two haiku by Barbara Anna Gaiardoni

 

- dying ants

a small cloud

of cinders

*

flower moon

darken me

erase me

                                                                                    photo by Andrea Vanacore

Barbara Anna Gaiardoni is winner of the First Prize 2023 “Zheng Nian Cup” National Literature Price and finalist of the Edinburgh “Writings Leith” contest. She received two nominations for the Touchstone Award 2023, recognized on the Haiku Euro Top 100 list for 2023 and on The Mainichi’s Haiku in English Best 2023. Her Japanese-style poems has been published in 163 international journals. They are been translated on Japanese, Romanian, Arabic, Malayalam, Hindi, French, Chinese, Korean, Turkic and in Spanish languages.

Drawing, swimmer and walking in nature are her passions.

"I can, I must, I will do it” her motto.

http://barbaragaiardoni.altervista.org/blog/haikuco-2/