Award-winning Author of Esperanto Haiku

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Among my varied accomplishments, I can now add that I am an award-winning author of Esperanto-language haiku. And I get a pound of free Raos Coffee!

I have been writing a lot of haiku lately and posting them to my twitter feed -- partly for napowrimo and partly just because. Twitter is perfect for haiku: the shortness and the empherality of the medium. (Although I am informed that the Library of Congress is going to archive all twitter posts.)

In any event, I was primed when I saw that Raos was having a contest and I submitted two haiku:

vintra dimanĉo... paruoj manĝas semojn mi trinkas kafon

a wintry Sunday... chickadees eat their birdseed I drink my coffee

and

unua kafo kaj varma kaj vapora... atendas ĵurnal'

today's first coffee hot with the steam still rising... the newspaper waits

They haven't said which one they liked better. I had also written this haiku years ago, thinking about Raos:

homoj kaj birdoj... la frumatena babilad'... ĉe la kafejo

people and songbirds... early morning conversations at the coffeeshop