Poet Profile

Diana Petkova

Diana Petkova is a teacher from Dolna Banya, Bulgaria. She has been writing haiku for several years.

Awards and Other Honors: 6th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum (2014); World Haiku Review (2015); Ershik (2015); Sharpening the Green Pencil (2015).

snow melts 
the last drop 
in the bowl of the beggar

cigarette smoke 
to the heavens 
a connecting thread

black cloud
below it
houses grow old

crisis
men in the café
are reading papers

heat and thirst –
the river swings
woman's hips

feeling of fall
the last swallow landed
my window

Credits: "snow melts" – World Haiku Review (June 2015); "black cloud"- Brass Bell Haiku (August 2014); "heat and thirst"- 4th Sharpening the Green Pencil (2015); "cigarette smoke"- 6th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum (November 2014); "crisis" – Ershik (January 2015, and May 2015); "feeling of fall"- World Haiku Review (January 2015).