Blind date

Blind date 

Wall clock ticks 

Louder and louder

My above haiku poem was published in the Asahi Haikuist Network; June 19, 2026.

Haiku

My haiku poem and my reflections were published in the March 6, 2026 issue of the Asahi Haikuist Network: 

"At an outdoor cafe in Warsaw, Poland, Anna Goluba wrote: "Writing is irresistible; you never know when and where haiku will catch you, take control of you; it can be at the restaurants, coffee bars, everywhere…at the same time it’s totally releasing.""

Haiku

Written on the napkins…

Horses on fire

Stillness

Stillness

Of the steel seas

Long winter’s nap 

My above haiku poem was published in the Asahi Haikuist Network; January 16, 2026. 

Autumnal leaf

Autumnal leaf 

Shaking

Before making a decision

My another haiku poem was published in the Asahi Haikuist Network; October 17, 2025. 

Lying down

Lying down on the grass

I just let it all go 

Again

My above haiku poem was published in the Asahi Haikuist Network; July 18, 2025. 

Breaking news

Breaking news

Distrust in the eyes

Of the frozen fish

Published in the Asahi Haikuist Network; June 20, 2025. 

My above haiku poem was also published in Haikuniverse; a daily haiku or micro-poem; January 23, 2022.

A bit of magic

A bit of magic: a squirrel 

Jumped into a pile of leaves

And reappeared in my dream 

My above haiku poem has been published in the Asahi Haikuist Network; October 4, 2024. 

Stillness

My haiku poem, along with the editor David McMurray’s comment, was published in the August 16, 2024 issue of the Asahi Haikuist Network: "Anna Goluba said that she was inspired to write a poem describing not only the present situation in Warsaw, Poland - reflections piercing the water surface of the pond - but also the parallel worlds piercing each other beyond time".

Stillness

Our reflections in the pond

Before we came there

A white butterfly

A white butterfly 

On her ring finger

June wedding 

My above haiku poem was published in the Asahi Haikuist Network; June 21, 2024. 

Anthropocene

My haiku poem, along with the editor David McMurray’s comment, was published in the January 19, 2024 issue of the Asahi Haikuist Network: 

„Anna Goluba noticed people cowering in Warsaw, Poland.” 

Anthropocene 

Even creatures without shells

Hide inside them deeply

Fewer remain

Fewer remain

After he left his hometown

The lawn gnomes

My above haiku poem was published in the Asahi Haikuist Network; January 5, 2024. 

They neither cry

They neither cry 

Nor smile as he leaves…

The lawn gnomes 

My above haiku poem was published in the Asahi Haikuist Network; December 29, 2023. 

Meteor shower

 

My haiku poem, along with the editor David McMurray’s comment, was published in the August 18, 2023 issue of the Asahi Haikuist Network:


„While reading a haiku about the Milky Way in Matsuo Basho’s travelogue, Anna Goluba began to daydream in Warsaw, Poland. She dreamed she was choosing flowers from heaven for the grave of someone who had been very close. Those flowers were magical: stronger, taller and more colorful than those from her neighborhood flower market. Awakening from her dream, she concluded that meteors are heaven’s flowers and symbolize the soul. The body dies, but life never ends.”


Meteor shower
Above the concrete jungle
Heaven’s flowers

 

Heavy rain

 

My haiku poem, along with the editor David McMurray’s comment, was published in the May 16, 2023 issue of the Asahi Haikuist Network:
 

„Anna Goluba observed poetry roll down the streets of Warsaw, Poland, noting it’s an “image which can be seen on many streets of the cities around the whole world.””
 

Heavy rain
Protesting farmers’ tractors
Roll in the city

 

The Potato Eaters

 

My haiku poem, along with the editor David McMurray’s comment, was published in the May 19, 2023 issue of the Asahi Haikuist Network:  

 

„Writing from Warsaw, Poland, Anna Goluba was inspired by the harsh reality of country life depicted in Vincent van Gogh’s 1885 painting.”


The Potato Eaters
Generations tied down
To this table 

 

 

 

 Vincent van Gogh, „The Potato Eaters” 

 

Date after years

 

Date after years
Our past incarnations still
Order the same wine



Published in the Asahi Haikuist Network; April 21, 2023.

 

Autumn evening

 

Autumn evening
Across the ocean of a puddle
Ant on the leaf



Published in the Asahi Haikuist Network; October 21, 2022.
My above haiku was originally published in The Bamboo Hut (2020).

War

 

War, first time so close…
I memorize
Another poem



Published in the Asahi Haikuist Network; August 5, 2022. 

 

Once upon a time

 

Once upon a time
I collected stamps in a world
Without wars



Published in the Asahi Haikuist Network; July 29, 2022.  

 

Immortal grasshopper.

 

My two haiku, along with the comment by the editor David McMurray, were published in the May 6, 2022 issue of the Asahi Haikuist Network: 

 

“Anna Goluba checked on a little neighbor in Warsaw, Poland, whom she mentioned in the April 29, 2016 issue of the Asahi Haikuist Network”: From among green blades Its stubborn stare... Grasshopper.


Deepening twilight
Still hidden under green blades
Grasshopper