PROLJEĆE:Zima dala pete,topola baca perje,klepeću rode.
Spring:Winter's taken to its heels,the poplar sheds its feathers,the storks clack their bills.
OLUJA:Oblaci plaču,zvijezda vara mjeseca,gromovi ječe.
Storm:The clouds are weeping,a star is cheating on the moon,the thunders groan.
SVITANJE:Mjesec se gasi,pijetao kljuca zoru,miriše jutro.
Dawn:The moon is fading,a rooster pecks at the dawn,the morning's fragrant.
AEROBIK:Poludjela perava,ne da više mlika,legla pod avion,hoće aero bika!
Aerobics:The cow has gone quite mad,no milk-pail's getting full,she's lain beneath a plane:she wants an aero-bull!
Valpovo, 1998.
Valpovo, 1998
Translator's note. Three haiku and a joke quatrain; in the last, "aerobik" (aerobics) is heard as "aero bik", an "aero bull".