NEW HOPE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW

This is the English version of an antholgy published by The Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy as part of their Festival of Cosmopoetry. Around half the contributors are school-children.

There is much use of metaphor and whilst the works would be welcome in the context of scifaiku not many really pass muster as haiku.

My two favourites are this by Marian Truta

	Seagulls — the crying 
	of the ocean which cannot 
	drown the earth

	Vastness — the pencil 
	which I use for writing 
	about the Universe

	Model rocket —
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	the gravitation laws.

hai-ku — the wish to overrun the flashing ineffable of a moment for eternity.
hai-ku — the inclusion of infinity.
The whole universe is a haiku. It is contained only by itself, but contains all. The Big Bang is the premise for beginning, is the feeble sound heard in the radiation of microwaves of 2.73K. The people are the conclusion of the Universe, the people are the feeble and strong sound through their sublime and terrible facts. The reflection of the Universe in the people's consciousness is the strong sound, whole Cosmos becoming aware through its existence in the people's mind. And if after times a Big Crunch will exist, the Universe discovered itself through the peoples' hai-ku for a moment.