DHG Tanka competition 2023
"Mobility" topic
The winners and the full result of the Kukai!
Congratulations and thanks to all participants!
We received 56 texts from 30 authors.
The DHG jury, consisting of Tony Böhle and Martin Thomas, received the texts anonymously.
At the same time, a Kukai took place by email, in which all participants in the competition received the list of Tanka who had submitted them and gave three Tanka 1, 2 and 3 points; of course not on their own. Of the 30 authors, 28 took part in the evaluation. Two Tanka tied for third place.
Here are the other Tanka with the number of points achieved at the Kukai:
7 points:
railway – country road –
Forest path - wooden path - wildlife path -
free through the hillside forest –
ich bin auf
the right track
Volker Friebel
6 points:
The horizon
becomes further, becomes sea –
sailboats
We set course
the falling light
Volker Friebel
after her first
common night
does he give
the red Porsche
again in payment
Udo Mansfeld
5 points:
the sun loungers quickly
under the umbrella
this holiday rest
after departure
of the neighbor
Claudia Brefeld
wind in the trees
twirls the leaves from the branch
drives her ahead
In the stormy clouds
Horses at full gallop
Bernd Reklies
The yellow maple leaf
flies in front of the scooter's front wheel
and will be run over
yet it wanted to
bring us autumn
Peter Rudolf
the couple on the platform
next to the big suitcase
clutches himself
last announcement
the train departs
Marie Luise Schulze Frenking
4 points:
with crutches
im Schneckentempo
but casual
I overtake them all
in the wheelchair
Friedrich winemaker
ich reise
pack light, the years
I leave behind
so thin the shed skin, so vain
the memory
Stefanie Bucifal
spina bifida
the shining eyes
of the little girl
on first try
of the wheelchair
Marie Luise Schulze Frenking
Home office:
your notebook always
with sea view –
like last month in Cape Town
and next month in Malmo.
Michael Schernikau
Cheat age
I can still do it
with two handrails
I try secretly
a stair lift
Willemina Preiss
In thought
about the heavy ones
Pebbles
hop to the other shore
easy and laughing like a child
Angela Smith
chestnut avenue
on the road to the sea
many crosses
without name and age
some forget
Helga Schulz Blank
Between the street
and my head is sometimes
hardly any difference:
the loose autumn leaves there
and here are my thoughts
Peter Rudolf
3 points:
with a slight smile
timidly step by step
in the hospital corridor
a mountain hike
the seat is way too wide
Bernd Reklies
the dreamed trip around the world
in the mind of the young mother
in view of satisfaction
her radiant children
on the carousel
Wolfgang Roedig
the fancy vehicle
a parking offender
protrudes into the sidewalk
a loudly cursing passer-by
threatens with the cane
Wolfgang Roedig
palpitations when
A look into a strange world
Cardboard Plane –
with the power of imagination
blow up the walls of the institution
Brigitte ten Brink
2 points:
Carpool
with waxing moon
to the mountains.
the morning breaks
but not our silence.
Ivan Georgiev
it's difficult going uphill
downhill with the wind in your face
in the curves
Centrifugal forces - that's how we hug each other
on the roller coaster of love
Gabriele Hartman
in the city
cars from the right and left
from the front and back
I run as fast as I can
until I reach the river
Silvia Kempen
1 point:
green Wave
it's getting tighter and tighter
to give gas
the one behind me over it too
I see it, radar brakes, then it's alright
Sylvia Bacher
with loud screams
race down the slope
on a sled
my childhood was like that too
I would like to be like that now
Silvia Kempen
The day before yesterday Hawaii
Today with a view of the Nile
His workplace
He changes almost every day
the screensaver
Hartmut Fillhardt
He went to work
more than three years on foot
in wind and rain
Today he came home
from the roll
Hartmut Fillhardt
all chairs
stacked up in the tavern
Today is rest day!
Hiking boots soaked
the clouds move on
Frank Sauer
the tracks of the tram
and three by three lanes
around the poppy, the grass
all kinds of wild growth
on the traffic island
Helga Schulz Blank
far to the east
a golden ribbon grazes
the horizon
in the damp earth the
Footprints of refugees
Brigitte ten Brink
ponderous
run two pensioners
to compete
and push laughing
their walkers
Friedrich winemaker
0 points:
the ausgelieh
swung into the saddle
and let's go - the bike
the gears crack
terminus road ditch
Sylvia Bacher
into the distance
remains without sight
the stare
future remains smoke
that obscures targets
Martine Betz
the patter
on the umbrella sea
fills the silence
time flows down the drain
they seemed silent
Martine Betz
Tremble when you take off
the knees and the hands cling to it
the steering cables
the lightness of floating,
before i hit the ground
Heiner Brueckner
pocket watch
jerk after jerk
of the pointer
Yesterday dashes
ticking today
Heiner Brueckner
at the track
one last wave
the train
leaves me behind
in the backdrop of a children's railway
Stefanie Bucifal
the postilion
now as a DHL delivery agent
on road
instead of the blaring post horn
a message by email
Pitt books
at the regulars' meeting
talk for three hours
about flights and cruises…
excellent
the Palatinate Riesling
Birgit Heid
the nose is running
while cycling
I blow my nose in the air...
quickly overtakes me
a school boy
Birgit Heid
Doze on the fly
from continent to continent
Still a few hours. –
Close to the abyss in a wheelchair
Look out to sea again.
Horst Ludwig
80 years ago
the Russians a village away
we westward in the snow…
Well tired on the Pacific
far... far away even Russia...
Horst Ludwig
The needle shows it
and it's not far to the bank
the traffic light to green
but the tears, they flow
upon viewing the account
Willemina Preiss
Retirement home,
wheelchair birthday party,
the great-grandson is beaming
reads from common
memories before.
Saskia Ishikawa Franke
art in prison,
beginning of careers,
MOMA exhibition.
A stone splashing into the water
brings long circular waves.
Saskia Ishikawa Franke
The toy ship
billows his sails
hard starboard
too late the warning call
the dream shatters
Cornelia Rossberg
childhood mobility
I have her again.
My red scooter
scrap for a long time.
I want the wind again
feel it in your hair.
Cornelia Rossberg
Arrivals
in Hakata on the Shinkansen.
steel Pegasus,
how far away it is
Hamburg Central Station!
Michael Schernikau
seasonal
sold in the parking lot
the workforce
trapped in trailer
of your own film
Annika Carmen Schmidt
a game of thrones
jump to the barrier-free place
as long as you still can
because 'winter is coming'
strong for everyone in the house
Annika Carmen Schmidt
Before -
they live from each other
far cry
still after years
the joy of seeing each other
Angelica Seithe
On the plane
after London turmoil
your neighbor
flies unbuckled –
up to the ceiling
Angelica Seithe
