Haiku Page 3, Dec 2012
December 2012
Vanguard Haiku
First Place
each month your tombstone
washed in anger and in love
questions still remain
Marie Shimane
Second Place
Third Place
watering
the zen garden
with water
Owen Bullock
made of paper
I fold myself and lean
into the wind
S.M. Abeles
Seven Honourable Mentions
(in no particular order)
` new widower
a brisk wind opens
his empty mailbox
Victor P. Gendrano
he discovers
a periwinkle on the beach
but not himself
Owen Bullock
silver night falls,
twilight jousts dusk for
poetic supremacy
Helen Frost
Father’s icy hand
rests in mine while we wait -
the cancer clinic
Mary Alves Sella
snowflakes
falling on the suitcase
falling on me
Tzetzka Ilieva
fallen leaves
reflecting on how death
will pluck mine someday
Adjei Agyei-Baah
burial ground
still holding onto his ring
on my finger
Adjei Agyei-Baah
Zatsuei, Haiku of Merit
(in alphabetical order)
my father's footsteps the size of every morning
S.M. Abeles