haiku,page4,august2009
Haiku Page 4, August 2009
World Haiku Review, Volume 7, Issue 2, August 2009
Vanguard Haiku
First Place
rain-tickled wood fence
leans one way, then the other
dividing nothing
Lucien Zell, Czech Republic
Second Place
new amputee
notices the missing
limbs of trees
André Surridge, New Zealand
Third Place
cat getting old -
every day his bell
nearer the pavement
John McDonald, Scotland
Seven Honourable Mentions
(In no particular order)
I seek Him, for a I mocked Death
Connection, child at home asks He winked back
Am I not the One? I blinked first
Mrs. Arati Anand, USA Mike Gallagher, Ireland
Thrush thrums snails shell din-dins
Mike Gallagher, Ireland
wet from the pool do the blades of grass
I re-immerse myself feel my limitations
in rumours of war as I sit upon them?
William Hart Kristin Reynolds
reading in the rain haiku writer
a good book is destroyed and cardboard collector
by how good it is making a pile
Lucien Zell, Czech Republic Tad I.Wojnicki, Taiwan
Zatsuei: Haiku of Merit
(In no particular order)
sun journeying Flies copulating
I faltered in my sleep On his priestly pate, sticky,
dawn that side Hairy flieś organs.
Seshu Chamarty , India Frank Corcoran
hey! stop and take care in the grave
of this future butterfly - a memory
caterpillar's crossing no more
Diane Descôteaux, Canada Mike Gallagher, Ireland
l overs torn asunder a kitten plays
not by jealousy or distance with its shadow
but by a bomb’s blast orphan child
Victor P. Gendrano, USA
The cat moves slowly Single tree freezing
Suspended in time leaping Shorter than friend now lamppost
Through the vacant glass Comfortless lighting
Erik Knutsen, Canada
today - i take creation is mystical
the same path as yesterday vast value of life
- what's today, what's yesterday compressed in a seed
Zoran Mimica Pravat Kumar Padhy, India
Books which fall and drop amateur climbers
Backwards as I think desecrate a
Might have had a drink sacred mountain
G. David Schwartz, USA Carmel Lively Westerman, USA
Future
past foot prints She waits for a man,
bought present Snowflakes over her body,
foot steps to follow Melting her cold heart.
Praveen Venugopal, Guy Shakedk Israel
United Arab Emirates
[modernist sequence ]
none but the invisible nun
hiding under
a veil of sunlight
the invisible nun
stark naked before
his puzzled eminence
the invisible nun
thinner than
the eucharist
the invisible nun
a mist
passes the altar
the invisible nun
the priest
feels nothing
the invisible nun
her body
without stain
the invisible nun
the foolish novice
hides behind her
the invisible nun
unapparent on the head
of a pin
the invisible nun
you’ll never know
when you see her
the invisible nun
sister nought
casts no shadow
the invisible nun
John W. Sexton, Ireland