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