Haiku page 3 - Vanguard

January 2014

VANGUARD HAIKU

FIRST PLACE

silent dinner---

mind so full of

the unspoken

Gracy D'Souza

SECOND PLACE

THIRD PLACE

bronze lincoln statue

old black man on a park bench

snores whistling dixie

Tyson West

morning after...

within her tangled tresses

wilted rose

Gautam Nadkarni

SEVEN HONORABLE MENTIONS

(IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)

castle cannons―

pointing where their owners

have gone by

Adjei Agyei-Baah

a grown man

on a swing ...

nightfall

S.M. Abeles

Twin bed.

Our baby tries

to find her space.

Mahrukh Bulsara

ancient graveyard

old oak roots raising

a fallen angel

Elizabeth Howard

heavy rain

will the future be there

when we arrive?

Maxianne Berger

family reunion

our aunt reminds us

I was the mistake

Vera Constantineau

cancer ward

her scrabbled list

for the final trip

Elizabeth Howard

ZATSUEI

(HAIKU OF MERIT)

HAIKU DERIVATIVES

Victor P. Gendrano

Philippine Typhoon Haiyin

(Haiku sequence)

quirk of nature

a mega typhoon hits

the Philippines

thousands died

and countless homeless

and hungry people abound

like the bamboo

of my ancestral land

the Filipino spirit

remains indomitable

it may be bent

but still stands

amidst shanties' debris

and rotting corpses

a new-born cries

to world-wide aid

they bow in thanks and say

Maraming salamat po!