Haiku Page 1 - Neo Classical
April 2014
Neo Classical Haiku
FIRST PLACE
spring cleaning —
this futile search for
my lost youth
Gautam Nadkarni
SECOND PLACE
THIRD PLACE
spring cleaning
my vacuum sucks up
pitch black winter blues.
Karin Anderson
falling blossoms
aging into detachment
I pick up my cane
Marie Shimane
SEVEN HONOURABLE MENTIONS
(in no particular order)
spring field
cottony clouds drift
into nothingness
Shloka Shankar
bloomed magnolia tree
a man lifts his daughter up
to smell a blossom
Priscilla H. Lignori
пролетен дъжд
в изоставената градина
дъга от цветя
spring rain
in the desolate garden
a rainbow of flowers
Hristina Pandjaridis - Bulgaria
Translation Vesisslava Savova
surviving snowdrop
after the hoof
early spring
Maya Kisyova
spring wind
my new hat
takes flight
André Surridge
spring storm
hailstones
in his turn-ups
André Surridge
first spring growth
the weeds he said
he dug up
Jeanne Cook
ZATSUEI
(Haiku of Merit, in alphabetical order)