Haiku page 2 - Shintai
April 2014
Shintai Haiku
FIRST PLACE
his worried eye
catches my weary one
spring crow
Bruce Ross
SECOND PLACE
THIRD PLACE
day's end -
holding moonlight
in our embrace
Arvinder Kaur
our fingertips touch
unseen sparks charge my soul
voltaic desire
Jim Grotkowski
SEVEN HONOURABLE MENTIONS
(in no particular order)
scent of jasmine -
hairpins come loose
from her bun
Arvinder Kaur
splendor
in someone else’s lawn
dandelions
Sue Burke
cherry blossom viewing
with him on the mat
only the fallen petals
Anusha Tennakoon
first spring after...
the cherry he planted
bursts into blossom
Natalia Kuznetsova
gorgeous waitress smiles
recent widower
touches his ring finger
Pranav H Kodial
quiet fresh green spring garden
cherry trees blooming
explosion of pink
Carolanne Reynolds
forget-me-not
his promises
start to fade
Shloka Shankar
ZATSUEI
(Haiku of Merit ,in alphabetical order)