Neo Classical Haiku
WHR December 2019
Neo Classical Haiku
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First Place
a winter walk
stirrings once clearly heard
low echo in old bones
Marie Shimane
Second Place
Third Place
Autumn leaves falling—
someday I too will return
to where I came from
ice, sticks and fists
fly in all directions
ice hockey
Priscilla H. Lignori
John J. Han
Seven Honourable Mention
(In no particular order)
on a branching twig
a crane fly larva stretches
into the future
Stuart Jay Silverman
golden afternoon
the long grasses
bend toward autumn
summer solstice
distant wind chimes
melt the silence
Mary Stevens
Patricia Daharsh
sunless day
goat melts frosted shoots
with its tongue
factory windows
a migrant boy clearing up
the winter sky
Nina Kovacic
(English translation by Djurdja Vukelic Rozic)
Chen-ou Liu
canoe trip--
drifting through
summer clouds
October rain
the old umbrella
fails to open
Kevin Valentine
Sanjuktaa Asopa
Zatsuei