Haiku 1 - Neo Classical
August 2013
Haiku, page 1
Neo Classical
FIRST PLACE
rotating fan
the seconds between
hot and cool
Adelaide B. Shaw
SECOND PLACE
full moon
my empty arms yearn
for her return
Victor P. Gendrano
THIRD PLACE
purple linaria
one shoot weighed down by
a bumblebee
William Seltzer
SEVEN HONOURABLE MENTIONS
(in no particular order)
In the noodle soup
chopsticks pick up
sudden raindrops
Kai Falkman
summer heat
the child's drawing
has two suns
Radka Mindova
thaw—
what was written in winter
is lost
the rain over–
on an impulse I buy
a straw hat
Adelaide B. Shaw
Sherry Weaver Smith
another July
no new memories to add
living on the old
Marie Shimane
plowed field
summer’s warmth
stored in the hay
sunlight
through the pampas grass
his face, in love
Patricia Prime
kate s. godsey
ZATSUEI
(Haiku of Merit, in alphabetical order)