Shintai Haiku
January 2015
Haiku page 2
Shintai Haiku
(New-style haiku)
FIRST PLACE
his ever long face
looks longer and longer
winter solstice
Natalia Kuznetsova
SECOND PLACE
THIRD PLACE
a last glance back
I step into a new year
you cannot follow
Marie Shimane
warm cat
cold night
one pillow
Anne Kim
SEVEN HONORABLE MENTIONS
(In no particular order)
cold rain
composing for a pianist
not yet born
Bill Cooper
camellia blooms
and yet this feeling
of emptiness
Michael Henry Lee
child refugee
she sticks out her tongue
to taste snowflakes
Chen-ou Liu
family reunion —
snow bridging
the gaps
Carl Seguiban
the summer moon
taunts wild dreams
of youthful exuberance
Marilyn Linn
winter sun
cool tone of her
warm words
Gabriel Sawicki
at the hospice
filling another room —
autumn wind
Carl Seguiban
ZATSUEI
(Haiku of Merit, in no particular order)