Vanguard Haiku
January 2015
Haiku page 3
Vanguard Haiku
FIRST PLACE
second opinion —
hopeless with grief
I feel my breast
Gautam Nadkarni
SECOND PLACE
THIRD PLACE
a wheelchair-bound boy
watching a kite get loose,
boundless skies above
Natalia Kuznetsova
setting sun
taking my thoughts
beyond the horizon
Maria Tomczak
SEVEN HONORABLE MENTIONS
(In no particular orde4
cancer ward ...
through the thin curtain
the sickle moon
Cezar-Florin Ciobîcă
slug graffiti on the walls
glittering in the morning light
so much to say
Richard Kay
sprouting from the plant
in a dead soldier’s helmet
sunflower
Ronny Noor
winter dusk —
I turn the last page
of my life
Gautam Nadkarni
no message
no letter
no phone call
James D. Fuson
the distant mirror
in this holiday restaurant --
my loneliness shows
Marie Shimane
human hope
long shadow between
sunrise and sunset
Stanilova
ZATSUEI
(Haiku of Merit, in alphabetical order)