Vanguard Haiku
August 2017
Haiku page 3 - Vanguard Haiku
Vanguard Haiku
First Place
lover's touch
the peony unfolds
pink by pink
Debbi Antebi
Second Place
crossing the border
I become someone
else
Ernest Wit
Third Place
winter wind
the way her nipples crinkled
a lover long dead
David Oates
Seven Honourable Mention
(In no particular order)
ice cold water
tasting the numbness
of your absence
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan
cursing
the blinking cursor …
writer's block
Amy Losak
thinking about you
over the time it takes
a dewdrop to fall
Michael Galko
lived alone
the phone rings
in the dead man’s house
David Oates
on a bicycle
learning to balance again—
sixty-three years young
Priscilla H. Lignori
Syrian truce
first snow falling on
a roofless town
Damir Janialija
what dreams
are made of -
spider silk
Debbi Antebi
Zatsuei
(Haiku of Merit)
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