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August 2012
Neo-Classical Haiku
First Place
drowning the cicada's song ...
the swift currents of
the Kiyotaki River
Lawrence 慈光 Barrow
Second Place
midsummer -
dropping a bucket
into a deep well
Lawrence 慈光 Barrow
Third Place
July fourth
the patio littered with
watermelon seeds
Mary Alves Sella
Seven Honourable Mentions
(in no particular order)
thunderclap--
we’re cast into darkness
by a lightning flash
DW Bender
too hot to care -
in my tea on an ice cube
a fly on a fly
Carol Raisfeld
a summer leaf
taps me on the shoulder
what did I forget?
William Hart
summer rain
leaves everything shining
except my dead lawn
Marilyn Linn
summer doldrums
a trash truck parks its smell
and moves on
William Hart
At dawn the silence
broken by the light footsteps --
a summer jogger
Priscilla Lignori
in a rose garden
remembering the beginning --
faded promises
Marie Shimane
Zatsuei
(Haiku of Merit , in no particular order in terms of merit but in the alphabetical order of authors’ surname)
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