Haiku 2 : Shintai Haiku

August 2012

Shintai Haiku

First Place

mosquito on my hand

gently sucking blood ~

I let him have his meal

Vishnu Narayanan

Second Place

inside the empty shell, snail’s dreams

Anatoly Kudryavitsky

Third Place

A small ladybug

escorted into the night

on my husband's thumb

Priscilla Lignori

Seven Honourable Mentions

(in no particular order)

unscheduled stop

a scarecrow welcomes us

with open arms

Anatoly Kudryavitsky

first lightning

ripping the sky in two...

you and i

Natalia Kuznetsova

summer rain

sun takes a

quick bath

Pravat Kumar Padhy

The mare’s brown eyes

see me through the fly mask

and blink

Tricia Knoll

even now

morning glories still bloom

still unaware

Marie Shimane

july sky

the universe unfolds

in a cloud’s drift

Jay Friedenberg

down the village road

curry’s aroma

filling the evening air

Ronny Noor

Zatsuei

(Haiku of Merit , in no particular order in terms of merit but in the alphabetical order of authors’ surname)