Haiku Page 2, Dec 2012
December 2012
Shintai Haiku
First Place
your hospital gown
your unworn winter clothing
still kept packed away
Marie Shimane
Second Place
a tear of sorrow
on the daisy’s last petal
he loves me not
Mary Alves Sella
Third Place
Christmas Eve
the homeless shelter
runs out of turkey
Alicia Hilton
Seven Honourable Mentions
(in no particular order)
frozen creek
a trapped moon
wriggles for freedom
Adjei Agyei-Baah
after the breakup
a midday wind joins my walk
then the winter moon
Brian Robertson
did I tell you
more than you could bear?
winter hyacinth
Tzetzka Ilieva
Snowfall
feathers from
a hawk’s prey
Vladislav Hristov
going home
I look for the smoke
from the chimney
Radka Mindova
my winter shawl
never long enough
to wrap up the earth
Vladislav Hristov
Gettysburg
the hushed silence
of fallen snow
Gregory Longenecker
Zatsuei, Haiku of Merit
( in the alphabetical order of authors’ surname)