Haiku, August 2009
World Haiku Review, Volume 7, Issue 2, August 2009
Traditional Haiku
First Place
sounding
the wind-chime
hailstones
André Surridge, New Zealand
Second Place
tropical shower –
the potter throws her pot
anyway
Francis Masat, USA
Third Place
summer dawn...
the distant echo of
a fisherman's oars
Keith A. Simmonds, Trinidad & Tobago
Seven Honourable Mentions
(In no particular order)
broken shutter —
a flood of moonlight
on the floor
Gautam Nadkarni, India
all afternoon
the patter of autumn rain...
first knitting lesson
Susan Constable, Canada
fire in the hearth
an old man’s eyes
absorb the warmth
Ljubomir Dragovic', Bosna i Hercegovina
bow string thrums
the arrow pierces the fall air
where the buck had been
Ignatius Fay, Canada
weeping willow branch
holds tiny water globes
plop - they fall and are gone
Candy Fresacher, Austria
a flash of lightning
the sound of thunder
never arrives
Francis Masat, USA
sipping a juice
we move to the shady side
of the banyan
Narayanan Raghunathan, India