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World Haiku Review, Volume 6 Issue 4, October 2008
Vanguard Haiku, Issue 4
THE BEST TEN
FIRST PLACE
sunny day -
why not get
the divorce papers?
Owen Bullock
SECOND PLACE
cabinetmaker
the mortice joints
on his coffin
John Bird
THIRD PLACE
adoption center
she colors her mom black
her dad no face
Victor P. Gendrano
SEVEN HONOURABLE MENTIONS
(In no particular order)
In the morning,
The suit, the tie, the watch…
At night, only you!
Abhinav Maurya
Season of mellow
Yellow fruit; ripeness is all
Too tired to die
Frank Corcoran
Gathering firewood
One life giving up their soul
For another's warmth
Kristin Reynolds
relationship's end:
he calls the baby
his fuck trophy
Richard Stevenson
Swords to bombs:
At war with one another,
At war with ourselves
Abhinav Maurya
a tiny twig trembles
in the blast of wind
first marital quarrel
Victor P. Gendrano
I told him, "Good boy."
His curled tail wagged one last time.
The vet said, "He's gone."
Elizabeth Ewing
OTHER HAIKU OF MERIT
(Zatsu-ei)
depression;
winds thrash the trees,
no rains- whatever it is!
Aju Mukhopadhyay
Trepidation spills
From your every orifice
Revelation lost
Kristin Reynolds
SEQUENCES
Canoe Trip 2008
Algonquin Park
Ontario, Canada
Driving through tall pines
dragonflies in and out
of dappled light
Small fires
flicker on a far shore
more stars
The silence
between waterfall--a heron
high overhead
Old logging camp
lost in head high ferns
is the ferns
Raven answers
my call
(what did we say?)
Reflector oven
from a new angle
canoe trips long past
The children's tent
glows in the dark
playing hearts
Small lake
a loon needs the whole circumference
to ascend
Sound of rapids fades
washboard roads
turn to highway
Back in the city--
a supermarket sparrow
searches for a way out
John Scarlett
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