Haiku, March 2009, page 5

World Haiku Review, Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2009

Haiku March 2009, Page 5

Seven Honourable Mentions

(In no particular order)

old window

its pattern of light and dust

there that's me

Maxianne Berger, Canada

the painter strives, toils

to recreate what nature

paints effortlessly

Sam yada Cannarozzi, France

we go halves

on the cost

of the divorce

moving day -

the last wardrobe

his son’s dresses

Owen Bullock

wheelchair bound

the veteran feeds

a one-legged bird

Victor P. Gendrano, USA

Emergency Room

trying not to hear

other moans

Peggy Heinrich

between the birth

and cry of my baby

my breath

_kala, India

Other Haiku of Merit

ancient city

all jumbled

by modern art

Maxianne Berger, Canad

Puddle of blood

Slaughterhouse

Under the moon

a Marc Bonetto, France

critical care –

her daughters talking again

to each other

93-year-old

I find a tissue-wrapped lock

of her son’s hair

Susan Constable, Canada

in the tomb

hieroglyphs of remembrance

desert storm

Raffael de Gruttola, USA

Abandoned farmhouse

Old tree bones in stark landscape

Crows sit sentinel

Krow Fisher, Canada

War Poems

(Haiku sequence)

pitch black night

they wonder where

the next bomb will drop

bombing respite

she frees her red-stained doll

from the rubble

pockmarked garden

a white lily inches up

just for a day

a vulture eyes

the child crawling

from hunger

Victor P. Gendrano, USA

morning playground

the fifty foot shadow

of the bully

richard krawiec

orphanage...

in the shade

of trees

K. Ramesh, India

after separation

sleep with

a teddy bear

Zoran D. Mimica

she smiles at me

and serves the machine

that cuts turkey's heads

cranberry bog –

i walk

to forget my past

Kristin Reynolds, USA

watching children play

i sit alone

calling out to no one

crow? raven?

this silly human

who cares

Ann K. Schwader, USA

worthless

without their sand

souvenir shells

solid faith

devotees pray to

headless buddha

john tiong chunghoo

age disadvantage

mom asks whether i am

older than my younger brother

Infinity devouvering

Remains of the moon

A requiem of a dream

Rajib Phukan, India

At the head of

a funeral procession -

the happy stray dog.

Antonic Zoran, Serbia

to hell with love

the third time she marries

for money

Carmel Lively Westerman

Haiku Poet’s Corner

Poems by Moussia Fantoli, Roma, Italy

sole all’alba

le finestre del cuore

già spalancate

sun at dawn

the windows of the heart

opened

cade la pioggia

sui tetti e sulle strade

tamburi d’acqua

rain falls

on the roofs and streets

water drums

sola in cielo

la luna e soli noi

sopra la terra

alone in the sky

the moon and alone we

on the earth

stanca la luna

sulla montagna posa

il suo chiarore

tired the moon

rests on the mountain

its light

Haiku Poets Featured in this Issue

(In alphabetical order)

Alexander Ask

Patricia Benedict, Canada

Maxianne Berger, Canada

Marc Bonetto, France

Owen Bullock

Sam yada Cannarozzi, France

Susan Constable, Canada

"Catbird", Armando H. Corbelle, USA

Gillena Cox, TT

Raffael de Gruttola, USA

Tatjana Debeljacki

Moussia Fantoli, Italy

Krow Fisher, Canada

Laryalee Fraser, Canada

Damien Gabriels, France

Margot Gallant, Canada

Victor P. Gendrano, USA

Michael Hartman

Peggy Heinrich

Dennis M. Holmes, USA

Terry Ishii, USA

Hans Jongman, Canada

William Hart

Howard Lee Kilby, USA

richard krawiec

Catherine J.S. Lee

Kumarendra Mallick

Tomislav Maretic, Croatia

Clare McCotter, N. Ireland

John McDonald, UK

Zoran D. Mimica

isabella mori, Canada

Aju Mukhopadhyay, India

Narayanan, India

Hisanori Ogane, Japan

Origa, USA

Dick Pettit

Rajib Phukan, India

Linda Pilarski, Canada

Patrick M. Pilarski, Canada

Anna Plesums

Zhanna P. Rader, USA

Kala Ramesh, India

K. Ramesh, India

Kristin Reynolds, USA

Bruce Ross, USA

Riitta Rossilahti

Djurdja Vukelic Rozic, Croatia

Ann K. Schwader, USA

Adelaide B. Shaw, USA

Marie Shimane, Japan

R.K.Singh, India

William Sorlien, USA

Bogdanka Stojanovsky, Serbia

André Surridge, New Zealand

john tiong chunghoo

Saša Va ic', Serbia

Anita Virgil, USA

Carmel Lively Westerman

Nora Wood

Jadran Zalokar

Antonic Zoran, Serbia