haikupage3,august2009
Haiku, Page 3, August 2009
World Haiku Review, Volume 7, Issue 2, August 2009
Shintai Haiku
First Place
conversation stops
only the sound of
tea pouring
Devin Jones
Second Place
a shred of kite
flaps in the wind
their missing son
Victor P. Gendrano, USA
Third Place
ears twitch, skin ripples
tail switches, cow bells clang
alpine orchestra
Candy Fresacher, Austria
Seven Honourable Mentions
(In no particular order)
pruning I take a book
a branch of stars on the journey and it takes me
sickle moon on another
Clare McCotter. N. Ireland André Surridge, New Zealand
his thoughts revealed - catheter
I notice the dark side urinary leg bag—
of the moon no shorts this summer
Susan Constable, Canada Ignatius Fay, Canada
Listen- dead end job
frozen stream, stopping for a smoke
still gurgles. the gravedigger
Jasper Hawker, USA André Surridge, New Zealand
old sail maker
at the river railing
eyes a cobweb
Hans Jongman
Zatsuei: Haiku of Merit
(In no particular order)
bathing my sore eyes the sky
in the silver river and all of the lake
of the Milky Way in the lake
Riitta Rossilahti, Finland Owen Bullock
Step on me white dove –
Thousands of busy feet the sound of its shadow
City walkway crossing the street
Mrs. Arati Anand, USA Don Baird
water sieved mist weaving
through an old man's hand– through cedars, the rise and fall
ebb tide of unknown voices
Alan S. Bridges, USA Susan Constable, Canada
the bouncing ball old grievances
and its shadow push off a bitter wind
against each other in the churchyard
Ignatius Fay, Canada Lorin Ford, Australia
Sign of The Times
(a haiku sequence)
again, she tidies
the almost empty desk
another lay-off
job fair
the line keeps growing
longer and longer
foreclosed house
the children’s swing
stops swinging
tent city
they welcome
the newcomers
Victor P. Gendrano, USA
for miles down coast A few garbage bags
bright city lights of yellow leaves
meet the dark sea still cling to the oak tree
William Hart Jasper Hawker, USA
Little Shoes
child sniffles – Inquisitive...
misty eyes linger the gingersnap cat stares as
on little blue shoes I get undressed
J.S. MacLean, Canada Joan McNerney, USA
dust snow-fairies'
dance in space- night dance - at dawn
sunbeam white veils on the ground
Aju Mukhopadhyay, India Riitta Rossilahti, Finland
drunken butterflies alone in the dunes
swooning in the sunlight: sky reflecting
summer symphony the cataract in my dog’s eye
Keith A. Simmonds, Clare McCotter. N. Ireland
Trinidad & Tobago