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From the World Haiku Festival 2010 in Nagasaki
Haiku Competition: General Category
One of the many sessions of the World Haiku Festival 2010 In Nagasaki. It was an introduction to haiku for overseas participants and citizens of Sasebo.
First Place: Us Fleet Activity Sasebo Commander Award
First Place
once it gets started
steam from the boiling water
joins the fresh spring air
Priscilla Lignori
Second Place
reflecting more than
itself - raindrop at the end
of a red berry
Priscilla Lignori
Third Place
snow on snow
footprints fade
from view
Diane Mayr, USA
Seven Honourable Mentions
(In no particular order)
snowy night
no one to share
the silence
Darrell Lindsey, USA
summer swelter --
tiny peapods drying
on the wild vetch
Catherine J.S. Lee, USA
moving day...
a field mouse flees
the airing cupboard
Helen Buckingham, UK
fall garden
the pregnant woman's shadow
toting a water pail
Darrell Lindsey, USA
Autumn sun
An old man’s face breaths
through a net of wrinkles
Ljubomir Dragovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Echoing field...
The hooting of an owl
cools the summer night
Ljubomir Dragovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Vast field
In a lark’s song is
all its freedom
Ljubomir Dragovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Haiku of Merit
(In no particular order)
Dry meadow
Bent shadows of an old woman
and her goat
Rajna Begovic, Serbia
smallhold harvest
for breakfast
three strawberries
Helen Buckingham, UK
day moon
settles
over the builder's crane
Helen Buckingham, UK
in the neighbourhood
a lawn mower grinds and groans
warning of something.
Anne Curran
mid-January—
avoiding eye contact
with his gay brother
Ignatius Fay, Canada
diagnosis
longest day of my life
—winter solstice
Ignatius Fay, Canada
heron touches down
a sudden flash of light
on evening pond
Cara Holman, USA
alone on the beach -
watching a fisherman's boat
sink into the mist
natalia kuznetsova, Russia
an old mill upstream
with its ever-groaning wheel,
storks' nest on the roof
natalia kuznetsova, Russia
low clouds . . .
wet snow changing
the shapes of juniper
Catherine J.S. Lee, USA
drifting off to sleep -
accompanied by the sound
of the summer rain
Priscilla Lignori
yesterday’s paper
inside the wood-burning stove –
an evening at home
Priscilla Lignori
I walk under the conversation of two crows
Diane Mayr, USA
chilly fall day
coffee stains deepen
in my cup
Diane Mayr, USA
a face with
brows and lashes-
quiver in the waves
Aju Mukhopadhyay, India
black-necked crane
stands on one leg, does it know
endangered ?
Aju Mukhopadhyay, India
After the storm
one shadow less
on the white wall
Predrag Pešić, Serbia
Tr. Sasa Vazic
spring sky ~
even the white clouds
look like blossoms
Narayanan Raghunathan, India
Clothesline in the breeze-
Summer symphony
Malini Rao, India
Waxing harvest moon!
shadows naked lie entwined
caught beneath oak tree
Amos White
Couldn't care less
I am filling books
With wet legs
Jadran Zalokar, Croatia
a few wrinkles
in the beech sapling
summer heat
Bruce Ross, USA
On a ski-track
hot on the heels of
my own blue shadow
Riitta Rossilahti, Finland
Peacefully
tickling my cat,
purring to New Year
Riitta Rossilahti, Finland
Autumn dusk -
a white trunk of a birch
through darkness
Riitta Rossilahti, Finland
My childhood oak
blasted by the war: now birds
make nests beneath the stars
Slavko Sedlar, Serbia
No guests
A waitress sunbathing
her shaven legs
Borivoje Sekulić, Serbia
Her balcony
again empty today.
The wind bends the tulips.
Borivoje Sekulić, Serbia
harbor noon
on the rusty anchor
a white gull
Borivoje Sekulić, Serbia
Summer drowsiness
Sounds of scraping pot
from the kitchen
Tatjana Stefanovic, Serbia
the empty chair:
a flood of memories
for Mother's Day
Keith Simmonds, UK
the old man ponders
on the baby in the crib
both of them dribbling
Keith Simmonds, UK
star-spangled sky...
my son pulls in his kite
with the full moon
Keith Simmonds, UK
under the sun's spell
a scintillating sea
in silky stillness
Keith Simmonds, UK
Cherry petals –
the sweeper takes
his day off
Eduard TARA, Romania
new dawn
dripping opals
on the spider's web
Barbara A Taylor, Australia
let's cross the road --
just two steps nearer
to the full moon
Sasa Vazic, Serbia
spring breeze…
sisters hold
each others flying hair
G.R. Parimala Rao, India
chewing lazily
a buffalo drips foamy saliva
a fly quenches her thirst
G.R. Parimala Rao, India
on the big temple tower
a small bird
watches the world
G.R. Parimala Rao, India
glowing fire fly
i switch off
my night lamp
G.R. Parimala Rao, India
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