Haiku page 3 - Vanguard

FIRST PLACE

silent dinner---

mind so full of

the unspoken

Gracy D'Souza

SEVEN HONORABLE MENTIONS

(IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)

castle cannons―

pointing where their owners

have gone by

Adjei Agyei-Baah

ZATSUEI

(HAIKU OF MERIT)

HAIKU DERIVATIVES

Victor P. Gendrano

Philippine Typhoon Haiyin

(Haiku sequence)

quirk of nature

a mega typhoon hits

the Philippines

thousands died

and countless homeless

and hungry people abound

like the bamboo

of my ancestral land

the Filipino spirit

remains indomitable

it may be bent

but still stands

amidst shanties' debris

and rotting corpses

a new-born cries

to world-wide aid

they bow in thanks and say

Maraming salamat po!