Haiku 1 - Neo classical
March 2013
Neo Classical haiku
First Place
late spring –
in the kid’s crayon box
the green has run out
Radka Mindova
Second Place
born in still water –
a frog rests on the surface
of a restless world
Priscilla Lignori
Third Place
eight plates
six chipped
another year gone by
Cathy Drinkwater Better
Seven Honourable Mentions
(in no particular order)
A bloc of ice
running down the river
with a sea gull
Liette Janelle
spring garden
pulling out a problem
by its roots
Gregory Longenecker
he lets the moonlight
write her a poem
too deep for words
John R. Snyder
the whiteness
of the white car
melting snow
Ben Moeller-Gaa
hungry spider
all you caught
were these dewdrops
John R. Snyder
spring break –
unplanned
a new life begins
Carmel Lively Westerman
dawn--
much before the milkman's
a woodpecker's knock
Arvinder Kaur
Zatsuei
(Haiku of Merit , in alphabetical order)