Haiku 2 - Shintai
March 2013
Haiku page 2 - Shintai
First Place
blizzard on the way
my immigrant past
withering
Chen-ou Liu
Second Place
Third Place
butterfly chasing butterfly
who knows
what dreams may come?
Rebecca Drouilhet
High up in a birch
larks' duet - the wind
blows it to the skies
Riitta Rossilahti
Seven Honourable Mentions
(in no particular order)
thoughts of home
drip from a roof icicle
Chinese New Year
Chen-ou Liu
moonlit pond ...
the sound of water brings
news of a dead frog
(for Onishi Yasuyo)
Chen-ou Liu
waiting for lovers
our old bench in the park
vernal equinox
Natalia Kuznetsova
potter's hand
on a blue jug
a moulded memory
Arvinder Kaur
time travel...
the ancient music
just wind in the oaks
Rebecca Drouilhet
no one going
in my direction
drifting leaves
Susan Constable
bed bound -
watched by
falling snow
Robert Davey
Zatsuei
(Haiku of Merit , in the alphabetical order of authors’ surname)