Haiku 3 - Vanguard
March 2013
Haiku page 3 - Vanguard
First Place
In every flower
the hidden I Am
looks at me
Riitta Rossilahti
Second Place
how things don't matter
when I sit down to explain
how things don't matter
Martin Esposito
Third Place
fogged mirror
learning to smile
at myself
Cathy Drinkwater Better
Seven Honourable Mentions
(in no particular order)
doctor’s office
staring at the book
I still plan to read
Cathy Drinkwater Better
picture postcard
ghosts from this city
the sea took back
Rebecca Drouilhet
Coffin flowers
Once in full colour
Last blooms adorn
A willow box.
Michael Baron
Gulls compete
for the winter sky
so what has the crow
to shout about.
Colin Stewart Jones
shaving off my beard;
the scar from the war
appears in the mirror
Ty Hadman
first light
the crushing weight
of sleepless hours
Cathy Drinkwater Better
hot chocolate
his warm hand on mine
truce
Máire Morrissey-Cummins
Zatsuei
(Haiku of Merit , in the alphabetical order of authors’ surname)