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World Haiku Review, Volume 6, Issue 4, October 2008
Shintai (New Style) Haiku
THE BEST TEN
FIRST PLACE
in shadow
the moth stills its wings
leaving dreams to fly
Marie Shimane
SECOND PLACE
watercolour–
after lunch he adds
the stork
John Bird
THIRD PLACE
A fallen gulmohur bud:
An incomplete story but
A complete poem.
Abhinav Maurya
SEVEN HONOURABLE MENTIONS
(In no particular order)
night alleyway...
my floodlight shadow
breaks into two
zinovy Vayman
even his trees
stay inside the fence
unseen neighbour
Ann K. Schwader
working lunch
haiku scribbled
on my napkin
Carmel Lively Westerman
each day continues
a journey of loneliness
crows screech overhead
Marie Shimane
dawn childbirth
when the door opens
a cock crows
Elizabeth Howard
a week of rain
new appreciation for
the nuance of gray
Claudia Coutu Radmore
reprinting the thesis
leaving the mistakes
in
Owen Bullock
OTHER HAIKU OF MERIT
(Zatsu-ei in no particular order)
year's end . . .
the bedding piled up
in the motel
Bruce Ross
vinegar bath
mother's diamond ring
regains its sparkle
Peggy Heinrich
noon church bell ...
how her dress
traces her
Tyrone McDonald
on grass she shone
under the vast sky-
bare and alone
Aju Mukhopadhyay
morn breeze
the trees filter light
and bird songs
john tiong chunghoo
posh café
the first bite of the plum cake
sends me back home
Rafal Zabratynski
a lady's voice
"your poor mother's grave," she says
needs your attention
Howard Lee Kilby
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