Haiku page 3 - Vanguard Haiku
April 2014
Vanguard Haiku
FIRST PLACE
meditation —
peeling the layers
of nothingness
Gautam Nadkarni
SECOND PLACE
end of summer
THIRD PLACE
the out-of-tune guitar
in his empty room
Victor P. Gendrano
spring rain
on me, maybe on her
a city apart
Chen-ou Liu
SEVEN HONOURABLE MENTIONS
(in no particular order)
her zipper sticks
half way up
the flower moon
Chen-ou Liu
a leaf falls ~
lonely galaxies dissolve in
the lotus pond again
Vishnu Narayanan
a soft day–
past and present plans
come together
Adelaide B. Shaw
beach wedding –
to the sound of the tide
they exchange vows
Patricia Prime
talk of war
sugar cubes dissolve
into darkness
Ben Moeller-Gaa
at a snail's pace
an empty shell at
the end of the trail
Michael Henry Lee
first rain —
the heavenly fragrance
of mud
Gautam Nadkarni
ZATSUEI
(Haiku of Merit, in alphabetical order)