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Haiku Selections Page 2
Shintai Haiku
First Place
I trädgården
klipper saxen
tystnad
In the garden
a pair of scissors
cuts silence
Kai Falkman
Second Place
I shadow
my shadow
to her grave
Victor P. Gendrano
Third Place
winter moon
the silence between us
reaches into new year
Dawn Bruce
Seven Honourable Mentions (In no particular order)
a salty breeze -
the sting of harsh words
remembered
Gillena Cox
still clawing
at the wooden floor—
a cast-iron tub
Steve Addiss
can’t zip it up-
this dress I wore last summer
must have shrunk
Winona Baker
brave mirror
doesn’t distort truth
looks me in the eye
Minal Sarosh
Zatsuei, or Haiku of Merit
ants swarm
over an upturned beetle
rose-scented breeze
Sheila Bello
driftwood
keeps coming back
golden retriever
Alan S. Bridges
evening cloudburst
an apple bough
heavy with raindrops
Sharon Burrell
fast moving clouds
tow their shadows
across the city
Stephen Colgan
the pigeon
and its shadow
share a crumb
Stephen Colgan
beach sand -
countless questions
pass between us
Gillena Cox
summer morning
lines of African children
wait for food
John Daleiden
Diana, the name
of the moon so low
and fat and round
Jim Davis
knocking down the house –
on the last wall undisturbed
a snail
Ioana Dinescu
Solen rör sig
upp och ner
på ett grässtrå
The sun is moving
up and down
on a blade of grass
Bilens bakljus
tänt på parkeringen
av morgonsolen
The car’s rear light
turned on at the parking
by the morning sun
Fågeln flyger iväg
innan jag finner henne
i fågelboken
The bird flies away
before I find her
in the book of birds
Kai Falkman
half-moon
reflection in morning coffee
menopause
Kate Godsey
By the light I live
Throughout the darkness I dream
I love in-between
Ken Graybill
city bus
trying not to stare
at her tattoos
Peggy Heinrich
red clover
once grandpa wove
a tiara for me
all that remains
a mound of stones
and red trumpet vine
Elizabeth Howard
As the sun goes down
Shadows lengthen, darkness falls
My heart is barren.
Douglas F. Johnson
nunnery
the old weathercock
dominant
Hans Jongman
his footfall
suddenly sideways...
ladybird
André Surridge
receding floods
the muddy watermark
on a line of washing
Dawn Bruce
long after
the bell stops
I hear it
Owen Bullock
joyous solitude
a simple meal, a cold bath
and a good book
Howard Lee Kilby
(In no particular order)
homework done
kids catch flight
to the moon
Manu Kant
past mid-night
watching stars
the dream continues
Manu Kant
abandoned roller-coaster
a curved path of
the setting sun
Anthony Kudryavitsky
washing sunlight
on the steel plate
mother at the sink
Snehith Kumbla
In her sleep,
I am no one, but the warmth
of another sheet. . .
David E. LeCount
Needle and thread--
the way she looks for the thread:
my grandmother's squint
David E. LeCount
mended nets
the fisherman knits in
his wife’s shadow
empty shell
on the shore – we learn
about a friend’s death
broken tower clock
still the wind chimes
its bell
Maya Lyubenova
first light--
songbirds chattering
as if it were
this floating world--
a puddle
on the pool cover
Scott Mason
First drops of rain
Goosebumps on earth
Bliss.
Bijay Mohanty
early dawn
the cuckoo song breathes life
into my bones
Gautam Nadkarni
baggage carousel
the only bag left
not ours
hammering away
at bent nails, he swears
like his father
Nika
a hearse parked
outside the local bar
last orders
Andy Pomphrey
beginning of new era
unending search
for fresh resolution
R. Purushotham
I wish to weave
winged words of joy
fly far away
Riitta Rossilahti
neighbour’s window
the shakuhachi curtain
swaying
Guy Simser
After the storm
picking fallen tamarind--
too high the tree
Ram Krishna Singh
beach house for sale
in the tidepools tiny shrimp
live their whole lives
ocean cliff tree
willingly bent by wind
to have the whole sky
watchful father quail
doesn’t know he’s just shown me
where his babies are
John R. Snyder
following a landscape
the Yangtze river meander…
and my dreams
Anna Yin
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