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WHR August 2011
Haiku, Page 3, Vanguard Haiku
First Place
A lone survivor
asks what is greater sorrow
life or death
Surendra Munshi
Second Place
aftershock
the empty swing
swinging
Alan S. Bridges
Third Place
bamboo flute
behind the temple—
pebbles in the stream
Steve Addiss
(NOTE) For the record, the readers may be interested to know that it was brought to our attention, after the publication of the second place poem, that there was another poem similar to it:
aftershock
empty swings
swaying
This poem was written by Mr. Michael Dylan Welch and, according to him, was published in Frogpond 13:1, February 1990 and in the Haiku Poets of Northern California anthology After Shock, San Francisco: Two Autumns Press, 1990. It also appeared in this author's own chapbook, Tremors (Foster City, California: Press Here, 1990) as well as being on his website since December 2009: http://sites.google.com/site/graceguts/sequences/the-last-leaf Mr. Alan Bridges' poem, according to the author, was written independently, without any model or influence of any kind and also without seeing this haiku by Mr. Welch. Mr. Welch just wishes it be recorded that his poem appeared first.
Seven Honourable Mentions
(In no particular order)
of what use long life –
the blood of all my kinfolk
dried winters ago
Marie Shimane
as I slow down
the wings of time
keep speeding up
William Hart
unwritten history
seeds without paper
soil without words
Minal Sarosh
in so much loss
so much compassion found
tsunami mud
Marie Shimane
Zatsuei, or Haiku of Merit
(In no particular order)
no response
to her children’s tears
her still body
Sheila Bello
roux and stock steam like
mardi gras nights peppery
like haitian pickerise
Patricia Biela
banana infused
oil sizzles skin limbs look like
thanksgiving for bears
Patricia Biela
he whispers sweet nothings
and she hears
nothing
Bruce R. Boynton
too big for its self sunflower
Alan S. Bridges
Scifiku
by John W. Sexton
an echo of no
(a sequence of scifaiku)
infinite mind -
the fires of Auschwitz
still burn in Yahweh
speed of light –
in the glitter of snow
the moon scrapes the Earth
s/mother pulls the
sweater over my head -
Orion bursts from my hair
the drowned child's penny...
scraped verdigris an eye-shadow
for sea-nymphs
an echo of no ...
Anubis wears
a smoke of souls
a secret orrery ...
ants position larvae
for the queen
rerouting the Seine...
Magritte draws a line
up the sky with chalk
tunnelling loops through
the faerie bulb ... wireworms
snuggle a foetus
god-nap ... something
of significance sleeps
through the entire human race
the undoing
(a sequence of scifaiku)
Li Po drinks
the rivermoon whole ...
herons take the stars
mind cold as current ...
pondweed skirts holding her
forever undertow
tethered to outgoing
godlight ... angels ride
the undoing
the scales of never ...
Ahmet places the one true
grain of sand
in the hauled
lobster's blue ...
depths
the night is long ...
my heartbeat more significant
than the milky way
overdressed ...
my suit of brine hopelessly
fraying into the sea
teddy bear ...
only grief is the witness
of cot death
greater things
(a sequence of scifaiku)
greater things than sex ...
a clot of starlight
addresses the abbess
lives of star systems ...
mere moments in the feather-growth
of Seraphim
Time sleepwalks ...
creation acts out a mime
of being a moth
pale darlings
(a sequence of scifaiku)
bioluminescent Mars ...
krill groom young seas
through the combs of their feet
oh my pale darlings...
let whales drag moonlight
to our sea-depths for windows
one million NE ...
evolved seal cherubs
intuit the Lord
on the deserted shore
stiletto voices
shatter the void
Claire Gardien
Poesie e farfalle
Il lieve aleggiare
Dell'eternità
Poems and butterflies
A slight hovering
Of eternity
Felice Vinci
wave follows earthquake
Man, trees, swept away
before the cherry blossoms
Carolanne Reynolds
Dark clouds, darker thoughts,
Encircling mountains unknown,
Raw grass stings my feet.
Charanjeet Kaur
sea devil
diving under
my boat
Zoran Mimica
so many ways
to live in this world
nude beach
Marian Olson
magnitude nine rubble
still on so many corpses
with the sunshine
Anna Vakar
rain on windshields
mother in the back
changing diapers
Lois E. Harvey
deceptive wealth
(a sequence of scifaiku)
injected into the heart ...
the seahorses
incite paradise
Sirius glints blue
through the pines
spiders climb moonlight
telegrams
of starlight
no stop
moths have left their stain
all over her skin
she glitters into morning
we perhaps
the stuff of stars ... but the stars
will get their stuff back
the seams
of her granite dress
pure crystal
butterfly after butterfly ...
Alzheimers
roots in the sentient hill
the immortal wades
through the ocean floor
an urchin his living hat
platinum rainfall
the empty city glitters
with deceptive wealth
Hiroshima ...
in the combustion of stars: innocence;
in this, not
trees deepen with dusk ...
in the black blue of the damsons
a vacancy
let the dark
(a sequence of scifaiku)
the child draws
an angel ... Heaven is
lopsided and pure
godfactory product 5 ...
furry molecules
of atomic love
tortoise ran
with an idea ... deliver oneself
as a box
the snake speaks
in esses ... steam infiltrates
a dream
the chalk mountains
slowly slowly
draw an ocean
blackened bodies
of Hiroshima ... that day the deeps
of space widened
over the mountains
the flying lantern dims ...
let the dark break our fall
blue arteries
(a sequence of scifaiku)
a dry reign...
the since crystallized
mudkings of Valles Marineris
self-shellcraft
FTL turtloid spacemirls
eggsintransit
seas inside ... cray-maidens
click their songs
in the blue arteries of Mars
List of the Poets who Submitted Work for this Issue
Steve Addiss
Unni Krishnan Atiyodi
Ramesh Anand
Winona Baker
Patricia Biela
Gerd Boerner
Siddhartha Borkakati
Bruce R. Boynton
Alan S. Bridges
Dawn Bruce
Owen Bullock
Sharon Burrell
Stephen Colgan
Susan Constable
Gillena Cox
John Daleiden
Jim Davis
Raffael de Gruttola
Ioana Dinescu
Kai Falkman
Nana Fredua-Agyeman
Claire Gardien
Victor P. Gendrano
Kate Godsey
Sari Grandstaff
Lars Granström
Ken Graybill
John Hamley
William Hart
Lois E. Harvey
Peggy Heinrich
Anne Hills
Elizabeth Howard
Liette Janelle
Douglas F. Johnson
Hans Jongman
Charanjeet Kaur
Howard Lee Kilby
Natsumi kosuge
Anthony Kudryavitsky
Snehith Kumbla
David E. LeCount
Priscilla Lignori
CaroleAnn Lovin
Maya Lyubenova
Scott Mason
Patrick Mizelle
Bijay Mohanty
shanna moore
Aju Mukhopadhyay
Surendra Munshi
Gautam Nadkarni
Nika
Marian Olson
Jim Pollard
Andy Pomphrey
George Power
Patricia Prime
Purushotham Rao Ravela
Carolanne Reynolds
Bruce Ross
Riitta Rossilahti
Minal Sarosh
Ann K. Schwader
Guy Simser
Ram Krishna Singh
Richard Stevenson
Shalini Sunkuru
André Surridge
Felice Vinci
Carmel Lively Westerman
Tad I. Wojnicki
Anna Yin
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