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WHR December 2011
Shintai Haiku
First Place
Fuji-san
first seen 35 years ago
only I have changed
Marie Shimane
Second Place
winter sale
no coins in the busker's
violin case
Cynthia Rowe
Third Place
distant whistle
of a long ago
train
Marje A. Dyck
Seven Honourable Mentions
(in no particular order)
through the fog
not seeing or being seen
by the passerby
Patricia Prime
uncle’s veranda
his fat bean pods still drying
for another year
Marilyn Potter
The threshold
under the temple gate
higher each year
Kai Falkman
morning frost –
the eventual melts
into nothingness
Marie Shimane
ZATSUEI
(Haiku Of Merit , in no particular order)
an old fighter jet
in the autumn sky~
two bound dragonflies
Adjei Agyei-Baah
thanksgiving
cold heavy rain
without the family
Joseph M. Kusmiss
prom day -
on my daughter's waist
a boy's hand
Yinghong Lu
Telling a story
to my grandchild--
my glasses askew.
Kamal Parmar
little noise he makes
before he rings the bell
is the bell
Owen Bullock
This old broom
sweeps
the brilliant leaves.
Volker Friebel
deer perhaps
in this long blue afternoon
shadows playing
bluebirds
but only shadows
crossing the sky
Maxianne Berger
awake
listening to the darkness
last night's moon
Chen-ou Liu
hard to say:
which day did the robins
leave town?
Sue Burke
leaving the reel
to its whispers
fisherman
Patricia Prime
taking off
my glasses –
your youthful face
Bruce R. Boynton
luna nell'acqua
vorrei darti coraggio
sento che tremi
moon in the water
I wish I could give you courage
I feel you trembling
Feu Violet
winter sun -
a handsome youth emerges
from the old man's face
Peggy Heinrich
flock of birds
low in the evening sky
feet held together
Gillena Cox
in gray clouds
sweeping across gray peaks
a flock of ravens
Elizabeth Howard
muffled footfall
in the prison yard
autumn leaves
Harvey Jenkins
bleaching the
darkness ~
a paper lantern
Hi-Young Kim
at the end…
of another relationship
leaf on the stream
andy pomphrey
tilting the outboard
to elude the tangle of water lilies...
Handel's "Water Music"
Hans Jongman
turning pages-
the discarded magazine
on the sidewalk
Christopher Hicks
First snow as first love
hovers gracefully
takes you by surprise
Riitta Rossilahti
address book
entering a friend's latest move
in pencil
Peggy Heinrich
a leaf spirals
onto the pond
all the koi rise
Cynthia Rowe
the choirmaster
demotes me to bass
winter passing
Angelo B. Ancheta
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