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WHR December 2011
Vanguard Haiku
First Place
On Veteran's Day
leaves and the flag are alike
to the blowing wind
Priscila H. Lignori
Second Place
double helix –
wishing you’d say
what you mean
Susan Constable
Third Place
phone call
the pup's squeaky toy
fills the silence
Cynthia Rowe
Seven Honourable Mentions
(in no particular order)
hear the hum
of the universe --
cat's purring
CaroleAnn Lovin
dahlia petals
fall into my hand . . .
another year without you
Susan Constable
all day birds come
and go over the water
living their bird lives
Marje A. Dyck
ZATSUEI
(Haiku of Merit , in no particular order)
bear relocation -
they look back to where
they weren’t
Carmel Lively Westerman
my brother's funeral
parents finally
get a visit
Joseph M. Kusmiss
Christmas morning
My children's gift
Japanese death poems
Stephen W. Leslie
Rain’s wrath
flooded in the city-
a shattered dream.
Stormy weather
uprooting a tree
unfulfilled desires.
Rizvana Parveen
free at last
a changed man
re-enters an unchanged world
I raise
the warm tea to my lips
your last kiss
bomb threat in the cathedral
on Christmas eve
come all ye faithful
Athena Zaknic
empty theatre
the EXIT sign
the only light
Raffael de Gruttola
a beetle zigzagging as he pleases Brasilia
William E. Cooper
dream in frost the quaint patterns a star makes of us
William E. Cooper
clams open
as if to feed
us
your hips sway
as you cut the bread -
late supper
Owen Bullock
after making love
we check our
blood pressure
Bruce R. Boynton
"tell me, Samira, how many children do you have?"
"One..." answered the mother
of seven girls and a son
walking into the wind
yet the woods hold me
on long strings
Gerd Boerner
gamma rays rage
into life, a mushroom floats
two cities crumble
lub dub womb
sounds – symphony's of life beating
echo with motherhood
Sterling Haynes
morning walk
spent arguing with someone
who wasn't there
solace
a pink sunrise
for someone else
Sue Burke
she rows home
towing the weight of eighty years
through darkening waters
in the oak’s crown
the crescent moon
fingernail of God’s right hand
Elizabeth Howard
seniors home
father wants to rake
the autumn leaves
Harvey Jenkins
our last supper -
wine in frosted glasses,
your cold detachment
Natalia Kuznetsova
stalled traffic
he picks up his dog
crying
drifted ashore a half-empty baby's bottle
hardest to climb mountain of self-doubt
Victor P. Gendrano
howling winds
singing a song of lonely
dried grasses
Sandy Vrooman
tall as corn
the grave monument
of one who had everything
LeRoy Gorman
The crack in the wall
doesn't trouble the spider
that climbs into it
Priscila H. Lignori
I sit here
away from you
carrying your pain
Lucille Raizada
first light
I have to let go
of yesterday
Owen Bullock
non trovo pace
se non nella tempesta
canta e risuona
I can find no peace of mind
unless in the storm,
it sings and roars
sorge l'aurora
e tutto in me è ponte
verso la luce
break of dawn
i'm a bridge fully stretched
towards the light
non ha artigli
la paura che sento
anche se morde
it has no nails
the fear that has gripped me
although it bites
I tuoi capelli
sciolti quando li sogno
vie del ritorno
Your hair
loose when I dream of it
path of return
Feu Violet
rain smothers
campfire, memory
up in smoke
Helen E. Herr
women wander
through subconscious thoughts
swaying reeds…
sun on his face
the old man reflects
life’s moments
andy pomphrey
raging wind
the candle flame
barely flickers
Susan Constable
Down the street
A Chinese man hanged himself:
I dreamt of sharks
Living in the shadow of a rose
Jack Galmitz
I find myself
apologizing
for an apology
arrival gate
all those who aren’t her
come out first
William Hart
three ring binder -
full of rejected
haiku
autumn moon –
a baby eagle covets
its first mouse
Carmel Lively Westerman
candle light
my shadow grows
powerless
Rosa Clement
deep conversation
and not a single word said --
sparrows in winter
Priscila H. Lignori
distant city skyline
from this hilltop
the silent freeway
Marje A. Dyck
cemetery in blossom
I consider life
after death
LeRoy Gorman
threads of milkweed
sail across the meadow
wind-blown thoughts
Peggy Heinrich
child blowing bubbles
so fragile
this happiness
André Surridge
tree arms
droop into earth
in search of roots
Helen E. Herr
first quarrel
the sourness
of tamarind seeds
open casket
she wears her wedding dress
for the last time
Cynthia Rowe
cosmic calligraphy in
red-blue light-melody echoes
on an autumn leaf ~
Vishnu Narayanan
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