Haiku page 2
WHR March 2018
Haiku page 2
Shintai Haiku
First Place
cicada song
timeless lyrics from
before time began
Michael Henry Lee
Second Place
Another name
crossed out in the phone book…
another autumn
Third Place
Natalia Kuznetsova
nothing left
between us
winter moon
Andy McLellan
Seven Honourable Mention
(In no particular order)
year’s end
the last bubble
left in my glass
Rachel Sutcliffe
the old plum tree
each year the same
each year so different
Marie Shimane
cold dewdrops
I imagine this world
without me
Gabriel Bates
gold flecks…
springing from the wattle
a honeyeater soars
Madhuri Pillai
foreign battlefield
the same weeds
as back home
Peter Brady
shortest day
the darkness
within me too
Rachel Sutcliffe
typing a haiku
a woodpecker hammers into
my muddled thoughts
Cezar Ciobika
Zatsuei
Haiku of Merit, in no particular order)