Haiku page 3
WHR March 2018
Vanguard Haiku
First Place
icy loneliness
under layers of aging
the stigma still stings
Marie Shimane
Second Place
the storks' empty nest
on the roof of the closed church...
my unborn child
Natalia Kuznetsova
Third Place
in the gallery
everyone starts to look
sculpted
Owen Bullock
Seven Honourable Mention
(In no particular order)
prayers for the dead
do they too still desire
the love we once shared
Marie Shimane
deafening silence
in the old house for sale...
voices from the past
Natalia Kuznetsova
first world war...
nostalgia for childhood
in grandpa's holster
Goran Gatalica
winter nostalgia -
beside a small morgue
windblown lullaby
Goran Gatalica
neither the river
nor the shadow in it
knows about the human conflict
Aju Mukhopadhyay
walking
she notices the women
he notices
Owen Bullock
peace talks
the war wounds
open
Mohammad Azim Khan
Zatsuei
(Haiku of Merit, in no particular order)