петак, 19. април 2013.

World Haiku Review


Haiku 3 - Vanguard
March 2013


   Haiku page 3 - Vanguard

First Place

        In every flower
        the hidden I Am
        looks at me

Riitta Rossilahti 

 Second Place


how things don't matter
when I sit down to explain
how things don't matter


Martin Esposito
Third Place


fogged mirror
learning to smile
at myself


Cathy Drinkwater Better





Seven Honourable Mentions
(in no particular order)


            doctor’s office
            staring at the book
            I still plan to read

Cathy Drinkwater Better




picture postcard
ghosts from this city
the sea took back

Rebecca Drouilhet


shaving off my beard;
the scar from the war 
appears in the mirror

Ty Hadman


Coffin flowers

Once in full colour
Last blooms adorn
A willow box.

Michael Baron



first light
the crushing weight
of sleepless hours

Cathy Drinkwater Better




Gulls compete
for the winter sky
so what has the crow
to shout about.

Colin Stewart Jones


hot chocolate
his warm hand on mine
truce

Máire Morrissey-Cummins
  
  

Zatsuei
(Haiku of Merit , in the alphabetical order of authors’ surname)


sunbeams
when her bud bursts,
my flower child

S.M. Abeles



departing . . .
the heaviness of
mother’s hug
 Ramesh Anand  


Bones of contention
Beneath Leicestershire car park
From Ambion Hill

Martin A. Chambers


Grave situation
Bring home our last Son of York
With us for ever

Martin A. Chambers



pond hockey
searching for the puck
in a thicket of reeds

Bill Cooper



the winds of time
corrode the flesh in
the desert spirit


Tatjana Debeljački  


remembering
all the things I promised her
ghost moon


Robert Michael Drouilhet

each moment
is what
we have

Marje A. Dyck




knotted like a rune
she rests no less beautiful
giving dreams a home


Martin Esposito
  


I’ve just found the bulbs
those you promised to plant
You sod in the ground


Helen Frost
Gun violence, a haiku sequence

seeming epidemic
random deadly shootings
in the land of the free

color them red
innocent victims
of gun violence

staring puzzled
at a deep black abyss
kins of murder victims

gun control debate
who's to blame: the gun
or the trigger man
Victor P. Gendrano 








seated on the saddle
of the sorrel gelding 
a golden gadfly


Ty Hadman


your shapely legs
playing
horseshoes
 Brendan Hewitt



in the tornado’s wake
the azure sky
in a shard of mirror

Elizabeth Howard


rumors of war
I scatter cracked corn
for a stray white dove

Elizabeth Howard
   


she held me closely
for no reason at all ---
my defenses falter

Howard Lee Kilby


as we sit for the vows
a thread from my skirt snags
your plastic chair

kjmunro



geisha
solemn white face
hides erotic thoughts

Marilyn Linn


chrysalis opens
as snug as a bug
in the rug

Andy Pomphrey



dawn light
between them
just a smile

Andy Pomphrey
Self barriers

Resentment and guilt,
heads and tails of life’s coinage; 
all love excluded.


Gary James Sycalik
Clones

Catch a mockingbird,
cage the song, repeat the notes;
freedom withering.


Gary James Sycalik


Thought-forms


Out of mist and fog,
dancing forms move in rhythms;
thoughts dancing the mind.


Gary James Sycalik
Who is


Faint sounds of laughter,
peals from time-distant mind-shores;
but, who is laughing?


Gary James Sycalik 




Dolce risveglio
il sogno è l’infinita
ombra del Vero


Sweet awakening
the dreams are the infinite
shades of Truth


Felice Vinci





a new date
she buys new make up
she does not need


Athena Zaknic