Shintai Haiku, October 2008

World Haiku Review, Volume 6, Issue 4, October 2008

Shintai (New Style) Haiku

THE BEST TEN

FIRST PLACE

in shadow

the moth stills its wings

leaving dreams to fly

Marie Shimane

SECOND PLACE

watercolour–

after lunch he adds

the stork

John Bird

THIRD PLACE

A fallen gulmohur bud:

An incomplete story but

A complete poem.

Abhinav Maurya

SEVEN HONOURABLE MENTIONS

(In no particular order)

night alleyway...

my floodlight shadow

breaks into two

zinovy Vayman

even his trees

stay inside the fence

unseen neighbour

Ann K. Schwader

working lunch

haiku scribbled

on my napkin

Carmel Lively Westerman

each day continues

a journey of loneliness

crows screech overhead

Marie Shimane

dawn childbirth

when the door opens

a cock crows

Elizabeth Howard

a week of rain

new appreciation for

the nuance of gray

Claudia Coutu Radmore

reprinting the thesis

leaving the mistakes

in

Owen Bullock

OTHER HAIKU OF MERIT

(Zatsu-ei in no particular order)

year's end . . .

the bedding piled up

in the motel

Bruce Ross

vinegar bath

mother's diamond ring

regains its sparkle

Peggy Heinrich

noon church bell ...

how her dress

traces her

Tyrone McDonald

on grass she shone

under the vast sky-

bare and alone

Aju Mukhopadhyay

morn breeze

the trees filter light

and bird songs

john tiong chunghoo

posh café

the first bite of the plum cake

sends me back home

Rafal Zabratynski

a lady's voice

"your poor mother's grave," she says

needs your attention

Howard Lee Kilby