Best of Volume 5 (5:1 and 5:2)

Haiku Moment Award
 
spring drizzle
becoming fluent in the language
of birds
           Valorie Woerdehoff, USA
This is a unique and poetic haiku moment, making it a prize-winning haiku.
 
Runners-Up (In Alphabetical Order)

walking in snowfall
the lost moments
of my passing life
          John Budan, USA
A great metaphor for how all of nature withers.
 
after the rain
it sails into the unknown
ant on the leaf
 
nakon kiše
plovi u nepoznato
mrav na listu 
           Zvonko Jurcevic, Croatia
A deep poem on the impermanence of life.
 
resting leaf –
the lightness
of mother’s hand
           Laurie D. Morrissey, USA
A finely expressed sensitive haiku.
 
Honorable Mentions (In Alphabetical Order)

drought . . .
in the well of my house
there is no moon

siccità. . .
nel pozzo di casa mia
non c'è la luna
       Vincenzo Adamo, Italy
 
peace agreement –
out of the blue the plum trees
full of flowers

acord de pace –
dintr-odată prunii
se umplu de flori
        Cristina Valeria Apetrei, Romania
 
distant thunder
patting the last seed
into the earth
       Marilyn Ashbaugh, USA
 
meteor shower –
the secrets I kept
from you
        Mona Bedi, India
 
lingering over
the warm copper pan
harvest moon
       Helen Buckingham, UK

autumn
again
this
stillness
hanging
      Jenny Fraser, New Zealand
 
even the smallest leaf connected
                    Charles Harmon, USA
 
in the after-rain
every leaf in the garden
and i breathing in
      Jill Lange, USA
 
tamped into earth
a fragile cutting
homesickness

pressata nella terra
una fragile talea
nostalgia di casa
      Luciana Moretto, Italy
 
full moon
I could walk across the lake
on a strip of light
      Wilda Morris, USA
 
luminescent sea
all the little things
we think we’ll remember
       Samantha Renda, South Africa