Autumn Moon Haiku Contest 2017

First Prize:
 
glassy lake
flocks of snow geese
pull up the moon
 
            Debbie Strange, Canada
        
           Many haiku have been written about the effect of moonlight and the moon's reflection. This haiku is unique and highly poetic in its expression.
 
Second Prize:
 
a snail’s trail . . .
all night this meandering
toward the moon
 
            Lorin Ford, Australia
 
            This haiku is mysterious somehow. Is this the poet or the snail wandering? The trail shining with moonlight.

Third Prize:
 
autumn moon
left outside the store
the unsold pumpkin
 
            Stephen Toft, UK

            A haunting relationship of the world of commerce and the moon itself as mirrored by this solitary pumpkin.
 
Honorable Mentions:
 
(in alphabetical order)
 
dad's ashes               
drifting out to sea
black moon

Vaters Asche
treibt aufs Meer hinaus
ein schwarzer Mond

            Beate Conrad, Germany
 
 
increasingly rare
the song of the birds–
autumn fog

sempre più raro
il canto degli uccelli–
nebbia autunnale

              Angela Giordano, Italy

Beginning of autumn
the voice of loneliness
hidden in glances
​
În prag de toamnă
glasul singurătății
se-ascunde-n priviri
​
              Gabriela Genţiana Groza, Romania
 
rising moon
a cyclist wobbles
across cobblestones
 
luna vzhaja
kolesar se opoteče
prek tlakovcev
 
               Polona Oblak, Slovenia
 
midnight
i shift a moon with my breath
 
полноќ
месечина со здив поместувам

            Pere Risteski, Macedonia
 
the pull
   of my paddle–
         river moon
 
            Julie Warther, USA
 
autumn moon…
trying not to lose
my self-control

...قمر الخريف
أحاول أن أتمالك
              نفسي

            Ali Znaidi, Tunisia