Haiku Society of America

Haiku Society of America Haiku Award
in Memorial of Harold G. Henderson

1987

First Place:

yard sale,
sunlight filling
mason jars

Jerry Kilbride

 

Second Place:

leaving home . . .
the smell of smoke
from old brick chimneys

Kathleen Burgy

 

Third Place:

frozen pond—
white antlers rise
through the ice

Ross Figgins

 

Honorable Mention:

June night
my mother alone with
her cancer

Steven D. Dalachinsky

 

Honorable Mention:

     at dinner
biting into the roast beef . . .
     the butcher's thumb nail

Sister Mary Thomas Eulberg

 

Honorable Mention:

phoning the neighbors
their real voices
through the open window

Dee Evetts

 

Honorable Mention:

repeating the lecture
his eyes following
the window-cleaner's blade

Dee Evetts

 

Honorable Mention:

Tools rusting
Unused on the work bench
A faucet dripping

Esther Harris

 

Honorable Mention:

full moon

      peering into
the half-built house

H. F. Noyes

 

Honorable Mention:

dusk
drawing the pond's depth
to the surface

Donald E. McLeod

 

Honorable Mention:

old woman, wrapping
her cat's gifts
—centering the bows

Carol Montgomery

 

Honorable Mention:

on the way to work
a hot air balloon
up in the mist

Lynn G. Moore

 

Honorable Mention:

this heat;
     the dog's tail
          the only breeze

Denver Stull