Haiku Society of America

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

1991

First Place:

snowmelt . . .
     she enters
     the earth on her knees

Bill Pauly

 

Second Place:

an old woolen sweater
          taken yarn by yarn
                    from the snowbank

Michael Dylan Welch

 

Third Place:

a white horse
drinks from the acequia
          blossoming locust

Elizabeth Searle Lamb

 

Special Award:

sunlight shines red
through my father's thumb
on the steering wheel

Alyson Pou

 

Special Award:

          two women crying
one giving birth
          the other being born

John Thompson

 

Special Award:

Approaching the family plot . . .
my furled umbrella
turns into a cane.

vincent tripi

 

Honorable Mention:

Chernobyl victim—
fingers pressing the plastic
to his wife's caress

Marc Arvid White

 

Honorable Mention:

                        cloud shadow
           long enough to close
the poppies

Christopher Herold

 

Honorable Mention:

The thick clang
of a cowbell
the sun deepens

June Moreau

 

Honorable Mention:

Roses
in the smaller room
more fragrant

Sydney Bougy

 

Honorable Mention:

Ninety winters
          Spellbound
                     Again

Vicki Silvers