Haiku Society of America

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

2001

Judges: Yu Chang and Ferris Gilli

First Place:

broken easel—
the front yard blue
with wildflowers

Kathy Lippard Cobb

 

Second Place (tie):

heat waves—
the hitchhiker shifts her child
to the other hip

Linda Jeannette Ward

 

Second Place (tie):

land's end—
sand in each bite
of my apple

Leatrice Lifshitz

 

Third Place:

Indian summer
a fish slips through
the gill net

W. F. Owen

 

Honorable Mention:

     her 18th birthday—
for the first time she notices
       my silences

Jeanne Emrich

 

Honorable Mention:

spring sunshine
      the climbing ivy
      filled with sparrows

A. C. Missias