Haiku Society of America

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

2004

Judges: William Cullen Jr. & Brenda J. Gannam

First Place:

Indian summer
a spent salmon
washes ashore

w.f. owen

 

Second Place:

after the funeral
whiskers still
in his razor

Becky Barnhart

 

Third Place:

the page-finders
of my father’s Daily Missal
losing their colors

Michael Fessler

 

Honorable Mention:

first buds of spring
   I change the washer’s setting
      to delicate

Marjorie Buettner

 

Honorable Mention:

Among the gravestones
with names worn away
children play hide ‘n seek

George Swede