Haiku Society of America

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

1980

First Place:

fields of snow
     not only moonlight
          but the moon

Robert F. Mainone

 

Second Place:

cold morning sea—
an old man towels himself
in the sunlight

Chuck Brickley

 

Third Place:

fields of corn stretching
as far as the eye can see
within            a lost child

Sister Mary Thomas Eulberg

 

Honorable Mention:

  crossing the bright sky
of a near-sighted swimmer,
     the song of a bird

L.A. Davidson

 

Honorable Mention:

and yet
perishable is flesh—
a mountain plum

Furuta Soichi

 

Honorable Mention:

what thing cries out
deep inside us
cooking the turtle?

Bill Pauly

 

Honorable Mention:

Lights out
. . . the firefly
inside

Peggy Willis Lyles

 

Honorable Mention:

the wind
somewhere else—
bird tracks in a light snow

Gary Hotham

 

Honorable Mention:

apples cooking:
in the aroma
pictures of my mother canning

Sister Mary Thomas Eulberg

 

Honorable Mention:

Dawn
     another parting
with the moon

Stephen Gould

 

Honorable Mention:

back and forth goldfish hot & humid afternoon

Gary Hotham