Haiku Society of America

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

1983

First Place:

heart drawn in dust
by the old Indian . . .
rain

Bill Pauly

 

Second Place:

whispered dusk—
      a fox picks its way
           across the ice

Ross Figgins

 

Third Place:

mist
lifting
the loon's cry

Ruth M. Yarrow

 

Honorable Mention:

snowman's eye
sinking in
the spring rain

Ruth M. Yarrow

 

Honorable Mention:

Autumn afternoon:
I stand on the shadow
of the sparrow

Joyce Walker Currier

 

Honorable Mention:

ten below zero:
man and boy walk through their breath
to read old tombstones

Bill Pauly

 

Honorable Mention:

hot wind
the roadrunner's beak
opens and closes

Margarita Mondrus Engle

 

Honorable Mention:

Blackbirds descend
through the floaters
in this eye

Charles L. Cutler

 

Honorable Mention:

the old man
closes the shadow
in his hand

Darold D. Braida

 

Honorable Mention:

spring drizzle
rounding the thorn
a drop of light

Ruth M. Yarrow