Haiku Society of America

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

1993

First Place:

scattering his ashes
     the moon
          in bits and pieces

Sylvia Forges-Ryan

 

Second Place:

on the river
      of many names, one cloud
      floating

Virginia Brady Young

 

Third Place:

learning too late
he didn't like bubinga wood—
sun strikes the urn

Elizabeth Searle Lamb

 

Honorable Mention:

the war memorial—
migrating butterflies
cover the names

Penny Harter

 

Honorable Mention:

falling leaves
the house comes
out of the wood

Jim Kacian

 

Honorable Mention:

leaving you—
fog on either side
of the white heron

Leatrice Lifshitz

 

Honorable Mention:

Below zero
all curled up in the woodpile
the skin of a snake

June Moreau