Haiku Society of America Haiku Award for 2001

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

 

 

 

 

 

These awards for unpublished haiku were originally made possible by Mrs. Harold G. Henderson in memory of Harold G. Henderson, who helped found The Haiku Society of America.

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