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Charnwood Arts miniWORDS Poetry Competition
Haiku Category

 

 WHC encourages initiatives for members to organize local events. It is our hope that each outreach of this kind can spread like ripples on water, meeting other ripples to form new ways of building haiku community through friendship and understanding. Kevin Ryan, Director of Charwood Arts and WHC's Art Director has instituted a haiku division in their annual miniWORDS competition. In addition, the organization's website linked local Loughborough artists with writers of haiku through their multi-faceted website. We are happy to present the first Charnwood Arts Haiku competition results on World Haiku Review.

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Charnwood Arts miniWORDS
24 September 2001

Kevin Ryan
Director Charnwood Arts
WHC Arts Director

miniWORDS is a competition in a number of short forms that has been run by
Charnwood Arts for the last eight years. Most of the entries are from the
county of Leicestershire and the East Midlands region of England but every
year people also write in from further afield.

This is the first year that Charnwood Arts have invited haiku submissions as
an open category. No conditions or stipulations were made beyond a maximum
syllable count and each writer has interpreted the term 'haiku' as they see
fit.

We were greatly honoured to be able to invite Susumu Takiguchi - Chair of
the World Haiku Club, and Debi Bender, Editor-in-Chief of the World Haiku
Review to judge the entries of this first local haiku competition.

Their hard work and comments are a tribute to the work of many poets with
little previous exposure to haiku. Some of the work was re-categorised as
senryu by Susumu and Debi and these will also be included with merited works
in the miniWORKS publication.

Inspired by their comments and presence here in Charnwood we are now very
keen to build on this event to encourage a much bigger competition next
year.

Click Here to go to Charnwood!

First Place

Footpath at Quorn Buttercup petals With morning dew glistening Cling to my bootlace Drucilla Rogers Wigston, Magna, UK

Highly Commended

twilight... the pond rippling from my last stone Kathy Lippard Cobb Bradenton, Florida, USA

Winter Wan winter sunshine Does not warm my cold hands, but Keeps me from sadness Neil Brammall Loughborough, Charnwood, UK

Commended

Tuscany 1 From hot hill top towns cypress avenues zigzag down to rich vineyards. Sally Chisholm Loughborough, Charnwood, UK

Tuscany 3 Lizards bask in sun on yellow stone parapets. Tourists rest in shade. Sally Chisholm, Loughborough, Charnwood, UK

doves squabble and fly away from their slender perch - lightened branches shake Sally Davies Burton on the Wolds Charnwood, UK

in the quiet night a shooting star lights the way to the rising sun Sally Davies Burton on the Wolds Charnwood, UK

Haiku of Merit (in no particular order)

Souvenir Diminishing Dolls, Painted Wood thoughout; Bright novelties without hearts. Pamela James Northampton, UK

Special Brew cheerful drunk playing careless hopscotch on the unchalked pavement Dylan Pugh Melton Mowbray, UK

Nuns in their habits like tombstones in the moonlight faith, hope, charity Anne Kind Oadby, UK

spring on the range burnt black grasses waiting for green Carol Sircoulomb Kansas, US

The caterpillar When she wears her finest clothes Is a butterfly John Alexander Stoney, Stanton, UK

Sun waking with dew in a bed of roses R N Parkin Radcliffe on Trent, UK

Sitting on a leaf In the cool autumn weather Butterfly vivid. Margaret C Rae Lesmahagow, Scotland

Lips lifting lines from Love letters, brushing leaves which Signals Autumn smoke. Barbara Hawthorne Kettering,UK

Antique shop window full of toys from my childhood: am I so old? W. M. Tidmarsh Great Bowden, UK

Summer solstice, the yellow flag is furling itself Florence Vilen Saltsjo-Boo, Sweden

Thunderstorm, the garden path a shallow stream Florence Vilen Saltsjo-Boo, Sweden

Yesterday he died. Today she hangs out the washing. Keeps her occupied. Rosie Eva Northampton, UK

no mirror reflects a poet's true shape or likeness so true as the poems Richard Cluroe Radcliffe on Trent, UK

Midnight - I turn the page to begin yesterday's paper Stephen Atkinson Carlisle, UK

Mother weeps softly as her daughter is married. Joy is so fleeting. Mary Murfin Nottingham, UK

Bradgate Closure Oak tree hides buzzard Rabbit screams in the silence Throat ripped and bleeding Drucilla Rogers Wigston Magna, UK

Garden May morning blossom Bluetit among white petals Heaven on a twig Drucilla Rogers Wigston Magna

Senryu of Merit

Pale is the moonlight hungry is my love tonight lust on the menu! Joan McEvoy Haworth, UK

Which road should I take, right for torment, left for pain? The poets quandry. Stephen Atkinson Carlisle, UK

Valentine's Day card - wishing the handwriting was from someone else Stephen Atkinson Carlisle, UK

Naked To be a poet is to raise the blinds of life and reveal your soul Fred Vernon Northampton

Mystery Bearing ripened fruit, woman and the lemon tree shine with petalled joy Fred Vernon Northampton

Chocoholic If you were chocolate, I could not resist a bite and you'd be size ten. Fred Vernon Northampton

In that first love flush You gave me your heart and soul And your athlete's foot Jay Smedley Habertoft, UK

Modesty A high IQ was necessary to produce This winning haiku. Bill James Weston Flavell, UK

Welcome on the mat trodden on a thousand times but still legible. Mary Murfin Nottingham, UK

No More Haiku A haiku's too short to express my love for you; I'll write a sonnet Joan Condon Northampton, UK

 

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