 WHChaiku
SELECTIONS.............
VANGUARD HAIKU (BEST)
Selected by Susumu
Takiguchi, UK
refuge from reality
in a night of shooting stars
she opens to him
Carol Raisfeld, US
1
unopened rosebud
on a broken stem—
miscarriage
Deborah P. Kolodji, US
2
half-century slips into the mold with my name's
soul
DW Bender, US
3
watching
the playful monkey
I see myself
Tagalog version:
habang minamasdan
ang malikot na unggoy
nakita ko ako
Victor P. Gendrano, US
sounds of war:
the morning apple
tastes bitter
Carlos Fleitas, UY
5
Blasts in London—
a pigeon flies from smoke
with blackened wings
Zhanna P. Rader, US
6
soot and blood cover
Londoner's dead
death too of peace
Victor P. Gendrano, US
7
downpour—
the worm's pinkness
slipping into wet earth
Carole MacRury, US
8
hospice...
readying for the last
great adventure
Nancy Stewart Smith, US
9
the redbud tree...
hung with pods the color
of dried blood
Nancy Stewart Smith, US
*The redbud tree is also called the Judas
tree.
10
Three "monoku"
plowing the fish under after the great wave passed
A reference to recovery from the disastrous
tsunami, a "silver-lining"
her small coffin carried through windrows of tattered petals
An elegy for victims of terror attacks,
alluding to wasted youth
at King's Cross, the sky empty of birds—wet pavements
A reference to the 7/7 attacks
Denis M. Garrison, US
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