 WHCshowcase: HAIKU (Second Installment)......
HYAKU-NIN
IKKU
(One Hudred Haiku by One Hudred Poets)
Selections by Susumu Takiguchi, UK
WHCshowcase was formally launched during the
"World Haiku Festival 2004—La Fenice in Venice", an international haiku event
which was held from 28 August to 15 September 2004. The official display of
WHCshowcase
in the cyberspace began on 13 November 2004.
This unique showcase for haiku and related genres is designed to be an exhibition area where works in these various genres of the highest standards and quality will be displayed on a continuous basis. They will be shown not only to WHC members but also to everyone else in the world. The works to be shown will be chosen by a stringent selection of an anonymous panel, and authors may be invited to make some revisions as and when necessary.
WHCshowcase is part of WHC's initiative for "Higher Standards & Quality" and seeks to be a yardstick against which good works can be judged. It is expected that the number of works selected for WHCshowcase will be small. These selected works are expected to be considered to be included, with the author's permission, in a future world haiku anthology of WHC. Haiku poems selected for WHCshowcase will be considered for the WHC’s new project: HYAKU-NIN IKKU (One Hundred Haiku by One Hundred Poets), which is to select one best haiku from each of the one hundred poets invited.
The following are the selections of WHCshowcase subsequent to the 34 poems displayed in the previous issue of World Haiku Review. These are poems displayed from 31 March (No. 35) to 28 July 2005 (No. 50):
35
spring snow
the clock by the bed
rings itself out
Dave Bacharach, US
36
weekend dinner
tummy and moon
both full
Ella Wagemakers, NL
37
spadeful of earth—
my granddaughter asks
if a worm cries
Laryalee Fraser, CA
38
water shortage—
a fly laps water
from my glass
Gabi Greve, JP
39
evening star
bright in the northern sky—
my cold finger!
Lorin Ford, AU
40
sleepless night—
man and mountain vibrate
in thunder
Gabi Greve, JP
41
(Squire Creek)
Tangled up in roots
and dancing with the current,
an old hook and line.
James W. Hackett, US
42
Independence Day
grandfather tries to button
his old uniform
Owen Burkhart, US
43
lengthening shadow—
above her eggs, the hen's heart
beats against my arm
Beverley George, AU
44
the sound of thunder
pounds in my aching chest
bombing in London
Bette Wappner (b'oki), US
45
graveside—
echo of gravel
against the coffin
Allen M. Terdiman, US
46
a white egret
flying away from the pond
with muddy legs
Tomislav Maretic, HR
47
mid-summer—
wishing your breasts
were melons
Robert Wilson, US
48
night falls slowly...
leaving the lamp unlit
I lay my book aside
Bill Kenney, US
49
rain spattered Buddha
a jewel beetle scuttles
into a crevice
Laryalee Fraser, CA
50
Tiananmen wind
the way gusts whip all the flags
into a roar of red
James W. Hackett, US
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