Haiku Society of America

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

1995

First Place:

letting the branch go
a shower of petals falls
on the old woman

Leatrice Lifshitz

 

Second Place:

toll booth lit for Christmas
from my hand to hers
warm change

Michael Dylan Welch

 

Third Place:

winter seclusion
tending all day
the small fire

Jim Kacian

 

Honorable Mention:

on the path
only one of us
touched by a falling leaf

Helen K. Davie

 

Honorable Mention:

winter, bedtime
   static flickers
       through a white sleeve

John Stevenson

 

Honorable Mention:

warm river—
up to our necks
in sunset

Ruth Yarrow

 

Honorable Mention:

beneath the ice
the waterfall
                    still falling

Jeanne Emrich