2011 Haiku Senryu Tanka Rengay Contest Results
HAIKU (Judge: Christopher
Herold)
First Place ($100)
you can forget
how to ride a bike
autumn
leaves
Carolyn Hall
San Francisco, CA
Second Place ($50)
wildfire the night sky full of pine
Ernest
J. Berry
Picton,
New Zealand
Third Place ($25)
mist at dawn
from the other side
a loon’s call
Roland Packer
Hamilton,
ON, Canada
Honorable Mentions (ranked)
deepening twilight
no way to answer
the grosbeak’s song
Carolyn
Hall
San Francisco, CA
a long list of regrets the maple in autumn
Carolyn
Hall
San Francisco, CA
SENRYU (Judge:
Scott Mason)
First Place ($100)
death notice my first wife’s second husband
Joseph Robello
Novato,
CA
Second Place
she lowers her voice
when she says it
miscarriage
Carolyn Hall
San Francisco, CA
Third Place
annoyed with myself static cling
Francine Banwarth
Dubuque, IA
Honorable Mentions (not ranked)
old friends
content to wait
for whatever
John
Stevenson
Nassau, NY
unblinking eyes
of the fortune-telling gypsy
penny arcade
Andre Surridge
Hamilton,
New Zealand
aquarium piranhas
a toddler’s nose
pressed to the glass
Carolyn Hall San Francisco, CA
chimpanzees whisper:
they’re just
like us
Bill
Pauly
Dubuque, IA
TANKA (Judge: Roberta Beary)
First Place ($100)
mid-autumn night…
the wind whispers to me
Chinese words
that offer me a home
in the shape of a moon
Chen-ou Liu
Ajax,
ON, Canada
Second Place
our favorite walk
by the river –
deep in conversation
we cover
the same old ground
Cara Holman
Portland,
OR
Third Place
her toothbrush
in my medicine chest
declares residency…
gazing at the mirror
a face hard to recognize
Chen-ou Liu
Ajax, ON, Canada
Honorable Mentions (not ranked)
on the porch
reaching for moonlight
I find it
already
on my fingertips
Lesley Swanson
Coopersburg, PA
closing the door
leaning back
against it –
a small room
for the night
Michael McClintock Clovis,
CA
playing hide and seek
I was always afraid
I’d never be found
wild geese fly north
in a perfect V
Margaret Chula
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