Congratulations to Lorin Ford for taking out First Place, with the following haiku:
a last year’s lambskin where mushrooms gather dusk
– Lorin Ford (Australia)
Second place:
train journey …
the young student next to me
reduces stars to graphs
– Beverley George (Australia)
Third place:
holding cover
the hare waits
for eye contact
– Simon Hanson (Australia)
Highly Commended:
nectarine moon the sky dark with fruit bats
– Cynthia Rowe (Australia)
floating in calm air
too much light
for the engineer’s math
– Gary Hotham (US)
sunrise
the yellowing wattles
lean a little
– Jan Dobb (Australia)
parsley bed
the stretched necks
of snails
– Beverley George (Australia)
Commended:
rolling fields
the vocabulary
of sheep
– Scott Mason (US)
estuary dusk
a plover
mentions its name
– Tony Beyer (NZ)
first light
a piano sonata
under my breath
– Jennifer Sutherland (Australia)
daisies
closed for the night –
I sing her a lullaby
– Claire Knight (UK)
midsummer
a cicada husk
split open
– Quendryth Young (Australia)
wind chimes the patter of unborn feet
– Norah Johnson (NZ)
Best Local Haiku
evening calm –
duck’s wake
the width of the estuary
– Catherine Bullock, Waihi, NZ
Australian Haiku Society 