Results of 2014 World Haiku Competition include Australian Poets Carole Harrison and Cynthia Rowe, awarded First Place and Honourable Mention respectively.
1st Place Grand Prize Winner!
cicada dusk . . .
pine needles threading me
the moon
by Carole Harrison (Australia)
2nd Place
a monarch
folds into silence…
budding petals
by Chen-ou Liu
3rd Place
last breath
of the last dinosaur
in tar pit bubbles
by Jackie Maugh Robinson
Honourable Mentions
hot soup
my tongue screams
I wait
by Patricia Cyr
walking barefoot
in wet sand
low breakers erase me
by Jackie Maugh Robinson
memorial garden …
the shadowy gleam
of a ghost orchid
by Cynthia Rowe
moth wings
the folding and unfolding
of laundry
by Tracy Davidson
the cherry blossom
they’ll never see again…
Fukushima
by Tracy Davidson
Australian Haiku Society 