Thank you to Ravi Kiran, our editor of LEAF, for nominating ten haiku for The Haiku Foundation’s prestigious Touchstone Awards 2023.
Congratulations to those selected and enjoy their haiku again here, as well as in LEAF Issue Two.
autumn stillness
parachuting
across the yard
Goran Gatalica
twilight concert
the long sax notes shape
a seaside breeze
Richard L. Matta
crabapple jelly
what a little sugar
can do
Cindy Putnam Guentherman
dead fish litter the shore smelling of oil spill
Kala Ramesh
left behind
the dream raven’s
dropped feather
Cynthia Anderson
wild summer
all bundled up
into bales of hay
Colette Kern
stretching his wings the pilot moonlights as a crow
Peter Jastermsky
moon’s pull
the Atlantic crossing
the Atlantic
Mike Gallagher
fireflies I abandon the moon
Veronika Zora Novak
downunder Christmas
the children build
a sandman
Sue Courtney
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Congratulations to the nominated writers, wonderful haiku.