Haiku Contest
Previous Prize Winners
The 18th HIA Haiku Contest
The Award ceremony for the 18th HIA Haiku Contest was held at Ichigaya Arcadia on Sunday December 4th, 2016.
Sponsored by Haiku International Association
Supported by Nihon Keizai Shimbun, The Japan Times
Haiku in Overseas, the results
Judge
Kiuchi Toru, Kimura Toshio
Prize Winners - Selected by Kiuchi Toru
Empty street
Birds flying away
First golden leaf
Laura Nicola(Denmark)
sunflowers field
son asks about
universe
Andrius Luneckas(Lithuania)
Honorable Mentions - Selected by Kiuchi Toru
noon darkness
watery bullets pound
every roof
Anthony Obaro(NIGERIA)
On a park bench
I have nothing for you
two sparrows
Angela Cornelia Voss(Germany)
from the rooftops
of the houses, smoke lifts
light as a breath
Pere Risteski(Macedonia)
winter evening
on my tambour frame
a meadow’s blooming
Anna Switalska-Jopek(Gdansk)
Prize Winners - Selected by Kimura Toshio
cranes in flight
my father’s worn coat
full of autumn wind
Dorota Pyra(Poland)
deep in the cat’s eyes
the crow’s caw caw caw
Roberta Beary(U.S.A.)
Honorable Mentions - Selected by Kimura Toshio
traces in the garden
jasmine
rediscovering me
Lilia Racheva(Bulgaria)
arriving on the farm－
the open arms
of the scarecrow
Kwaku Feni Adow(Ghana)
minor seventh . . .
a car door squeaks
to the blackbird’s song
mayflowerbg(Maya Lyubenova)(Bulgaria)
dark night
every raindrop a star
falling
kjmunro(Katherine Munro)(Canada)