The 23rd HIA Haiku Contest Prize Winners

Updated on December 12, 2021

Haiku in Overseas

storm’s end
the whiff of lilac deepens
into itself

RaV(Rafał Zabratyński)
(Poland)

The shortest day
a bit less
than 17 syllables

Polina Pecherskaya
(Moscow, Russia)

starry night
I pick out one
to talk to

Mona Bedi
(India)

mom’s old teapot —
still preserving the aroma
of childhood

Paul Iordache
(Romania)

In the end,
Only Haiku stayed with me
in quarantine

Amir Hasanvandi
(Iran)

my fear of anility
not of death
day-fly

Radostina Dragostinova
(Bulgaria)

between the second
and the third wave
a spring

Marie Derley
(Belgium)

All of us were watching the rise and fall of the Covid numbers during the pandemic, but in the midst of this the seasons change, and spring begins.

Milky Way
a communal reading
of the “Odyssey”

Patricia Machmiller
(U.S.A.)

This might be a reading circle, or a shared reading aloud of Homer’s epic poem, coming to us across thousands of years, as starlight does.

stone Kannon －
a line of spring rain
drops from her hand

Kanchan Chatterjee
(India)

six feet apart
more ma
in my haiku

Brad Bennett
(U.S.A.)

waning dream
dog’s distant barking
gets louder

Emin Masimli
(Azerbaijan)

ceasefire agreement
new leaves masking
the plum tree’s scars

Florin C. Ciobica
(Romania)