THE RESULTS OF THE 10th INTERNATIONAL HAIKU/SENRYU CONTEST

THE RESULTS OF THE 10th INTERNATIONAL HAIKU/SENRYU CONTEST ON THE THEME OF THE GOURDS, 2023

Judged by Krzysztof Kokot

 First place: Grey Coyote, Canada

edo period
break on the tokaido
water from a gourd

 

Second place: Bette Hopper, Texas USA

gourds –
so much life
after death

 

Third place: Zoran Doderović, Novi Sad, Serbia

pumpkin seeds
drying on the porch
old newspaper news

 

TEN HONORABLE MENTIONS PRESENTED IN RANDOM ORDER:

Ron C. Moss, Tasmania, Australia

distant gunfire –
unpicked gourds hang
on withered vines

 

Dennys Cambarau, Sardinia, Italy

hollow gourd – 
all the oppressive weight
of the butterfly

 

SRINI, India

winter dusk
a child offers her sweater
to the pumpkin scarecrow

 

Tony Williams, Scotland, UK

zucchini
it started
with a kiss

 

Vilma Knežević, Croatia

ripened squash
leaning on a cherry tree
fall arrived

 

Marie Derley, Belgium

three months of marriage
in the garden the gourd seeds
will soon germinate

 

Julie Schwerin, Wisconsin, USA

the grief
she tries to bury
pumpkin seeds         

         

Stoianka Boianova, Bulgaria

birthday party
the melon cake
runs out the fastest

 

Mircea Moldovan, România

plain village
when smell of melons
when smell by dung

 

Debbie Strange, Canada

first school day
the coiling tendrils
of loofah

 

Congratulations to all authors and thank you for taking a part in our competition.
Our gratitude to Mr. Krzysztof Kokot for his judging the contest.
The Haiku Association „Three Rivers“, town of Ivanić-Grad, the Zagreb County, Croatia