The results pf the 3rd haiku contest on theme Gourds
This year we received 681 haiku by 281 authors from 34 countries:
Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, New Zealand, N. Ireland, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, Sweden, Trinidad, Tunisia, UK, Ukraine, USA, and Zimbabwe.
INTERNATIONAL CONTEST IN ENGLSIH
The Judge was Tomislav Maretić and Đ.V.Rožić. They decided on first prize, two second prizes, three third prizes and eighteen Honorable Mentions.
The 12th Pumpkin Festival will be held on October 15-16, 2016 and after that we will send the diplomas and the joint collection to the authors. Many thanks to all poets who took part in the contest and congratulations to all poets with awarded poems. Please join us next year, the deadline moved to JUNE 30, 2017.
HAIKU
First Prize
silent laughter
at the farmers’ market
carved pumpkins
Ernest J. Berry, New Zealand
Second Prizes
giving voice
to the jack o’lantern
a cricket’s song
Julie Warther, USA
tropical rain . . .
spitting out pumpkin seeds
temple monkeys
Samantha Sirimanne Hyde, Australia
Third Prizes
I turn off the light
Jack-o-lantern’s smile
fades away
Rosa Clement, Brazil
pumpkin field
when summer love
comes to an end
Cristian Dexter
october rain
the pumpkin’s painted face
melting
Cherese R. Cobb
HONORABLE MENTIONS
(In no particular order)
hiding behind
the biggest pumpkin
the smallest child
Ann Magyar, USA
all pumpkins in the field
glowing in the moonlight
only one in the water
Dimitrij Škrk, Slovenia
late afternoon–
the colors of pumpkins
on Canson paper
Van Zimerman, Brazil
former minefield –
the pumpkins
cover the holes
Capotă Daniela Lăcrămioara, Romania
pumpkin head
the crow not frightened
enough
Adjei Agyei-Baah, Ghana
old castle–
the tourists take pictures
of a pumpkin blossom
Radka Mindova, Bulgaria
never again
making a pumpkin pie …
my mother
Saša Važić, Serbia
things we don’t know
about each other…
faceless pumpkins
Meik Blöttenberger, USA
in each lamp
the same ghost’s face …
pumpkin night
Ramesh Anand, India
a dry gourd
on each twitch of a fish
dancing with the hook
Dubravka Borić, Croatia
picnic in the field
on a cracked pumpkin
a bird festa
Zlata Bogović, Croatia
tribal dance —
the soft rattle
of painted gourds
Carole Macrury, USA
autumn dusk…
the orange lights
of a pumpkin
Ali Znaidi, Tunisia
autumn sunset
fire in the eyes
of the jack-o’-lantern
Lyudmila Hristova, Bulgaria
rotten pumpkin
the darkness
of that longing eyes
Ken Sawitri, Indonesia
on a harvested field
a scarecrow waves farewell
to his pumpkins
Dejan Pavlinović, Croatia
tangerine sky
a farmer compares colors
on the pumpkin field
Maria Tomczak, Poland
gourd harvest—
some bitterness left
in her words
Carl Seguiban B.C., Canada
Đ.V.Rožić
HAIKU/SENRYU
In Haiku/Senryu section the judges decided on first, second, three third prizes and eleven Honorable Mentions.
First Prize
guessing weight
he lifts his boy then
the giant pumpkin
John Tiong Chung Hoo, Malaysia
Second Prize
jack-o-lantern
how his jagged smile widens
when he sees me
Tracy Davidson, United Kingdom
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Third Prizes
in the truck
with the seatbelt buckled
my prize pumpkin
Marilyn Appl Walker, USA
a slice of pumpkin–
at the mouths of piggies
orange lipstick
Belinda Belovari, Serbia
from his pumpkin
he savors the skull and eyes
cooked in the jam pot
Marie Derley, Belgium
HONORABLE MENTION
(In no particular order)
Halloween evening-
toothless grandma
chews pumpkin soup
Andrius Luneckas, Lithuania
pumpkin coach
wheels come off
still able to roll
Scott Thouard, Australia
no school today –
instead of the globe
a pumpkin
Capotă Daniela Lăcrămioara, Romania
Midday
the fat man bends over
to pick his pumpkin
Quendryth Young, Australia
pumpkin harvest
the children’s new puppy
chooses one to bark at
Sheila K. Barksdale, USA
after love
on the pumpkin’s face
a happy grin
Cezar Florin Ciobica, Romania
pumpkin’s lament
no body no head
only this silly grin
Reshida Coba, USA
worms on the pumpkin–
are they carving it
to make a Jack-o’-lantern?
Leonardo Lazzari, Italia
carved pumpkins
each face in my hometown
familiar
Lorin Ford, Australia
conspicuously
she walks, hiding a pumpkin
under her dress
Raj K. Bose, USA
bone tired
carving pumpkins
skeletons arriving
Christina Sng, Singapore
Đ.V.Rožić