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70th Anniversary of Honourable Basho Haiku Competition
Iga City, Mie prefecture Japan

12 October 2016

Honourable Mention
(Selected  by Koko Kato)

   summer evening
cooing pigeons curve distance
                         into stillness

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8th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum Haiku Contest
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Made joint second (Distinguished Work Prize)
with my haiku..........
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too young
his ash on the wind
unable to settle
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Winning haiku by Ali Znaidi............
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full sunshine
rainbow perishing into
butterflies












































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from The Zen Space 2016

Work recently published in The Zen Space 2016   Summer Edition


white cyclamen
her nightdress wafts
last light

settling in the wake
of their feet
a pair of swans

morning frost
born on a puff of mist
the robin’s note

secluded pond
a feral cat drinks in
silence

such frailty
wild crocuses    we lean
into prevailing winds

across ice flowers
first thing
the skitter of wrens

cliff top walk
a snail bleached white
fills with rain


Easter Low Tide

Easter low tide
broke back hulls
expose permanence

Anemones
internalise

we take time to muse
a ship’s finality
demised in flint

ribbed reefs
stuck deep

our circled tracks
ephemeral
await each wave’s
elimination