If anyone wishes to see what passes for the best current English Language Haiku (ELH), this is the longlist of poems published in 2023 nominated for the presitigous Touchstone Awards: https://thehaikufoundation.org/2023-...ems-long-list/
These are a few personal favourites:
autumn morning
a few atoms of Issa
in each dewdrop
—Keith Evetts
bone white winter moon breath of a snow hare
—Joan C. Fingon
cathedral vaulting
the centuries
of whale fall
—Laurie Greer
father’s war journal…
an ocean without
a shore
—Kathryn Liebowitz
robin songs
an immigrant’s child
translates for grandpa
—Joe McKeon
border checkpoint
she tells her dolls
to be brave
—John Pappas
the last song
I sing her the lullaby
she taught me
—Patricia McKernon Runkle
Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday/lah-
These are a few personal favourites:
autumn morning
a few atoms of Issa
in each dewdrop
—Keith Evetts
bone white winter moon breath of a snow hare
—Joan C. Fingon
cathedral vaulting
the centuries
of whale fall
—Laurie Greer
father’s war journal…
an ocean without
a shore
—Kathryn Liebowitz
robin songs
an immigrant’s child
translates for grandpa
—Joe McKeon
border checkpoint
she tells her dolls
to be brave
—John Pappas
the last song
I sing her the lullaby
she taught me
—Patricia McKernon Runkle
Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday/lah-
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