Eighth Annual Suruga Baika Literary Festival

◆ Ceremony	Cover Illustration by Kokyo Hatanaka
February 11, 2006
◆ Pool of applicants
a total of 105 entries
◆ Selector
contemporary poetry： Taro Naka Junko Takahashi thirty-one syllabled verse： Jun Kasahara Kimihiko Takano HAIKU： Kureo Manabe Yuko Masaki Shozo Kajima

Award Winning Haiku

Gabriel Rosenstock
Ireland

chewing the universe
mountain sheep
in mist

Zeljka Vucinic Jambresic
Croatia

into their hearts
hidding a little Sun
each daisy

Carmen Elena Montopoli
U.S.A.

Snow filters down, white
against a black sky: static
of lost connections.

John Bernard Ower
U.S.A.

weed covered lot-
a granite staircase rising
to the memory of a door

Honorable Mention

Sandra Simpson
New Zealand

first butterflies
catching the breeze
her new skirt

Marjorie Buettner
U.S.A.

Perseid showers--
has it been a life falling
forward or away ?

Guy Simser
Canada

Susuki shadow
creeping across the footpath
...evening chill

Jeff Leong
Malaysia

Autumn moon
soft shadows whisper
your sweet name

Zoran Doderovic
Serbia and Montenegro

Dewy meadow.
Mower sharpens the sun rays
on his scythe.

Verica Zivkovic
Serbia and Montenegro

raindrop slides
down the sunflower leaf -
with me, with me

Ana Rucnov
Serbia and Montenegro

A snake meets me
on a steep, hot rock.
Dear me! Is it hungry ?

Aleksandar Sevo
Serbia and Montenegro

It is getting dark.
Only the raven and me
on the path in the snow.

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