FreeXpresSion Haiku Competition 2015 results
Congratulations to Sandra Simpson for taking out First Prize in the Haiku Section of the FreeXpresSion 2015 Literary Competition. Rodney Williams was awarded Second Prize. Nathalie Buckland received Third Prize.
First Place - Sandra Simpson, NZ
planning her eulogy jars of carefully labelled seeds
Second Place - Rodney Williams, Vic
the scent of new-mown hay
raked into rows …
horse-tail clouds
Third Place - Nathalie Buckland, NSW
damp kindling …
a flock of firetails
lifts from the paddock
Highly Commended:
Quendryth Young, NSW
caldera anthill
basalt soil brought up
through the crater
Lorin Ford, VIC
the foreshore eroding –
just a few patches
of our first language left
Dawn Bruce, NSW
swinging up
from a fern filled valley
bellbird chimes
Scott Mason, USA
bare branches
the bone-white moon’s
craquelure
Commended:
Jennifer Sutherland, VIC
gallery opening –
the art of making
conversation
Quendryth Young, NSW
ghost crab
the toddler clambers
up his father
Ernest J Berry, NZ
hurricane
another plum tree
without its garden
Carol Reynolds, NSW
repurposing workshop
a memory
with every stitch
Winners’ haiku and the judge’s comments are available in the May issue of FreeXpresSion magazine. Details: Send AUS$5.00 for the May edition which will include a supplement containing all the monetary prize-winning entries in full, or $2.50 just for the supplement; $6.60 to the rest of the world including the UK, USA, Europe Africa and Canada etc. Send to PO Box 4 West Hoxton NSW 2171 Australia. Please make sure you include your name and address.
Congratulations to all, and many thanks to Vanessa Proctor for judging the competition.