We are very happy to announce here all the award-winners and their award-winning haiku of the Third Ashiya International Haiku Festa.
We appreciate that 381 haiku were sent from 108 haiku-poets of 19 countries.
Thank you very much for your participation.
| Takahama Kyoshi Award |
| David Cobb | U.K.
|
spring sunshine ―
my dead wife's handprintsI
on the window pane |
| Ashiya International Haiku Grand Prix |
| TITO（Stephen Gill） | (Living in)Japan
|
Hydrangeas
Flowering on the tumulus ―
A terrifying deep blue. |
| Ashiya International Haiku Award |
| John Ower | U.S.A.
|
first light ―
the snowy egret's
black |
| Mayor of Ashiya Award |
| Marie Summers | U.S.A.
|
passing clouds
I wait for the roofers
to float away |
| The Asahi Newspaper Award |
| Eduard Tara | Romania |
Fireman's garden ―
an old man is watering
the red dahlias |
| Inspirational Award of the Judge ( for 5 haiku ) |
| Milenko D. Cirovic Ljuticki | Serbia and Montenegro |
The moon has risen.
A startled shadow slipped away
into the shadows. |
| Frank Williams | U.K. |
heat wave in the park ...
a squirrel creates
a shower of leaves |
| Kohjin Sakamoto(Yukio Sakamoto) | (Living in)Japan |
mimicing my coughs ...
the parrot
in the next room |
| Fay O'Niell | Australia |
setched
on the cemetery wall ―
a pattern of dead ivy |
| Jason Stanford Brown | U.S.A. |
a cricket
inches along the wall
gathering storm |
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