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2019 TLP HAIKU CONTEST FAVORITES
TLP Haiku Chapbook Contest Winners
Furrows of Snow, Glenn G. Coats
The Deep End of the Sky, Chad Lee Robinson
The Window That Closes, Graham High
All That Remains, Catherine J.S. Lee
Sketches from the San Joaquin, Michael McClintock
Other Turtle Light Press Haiku Books
Nick Virgilio: A Life in Haiku, Nick Virgilio
Peace and War: Haiku from Israel, Rick Black
2019 TLP Haiku Contest Favorites
Turtle Light Press • Arlington, VA • 2019
2019 Turtle Light Press Free E-Book Edition
Copyright © 2019 Turtle Light Press
Published electronically in the United States Turtle Light Press, LLC.
All rights reserved.
Cover Image by Susulyka, reproduced courtesy of Wikipedia Commons
Book Design by Emma Cortellessa
Turle Light PressP.O. Box 50162Arlington, VA 22205U.S.A
The 2019 TLP Haiku Chapbook Contest was won by Glenn G. Coats, of Carolina Shores, NC, for his entry, Furrows of Snow.
In honor of the fine work submitted to the con-test, we selected a handful of poems that we enjoyed from contestants and have created this free e-book for you. We hope that you will take pleasure in this wide cross-section of haiku.
Rick BlackPublisher
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Sidney and Margaret Bending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Alan S. Bridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Tony Burfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Glenn G. Coats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Amelia Cotter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Patricia Cruzan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Margaret Dornaus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Michael Dudley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Bruce England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Edward Cody Huddleston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7P.M.F. Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Vasiliki Katsarou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Mohammad Azim Khan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Deborah Kolodji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11Hannah Mahoney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Peter Meister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Beverly Acuff Momoi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Joanne Morcom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Laurie Morrissey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16K.J. Munro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17David Oates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17Renée Owen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Bob Redmond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Tom Sacramona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Crystal Simone Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Robin Anna Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Susan Spooner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Debbie Strange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Mary Vlooswyk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Julie Warther . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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Sidney and Margaret BendingVictoria, Canada
rain forecast . . . the dowsing stickrises
Alan S. Bridges Littleton, Massachusetts
as if this sky weren’t sky enoughindigo bunting
The Heron’s Nest, June 2015
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Tony BurfieldLyons, Colorado
winter night—too cold to holdthe star chart
The Heron’s Nest, June 2015
Glenn G. Coats Carolina Shores, North Carolina
Sunday sermonsrivers that bendmy knees
Frogpond #38, 2015
a crocus blossomopens and closesmom’s death day
Modern Haiku, Summer 2019
vernal equinoxthe bend of an elbowout a car window
The Haiku Calendar, 2020
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Amelia CotterChicago, Illinois
shrunken tumors . . .the sun-painted wallsof my childhood room
Acorn #26, 2011
Patricia CruzanFayetteville, Georgia
sunlit koalasslumberin eucalyptus trees
alone on the waterI hang on to what’s leftof the light
The Heron’s Nest, September 2015
furrows of snowthe river threads a wayto the sea
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Edward Cody HuddlestonBaxley, Georgia
war storiesthe shrapnel inhis voice
Bruce England Santa Clara, California
older now—I let her walk between meand the beach cliff
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Margaret DornausOzark, Arkansas
fireside chatthe dog comes betweenour heart-to-heart
Michael DudleyWellington Central, New Zealand
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Vasiliki Katsarou Annandale, New Jersey
white monasterya drone hovers at midnightabove the port town
Mohammad Azim Khan University Town, Pakistan
soaked in blooda turban stretchermoves downhill
funeral guestbookhow my signaturetrails off
The Heron’s Nest, December 2015
P.M.F. Johnson Minneapolis, Minnesota
his father’s voicecalling in the kids—summer evening
Modern Haiku, Winter-Spring 2018
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Deborah Kolodji Pasadena, California
still stunnedby the resultswild sea
their affairthe pattern of stonesin a zen garden
war zoneamongst the rubblean empty birdcage
Acorn, Fall 2016
a childholding mother’s burqacrosses the border
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almost open,the choirmaster’s fingertipslet the song go
Allegheny Magazine, Spring 2011
Beverly Acuff MomoiMountain View, California
freefall between dreams lost sister
AHundredGourds, September 2013
Hannah Mahoney Cambridge, Massachusetts
evening quieta wood duck glideswith her reflection
Peter MeisterNew Hope, Alabama
waterfallchangingits chant
South by Southeast, Summer 2013
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thrift storethe mannequin wearsa mink stole
Tinywords, June 2019
Joanne MorcomCalgary, Canada
lake cottagethe welcome matthreadbare
A Pebble in My Shoe, 2018
late apricotsthe promises we makejust out of reach
Acorn, Fall 2011
alonealong the shore
the willet in winter gray
Acorn, Spring 2017
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K. J. MunroWhitehorse, Canada
plastic bagfaster than the cabson 7th Avenue
David Oates Athens Georgia
abandoned billboardonly her faded legsremain
Laurie MorrisseyHopkinton, New Hampshire
a gap growsbetween blouse buttons . . .first trimester
Bottle Rockets #39, August 2018
Civil War statuea boy arms the soldier with a snowball
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my wife and soncount rings in the felled treeexactly my age
Tom SacramonaPlainville, Massachusetts
children draggingtheir shadows homebright plastic sleds
Presence #58, July 2017
Renée Owen Sebastopol, California
needingno permissionsky blue lupine
Modern Haiku, Winter-Spring 2019
Bob RedmondBurien, Washington
shadow and sunlightplay on the chestnut blossoms—what cancer?
Frogpond, Spring/Summer 2019
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pool hall—I beat the hajibed woman’shusband
slave museum tour—unable to disciplinemy children
backstreetshe knows all the roadswith forsythia
The Aurorean, Spring/Summer 2018
Crystal Simone SmithDurham, North Carolina
slave museum—the entrance fountainan ebbing shore
Pinesong, 2019
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Susan Spooner Victoria, Canada
faster than the trainthe wood pigeon’s calltakes me home
Bacopa Literary Review, 2019
new diagnosis . . .the long drive homein heavy rain
Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, March 2019
Robin Anna Smith Wilmington, Delaware
spring rain the ache of bonesin full bloom
pre-op prep—my surgeon asksto pray with me
Failed Haiku: A Journal of English Senryu, April 2018
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in cupped hands the harvest moon rests for a moment
Living Haiku Anthology, 2015
solar flares a spill of buttercups in the meadow
Acorn #35, Fall 2015
for sale sign transplanting snowdropsfrom mother’s garden
Debbie StrangeWinnipeg, Canada
weathered oars we fold our worries into the river
Acorn #41, Fall 2018
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gentle snowfall . . . acre upon acreof the same prayer
Hedgerow, January 2016
end of the daylily curling up with my loneliness
A Hundred Gourds, June 2015
Mary Vlooswyk Calgary, Canada
side by side we trek—even our breathin unison
Julie Warther Dover, Ohio
postpartuma hole in the lightthe shape of me
FemkuMag #1, 2018
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Valorie Broadhurst WoerdehoffDubuque, Iowa
ebb tideletting gowave by wave
If you have enjoyed this free e-book of TLP favorites, please consider purchasing one of our haiku titles from the TLP store. . .
Nick Virgilio: A Life in Haiku by Nick Virgilio
Peace and War in Israel by Rick Black
The Deep End of the Sky by Chad Lee Robinson
The Window That Closes by Graham High
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