Katikati Haiku Contest: 2008
Senior section: 327 entries
summer flood –
my father wades
through the stars
– Eduard Tara, Romania, First
moonlight
the stream flows from shadow
to shadow
– Elaine Riddell, Hamilton, Second
day moon
hoof prints litter
the beach track
– Kirsten Cliff, Papamoa, Third
Highly Commended:
putting on
her faded Levi’s
the undertaker
– André Surridge, Hamilton
weather change
the first child
meets her sister
– Nola Borrell, Lower Hutt
leaving your home –
kowhai flowers
flick off my windscreen
– Helen Yong, Christchurch
Best Local Haiku:
love-song
the black bird
sings
– Jan Goldthorp, Tuapiro Point
Junior section (17 years & under)
hot dancing fire
blazing in the cold night sky
here comes the eclipse
– Erika Cabrales, 13 years
Aquinas College, Tauranga, First
turquoise
the true colour of the waves
I see the fish swim
– Sophie Gibson, 8 years
Katikati, Second
between bare bony
branches I piece together
the almost-round moon
– Hannah Botha, 15 years
Tauranga, Third
Highly Commended
the last exam
my only thought
a bird call
– Sophia Frentz, 16 years
Tauranga
here it is again,
hello darkness my old friend,
shadow of the day.
– Jessica Polwarth, 12 years
Omokoroa Intermediate, Omokoroa
Commended
silent hunter
lifts his gun
the deer falls
– Hattie Sutcliffe, 11 years
Omokoroa Point School, Omokoroa
my fire red leaf
with hints of yellow honey
crispy brown edges
– Casey Rameka, 10 years
Hamilton