Haiku Matching Contest • Human Affairs

(select your favorite for each pair and write it in the box below the pairs)
(then select favorites of those pairs, etc... until one is the top pick)

in his arms
that warming smell
safe and secure

Jill Guffey (6)

50 years pass
we still kiss
for the first time

(12)

holding hands
I carefully
step over the fallen tree

(10)

scattered pink petals
surround my feet
I miss a step

Laura Podeschi (7)

50 years pass
we still kiss
for the first time

James Hartnett (8)

holding hands
I carefully
step over the fallen tree

(10)

 

top quarter champion =

holding hands
I carefully
step over the fallen tree

Rachel Walker (5)

 

top half champion =

thinking of you
I burn the toast
black

bottom quarter champion =

thinking of you
I burn the toast
black

(13)

thinking of you
I burn the toast
black

(12)

yellow dandelion
I ask him
if he's happy

Laura Podeschi (7)

thinking of you
I burn the toast
black

(19)

summer quarrel
I use
her insults

Joanne Weise (1)

yellow dandelion
I ask him
if he's happy

(12)

kitchen light flickers,
I turn my head
as you try to kiss me

Nicole Silverman (7)

 

 

top half champion =

thinking of you
I burn the toast
black

Nicole Silverman (9)

 

champion =

rush of water
I no longer know
the face staring back

Laura Podeschi

bottom half champion =

rush of water
I no longer know
the face staring back

(10)

secret burden
she takes a walk
through the park

(10)

October frost
her birthday passes
in silent remembrance

Molly Burns (8)

bruised tailbone
the cherry pie
lands upside-down

(12)

in the jewelry store
my sister jumps
newly pierced ears

Rachel Walker (4)

secret burden
she takes a walk
through the park

(10)

bruised tailbone
the cherry pie
lands upside-down

Ashlee Peth (7)

 

top quarter champion =

secret burden
she takes a walk
through the park

Katie Burke (7)

 

bottom half champion =

rush of water
I no longer know
the face staring back

bottom quarter champion =

rush of water
I no longer know
the face staring back

(10)

first boat
of the season
dropped back into the lake

Dan Temkin (8)

rush of water
I no longer know
the face staring back

(9)

first boat
of the season
dropped back into the lake

(10)

not a fish biting
except for both guys fishing
beside me

Chris Merritt (9)

rush of water
I no longer know
the face staring back

(15)

foot asleep
I try to become aware...
of something else

Jennifer Godwin (3)


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