Photo Haiku Matching Contest Favorites Spring 2006

Photo Haiku Matching Contest Favorites • Spring 2006

museum marble, crafted centuries ago for this empty chair	sitting in a museum unseen to human eyes— old man's spirit	Wal-Mart price tag $19.99 dollar chair in an ancient temple	swept up shavings of the hand-carved walls
museum marble, crafted centuries ago for this empty chair		Wal-Mart price tag $19.99 dollar chair in an ancient temple
	top quarter champion = Wal-Mart price tag $19.99 dollar chair in an ancient temple
	top half champion = simply tired of waiting— I leave.
	bottom quarter champion = simply tired of waiting— I leave.
she waited for his love until . . . he let her fade away		simply tired of waiting— I leave.
she waited for his love until . . . he let her fade away	thoughts of childhood the cold of the electric chair	simply tired of waiting— I leave. Faith Martin	clearing the cobwebs from my heart's empty chambers spring cleaning
	top half champion = simply tired of waiting— I leave.
	grand champion = unreachable light my four legs useless
	bottom half champion = unreachable light my four legs useless
sunlight through the forest canopy a light in dark places Rick Bearce	seeing it's beauty our frozen fingers drop the guilty ax Traci Rapp	a lone chair waits for you in hell Sarah Corso	unreachable light my four legs useless Andrew Barnick
sunlight through the forest canopy a light in dark places		unreachable light my four legs useless
	top quarter champion = unreachable light my four legs useless
	bottom half champion = unreachable light my four legs useless
	bottom quarter champion = an empty chair patiently waits for days long past
emptiness etched against the light		an empty chair patiently waits for days long past
world of extremes I fear light more than dark	emptiness etched against the light	an empty chair patiently waits for days long past Allison Lingren	alone . . . I sit quietly waiting as the years pass

• • • commentaries • • •

A lone chair waits for you in hell	unreachable light my four legs useless
I paired these two together because of the tortured feeling both of these entail. The first accentuates the awaiting torture of a human, and the second portrays the current pain of the chair’s perspective. Both have a looming sense of claustrophobia that makes the reader very uncomfortable and anxious. After I read these haiku I just wanted to bounce around because of how constrained they both made me feel. I really liked how effective both of these haiku were. —Jamie