71st Basho Memorial English Haiku Contest Selected Haiku

Grand prizes PDF

The war end day―

A young soldier’s will says

“I will be a star.”

終戦忌星になるてふ兵の遺書(自訳)

Japan Kyoko Shimizu

tinder-dry heathland

cracked hooves of wild ponies

exploding seedpods

種薯割る野馬のひづめ荒野地帯

UK Sheila K. Barksdale

Honorable mentions PDF


Selected and translated by Koko Kato. (Haiku poet)