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Commended haiku
Honorable Mention
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harvest moon
scooping it out of the lake
the rustle of leaves
Angelee Deodhar, India
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sitting zazen
the clogs of the monks
covered in frost
Michael Rehling, USA
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my childhood home --
the non-bearing persimmon's
futile red flowers
John Snyder, USA
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Commended
big oak tree
its bark smoothened
from hide and seek
b'oki, USA
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barn roof
all but one fledgling dove
scattered by the hawk
kirsty karkow, USA
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caution tape--
a magnolia petal drifts
through the manhole
Kathy Lippard Cobb, USA