Poetry of Nature

RESOBOX International Haiku Contest Winners

1st Place Winner
Edward Cody Huddleston from Georgia, USA

lone streetlight
a firefly
flickers back

2nd Place Winner
Eduard Tara from Iasi, Romania

gardening
her shadow full of
forget-me-nots

3rd Place Winner
Martha Magenta from Bristol, England

night watch . . .
I follow her gaze
to the stars

As we did not receive enough haikus to announce a winner for the Youth division, we have decided to select and congratulate one child for their outstanding haiku as an honorable mention!

Honorable Mentions – Adult Division

Debbie Scheving from Washington, USA

wisp of a cloud –
on the infant’s cheek
a fallen eyelash

Jennifer Carr Munoz from Sante Fe, New Mexico

still waters –
fish nibble bits
of sun

Helen Barysheva from Moscow, Russia

children’s playground
fallen leaves
take off again

Honorable Mentions – Youth Division

Dinesh Srikar Mekala from Andhra Pradesh, India

hide and seek
one more banyan leaf
lands on my head

Thank you all for participating in the RESOBOX International Haiku Contest! We want to warmly congratulate the winners! Their haikus will be on display at our RESOBOX LIC location from August 18 to September 8, 2019. Please feel free to join us for the Artist’s Talk event with judge Natalia L. Rudychev this Sunday, September 1st at 7:00pm!

Artist’s Talk Event

***SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED!***

RESOBOX is holding its very first Haiku contest in partnership with Haiku artist Natalia L. Rudychev! Please submit your own Haikus for a chance to be a part of the upcoming Haiku exhibition, “Poetry of Nature.”

Theme: Haiku are to be written in the spirit of the following quote by Lafcadio Hearn (from an essay “Bits of Poetry” that appeared in Hearn’s book In Ghostly Japan, 1899)

The common art principle of the class of poems under present consideration is identical with the common principle of Japanese pictorial illustration. By the use of a few chosen words the composer of a short poem endeavors to do exactly what a painter endeavors to do with a few strokes of the brush — to evoke an image or a mood — to revive a sensation or emotion. And the accomplishment of this purpose — by poet or by picture maker — depends altogether upon capacity to suggest, and only suggest. […] a poet would be condemned for attempting any completeness of utterance in a very short poem: his object should be only to stir the imagination without satisfying it.

Send us your best creations. Entries must be in English. Each entry must be the original, unpublished work by the author, and should not be under consideration or publication elsewhere. Appearance of a haiku in any social media renders it ineligible.

Divisions:

• Youth Division (ages 5-15)
• Adult Division (ages 16+)

Topic: Free
Form: 3 haiku per entrant
Awards: 1st, 2nd, 3rd place and three Honorable Mentions
Prizes: Certificate of Recognition, Books on Haiku, Public Display at RESOBOX LIC during the event.
Judging: Blind
Judge: Natalia L. Rudychev (http://www.thepoetryofbreath.com/1.html)

*Email submissions only*
Please send your emails to wendy@resobox.com with the following information:
Subject line: RESOBOX International Haiku Contest + Age of the Author
Include: Full name, postal address, email, phone number

Three haiku per entrant, there are no rules to syllable count, between one and four lines written in the spirit of the theme quote above.

Submission period: June 19 – July 24, 2019