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The annual Valentine Awards issue of The Heron’s Nest is now online for 
your pleasure and inspiration.  It contains haiku chosen by the Editors and
by the Readers as the best to appear in 2004 in The Heron’s Nest, with
commentaries on many of the selections. 

For the first time, one person — Lenard D. Moore — has won the three major Valentine
Awards: Readers’ Favorite Poet & Favorite Poem, and Editor’s’ Choice Favorite Poem.

The Readers and Editors chose this beautiful , sad monument
to a father’s love as the best poem of the year:

hot afternoon
the squeak of my hands
on my daughter’s coffin

                       Lenard D. Moore

  While you’re waiting for the that special card from that special person to arrive,
The Heron’s Nest Valentine Awards (Vol. VII, Feb 2005) are the perfect distraction —
tastey and tasteful (and non-fattening).
 
In addition to the major awards, you’ll find excellent runners-up choices, and  
a bonus Special Mentions section •  (Part I) •  (Part II).  Ten of the
Special Mention haiku were written by Honored Guests here at f/k/a:
 

cloudless sky
the baaing
of penned sheep

              –  Carolyn Hall
 
 
 
 
 
graveside
my father and I
find common ground

                 – Tom Painting
 
 

 
near dark —
the grand hotel drips
long after the rain

                          Gary Hotham
 
 
 
 
 
midsummer sun
facing the mountain
I’ll never climb

                     — Pamela Miller Ness

                
 

 
all its leaves fallen —
a tree we were
forbidden to climb
                                        — paul m.
 

 
 
 
no wind today —
the cottonwoods
speak in chickadee
                                     — Billie Wilson
 
 
 
 
 
Flooded plain —
fence tops show which water
belongs to whom
                                 — George Swede
 
 
 

last of the sunlight
cows bounding
downhill
                      — Carolyn Hall
 

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After the burial —
my eyes on the shadows
of everything
                             — George Swede

 
 
dry heat
a hawk corkscrews
the sky

                 — Tom Painting 

                                                                                      
 
  dagosan:  is just going to set back, and take it all in —
after spending a few more minutes over at the Nest.

mailbox stuffed
— Valentines
from relatives
                            [Feb. 14, 2004 & 2005]

 

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