{"id":8805,"date":"2008-01-20T10:39:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T15:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/01\/20\/2007-winners-from-mainichi\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:34","slug":"2007-winners-from-mainichi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/01\/20\/2007-winners-from-mainichi\/","title":{"rendered":"2007 winners from Mainichi"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/em><\/strong>he winners of this year’s Mainichi Daily News<\/a><\/em> haiku contest have just been announced — see the 11th Mainichi Haiku Contest<\/a><\/strong> (2007) results and commentary. Congratulations to Philippe Br\u00e9ham (France), who took the First Prize. I’m pleased to see that two of the earliest members of our f\/k\/a<\/em> family had honored poems:<\/p>\n

chambers pulsing
\nin the washed-up jellyfish\u2014
\nwaning moon<\/p>\n

\u2014 Michael Welch<\/a> (U. S. A.)
\n2nd Prize, 11th Mainichi Haiku Contest<\/a> (2007)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

. . . …………………………………… . . . . <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

snow flurries
\na childhood friend
\nreappears<\/p>\n

\u2014 Peggy Lyles<\/a> (U. S. A.)
\nHonorable Mention, 11th Mainichi Haiku Contest<\/a> (2007)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

D\u00e9j\u00e0-ku<\/a> scholar Michael Dylan Welch was the second poet to agree to share his haiku at this weblog. Here are a few of his poems that fit my mood and themes this week:<\/p>\n

first date
\nletting her
\nput snow down my neck<\/p>\n

a table for one– <\/font>
\nleaves rustle
\nin the inner courtyard<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

[photo\/poem<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\n

an old woolen sweater
\ntaken yarn by yarn
\nfrom the snowbank<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

………………………. by Michael Welch<\/a>
\n“first date” – South by Southwest <\/em>10:3; “edge of light<\/a>: RMA 2003″
\n“a table for one” & “woolen sweater” – “Open Window<\/a>” (photos and poems)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"LylesRain\" <\/font><\/font>T<\/em><\/strong>hree years ago today, we posted our “inaugural” piece<\/a> on Peggy Willis Lyles<\/a>. As often, Peggy touches me with the honesty and empathy of her haiku:<\/p>\n

\n

bitter wind . . .
\nthe hand that cups the flame
\naglow<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

snowed in
\nthe wedding-ring quilt
\nlumpy with children<\/p>\n

winter night <\/font> <\/font><\/font><\/font>
\nhe patiently untangles
\nher antique silver chain<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n
\n

wind and rain
\nthe hand I reach for
\nin the dark<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

…………………. Peggy Lyles<\/a>, from To Hear the Rain<\/em><\/a> (Brooks Books, 2002)<\/p>\n

In a day or two, we’ll be featuring some of the poems by “our” Carolyn Hall<\/a> that can be found all this month on Cornell’s Mann Library Daily Haiku<\/a> page. Please don’t wait for our posting to get over there and enjoy and appreciate a month’s worth of fine haiku by the much-honored Ms. Hall, chosen by Tom Clausen<\/a>. For example: <\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

a butterfly
\nso long at my window
\nsummer dusk<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

fieplace glow
\nfirst signs of fraying
\nin the cane-back rocking chair<\/p>\n

………………………………………. by Carolyn Hall<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The winners of this year’s Mainichi Daily News haiku contest have just been announced — see the 11th Mainichi Haiku Contest (2007) results and commentary. Congratulations to Philippe Br\u00e9ham (France), who took the First Prize. I’m pleased to see that two of the earliest members of our f\/k\/a family had honored poems: chambers pulsing in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1852,555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haijin-haikai-news","category-haiku-or-senryu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-2i1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12363,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8805\/revisions\/12363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}