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From Snow on the Water: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, 1998:
my head in the clouds in the lake

- Ruby Spriggs


frost predicted
     the sizzle
of fried green tomatoes

                - R.A. Stefanac

 
 
  
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Just enough of rain
To bring the smell of silk
From umbrellas

     - Richard Wright
 
fog.
sitting here
without the mountains

     - Gary Hotham
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
       Haiku in English, 1967.
An acclaimed English haiku, which "had a significant effect [encouraging] a more minimalist style." (van den Heuvel)
      Lily :
      out of the water . . .
      out of itself.

                 - Nicholas Virgilio 		  
Yomiuri Shimbun,1998. First Prize, International Haiku:
     spring    wind --
     I      too
     am     dust

           -Patricia Donegan
  

   

   


Haiku Moment, 1993:

in morning sun two white horses      the autumn aspen

        - Elizabeth Searle Lamb

  

the old irrigation ditch    gathering in     autumn dusthaze

                            - Elizabeth Searle Lamb
  

   

   


Listening
     as the wave retreats
                  into itself

      - Geraldine Little
 
waterfall at night--
          her long
                    black
                          hair

- Charles Nethaway, Jr.
 
 
   

  
 

   a barking dog
   little bits of night
                                  breaking off
 
      - Jane Reichhold
 
     arms folded
     i watch the crane
     standing on one leg

           -Cor van den Heuvel
 
 
   

  
 

letting
       the cat in
       the fog in
 
                - Vincent Tripi
 
Red Moon Anthology,1997:
     the river
              the river makes
      of the moon

            - Jim Kacian
 
 
  
 
  
 

The Haiku Anthology, 1999:

JANUARY FIRST
the fingers of the prostitute cold          - Bob Boldman

subway woman asleep
picked daisies
in her hand

     - Raffael De Gruttola
 
   20,000 feet
   traces of masking tape
   on the jet engine

            - Dee Evetts
 
 
  
 
  
 

An Anthology       		   Knots:   
      of Southeastern European Haiku Poetry, 1999:

    spring evening -
    the wheel of a troop carrier
    crushes a lizard

        - Anakiev Dimitar
 
      moonlit lake
      the muzzle of a deer
      touches water

         - Banea Stefan
 
 
  
 
  
 

a small pool of blood
killed in the air-raid: a little girl
and her huge blond doll

         - Vladimir Devide
 
   house on a hill -
   out of a chimney scatters
   the milky way

            - Dan Doman

moonlight              
river divides the forest
into two nights     

          - Nikola Nilic
 
 
 
 
  
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