WORLD-WIDE WHC SHIKI HAIKU POEMS CONTEST  2001

 

Second Place

 

blood moon

cuckoo’s voice in the back

of his throat

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this draws inspiration from Shiki’s 5th grade poem , “cuckoo cries as if it coughed up blood” and how he actually wrote of his own later health problems.

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Other Excellent Poem

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an’ya

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last homecoming

eleven autumn leaves part

from their maple

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Regarding Shiki’s last homecoming/farewell party, and his last works in Matsuyama; autumn leaves being his colleagues, and Shiki himself, the tree.