ukiaHaiku Festival

2005 Winning Haiku

Copyright of all haiku remain with the writers

General Topics - K-3rd Grade


First Place

Snow flakes are falling.
Children are making snowballs.
The smell of cookies.

-Elizabeth Norvell, Mendocino


Second Place

Predator owl eyes.
Scratch hiss knock over the plants.
Mice slip through the grass.

-Justin Sundstrom, Point Arena


Third Place

Feathers of a bird
Plucked from a bush of flowers
A cactus of course

-Nina Standing, Mendocino


Honorable Mention

Why do stories end
Why do stories end so fast
Question me to know

-Tayler Scott, Ukiah

General Topics - 4th-6th Grade


First Place

Magnet on the fridge
Speaking in ways we can’t hear
   The sky looking in.

-Marianna Cooper, Mendocino


Second Place

It is so dark out
The night sky is a dark light
I need to see it

-Tabitha Ramos, Redwood Valley


Third Place

Autumn colors swirl
A crowd of blue and green shirts
Chase the soccer ball

-Alec McLeod, Redwood Valley


Honorable Mention

I can imagine
My turtle soaring backwards
He ate my birdie

-Luke Soberanis, Hopland


Honorable Mention

The mushrooms are white
as the strawberries are red
and that’s how I know.

-Luis Avalos, Ukiah


Honorable Mention

The deer are dead now.
They are not happy like skunk.
The bear is full now.

-Justin M. Garcia, Mendocino


General Topics - 7th-9th Grade


First Place

Cracking morning eggs
while bombs fall in Iraq
my head feels scrambled

-Robin Gomez, Mendocino


Second Place

Morning blue bright sky,
little raindrops coming down,
thump, where is my heart?

-Anne Lee, Talmage


Third Place

Pine trees fill the air
It’s fall now in our mountains
Grandmother’s Mountain

-Lisa Noel, Willits


Honorable Mention

  blossoms cover the ground
what once might have been cherries
  is now firewood

-Rebecca Bullshields, Redwood Valley


Honorable Mention

Rustling softly
A willow perched by the pond
Swaying in the wind

-Ruhui Gan, Talmage


General Topics - 10th-12th Grade


First Place

       Hovering above
Silver but always changing
    Snow piles in the sky

-Vincent K. Brock, Ukiah


Second Place

      Sun shiny Sunday
Oldies jam on the jukebox
     Creases in my pants

-Cesar Mendez, Ukiah


Third Place

         Speeding toward the lip
Everything goes through your mind
            I love to jump dirt

-Tim McCann, Boonville


Honorable Mention

Whales kill children
They cannot be stopped by man
We need big robots

-Tyler Good, Ukiah

Haiku about Ukiah, Youth


First Place

Water sodden grass
Trampled beneath teenage feet
—at Ukiah High

-Steffani Crawford, Ukiah


Second Place

The scent of coffee
And sounds of a busy street
A new day begins

-Rachel Henderson, Hopland


Third Place

Squirrels climbing home
Concerts blaring out beneath
People have picnics

-Alec McLeod, Redwood Valley

Contemporary Haiku, Youth


First Place

the orange has a skin
    that you can eat
            that’s
        all I know

-Ares Langer, Mendocino


Second Place

A tear falls lightly
on a half written letter
—soldier’s wife

-Steffani Crawford, Ukiah


Third Place

   teaching underground
        teaching about
digging roots underground

-Madelyn Crowningshield, Mendocino


Honorable Mention

rain wind thunder
turkey goose and mistletoe
bring winter warmth

-Dory Breaux, Fort Bragg


General Topics, Adult


First Place

blackberry blossom
tapping my kitchen window
red dragonfly day

-Bruce Longstreet, Boonville


Second Place

Army Museum
            Hanoi children smile at one
old American

-Stephen Sossaman, Westfield, MA


Third Place

Yin yang cats on couch
Bright fire lights the living room
Winter afternoon

-Katherine Houston, Ukiah


Honorable Mention

On a blade of grass
A rainbow imprisoned
By a drop of dew

-Bruce Hering, Boonville


Honorable Mention

dark approaches light
water gathers as white lace
trees shiver waiting

-Avrah Ray. Willits


Honorable Mention

   Rainbow showers come
The pale afternoon sun still
   In a misty sky

-Jackie Farley, Lakeport


Haiku about Ukiah, Adult


First Place

On hot summer days
Airport rabbits sit in shade
Under one lone tree

-Katherine Houston, Ukiah


Second Place

Summer’s hot sweet smell
   Turns to wine on autumn wind
      Too soon, vinegar

-Kayla Wildman, Ukiah


Third Place

Mountaintops, clear skies,
Recalling summer heat,
A wet sheep lies down

-Marianne Weems, Robert Rinder,
Laurence Rinder,
Ukiah


Honorable Mention

Exuberant leaps
Across the blooming pasture
Lamb “inventory”?

-Manya Wik, Potter Valley

General Topics, Adult
Guest Judge: Jane Reichhold

First Place

standing
     redwood trees
            shade me

-Cheryl Maslin, Willits


Honorable Mention

Temple of Heaven
    tourists' questions
in Echo Hall

-Stephen Sossaman, Westfield, MA


Honorable Mention

sun warmed bed
stretching naked ladies
signal summers end

-Laura Leigh, Pt. Arena


Honorable Mention

Dancing in my cup
The winter moon's reflection
how my old hands shake

-Vincent Carleton, Elk, CA


Honorable Mention

mid meadow
naked ladies sway
curtain call

-Philip Graf, Gualala


Honorable Mention

My neighbor's sycamore
Winter pruned to nubbins
Now grows fists of leaves

-Virginia Fitch, Ukiah


Special Judges’ Award


    What Your Stuff Thinks

The lunch boxes sit,
While all the backpacks hang there,
They say time to go.

-Christiana Wagner, Mendocino


Copyright of all haiku remain with the writers

 

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The Poet Laureate Committee of Ukiah is grateful to our 2006 Sponsors, Tenacity Press, and Poets & Writers, Inc., through a grant received from the James Irvine Foundation

ukiaHaiku Festival (UHF) is sponsored by:
The Poet Laureate Committee of Ukiah, Grace Hudson Museum, Writers Read, City of Ukiah, Ukiah Branch Library, Mendocino Community Network, and Colored Horse Studios