2015 San Francisco International Competition, Haiku, Senryu and Tanka Ce Rosenow, judge First Place winter gathering – bits of bone too heavy for the wind paul m, Bristol RI This excellent haiku presents a poignant moment at the scattering of someone’s ashes. The kigo, symbolically represents death, and when combined with the additional reference to the “winter,” wind, suggests a cold setting. The use of creates a tension with the actual scattering “gathering” of the ashes and adds to the poignancy because the speaker will not be gathered together again with whomever has died. Finally, the word at the end of the pivot line simultaneously “too” modifies and suggests that both the speaker and the of bone” are heavy. The “bits speaker may be heavy emotionally and the bone bits are too physically heavy to blow away. Second pine needle path ordinary words layered just so Warther, Dover OH In this fine haiku, one envisions a conversation about a delicate topic where each word is
2015 San Francisco International Competition, Haiku, Senryu and Tanka Ce Rosenow, judge First Place winter gathering – bits of bone too heavy for the wind paul m, Bristol RI This excellent haiku presents a poignant moment at the scattering of someone’s ashes. The kigo, “winter,” symbolically represents death, and when combined with the additional reference to the wind, suggests a cold setting. The use of “gathering” creates a tension with the actual scattering of the ashes and adds to the poignancy because the speaker will not be gathered together again with whomever has died. Finally, the word “too” at the end of the pivot line simultaneously modifies and suggests that both the speaker and the “bits of bone” are heavy. The speaker may be heavy emotionally and the bone bits are too physically heavy to blow away. Second pine needle path ordinary words layered just so Warther, Dover OH In this fine haiku, one envisions a conversation about a delicate topic where each word is
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