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Previous Winners
(White Lotus Haiku Competition)

White Lotus Haiku Certificates and RibbonsCongratulations to the previous White Lotus Haiku Competition winners! The winning haiku are listed below. Entries for the 6th Annual White Lotus Haiku Competition are now being taken. Please read the Official Rules if you are interested in entering haiku for this contest. Deadline to enter is December 31, 2008. Winners will be announced on February 1, 2009.




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White Lotus 2007 Haiku Winners
  1st Place:   2nd Place:   3rd Place:

summer moon
a bottle of wine
breathes all night


Francine Banwarth


empty fall graveyard
the ping of a hammer
on tent stakes


Jennifer Corpe


Indian summer—
the old cat shares
her corner of the deck


James Chessing

The top twenty placing haiku will be featured in the Spring/Summer 2008 issue of White Lotus.





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Zen Garden 2006 Haiku Winners
  1st Place:   2nd Place:   3rd Place:

mother’s parasol
I unfold the dust
of other summers


Ernest J. Berry


skid row
a homeless box
turns over


Ernest J. Berry


bedside
his favorite inkstone
holding the white pill


James Patrick Haynes

The top twenty placing haiku are featured in the Spring/Summer 2007 issue of White Lotus.

Zen Garden 2005 Haiku Winners
  1st Place:   2nd Place:   3rd Place:

ocean foam—
cold moonlight fades
into blowing sand


Eric Frey


fallen leaves
the throb
of last night’s words


Chad Lee Robinson


charred cedars—
how cold the white
of early snow


Ron Moss

The top twenty placing haiku are featured in the Spring/Summer 2006 issue of White Lotus.

Zen Garden 2004 Haiku Winners
  1st Place:   2nd Place:   3rd Place:

funeral day-
between rain
falling darkness


Ron Moss


first snow
house sparrows
darken the hedgerow


Ellen Compton


sunshower
the flowering
of umbrellas


Ernest J. Berry


Zen Garden 2003 Haiku Winners
  1st Place:   2nd Place:   3rd Place:

carrying moonlight
into the house
white peony


Margaret Chula


memorial pond
a legless soldier
reflects


Ernest J. Berry


moonlit nursery
the baby’s hands clutch
at the stars


John Bird



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