1994 Nature Company
“Haiku for the Earth” Contest

The following are my selections for the first “Haiku for the Earth” contest sponsored by the Nature Company in San Mateo, California. I don’t believe I wrote any commentary on these poems. These results were announced 7 August 1994. Winners received Nature Company gift certificates. See also the 1995 results.

Michael Dylan Welch, judge

“Haiku for the Earth” Winner

Along the way

an old oak branch

becomes a walking stick

Garry Gay

Windsor, California

Honorable Mentions (in order)

urban creek—

plum petals floating

on an oil slick

Donna Gallagher

Sunnyvale, California

humming power lines—

a garden snail waves antennae

at the sky

Jenniffer L. Lesh

Bakersfield, California

my footprints

next to the sanderlings’

after they’ve flown

David Rice

Berkeley, California

in the space

between the mountains

a darker night

Helen J. Sherry

San Diego, California

long blades of grass

this way and that

the stream

Christopher Herold

Woodside, California