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