WHR 2025 – Shintai Haiku

World Haiku Review Spring 2025

Mt Akasaki in Storm – painting by Susumu Takiguchi

Shintai Haiku

First Place

visiting a friend
my second cup of tea
bitter and cold

Elisa Theriana

Second Place

the roads 
that I didn’t take 
moonlit night

Maria Concetta Conti

Third Place

not because of winds— 
March comes in like a lion 
with a tariff war 

Priscilla H. Lignori

Seven Honourable Mention

in no particular order

too soon
      for white lilies… 
                    baby’s last breath

Julie Ann Espinoza

night blooming jasmine 
the hint of love
he leaves in her hair

Brijesh Raj


Winds may roar on
mountains and whisper to willow trees,
but only poets hear them sing  

Richard West


daydreaming 
among blossoming cherries
the empty wheelchair

Natalia Kuznetsova

 
the last station…
not enough linden blossoms
to fill our silence

Steliana Cristina Voicu


I hold your hand
and even as the day shortens
you hold mine

Kristina Todorova

war cemetery
withered flowers
on young soldiers’ graves

Eufemia Griffo

• WHR 2025 – 100 Haijin part 13
• Mountains of Japan
• WHR 2025 – Haibun
• WHR 2025 – Vanguard Haiku
• WHR 2025 – Shintai Haiku