Vanguard Haiku 2

WHR Spring 2023

Vanguard Haiku, page 2

Zatsuei, Haiku of Merit

the drummer plays
louder and louder
when bombs are dropped

Annette Akkerman

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falling blossoms
before their time
young soldiers

Marilyn Ashbaugh

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this loneliness
an inchworm’s journey
through war

Marilyn Ashbaugh

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war ashes
scattered in the air…
starling murmuration

Hifsa Ashraf

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peace treaty
barb wired
mine fields

sanjuktaa asopa

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school assembly
a student reads out
the latest war news

R. Suresh Babu

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soldiers’ cemetery
pausing
where the grass ends

Aaro Barry

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free and open elections
at the point of a gun
–annexation

Nancy Brady

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war orphans
for the pain of losing
same language
.
Mirela Brăilean

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picnic…
the butterfly caught
in the crossfire

Ed Bremso

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just before dawn
all across the city:
hymnals in silent pews

Ed Brickell

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back from vacation
I find the cat playing with
the cat-sitter’s bill

Ed Brickell

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war memorial–
just scent of poppy
lost brothers felt close

Christopher Calvin

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missile alert
Easter celebration
underground

Marta Chocilowska

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what is there to discuss
slap to the mosquito

Gillena Cox

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Guru said to me
with a grin, “Glad you get it:
it is what it isn’t.”

Dick Croy

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eagle’s nest
still perched on the mountaintop
echoes of war

Tracy Davidson

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through the keyhole
the silence trembles
the tear freezes

Refika Dedić

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the damaged pages
of an old history book –
war in Ukraine

Marie Derley

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bomb cyclone—
the forgotten soldier
becomes a snowman

Adele Evershed

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deep winter
the blackbird knows
something I don’t…

Adele Evershed

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Up in the blue sky,
there are smokes and this town is
full of dead bodies.

Chinụa Ezenwa-Ọhaeto

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front lines…
no enemy, no glory
just men, and mind

Erica Fransisca

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clean streets, burnt buildings
social housing, shuttered mall
we choose to talk hope

Mike Freedman

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bomb shelter
the children gather
around fairytales

Jay Friedenberg

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gentle wind
teaches the barbed wire fence
nonviolence

Michael J. Galko

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war zone
a boy counts
bullet holes

Sherry Grant

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winter solitude
a young soldier hums
an antique love ballade

Eufemia Griffo

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battlefront
the farewell song
of a robin

Eufemia Griffo

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a burnt field
beneath an abandoned
tank -howling dogs

Eta Grubešić

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sunrise over Kiev
with lollipop in the mouth
she points a rifle

Carmela Marino

Continued on page 3 and 4