So, I've selected 6 haiku for your reading pleasure, the first and winner, by Alan Bridges, warrants a 15 issue, rather than 6 issue, subscription to Lilliput Review as originally announced. The 5 runners-up, a category I originally had no intention of utilizing, will receive the original first place prize of a 6 issue subscription (or 6 issue extension to a current subscription) to Lillie.
The runners-up are presented in no particular order.
And cheers, first, to everyone who responded. There were many a fine haiku that just missed the cut, for a variety of reasons not the least of which is editorial ignorance.
And second, cheers to the winners and runners-up (I'll be in touch about your subscriptions). For the rest, I hope something grabs you here.
Happy new year, all!
New Year's Day
setting my playlist
to shuffle
Alan Bridges
new year's day
the earth
retracing her steps
Robert Davey
new year's day –
I let the tea steep
a little longer
Angie Werren
Artwork by Andrew Stevovich
New Year’s day
the party hat not made
to stay onGary Hotham
Twilight Zone: Season 5, Episode 145 (directed by Ida Lupino)
New Year
all the masks
yet to discard
yet to try on
Andrea Grillo
Photo by Alvimann
year’s end
the to-do list
in pencil
Ann K. Schwader
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Because serendipity is the only way to travel, I investigated the artist responsible for the artwork I'd found to grace this post (pictured at the very top), and was fascinated to read his story, which you can find by clicking on his name below the picture.
Along with the writer of the article on McCutcheon (R. C. Harvey), I was particularly fascinated with the artwork below, entitled The Ballad of Beautiful Words. Clicking on the art won't enlarge it enough to read, so click here instead and I think you'll agree that many a poem may be found within.
click here to see picture enlarged
In the late 19th century during the the artist's early career all the illustrative material in newspapers was drawn, as it was previous to the perfection of photographs for newsprint. So, the artist literally drew everything: sports, news, crime, portraits and sundry topics. What follows is Carey Orr's comment on perhaps the most significant contribution of all by McCutcheon, something which, at the time, was entitled "slow ball:"
“John McCutcheon was the father of the human interest cartoon. His Bird Center series was perhaps the first to break way from the Nast and Davenport tradition of dealing almost exclusively and in the most intense seriousness with political and moral reforms. McCutcheon brought change of pace. He was the first to throw the slow ball in cartooning, to draw the human interest picture that was not produced to change votes or to amend morals but solely to amuse or to sympathize."
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Art by Walter Appleton Clark
an arm for a pillow--
the year ends
or doesn't end
Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue
best,
Don
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