Joachim Thiede

drop by drop
the icicle looses its life
glittering in sun

Bashō Festival Haiku Contest of The Basho-o Memorial Museum, Japan.
Grand Prizes in English Haiku 2015

Spring!
The cat sleeks
the sun from its skin

Chrysanthemum # 7, Spring 2010 
International Matsuo Basho Award of the Italian Haiku Association.
2nd Prize Section B – Haiku in Foreign Languages; September 2015

military cemetery
His name only known to god
forgetful spring

World Haiku Review Spring/Summer 2016  

hay harvest
in a cloud of dust
the meadow coiled up

Chrysanthemum # 18, Autumn 2015 

in the bookstore –
“war and politics”
same section

Chrysanthemum # 6, Autumn 2009
World Haiku Anthology on War, Violence and Human Rights Violation - Dimitar Anakiev (ed.). Kamesan Books, November 2013.

Funeral director
sign in front of the urn:
be right back

Chrysanthemum # 8, Autumn 2010 

collision
a dove inspects
the fender bender

Chrysanthemum # 18, Autumn 2015 

first swallow flight
runes of spring
in the sky

Chrysanthemum # 19, Spring 2016