Quick Announcements
You’re the best! I’m glad everyone enjoyed our second Haiku contest, and I’d like to personally thank all of you who left such thoughtful responses on other submitters’ haiku–that’s what this is really about. We all know how good it feels to receive feedback on our work. Good on you for giving that to others, and thanks for making this so fun!
I’d like to recognize a few honorable mentions before announcing the “winning” haiku:
Six (of many) Notable Mentions:
Submitted by Spiral Artist
The Nudity of Bandages
Heart in my wounded hand,
she bares her skin and shivers:
such grace in old scars.
Submitted by Christopher Perry
On Autumn
Dry leaves falling
Silently on sunlit church
Tears cleanse the path home
Submitted by Poetry Science
On this Earth
On this earth I’ve found
In even bitter winters
A warm summer’s day.
Submitted by floweringink
Untitled
I swallow your pain
Silence breathes in the shadows
Dies in a whisper
Submitted by Ben Naga
Speaking in Tongues
Nature’s elements
Fire, water, air and earth
Beckon our spirit
Submitted by rivrvlogr
scattered clouds drifting
sun revealed in patch of blue
yellow leaves ablaze
Winning Haiku
Congratulations, Hélène! We loved your haiku “Solitude” and have published it on the front page of Vita Brevis here!
Submitted by Hélène Vaillant
Solitude
Restful solitude
Beneath Willow’s tender arms
All is as it is
Vita Brevis Press. 
Congratulations to all!
Congrats Hélène!!
Thank you Lauren.
These are all really beautiful!
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Annnd the winning haiku? Well. They were all perfect. 😉 However, EiC of Vita Brevis had the hard job of choosing, and we all, I think applaud his choice. Brava Hélène Vaillant!
Thank you, I agree, it must have been a difficult choice. We surely all had our own winner selected.
These are all great. I don’t envy your job of judging, Brian. Tough to choose.
It’s nice to be in such good company Congratulations Hélène.
You did well too Ken, a winner haiku. Congratulations!🎉
🙂 Thank you, Hélène.
Thank you so much, Brian, for this super fun challenge and for recognizing my work alongside so many wonderful Haiku! I look forward to the next one!
You had a superb haiku floweringink. It must have been difficult for them to make a choice.
You are, unsurprisingly, so very lovely! Thank you! I am thrilled that they chose yours; it is a perfect Haiku!!!
Thank you floweringink
Congratulations to you too floweringink.
Congrtulations Susan! Wonderful Badass poet! 😊
You are the best, BB!!! Thank you for always being so lovely and supportive!
Congratulations to all the winners and the honorable mentions.It was so much fun to take part in and interact with the fellow participants.
Congratulations, Helene!! You have a wonderful talent for writing exceptional and very touching haiku’s.
Jordan💗
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The results of the super fun Haiku Challenge from Vita Brevis are in! Congratulations to Hélène Vaillant on her gorgeous winning haiku! I am thrilled to have found this wonderfully supportive and talented community!
Thank you for the kind comments floweringink.
Congratulations on making the shortlist–your piece is excellent!
Thank you, Beautiful!!!!! It was a fun challenge!
Congratulations to all who participated. It was inspiring to meet many of you and to read all the different haiku we all came up with. Thank you Brian!
Congratulations to all of the winners and the participants. It’s the first time I entered any kind of challenge. Thank you for letting me participate, it was fun.
So glad you had fun, Sarah! I hope to see you in the next one!
Thank you Brian! Looking forward to it!
Oooooh, so close. This was my first time submitting for a contest, ever. Given that I caught this one right near the end, I’m so glad I got to.
Also: shout out to those who entered, everyone who shared and, of course, Vita Brevis for letting me participate.
Good for you to have entered Spatial Artist, in the top six is fabulous. It was my second time to enter this contest.
Congratulations to the winners! All wonderful haiku.
Sorry I wasn’t able to participate this time. Hope you’ll have another contest next month. 🙂
That’s the plan–hope to see you there, Betty! 🙂
Congratulations Hélène!! And to the honorable mentions! Well done, everyone! 😊
Thank you, Dorinda.
You’re welcome 🙂
Congratulations to all the winners, you all were awesome
It must have been so hard to choose–these are all so wonderful!
Congratulations to Hélène and all the notable mentions! So much talent in this community!
Awesome Haiku poems! Congratulations to you all!