Five haiku by Gregory Piko:
spring melt
the neck of a swan
from the mountains
(Highly Commended, 2019 Martin Lucas Haiku Award)
another summer
the butterfly, still safe
under his steel pin
(Modern Haiku, Vol. 37.2, 2006)
her grandson’s lips
just a little like hers
chinese whispers
(First Prize, 2011 New Zealand Poetry Society’s International Haiku Competition)
a crow at dusk –
ink sinks deeper
into the page
(The Heron’s Nest, Vol. 12.1, 2010)
snowy owl
I’ll leave this world
alone
(The Heron’s Nest, Vol. 22.1, 2020)