Snowy Dawn Haiku Poem by Chen-ou Liu

snowy dawn...
bits of yesterday
cling to today

Third Place
inaugural Janice M Bostok International Haiku Award


Judges' Comments (by Jim Kacian and Cynthia Rowe)

This ties the natural world with the human - we drag the dream world into the day with us, for a bit, even as our waking obscures that other "real" world we inhabit. At the same time, snow covers what we knew of the outside, but we recognizes it's still there, beneath the covering, evidenced by its shapes