By Flapper Press Poetry Café:
Happy Valentine's Day!
What better way to celebrate love than with something
as short and sweet as a Haiku Valentine Poem?
The Flapper Press Poetry Café is proud to announce our winners for this year's annual poetry contest. As always, our appreciation goes out to all the poets who submitted their work. This year was particularly difficult to narrow the plethora of haiku submissions. It was virtually impossible to choose just five. Thank you to all the poets who sent us their work. We hope that you will consider submitting your work to us for upcoming featured articles and that you'll keep checking back for news about our new contests in the upcoming year!
Congrats to all our winners!
According to Write Better Poems:
"The most important of these other rules is that the haiku conveys a single moment where the poet suddenly sees or realizes something. In this way of thinking, the haiku is a lightning bolt—fast, clear, and striking, it shows a whole panorama of thought in a single flash." — "The Real 'Rules' of Haiku"
"Haiku (or hokku)—A Japanese verse form most often composed, in English versions, of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. A haiku often features an image, or a pair of images, meant to depict the essence of a specific moment in time."
With that in mind, meet the 2025 Flapper Press Poetry Café Valentine Haiku Poetry Contest Winners!
Shamik Banerjee
Delhi train station
from a pack of rushing heads
her face emerges
Sandy Feinstein
Look back, you and me
Together then, still at play
In fresh snow, hot rooms.
Cynthia Pratt
Birds fly above me
I hold your waist then point up
Together we smile.
Pam Strother
Sorrowful Haiku
the form says widow
not possible in my heart
always loving wife
Mary Ellen Talley
(a pair of haikus)
snow enters my bones
I become your small forest
you lichen me warm
snow enters my bones
I become your small forest
an owl flies over
The Flapper Press Poetry Café
We welcome submissions from poets for the Flapper Press Poetry Café Poetry Spotlight series. We are always looking for compelling poetry and look forward to publishing and supporting your creative endeavors.
Submissions may also be considered for the Pushcart Prize. Please review our guidelines before submitting. By submitting your work to Flapper Press, you agree to allow us permission to publish. Please note that we receive numerous submissions throughout the year and endeavor to publish as soon as our calendar allows.
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