Honoured and grateful to be a featured poet on Christina Chin's Haiku Blog on February 1, 2020!
The following selection of work highlights some of Debbie's achievements:
bioluminescence
I skip a pebble across
the universe
1st Place, 2019 OtherWordly Intergalactic Haiku Competition
(first publication: Seashores, Volume 2, April 2019)
a halo around
the long night moon . . .
I find
another strand
of mother's light
Winner, 2018 10th Annual Moonbathing Tanka Contest
frozen trough
I cup the warm breath
of my horse
1st Place, 2018 Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest
the ocean
was in a rage last night
but today,
these peace offerings
of blue mussels and kelp
1st Place, 2018 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest
transience . . .
petal by petal
we let go
Winning Haiku, 2017 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Contest
mute swans
under a moon bridge
the things
I should have confessed
make no difference now
1st Place, 2016 Fleeting Words Tanka Competition
fog deepens
the sound of rabbits
nibbling night
Grand Prize, 2016 World Haiku Competition
dried curls
of gray reindeer moss
crunch softly
underneath our boots . . .
no other sound, but breath
1st Place, 2016 San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka
tracks of birds
meander through snow . . .
the surgeon
marks her left breast
with a cross
1st Place, 2016 British Haiku Society Tanka Awards
stone cairns
a faded cap drifts
downriver
1st Place, 2015 Harold G. Henderson Haiku Contest
Monday, February 03, 2020
Wales Haiku Journal, Winter 2019
the egg
that didn't open . . .
waning moon
mud flats
a wisp of snipe gone
with my thoughts
that didn't open . . .
waning moon
mud flats
a wisp of snipe gone
with my thoughts
Tinywords, Issue 19.2, January 2020
(Note: this haiku received a Zatsuei Haiku of Merit in the World Haiku Review 2019 R.H. Blyth Award)
The Haiku Foundation, January 2020
Haiku Music Challenge Number 41 - January 4, 2020
The Haiku Foundation chose three of their favourite compositions from the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge for the following poem:
frozen trough
I cup the warm breath
of my horse
1st Place
2018 Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest
The Haiku Foundation chose three of their favourite compositions from the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge for the following poem:
frozen trough
I cup the warm breath
of my horse
1st Place
2018 Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest
The Cicada's Cry: A Micro-Zine of Haiku Poetry, Winter 2019
solstice night
a bison's beard white
with frost
a bison's beard white
with frost
The Cherita, November 2019
Issue: "the storyteller"
mountains
strung together
in the distance
these blue beads
circling my wrist,
a metaphor
A Cherita Lighthouse Award
my life
stretches before me
like a ribbon of taffy
I choose
to taste every colour
of the rainbow
A Cherita Lighthouse Award
the light
of earthstar fungi
flickers along this trail
I have
never learned how
to be lost
moon-silvered
snowy owls shimmer
on the wing
they ask
nothing of us,
yet give everything
in the fernery
my breathing
deepens
I pause
for a moment
and let my lungs sing
the mountain
beneath my feet
consoles me
every burden
becomes lighter
at this altitude
mountains
strung together
in the distance
these blue beads
circling my wrist,
a metaphor
A Cherita Lighthouse Award
my life
stretches before me
like a ribbon of taffy
I choose
to taste every colour
of the rainbow
A Cherita Lighthouse Award
the light
of earthstar fungi
flickers along this trail
I have
never learned how
to be lost
moon-silvered
snowy owls shimmer
on the wing
they ask
nothing of us,
yet give everything
in the fernery
my breathing
deepens
I pause
for a moment
and let my lungs sing
the mountain
beneath my feet
consoles me
every burden
becomes lighter
at this altitude
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