Monday, January 20, 2020

Akita International Haiku Network, January 2020

Honoured to be included in the World Haiku Series 2019, with ten haiku translated into Japanese by Hidenori Hiruta on January 20, 2020!

https://akitahaiku.com/2020/01/20/world-haiku-series-2019-31-haiku-by-debbie-strange/


bioluminescence
I skip a pebble across
the universe

Seashores, Volume 2, April 2019
1st Place, 2019 OtherWordly Intergalactic Haiku Competition


homecoming . . .
a bouquet of sky
in an old jar

1st Place, 2017 Australian Haiku Society Spring Haiga Kukai


stone cairns
a faded cap drifts
downriver

1st Place, 2015 Harold G. Henderson Haiku Contest


transience . . .
petal by petal
we let go

Winning Haiku, 2017 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational


starflowers
light the woodland . . .
we find our way

Winning Haiku, 2017 Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition


fog deepens
the sound of rabbits
nibbling night

Grand Prize, 2016 Lyrical Passion Poetry World Haiku Competition


glassy lake
flocks of snow geese
pull up the moon

1st Place, 2017 Autumn Moon Haiku Journal Contest


in cupped hands
the harvest moon rests
for a moment

1st Place, 2015 Bangor Group Autumn Moon Haiku Contest


frozen trough
I cup the warm breath
of my horse

1st Place, 2018 Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest


drought
the kestrel catches
a piece of sky

Highly Commended, 2018 New Zealand Poetry Society Int'l Poetry Competition

Note - the following haiga received an Award of Excellence in the 2015 World Haiku Association Commemorative Haiga Contest: