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 2019-2020
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
Haiga Gallery:
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, Book 32, 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
Poetry Pea, January 2020
The Haiku Pea Podcast:
Series 3, Episode 2 - "Haiku All About Animals", January 20, 2020
soft rime
a chickadee's song
becomes visible
Honourable Mention
12th Irish Haiku Society, International Haiku Competition 2019
prairie hill
a mule deer walks
over the sun
Series 3, Episode 2 - "Haiku All About Animals", January 20, 2020
soft rime
a chickadee's song
becomes visible
Honourable Mention
12th Irish Haiku Society, International Haiku Competition 2019
prairie hill
a mule deer walks
over the sun
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, January 2020
Curated by Lavana Kray
January 4, 2020
Note: this haiku originally appeared in Mariposa 39, Autumn/Winter 2018
Note: this haiku originally appeared in Creatrix 46, September 2019
January 13, 2020
Note: this tanka received an Honourable Mention in the 2018 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest
January 21, 2020
Note: this tanka originally appeared in Blithe Spirit 28.2, 2018 and the tanka art first appeared in All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku, 2019
January 29, 2020
Note: this haiku received an Honourable Mention in the Three Rivers Haiku Association: Iris - A Little Haiku Contest, 2019 and the haiga first appeared in the 2019 Autumn Showcase of The Zen Space
NeverEnding Story, January 2020
Translated into Chinese by Chen-ou Liu:
circles of lichen
I thought we would have
more time
Third Place, 2018 Kaji Aso Annual Haiku Contest
Chen-ou Liu's Comments:
Enhanced by the bio-social functions/symbolism of lichens, the juxtaposition of circles of lichen and human relationships is visually and emotionally effective...
circles of lichen
I thought we would have
more time
Third Place, 2018 Kaji Aso Annual Haiku Contest
Chen-ou Liu's Comments:
Enhanced by the bio-social functions/symbolism of lichens, the juxtaposition of circles of lichen and human relationships is visually and emotionally effective...
Naviar Records - Broadcast #97, January 8, 2020
Thrilled to have the music created for my haiku "frozen trough" featured by Resonance Extra FM on January 8, 2020!
frozen trough
I cup the warm breath
of my horse
1st Place
2018 Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest
frozen trough
I cup the warm breath
of my horse
1st Place
2018 Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest
Jalmurra, February 2020
Featured Artist: February 1, 2020
Note: this haiku received an Honourable Mention in the 2017 British Haiku Society Awards
Jalmurra, January 2020
Featured Artist: January 25, 2020
Note: this haiku received an Honourable Mention in the 2017 Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition
Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, January 2020
Curated by Eric A. Lohman
Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 5, Issue 50, February 2020
Thank you to guest editors Tanya McDonald and Kelly Sauvage Angel!
Daily Haiga: An Edited Journal of Traditional and Contemporary Haiga, January 2020
Featured Artist: January 15, 2020
Note: this haiku was first published in Cattails, April 2019
Featured Artist: January 31, 2020
Note: this haiku was first published in Cattails, April 2019
Featured Artist: January 31, 2020
Note: this haiku was first published in Otata 36, December 2018
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