Monday, February 03, 2020

Christina Chin Haiku Blog, February 2020

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


  

Wales Haiku Journal, Winter 2019-2020

the egg
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 Cicada's Cry: A Micro-Zine of Haiku Poetry, Winter 2019

solstice night
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

Stardust Haiku, Issue 37, January 2020

grackles
the iridescence
of your smile

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

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...

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

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


Featured Artist: January 2, 2020




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 Otata 36, December 2018