Theme: Resilience
rebuilt homes
fire poppies blaze
on the hillside
Adult - Honourable Mention
Sakura Haiku Contest, 2021
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Sunday, March 21, 2021
The 10th Setouchi-Matsuyama International Photo-Haiku Contest, 2020
Honoured to receive the Grand Prix selected from 1,587 photo-haiku!
Judge's comments:
The haiku text speaks to the brilliantly colored photo. Together they resonate superbly as a narrative photo-haiku. A teacher could have been standing alongside when the photo-haikuist narrated action caught in the picture. The camera faced sunlight at a low angle. Deciduous tree branches in the foreground are bare and conifers on the island don't move in the winter scene. Located possibly at a lake near to where the poet lives, rather than the sea, the water's reflective surface seems to be close to freezing but for the rippling wind. It was an "aha, I understand now" photo-haiku moment that is deserving of the highest prize in the contest.
—David McMurray
Brass Bell, March 2021
Theme: haiku about women and girls
vole tracks in snow
the tiny handwriting
of my big sister
The Haiku Foundation: The Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems, 2020
There were over 1300 nominations, and I'm honoured that the following haiku is included in the longlist of 56 poems. My thanks to the editor of #FemkuMag, Lori Minor, who nominated my work, and to the judges for taking the time to read!
ripening pear the bruises that never heal
#FemkuMag 27, October 2020
Red Lights, Vol. 17, Number 1, January 2021
My thanks to Marilyn Hazelton for the kind mention of The Language of Loss: Haiku & Tanka Conversations!
a rusted obelisk
in our garden tilts
earthward
the gash along its side
bleeding winter berries
part of it all
dead leaves
dance to the vibrations
of a wolf spider
searching for his mate . . .
I, too, am smitten
a woolly bear
wends it way through
yellowing grass
it only takes one small thing
to make me happy
I come
to this darkling forest
in search
of something
only the trees know
Poetry Pea, March 2021
The Haiku Pea Podcast
Series 4, Episode 6 - "Exaggerated Perspective", March 15, 2021
fog deepens
the sound of rabbits
nibbling night
Grand Prize
2016 World Haiku Competition
vacant factory
broken rafters patched
with pigeons
Last Train Home: An Anthology of Contemporary Haiku, Tanka, and Rengay, Pondhawk Press, 2021
My thanks to the editor, Jacqueline Pearce!
damp underpass only the dark timpani of trains
Otata, Issue 27, March 2018
sparks fly
under the trestle
graffiti hearts
Failed Haiku: A Journal of English Senryu, Issue 3, March 2016
quilting bee
train tracks stitch prairie
to sky
Acorn, Number 33, Fall 2014
Haiku Canada Review, Vol. 15, Number 1, February 2021
mittensmitten
idle tractor
puddles of sunset
in every furrow
Note: This issue includes a lovely review by Sandra Stephenson of The Language of Loss: Haiku & Tanka Conversations. It may be accessed via the book title's tab of this blog.
Daily Haiga: An Edited Journal of Traditional and Contemporary Haiga, March 2021
Featured Artist: March 18, 2021
Note: this was first published as a three-line haiku in The Mamba 9, March 2020
Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 52, March 2021
rainy season
the fringed parasols
of fungi
river stillness
willow branches comb
through my hair
Blithe Spirit, Vol. 31, Number 1, February 2021
the fantasy
of next year's garden . . .
snowscape
fog horns
the flash of something
in father's eyes
ice galleons
break apart into sound
we have come
too far to crumble
under the weight of blues
Akitsu Quarterly, Spring 2021
field notes I add another comma butterfly
drum circle
we bow to the sound
of thunder
Monday, March 01, 2021
Tsuri-doro: A Small Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Issue #2, March/April 2021
final wish
an orca pod glints
in the sun
Poetry Pea, February 2021
The Haiku Pea Podcast
Series 4, Episode 4 - "Humourous Haiku", February 15, 2021
bagpipers
just far enough away
to move me
Shortlisted
2018 H. Gene Murtha Senryu Contest
refuse dump
two black bears slouch
on a stained sofa
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, February 2021
Curated by Lavana Kray
February 4, 2021
(Note: this tanka art was first published in Ribbons 16.3, Fall 2020)
February 12, 2021
(Note: this tanka art was first published in Ribbons 16.2, Spring/Summer 2020)
February 21, 2021
(Note: this haiku was first published in Blithe Spirit 30.1, February 2020)
Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 6, Issue 63, March 2021
Grateful to be included in this special issue of kyoka, edited by Susan Burch!
A Fine Line: The Magazine of the New Zealand Poetry Society, Summer 2020/2021
flying squirrel for an instant moonless
ammonites
the differing whorls
of our fingerprints
Modern Haiku, Vol. 52.1, Winter-Spring 2021
Honoured by the invitation to be the featured haiga artist for this issue:
Akita International Haiku Network, March 2021
Honoured to be included in the World Haiku Series 2020, with ten haiku translated into Japanese by Hidenori Hiruta on March 1, 2021!
pine forest . . .
the advice I'd give
my younger self
Honourable Mention
2020 Soka Matsubara International Haiku Competition
crickets in the field . . .
we still hear grandma calling
us home for dinner
Honourable Mention
2020 Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi Haiku Contest
balcony garden
the birds have finally
found me
Honourable Mention
2020 Triveni Haikai Calendar Competition
sequestered
I cultivate the seeds
of loneliness
Honourable Mention, Editor's Choice Haiku
World Haiku Review, Autumn 2020
ghost pumpkins
winter arrives without
a sound
3rd Place
2020 International Haiku Contest on the Theme of the Gourds
neonatal unit
the bleat of a mother
missing her lamb
In the Starlight Feature
Stardust Haiku, Issue 43, July 2020
ceaseless rain
the questions I still
ask myself
3rd Place
2020 Weighing Raindrops Haiku Contest
earth day
the shimmering wave
of a bee colony
2nd Place
2020 World Haiku Save Our World Competition
prairie town
rusted rails lead us
into sunrise
Museum of Haiku Literature Award
Blithe Spirit, Issue 30.2, 2020
rainless days
I make another cloud
in a bottle
Honourable Mention
2020 World Haiku Save Our World Competition
Note - the following haiga was Highly Commended in the 2020 Santoka 3rd International Haiku and Haiga Contest:
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