Sunday, November 06, 2022

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, Haiku Invitational, 2022

sakura
we learn the lesson
of resilience

Honourable Mention
Sakura Award, Canada

Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest 2022

14th Contest Selected Haiku Collection


plumes of mist rise
from the whale's blowhole . . .
nuclear threat


cold war
the fallen rank and file
of sunflowers


Whiptail: Journal of the Single-line Poem - As the Now Takes Hold, Issue 5, November 2022

section: loka - tanka challenge


section: comma - micros challenge






Haiku Poet Interviews by Jacob Salzer, November 2022

My thanks to Jacob Salzer for inviting me to participate in his Haiku Poet Interviews Series! The text of the interview can be accessed under the "Articles/About" tab of this blog.

First Frost, #4, Fall 2022

winter doldrums
the garden growing
behind my eyelids


Christmas cactus
the age
i am now
 

Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2022

elsewhere milkweed floss takes me


cucurbit flute
the melody is all
dad remembers
 

Tsuri-doro: A Small Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Issue #12, November/December 2022

a tiding of magpies
fallow fields seeded
by the wind

Stardust Haiku, Issue 70, October 2022

mist conceals
the lake's existence . . .
ghost kayak

Seashores - An International Journal to Share the Spirit of Haiku, Vol. 9, November 2022

missing fence
charred trees stitch
the hills together


the wingspan
of a mother's arms . . .
atlas moth

Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Halloween Special, October 2022

Halloween Special



 

Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, October 2022

 Curated by Lavana Kray


October 16, 2022


(note: this tanka was first published in Blithe Spirit 29.1, 2019)


Modern Haiku, Vol. 53.3, Autumn 2022

weaving light
into this day of mourning . . .
damselflies
 

Kingfisher, Issue #6, October 2022

a fjord's mouth someone whistles down the aurora

 

Frogpond, Vol. 45, Number 3, Autumn 2022

grasshoppers multiplying in the furrows of father's brow


Honoured to have the following work selected by Charles Trumbull for his essay, "Coyote" from A Field Guide to North American Haiku:


"Coyotes also make short barking sounds:

distant thunder
bred by lightning . . .
a coyote's yip

Kokako 33, September 2020


"Poets also find it pleasant to romanticize the coyote's call and often describe it in the language of music:

barbed wire
the descant of coyotes

verse 5 from "In the Key of Grey" (rengay with Jennifer Hambrick), 2019 San Francisco International Rengay Competition, 3rd Place (tie)"


Hedgerow Poems, Number 139, 2022

 


Horror Senryu Journal, November 2022

devil's urn a squirrel pokes out the pumpkin's eye


ossuary all the bones that don't belong
 

Haiga in Focus, Issue 54, November 2022

 Curated by Claudia Brefeld


Translated into German





Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, October 2022

 Curated by Eric A. Lohman


Featured Artist: October 30, 2022







The Cicada's Cry: A Micro-Zine of Haiku Poetry, Autumn 2022

forest bathing
our toes shrivel
into morels

Cattails, October 2022



shore lunch
we pan-fry fillets
of the past


rift valley
grief pulls us apart
at the seams


a fountain
of white magnolias
spilling rain
my tears salt the words
meant for your eulogy


forests know
how to communicate
in silence
we press our ears against
the loamy earth and listen



 

Brass Bell, November 2022

Theme: one-line haiku


on the edge of enchantment autumn fog


(note: this haiku first appeared in Otata 36, December 2018)

Better Than Starbucks, Vol. VII, Number IV, November 2022

transience . . .
petal by petal
we let go

Winning Haiku, 2017 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational


fog deepens
the sound of rabbits
nibbling night

Grand Prize, 2016 World Haiku Competition


stone cairns
a faded cap drifts
downriver

1st Place, 2015 Haiku Society of America Harold G. Henderson Awards