polar front
the river stops before
it gets here
Monday, February 19, 2024
Tinywords, Issue 23.2, January 2024
Note: this haiku first appeared in The Bamboo Hut, Spring 2019, and this haiga first appeared in Cantos, March 2023
The Bamboo Hut, Number 1, February 2024
Delighted to have the following artworks selected for this issue. My thanks to the editor, Steve Wilkinson!
Steel Jackdaw, Edition 13, January 2024
The results of the 2023 Gloucestershire Poetry Society Haiku Competition appear in this issue. My thanks to the esteemed judge, Alan Summers, for selecting the following two poems, and for his insightful commentary:
geriatric ward
burning matchheads
begin to droop
Highly Commended
Commentary:
The almost visceral 'burning matchheads begin to droop' at a geriatric ward could be anything from someone with dementia, to someone having secret vices, or it can be possibly figurative imagery. It feels like an opening scene, or even closing scene, to a film or serial drama.
...haiku contain sabishii which can mean "I'm lonely." Japanese people might culturally mean it as "I'm lonely as I'm not with you" instead of the phrase "I miss you."
summer heat battling another swarm of explosive drones
Merit
Password: Journal of Very Short Poetry, Issue 1.1, January 2024
soldier's epitaph highly decorated with badges of lichen
environmental racism along with everything else
The Pan Haiku Review, Issue 2, Winter 2023
The Kigo Lab Issue: New Year's Eve, 2023
canyonlands
a meadowlark sings
me out of myself
1st Place
Drifting Sands Monuments #1 Contest, 2022
points of light
beneath the snow . . .
kinnikinnick
(note: kinnikinnick = common bearberry - berries stay on the plant through winter, unless the birds and bears eat them all!)
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, February 2024
Curated by Lavana Kray
February 18, 2024
(Note: this haiga, in colour, received an Honourable Mention in the traditional category of the 2023 Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition)
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, January 2024
Curated by Lavana Kray
January 6, 2024
(Note: this tanka was first published in Ribbons 17.3, 2021)
January 26, 2024
(Note: this haiga was first published, in colour, in Contemporary Haibun Online 19.2, 2023)
Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, February 2024
Curated by Eric A. Lohman
Featured Artist: February 5, 2024
64 Windows
Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, January 2024
Curated by Eric A. Lohman
Featured Artist: January 17, 2024
(note: this monoku first appeared in Half Day Moon Journal #1, 2023)
Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 6: Urban Blossoms, February 2024
Translated into Romanian
yesterday's news
a vagrant's whiskers
dusted with pollen
Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, February 2024
Daily Haiku Special: February 14, 2024 - Love: the Good, Bad, or Ugly
letters tied
with wind-peeled ribbons
of birch bark . . .
I guess you must have
loved me after all
Eucalypt, Issue 33, 2022
Daily Haiga: An Edited Journal of Traditional and Contemporary Haiga, February 2024
Featured Artist: February 4, 2024
Note: this haiku was first published in Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal 2, 2023
Featured Artist: February 26, 2024
Note: this tanka was first published in Ribbons 18.3, 2022
Daily Haiga: An Edited Journal of Traditional and Contemporary Haiga, January 2024
Featured Artist: January 19, 2024
Note: this tanka was first published in Songbirds Anthology, 2022
Time Haiku, Number 59, February 2024
adder stone one eye open to the world
crooked pier
someone's name carved
into my shadow
remission
fireflies rising
with the mist
the glint
of pink salt crystals
in a glass jar
we season our food
with particles of light
how lustrous
this rose gold ring
bequeathed to me . . .
I spin your words
around my finger
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