pasture stones
dad's gumboots heavy
with mud
last breath
snowflakes collecting
in Buddha's lap
Note: for my brother-in-law, Peter Bruce Wood (1948 - 2024)
Wednesday, June 05, 2024
The Haiku Foundation: Drops 3 on Tik Tok, April 2024
Curated by Pippa Phillips
bioluminescence
I skip a pebble across
the universe
Seashores, Issue 2, 2019
1st Place, OtherWordly Intergalactic Haiku Competition, 2019
The Haiku Foundation: The Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems, 2023
There were 1671 nominations, and I'm honoured that the following haiku is included in the longlist of 54 poems. My thanks to the editor of Folk Ku, Jodie Hawthorne, who nominated by work, and to the judges for taking the time to read!
snow grains
the field dad had no time
to plant
Folk Ku, Issue 1, May 2023
The Haiku Foundation: EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, April 2024
Theme: the latest extravaganza from the heavens
eclipse an otter dives through a ring of fire
Presence, Number 46, October 2016
eclipsenso
Haiku Canada Review, Volume 11, Number 2, October 2017
The Haiku Foundation: HaikuLife Film Festival 2024
This haiga video, comprised of previously published poems, was created to celebrate The Haiku Foundation's International Haiku Poetry Day HaikuLife Film Festival on April 17, 2024:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsZr_hKVkVo
Haiku Ensōs
(with recitation)
Geppo: The Work-Study Journal of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, Volume XLIX:1, February 2024
November 2023 - January 2024
solstice picnic
our mead peppered
with snow fleas
holly berries
the red-tipped feathers
of cedar waxwings
winter carols
lake ice is singing
under my feet
bomb cyclone
cookie-cutter houses
frosted with ice
Winter Challenge Kigo: Winter Wind, kogarashi, oroshi, karakkaze
winter wind
the bay mare's tail
changes direction
Honoured to know that "winter carols" was included among Dojin Emiko Miyashita's favourites!
Snapshot Press, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2024
Award Runner-up, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2024 (for August)
Publication - The Haiku Calendar 2025 (Snapshot Press, 2024)
foreclosure
a barn spider ties up
loose ends of light
Presence, Number 75, March 2023
Short-listed for the Best-of-Issue Award
Haiku Canada, The Betty Drevniok Award, 2024
Thrilled to receive 2nd Place in this contest. My thanks to the judge, Jennifer Hambrick!
scrub jay
nothing left of the blue
in dad's jeans
2nd Place
Betty Drevniok Award, 2024
Judge's commentary:
The Florida scrub jay is listed as a threatened species; reportedly fewer than 10,000 remain. The poem's first two lines warn that the jay's brilliant blue could vanish forever. Line 2 joins the non-human realm with the human, as in Line 3 the jay's blue becomes the blue worked, worn, and washed out from "dad's" jeans. This poem makes us ask ourselves: Should life be about exploitation or care? About consuming or sustaining?
Tuesday, June 04, 2024
Password: Journal of Very Short Poetry, Issue 1.2, May 2024
reproductive choice making a baby glacier
Mariposa, Number 50, Spring/Summer 2024
milk teeth
teasel bracts pin down
the snow
This issue includes the results of the 2023 San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka:
there was
so much I wanted
to teach you . . .
a blue jay's feathers
are not really blue
1st Place
let's drive
down this prairie road,
singing until
we collide head-on
with the Milky Way
Honourable Mention
No Two Alike: Haiku Canada Members' Anthology 2024
drifting sands
sometimes the poem
writes itself
Winning Haiku
2023 Drifting Sands Wearable Art and Haiku Contest
Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 8: Dreams Keeper, June 2024
Translated into Romanian
flying manta ray
a boy's obsession
with batman
Thrilled to receive the Editor's Choice Award for the following haiga!
Commentary by the editor, Steliana Voicu:
The butterflies seem to have been cut out of the greeting card and come to life, they are colorful and cheerful. I like the comparison between plants and children, what they will become when they grow up, because the flowers are like children: they need love and care to grow up big and healthy. The parallel is wonderful. In addition, I like that the second person is used, the author talks to the buds (and I used to talk to my flowers), this way the haiku gets an extra personality, a touch of the author's soul. What will you be when you grow up...
The ellipses mark kireji, the break, a pause of nature before budding, the bud before the flower. The pause in this haiku is similar to the moment when the skater taps the ice to soar in a jump that arouses her fans admiration, or the time it takes for the roots to make their way into the ground, only for the buds to overflow with vitality.
What flower or plant will that bud become? Maybe a flower whose beauty will be the center of the garden or maybe an ordinary vegetable...we'll let the author tell us more when the bud grows.
The butterflies are an additional piece of information, they appear on the picture, not in the haiku, but they are closely related to the haiku because they represent transformation...the bud becomes a flower, today's child is tomorrow's adult.
The Art of Tanka, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 2024
the fragrance
of hyacinth fills
my senses . . .
there is no room
for sorrow today
Creatrix: Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 65, June 2024
burrowing owl
some days can be
like that
waterfall
the bones in my ears
begin to vibrate
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