Akita International Haiku Network, 2024

Thrilled to be included in the Haiku Beyond Earth Series, with ten haiku, tanka, and haiga translated into Japanese by Hidenori Hiruta on September 28, 2024:

skinny-dipping the moon snail's umbilicus

Runner-up
2022 British Haiku Society Awards


drifting sands
sometimes the poem
writes itself

1st Place
2023 Drifting Sands Wearable Art and Haiku Contest


cattle roundup
a charred bean can
full of rain

1st Place (Joint)
2024 Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest


marsh marigolds
dark waters patched
with light

Highly Commended
2023 New Zealand Poetry Society International Competition


at the moment
I became motherless
something
brushed against me
softer than a feather

1st Place
2022 British Haiku Society Awards

 
sunbeams sift
between the bones
of our barn
mucking out stalls
has never felt so holy
 
Runner-up

2023 British Haiku Society Awards
 
 
fireflies the synchronicity of it all
 
1st Place
2022 Irish Haiku Society International Competition
 
 
there was
so much I wanted
to teach you . . .
a blue jay's feathers
are not really blue
 
1st Place
2023 San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka
 
 
between the spokes
of your spinning wheel
a dusty web . . .
I never thought our lives
would so quickly unwind
 
1st Place
2019 British Haiku Society Awards
 
 
watching you
prepare a star fruit
just so
the small galaxies
of grace in your hands
 
Runner-up
2019 British Haiku Society Awards