Haiku Poet Word Search
Curated by Kelly Sauvage Moyer
February 20, 2025
Debbie Strange is a Canadian short-form poet, musician, and artist, working in multiple disciplines (photography, painting, ink, collage, monoprinting), who is grateful to live on Treaty 1 land. Her creative passions connect her more closely to the world, to others, and to herself, and help mitigate the effects of complex regional pain syndrome. She suffers happily from biophilia, logolepsy, and papyrophilia, with awesome new diagnoses appearing regularly! Debbie’s book-length haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks, won the 2020 Snapshot Press Book Award, and was released by the press in late 2024.
Note:
biophilia – love of nature
logolepsy – love of words
papyrophilia – love of paper
logolepsy – love of words
papyrophilia – love of paper
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refugee train
small hands starfished
against the glass
small hands starfished
against the glass
1st Place, Triveni Haikai India Triveni Awards 2024
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Fata Morgana the (in)visibility of my (dis)ability
2nd Place, #FemkuMag Marlene Mountain Memorial Haiku Contest 2021
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midnight sun
a polar bear’s breath
catches fire
a polar bear’s breath
catches fire
3rd Place, Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition 2024
Glossary:
- bokeh (aesthetics of out-of-focus photography – a nod to my deteriorating vision)
- tuckamores (stunted and deformed trees shaped by wind and sea spray)
- Fender (my guitar)
- alto (my voice)
- aurora (northern lights & the dawn feature in many of my poems)
- avifauna (a birder for decades)
- campervan (our 1978 lime-green VW campervan named “Ludwig Van”)
- wintertide (you have to appreciate winter if you live on the Canadian prairies)
- empathetic (and hoping for more empathy in this world)
- hinterland (the backcountry calls me)
- kinkeeper (maintaining family ties)
- yutori (slowing down to simply be, breathe, listen, & appreciate life & nature)
- komorebi (light filtering through trees/leaves)
- Percheron (I have a special relationship with a horse named Rival)
- horticulturist (I’m now a balcony gardener, but every inch is packed with flowers)
- wabi-sabi (appreciating beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, & incomplete)
- beachcomber (collecting shells, driftwood, lost feathers - my happy place
