Daily Haiku, Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, September 2020

September 12

the ocean

was in a rage last night

but today,

these peace offerings

of blue mussels and kelp

1st Place

Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Competition, 2018

September 13

between the spokes

of your spinning wheel

a dusty web . . .

I never thought our lives

would so quickly unwind

1st Place

The British Haiku Society Tanka Awards, 2019 

September 18

dried curls

of gray reindeer moss

crunch softly

underneath our boots . . .

no other sound, but breath

1st Place

San Francisco International Tanka Competition, 2016

September 24

mountain lupine

the colour of wild

in your eyes

Cattails, May 2014

also published in my haiku collection, A Year Unfolding, (Folded Word 2017)

Daily Haiku, Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, October 2018

dragonfly
how your wings
carry me

Cattails, January 2014
also published in the haiku collection, A Year Unfolding, (Folded Word 2017)

Daily Haiku, Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, July 2018

last campout . . .
sandhill cranes call down
the northern lights

Honourable Mention
Robert Spiess Haiku Award, 2017


homecoming . . .
a bouquet of sky
in an old jar

First Place
Australian Haiku Society Haiga Kukai, 2017


sand dollars
the currency of tides
in my pocket

Cattails, May 2014
also published in the haiku collection, A Year Unfolding, (Folded Word 2017)

Kokako, Number 28, April 2018

thunderheads above the prairie red-tailed hawks


polar night
a snowy owl fades
to black


how tender
the kiss of snowflakes
upon my lips
these fragile wishes
that you were still mine


he bows
his cello like a prayer
for lost souls
music calls to us
across the abyss


Note: This issue also includes a lovely review of A Year Unfolding by Patricia Prime which may be accessed on the "Books and Reviews" page of this blog.

NeverEnding Story, February 2017

Cool Announcement: New Release, A Year Unfolding: haiku by Debbie Strange

My Dear Readers:

I'm happy to share with you this exciting news: NeverEnding Story contributor Debbie Strange just published her new collection of haiku, titled A Year Unfolding, which "celebrates the changing seasons in Canada, with each poem written in Carolingian hand by JS Graustein before digitizing. Strange sews together a rich tapestry of wildlife, landscape, and love. Her poems lead us through the Canadian seasons, sharing the natural flow of a land that is still wild and raw."


Selected Haiku:


moonglow
a thousand jellyfish
in an ocean of sky


lake-light
a line of mergansers
ripples the clouds


on fence posts
the exclamation marks
of raptors


in the pond
a white begonia
and old news


on the tundra
caging a winter sky
caribou bones