Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 9:2, Spring/Summer 2026

gleaning wrens

we donate your clothes

to the shelter

requiem

tamarisk leaves let go

of their salt

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 9:1, Autumn/Winter 2025-2026

graveside service

my sister's unmade bed

of snow

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 8:2, Spring/Summer 2025

we emerge

from hibernation

aspen catkins

fox den

a white feather pinned

to the grass

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 8:1, Autumn/Winter 2024-2025

flatland rain

a herd of antelope

blurs the horizon

 

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 7:2, Spring/Summer 2024

flute song

a hermit thrush

reveals itself

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 7:1, Autumn/Winter 2023-2024

moonlit path

silver seed gourds

begin to wander

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 6:2, Spring/Summer 2023

sun salutation

a thimbleful of dew

in each buttercup

thawing lake

the hockey net catches

a trout

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 6:1, Autumn/Winter 2022-2023

still learning

to find my place . . .

ghost fossil

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 5:2, Spring/Summer 2022

this path wider

at the beginning . . .

moonglade

 

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 5:1, Autumn/Winter 2021-2022

night of stars

the singing bowl

of our campfire

lifting fog

the day breaks into

something other

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 4:2, Spring/Summer 2021

pollen clouds

the meadow threaded

with butterflies

 

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 4:1, Autumn/Winter 2020-2021

the emptiness

of a mermaid's purse . . .

rusted hull

ashfall

the missing river

of heaven

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 3:2, Spring/Summer 2020

dawn meditation
the valley surrenders
its mist

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 3:1, Autumn/Winter 2019-2020

autumn leaves
the missing colours
of my life

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 2:2, Spring/Summer 2019

moon bridge
I row through a circle
of light


wild mushrooms
the scent of earth roots me
to home

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 2:1, Autumn/Winter 2018-2019

caribou migration
a river that wasn't here
yesterday

Tinywords, Issue 18.1, June 2018

Note:

Haiku received First Place in the 2017 Autumn Moon Haiku Contest

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 1:2, Spring/Summer 2018

summer snow . . .
mayflies swarm above
the river

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 1:1, Fall/Winter 2017-2018

last embers . . .
bats flit between
constellations

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal - Autumn Moon Haiku Contest 2017

glassy lake
flocks of snow geese
pull up the moon

First Place


Judge's Comments:

Many haiku have been written about the effect of moonlight and the moon's reflection. This haiku is unique and highly poetic in its expression.

—Bruce Ross