Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog,. July 2025

Daily Haiku Special - July 17, 2025 - theme "peace"

the peace

that accompanies

forgiveness

after this long drought

an ecstasy of rain

GUSTS, Number 25, Spring/Summer 2017

Wondrous Instruction and Advice from Global Poets: How to Write and Publish Moving Poems and Books and Publicize Like a Pro, Charlotte Digregorio, 2025

Honoured to have the following pieces accepted for this "coffee table-size, reference book for beginning and seasoned poets, authors, and teachers." My thanks to Charlotte Digregorio!

Selected from Daily Haiku - "Love: the Good, Bad, or Ugly" 

letters tied

with wind-peeled ribbons

of birch bark . . .

I guess you must have

loved me after all

Eucalypt, Issue 33, December 2022

Selected from Daily Haiku - "40 Poems Selected on the Theme of Borders":

refugees

try to cross the border . . .

this tree well

lined with frozen bits

of moss and rabbit fur

The Take 5ive Journal, July 2023

Delighted to have my comment selected for inclusion in Charlotte's survey asking respondents to comment on one of Robert Spiess's speculations from his book, "A Year's Speculations on Haiku," (Modern Haiku, 1995):

"Haiku are written best and appreciated best through the intelligence of the heart."

How do you interpret "the intelligence of the heart"?

My comment:

Perhaps Robert was referring to the relationship between cognitive and emotional intelligence. I think writing and reading short-form poetry fosters a deep mind-body connection. Much like the single brushstroke of an incomplete ensō, the writer leaves an opening for the reader to enter. Short poems, in particular, must not only be intelligently crafted, but they must also strike an emotional chord in the reader's heart.

Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, March 2025

Daily Haiku Special - March 23, 2025

midnight sun

a polar bear's breath

catches fire

3rd Place (joint), 2024 Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Contest

vintage typewriter

the spiderling adds

an asterisk

Judges' Favourites, 2023 Golden Triangle Haiku Contest

an arbutus

sheds its outer bark . . .

my skin

is the only thing

holding me together

Honourable Mention, 2024 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest

Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, January 2025

Daily Haiku New Year's Special - January 1, 2025

refugee train

small hands starfished

against the glass

1st Place, 2024 Triveni Awards

probate

a prickle of burrs

in the dog's tail

Editor's Choice Senryu, Cattails, October 2024

I climb higher

up this sacred mountain

meeting your spirit

halfway along the path

toward enlightenment

2nd Place, 2024 Fujisan Tanka Contest

Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, November 2024

November 6, 2024: theme "the blues"

bullets of crows

on gunmetal nights . . .

a deeper shade

of anguish echoes

in her bones

Atlas Poetica, Number 29, 2017

Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, September 2024

Daily Haiku Special: September 24, 2024

snow grains

the field dad had no time

to plant

Folk Ku #1

Longlisted, The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award for Individual Poem, 2023

geriatric ward

burning matchheads

begin to droop

Highly Commended

Gloucestershire Poetry Society Haiku Competition, 2023

sunbeams sift

between the bones

of our barn

mucking out stalls

has never felt so holy

Runner-up

The British Haiku Society Linda Jeannette Ward Tanka Award, 2023

Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, August 2024

Daily Haiku Special: August 2, 2024 on the theme of "pets"

summer fair

our dog retrieves

a lost boy

Mariposa, Number 40, Spring/Summer 2019

Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, June 2024

Daily Haiku Special: June 25, 2024

cattle roundup

a charred bean can

full of rain

1st Place (Joint)

Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest, 2024

scrub jay

nothing left of the blue

in dad's jeans

2nd Place

Betty Drevniok Award, 2024

let's drive

down this prairie road,

singing until

we collide head-on

with the Milky Way

Honourable Mention

San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka, 2023

 

Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, March 2024

Daily Haiku Special: March 25, 2024

marsh marigolds

dark waters patched

with light

Highly Commended

New Zealand International Poetry Competition, 2023

drifting sands

sometimes the poem

writes itself

Winner

Drifting Sands Wearable Art and Haiku Contest, 2023

there was

so much I wanted

to teach you . . .

a blue jay's feathers

are not really blue

1st Place

San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka, 2023

 

Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, February 2024

Daily Haiku Special: February 14, 2024 - Love: the Good, Bad, or Ugly

letters tied

with wind-peeled ribbons

of birch bark . . .

I guess you must have

loved me after all

Eucalypt, Issue 33, 2022

 

Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, December 2023

December 6, 2023

pine forest

the advice I'd give

my younger self

Honourable Mention

Soka Matsubara International Competition, 2020

rural road

one skater unzips

the dotted line

Editor's Pick

haikuNetra, 1.3, 2023

skeins of wool

unravel at my feet

in the last light

a swirl of snow geese

begins to descend

Honourable Mention

Fleeting Words Tanka Competition, 2023

Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, August 2023

September 7, 2023

cloud inversion

the mountain not a mountain

after all

Frogpond, Volume 45:1, Winter 2022

minnows dart

between our fingers . . .

summer fling

Haiku Canada Review, Volume 14, Number 2, October 2020

Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, August 2023

40 Poems Selected on the Theme of Borders

refugees

try to cross the border . . .

this tree well

lined with frozen bits

of moss and rabbit fur

The Take 5ive Journal, July 2023

 

Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, June 2023

June 5, 2023

dead orchard

the random blue sparks

of woolly aphids

3rd Place

Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition, 2018

prairie thunder

I braid my sister's hair

with corn silk 

Highly Commended

New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition, 2019

at the moment

I became motherless

something

brushed against me

softer than a feather

Winner, The Linda Jeannette Ward Tanka Award

British Haiku Society Awards, 2022

Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, March 2023

Delighted to have my comment selected for inclusion in Charlotte's survey asking respondents to comment on one of Robert Spiess's speculations from his book, "A Year's Speculations on Haiku," (Modern Haiku, 1995):

"Haiku are written best and appreciated best through the intelligence of the heart."

How do you interpret "the intelligence of the heart"?

My comment:

Perhaps Robert was referring to the relationship between cognitive and emotional intelligence. I think writing and reading short-form poetry fosters a deep mind-body connection. Much like the single brushstroke of an incomplete ensō, the writer leaves an opening for the reader to enter. Short poems, in particular, must not only be intelligently crafted, but they must also strike an emotional chord in the reader's heart.

 

Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, March 2023

March 12, 2023

heated debate

even the fence

is barbed

1st Prize

Creatrix Haiku Prize, 2022

sakura

we learn the lesson

of resilience

Honourable Mention, Sakura Award (Canada)

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Invitational, 2022

autumn arrives

in a whirl of leaves

this body

withering, too, despite

my best intentions

2nd Honourable Mention

San Francisco International Competition, 2022

Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, January 2023

January 10, 2023

solstice fire

the dispersed flames

of cardinals

Honourable Mention

Irish Haiku Society International Competition, 2022

Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, December 2022

Special Feature: December 11, 2022

empty campground

northern lights paint

the darkness

Honourable Mention

World Haiku Review, Winter 2021-2022

we are

nearly home . . .

luminaria

Zatsuei Haiku of Merit

World Haiku Review, Winter 2021-2022

dried cattails

delicately spun with frost

confections

sweetening the bitterness

of winter without you

2nd Place

2022 Fleeting Words Tanka Competition

Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, September 2022

Special Feature: September 18, 2022

busker's hat

a child offers coins

of dried lunaria

1st Place

Bloodroot Haiku Award, 2022

canyonlands

a meadowlark sings

me out of myself

1st Place

Drifting Sands Monuments #1 Contest, 2022

awaiting

rain's unkept promise

crops wither

in the dust of dreams

passed down to me

1st Place

Drifting Sands Monuments #1 Contest, 2022

Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, August 2022

August 28, 2022

puzzle pieces

missing the way

we fit together

Prune Juice, Issue 15, March 2015