The Haiku Foundation, Haiku of the Day (formerly Per Diem), July 2025

Selected by R. Ganesh for the theme of "Socio-Political Ku": July 18, 2025

refugee train

small hands starfished

against the glass

1st Place, 2024 Triveni Awards 

The Haiku Foundation, Haiku of the Day (formerly Per Diem), May 2025

Selected by Jim Kacian for the theme of "Haiku About Glaciers": May 3, 2025

calving glacier

i decide when

to let go

Failed Haiku 4.46, 2019

The Haiku Foundation, Haiku of the Day (formerly Per Diem), March 2025

Selected by David Oates for the theme of "Passages": March 18, 2025 (reprise)

gone too soon

sakura blossoms

my old friends

Sakura Awards, Canada

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational, 2015

The Haiku Foundation: Haiku of the Day (formerly Per Diem), December 2024

Selected by Jackie Chou for the theme of "Reflection": December 6, 2024

flood plain

a red barn succumbs

to its reflection

Kokako, Number 36, April 2022

 

The Haiku Foundation, Haiku of the Day (formerly Per Diem), September 2024

Selected by Roland Packer for the theme of "Fresh Starts and Transitions": September 28, 2024

foreclosure

a barn spider ties up

loose ends of light

Presence, Number 75, March 2023

Shortlisted for the Best-of-Issue Award

The Haiku Foundation, Haiku of the Day (formerly Per Diem), July 2024

Selected by Helen Ogden for the theme of "Heat and Global Warming": July 20, 2024

beaver dam

salmon seek refuge

from the drought

Akitsu Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2024

 

The Haiku Foundation, Haiku of the Day (formerly Per Diem), November 2023

Selected by Charlotte Hrenchuk for the theme of "The North": November 16, 2023

northern lights

the blur of scarves

as skaters pass

Zatsuei Haiku of Merit

2019 R.H. Blyth Award

The Haiku Foundation, Haiku of the Day (formerly Per Diem), September 2023

Selected by Marianne Dupre for the theme of "Fall": September 28, 2023

harvest moon . . .

the cat's whiskers sparkle

with grain dust

Cattails, January 2014

The Haiku Foundation, Haiku of the Day (formerly Per Diem), July 2023

Selected by William Scott Galasso for the theme of "Music & Memory: July 22, 2023

talking drums every song we know by heart

Hedgerow Poems 121, Autumn 2017

 

The Haiku Foundation, Haiku of the Day (formerly Per Diem), October 2022

Selected by Kath Abela Wilson for the theme of "Haunting": October 8, 2022

on that bench

where we used to sit

the ghost of you

Gnarled Oak 10, October 2016

(note: this first appeared as a haiga)

The Haiku Foundation, Haiku of the Day (formerly Per Diem), June 2022

Selected by Vandana Parashar for the theme of "Familiarity": June 8, 2022

blue nemophila

I still miss the little things

about my sister

Winning Haiku

9th Akita International Haiku Contest (English Section-Open)

 

The Haiku Foundation, Haiku of the Day (formerly Per Diem), April 2022

Selected by Maxianne Berger for the theme of "Presence and Absence": April 28, 2022

evening fog

antlers ghosting through

the coulee

The Heron's Nest 17.2, June 2015

 

The Haiku Foundation, Per Diem, June 2021

Selected by David Oates for the theme of "Passages": June 26, 2021

gone too soon

sakura blossoms

my old friends

Sakura Awards, Canada

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational, 2015 

The Haiku Foundation, Per Diem, September 2020

Selected by Susan Burch for the theme of "Mental Health/Illness": September 9, 2020

split chrysalis

all the ways we learn

to become small

Museum of Haiku Literature Award

Selected from Blithe Spirit 25.4, 2015

 

The Haiku Foundation, Per Diem, November 2019

Selected by Pravat Kumar Padhy for the monoku theme of "Celestial Bodies": November, 2019


a curl of eyelash on your pillow crescent moon

Brass Bell, April 2016

The Haiku Foundation, Per Diem, June 2019

Selected by Dave Read for the theme of "Parents and Their Kids": June 3, 2019


the droop
of mother's smile
mudslide

Haiku Canada Review, October 2017

The Haiku Foundation, Per Diem, May 2019

Selected by Marietta McGregor for the theme of "Wearable": May, 2019


the sky ripens . . .
snow stars
decorate your sweater

Under the Basho, 2017

The Haiku Foundation, Per Diem, April 2018

Selected by Jennifer Hambrick for the theme of "Play": April 26, 2018


porch swing
songs where we least
expect them

Modern Haiku, Volume 48.3, Autumn 2017