Poetry Pea, October 2024

The Haiku Pea Podcast

Series 7, episode 41 - "Contemporary Tanka Poetry" - October 18, 2024 (selected by Guest Editor, Vandana Parashar)

a raven

believed it could fly

through me

unaware that I am glass,

pretending to be sky

3rd Place, 2020 San Francisco Int'l Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka

The Poetry Pea Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Patricia's Favourites, Summer 2021

My thanks to the editor, Patricia McGuire, for selecting the following poem as an Editor's Favourite from the Poetry Pea Journal, Summer 2021:

cemetery shade

this luminescence

of lilies

 

Poetry Pea: A Pea TV Reading, October 2021

The Haiku Pea Podcast

Series 4, Episode 19 - "Happy Haiku Birthday" - October 4, 2021

Grateful to Patricia McGuire for inviting me (accompanied by my husband) to read from my book, The Language of Loss: Haiku & Tanka Conversations, the winner of the Sable Books 2019 International Women's Haiku Book Contest. This book also received an Honourable Mention in the Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards for 2021 (for books published in 2020)!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhnp06XN61I

The Poetry Pea Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Autumn 2021

Editor: Patricia McGuire

Horseshoe Canyon

sunlight glances off the rim

of your glasses

water glasses

how differently we look

at the world

Orion's Belt

forever out of sight . . .

my astigmatism

 

Poetry Pea, November 2021

The Haiku Pea Podcast

Series 4, Episode 22 - "Original Long Haiku" - November 15, 2021

we lie on our backs

the Milky Way arcs beyond

our understanding

Honourable Mention, 2018 Tokutomi Haiku Contest

Orion's Belt

forever out of sight . . .

my astigmatism

 

Poetry Pea, October 2021

The Haiku Pea Podcast

Series 4, Episode 20 - "Our Best Original Haiku" - October 18, 2021

water glasses

how differently we look

at the world

Poetry Pea, September 2021

The Haiku Pea Podcast

Series 4, Episode 18 - "Original Haiku and Senryu Using Place Names", September 20, 2021

Mt. Everest the way your bones shoulder sky

Brass Bell, September 2014

Horseshoe Canyon

sunlight glances off the rim

of your glasses

The Poetry Pea Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Summer 2021

Editor: Patricia McGuire

"No Ego"

leaf litter

turkey tail fungus

skirts the pine

cemetery shade

this luminescence

of lilies

"Euphony"

ripe pumpkins

deer tracks riddle

the frost

"Kigo"

monarch migration

the unexpected tremor

of my lips

ostrich ferns

unwind themselves . . .

daylight savings

"Selective Realism"

lantern light

becoming one

with the fog

bison range

a magpie rides off

into the sunset

"Yūgen"

twilit rookery

let the storytelling

begin

footprints etched

on the sea of tranquility . . .

rearing stallion

 

Poetry Pea, August 2021

The Haiku Pea Podcast

Series, 4, Episode 16 - "Original Haiku Using Yūgen", August 16, 2021

ghost apple

this emptiness

inside

Shortlisted, 2019 Touchstone Awards

Shamrock Haiku Journal 42, 2019

footprints etched

on the sea of tranquility . . .

rearing stallion

Dwarf Stars 2021 - The Best Very Short Speculative Poems Published in 2020

winter jasmine

we inhale the scent

of dying stars

The Poetry Pea Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Autumn 2020

Poetry Pea, July 2021

 The Haiku Pea Podcast

Series 4, Episode 14 - "Realistic Haiku", July 19, 2021

drought

the kestrel catches

a piece of sky

Highly Commended

2016 New Zealand Poetry Society International Competition

lantern light

becoming one

with the fog

Poetry Pea, June 2021

The Haiku Pea Podcast

Series 4, Episode 12 - "Original Haiku of the Seasons", June 21, 2021 

fallow fields a light dusting of snow geese

Mariposa 39, Autumn/Winter 2018

Shortlisted, 2018 Touchstone Awards

monarch migration

the unexpected tremor

of my lips

Poetry Pea, May 2021

The Haiku Pea Podcast

Series 4, Episode 10 - "Euphonic Haiku", May 17, 2021

bioluminescence

I skip a pebble across

the universe

Seashores 2, 2019

1st Place, OtherWordly Intergalactic Haiku Competition, 2019

Shortlisted, Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems, 2019

ripe pumpkins

deer tracks riddle

the frost

Poetry Pea, April 2021

The Haiku Pea Podcast

Series 4, Episode 8 - "no ego", April 19, 2021

storm hour

the cliff's face carved

a little deeper

3rd Prize, 2020 Irish Haiku Society Int'l Haiku Competition

leaf litter

turkey tail fungus

skirts the pine

The Poetry Pea Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Spring 2021

Editor: Patricia McGuire

"Spring and Autumn Kigo"

the ruts we slip into falling leaves

"Humour"

refuse dump

two black bears slouch

on a stained sofa

"Exaggerated Perspective"

vacant factory

broken rafters patched

with pigeons

Poetry Pea, March 2021

The Haiku Pea Podcast

Series 4, Episode 6 - "Exaggerated Perspective", March 15, 2021

fog deepens

the sound of rabbits

nibbling night

Grand Prize

2016 World Haiku Competition

vacant factory

broken rafters patched

with pigeons

Poetry Pea, February 2021

The Haiku Pea Podcast

Series 4, Episode 4 - "Humourous Haiku", February 15, 2021

bagpipers

just far enough away

to move me

Shortlisted

2018 H. Gene Murtha Senryu Contest 

refuse dump

two black bears slouch

on a stained sofa

The Poetry Pea Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Winter 2020

Editor: Patricia McGuire

"Found"

storm clouds

I spread out my joy

on the grass

culled from: "New Rain", The One & the Many by Rabindranath Tagore

"No Verbs"

dry fountain

the blue tongue

of a gargoyle

warm earth

between our fingers . . .

cemetery birds

 

Poetry Pea, January 2021

The Haiku Pea Podcast

Series 4, Episode 2 - "Spring and Autumn", January 18, 2021

blue nemophila

I still miss the little things

about my sister

Winner

2020 Akita International Haku Contest

the ruts we slip into falling leaves

 

The Poetry Pea Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Autumn 2020

Editor: Patricia McGuire

"Voyages"

contrails

the undulation of dunes

becoming water

"Joy"

wild angelica

the candied scent

of your name

sun trap

the cat's tail tickles

my toes

"Loss"

winter jasmine

we inhale the scent

of dying stars