Seashores - An International Journal to Share the Spirit of Haiku, Vol. 15, April 2026

today is the day . . .

our ginkgo tree drops

every leaf

walrus tusks

a rusty pickaxe stuck

in the glacier

Seashores - An International Journal to Share the Spirit of Haiku, Vol. 14, April 2025

My thanks to guest editors K.J. Munro and Sherry Grant for selecting the following work:

coming rain

the frogs croak

louder

black sand beach

a chunk of ice

holds the sky

flagstone path

empty spaces softened

by moss

I'm beyond grateful to Tim Dwyer for his lovely review of Random Blue Sparks in this issue. The review can be accessed under the Random Blue Sparks tab of this blog.

Seashores - An International Journal to Share the Spirit of Haiku, Vol. 12, April 2024

the shortest day turning into evening grosbeaks

glaze event

the caged wolf gnaws

a chip of sunlight

Seashores - An International Journal to Share the Spirit of Haiku, Vol. 11, November 2023

silhouettes

becoming conifers . . .

foreglow

sculpted dunes

everything that shapes

a life

Seashores - An International Journal to Share the Spirit of Haiku, Vol. 10, April 2023

drought

the pond still exists

in my mind

Seashores - An International Journal to Share the Spirit of Haiku, Vol. 9, November 2022

missing fence

charred trees stitch

the hills together

the wingspan

of a mother's arms . . .

atlas moth

Seashores - An International Journal to Share the Spirit of Haiku, Vol. 8, April 2022

community pasture

someone else's cows

come when we call

shelterbelt

half of the lake

a mirror

 

Seashores - An International Journal to Share the Spirit of Haiku. Vol. 7, November 2021

I wonder

what happened here . . .

feather atlas

cracked headstone

this meandering river

of moss

 

Seashores - An International Journal to Share the Spirit of Haiku, Vol. 6, April 2021

birch grove

the sudden arrow

of a goshawk

craggy bluff

a waterfall ribbons

into sunset

 

Seashores - An International Journal to Share the Spirit of Haiku, Vol. 5, November 2020

My thanks to Gilles Fabre for his congratulatory message in this issue. The following haiku was short-listed for the 2019 Touchstone Award for Individual Haiku (first published in Seashores, Issue 2, April 2019):

bioluminescence

I skip a pebble across

the universe

**

not yet

the white of snow . . .

tundra hare

ditch flowers

this year I will learn

their names

woodcock moon

the first snow will fall

tomorrow

 

Dwarf Stars 2020 - The Best Very Short Speculative Poems Published in 2019

Honoured to have the following haiku chosen for this anthology. It is one of 72 works selected from 500 submissions. My thanks to the editor, Robin Mayhall!


bioluminescence
I skip a pebble across
the universe

Seashores, Volume 2, April 2019
1st Place, OtherWordly Intergalactic Haiku Competition, 2019

Seashores - An International Journal to Share the Spirit of Haiku, Vol. 4, April 2020

tree shadows
the stories you tell me
grow longer


sunless day
the sparks of mica
under our boots

Seashores - An International Journal to Share the Spirit of Haiku, Vol. 3, November 2019

prognosis . . .
in the cranberry bog
cinders of light


fern spores
the ellipsis after
your goodbye

Seashores - An International Journal to Share the Spirit of Haiku, Vol. 2, April 2019

bioluminescence
I skip a pebble across
the universe

Seashores - An International Journal to Share the Spirit of Haiku, Vol. 1, October 2018

jack pines
the arthritic shape
of wind


crescent moon
the hand-carved ribs
of our canoe