My thanks to Jim Kacian for presenting my third Haiga Gallery for The Haiku Foundation!
The following artwork incorporates 40 award-winning haiku and tanka:
#1
blue nemophila
I still miss the little things
about my sister
1st Place
2020 9th Akita International Haiku Contest
busker's hat
a child offers coins
of dried lunaria
1st Place
2022 Bloodroot Haiku Award
canyonlands
a meadowlark sings
me out of myself
1st Place
2022 Drifting Sands Monuments Number 1 Contest
cattle roundup
a charred bean can
full of rain
1st Place (joint)
2024 Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest
drifting sands
sometimes the poem
writes itself
1st Place
2023 Drifting Sands Wearable Art and Haiku Contest
fireflies the synchronicity of it all
1st Place
2022 Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition
geriatric ward
burning matchheads
begin to droop
Highly Commended
2023 Gloucestershire Poetry Society Haiku Competition
heated debate
even the fence
is barbed
1st Place
2022 Creatrix Haiku Prize
marsh marigolds
dark waters patched
with light
Highly Commended
2023 New Zealand Poetry Society International Haiku Competition
skinny-dipping the moon snail's umbilicus
Runner-up
2022 British Haiku Society Awards
vintage typewriter
the spiderling adds
an asterisk
Judges' Favourites
2023 Golden Triangle Haiku Contest
#12
stubbled fields
the remains of something
I cannot name
Editor's Choice
Haiga in Focus, Number 52, August 2022
#13
soft rime
a chickadee's song
becomes visible
Honourable Mention
2019 Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition
#14
rusted gate
old lilacs blooming
for no one
Selected Haiku
2015 Yamadera Basho Haiku Contest
#15
pine forst
the advice I'd give
my younger self
Honourable Mention
2020 Soka Matsubara International Haiku Contest
#16
outdoor wedding
an unexpected flurry
of cabbage whites
Haiku Laureate Award
2021 Hexapod Haiku Contest
#17
lily pad rafts
dotting the pond . . .
leopard frogs
Zatsuei Haiku of Merit
2021 World Haiku Review
#18
forgotten grave
only the small bones
of leaves remain
Commended
2020 Polish International Haiku Competition
#19
first school day
the coiling tendrils
of loofah
Honourable Mention
2023 International Haiku Contest on the Theme of Gourds
#20
cold war
the fallen rank and file
of sunflowers
Selected Haiku
2022 Yamadera Basho Haiku Contest
#21
watching you
prepare a star fruit
just so
the small galaxies
of grace in your hands
Runner-up
2019 British Haiku Society Tanka Awards
tussocks
soften the bog's edge
my thoughts
lost in this tangle
of lemming runways
3rd Place
2023 Fleeting Words Tanka Competition
there was
so much I wanted
to teach you . . .
a blue jay's feathers
are not really blue
1st Place
2023 San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka
sunbeams sift
between the bones
of our barn
mucking out stalls
has never felt so holy
Runner-up
2023 British Haiku Society Tanka Awards
dried cattails
delicately spun with frost
confections
sweeting the bitterness
of winter without you
2nd Place
2022 Fleeting Words Tanka Contest
between the spokes
of your spinning wheel
a dusty web . . .
I never thought our lives
would so quickly unwind
1st Place
2019 British Haiku Society Tanka Awards
awaiting
rain's unkept promise
crops wither
in the dust of dreams
passed down to me
1st Place
2022 Drifting Sands Monuments Number 1 Contest
at the moment
I became motherless
something
brushed against me
softer than a feather
1st Place
2022 British Haiku Society Tanka Awards
a raven
believed it could fly
through me
unaware that I am glass,
pretending to be sky
3rd Place
2020 San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka
a fleet
of trumpeter swans
at anchor
on the smoke-veiled lake
every bird, a beacon
Highly Commended
2020 The Burning Issue Tanka Contest
#31
pipistrelles
emerge from our barn
into dusk . . .
how short the wingspan
of this perfect moment
Honourable Mention
2020 Mandy's Pages Annual Tanka Contest
#32
as if I were
this ash-filled burl,
black veins
of decay winding through
my body like a river
Commended
2020 The Burning Issue Tanka Contest
#33
let's drive
down this prairie road,
singing until
we collide head-on
with the Milky Way
Honourable Mention
2023 San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka
lost gloves sprout
from melting snowbanks
every finger
points me toward
a place I'd rather be
Honourable Mention
2021 Fleeting Words Tanka Contest
my easel stands
neglected in the corner
still flecked
with bright colours of a world
I no longer recognize
Commended
2020 The Burning Issue Tanka Contest
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autumn arrives
in a whirl of leaves
this body
withering, too, despite
my best intentions
2nd Honourable Mention
2022 San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka
by and by
I promise to tell you
everything
but for now, let us listen . . .
nature is speaking
Editor's Choice
Cattails, October 2020
leaving home
for the first time
my carpetbag
filled to bursting
with butterflies
Tanka Favourites (selected by Joanna Ashwell)
GUSTS, Number 35, Spring/Summer 2022
sea pebbles
glinting in the sun
we, too
lose more of ourselves
with every passing wave
Honourable Mention
2020 British Haiku Society Tanka Awards
skeins of wool
unravel at my feet
in the last light
a swirl of snow geese
begins to descend
Honourable Mention
2023 San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka
