Tinywords, Issue 25.1, May 2025

Note: this haiku received 1st Place in the 2024 Triveni Awards

 

Tinywords, Issue 24.2, January 2025

 

Note: this senryu received an Honourable Mention in the 2024 H. Gene Murtha Contest and the haiga first appeared in The Abstractaphy Initiative, August 2024

Tinywords, Issue 24.1, May 2024

 

Note: this haiga received an Honourable Mention in the 2023 Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition)

Tinywords, Issue 23.2, January 2024

 

Note: this haiku first appeared in The Bamboo Hut, Spring 2019, and this haiga first appeared in Cantos, March 2023

Tinywords, Issue 23.1, April 2023

Note: this haiga first appeared in Cafe Haiku, September 2022

Tinywords, Issue 22.2, January 2023

Note: this haiku first appeared in Seashores 3, November 2019

 

Tinywords: Photo Prompt, September 2022

scarred dock

masts carve our initials

into the water

 

Tinywords, Issue 22.1, May 2022

Note: this tanka received 2nd Place in the 2018 Fleeting Words Tanka Competition

 

Tinywords, Issue 21.2, January 2022

 

Note: this tanka received a commendation in the Mandy's Pages Tanka Contest 2020 - Climate Change: The Burning Issue

Tinywords, Issue 21.1, June 2021

Note: this haiku first appeared in Akitsu Quarterly, Summer 2020

 

Tinywords, Issue 20.2, January 2021

Note: this haiku first appeared in the Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 3:2, Spring-Summer 2020

 

Tinywords, Issue 20.1, May 2020

Note: this haiku first appeared in Frogpond 42.2, 2019

Tinywords, Issue 19.2, January 2020

(Note: this haiku received a Zatsuei Haiku of Merit in the World Haiku Review 2019 R.H. Blyth Award)

Tinywords, Issue 19.2, November 2019

(Note: haiku without art first appeared in The Haiku Foundation's blog in 2019)

Tinywords, Issue 19.1, May 2019

Note: this tanka received 1st Place in the 2018 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest

Tinywords, Issue 18.2, November 2018

Poem without art previously appeared in Creatrix 39, November 2017

Tinywords, Issue 18.1, June 2018

Note:

Haiku received First Place in the 2017 Autumn Moon Haiku Contest

Tinywords, Issue 17.2, October 2017

I inhale
and my lungs fill up
with bees
though all hope is lost
there is still this hum


(originally published in Hedgerow Poems, December 2016)

Tinywords, Issue 17.1, June 2017

Tinywords, Issue 16.2, December 2016

liquid sun our glasses filled with dandelion wine