April 30, 2021
tent window
northern lights capture
our dreams
bottle rockets #43, 2020
Tuesday, June 01, 2021
Daily Haiga: An Edited Journal of Traditional and Contemporary Haiga, May 2021
Featured Artist: May 1, 2021
Note: this haiku was first published in Seashores 4, April 2020
The Cherita, Book 48, March 2021
Issue: "a time of wonder"
lucent sails
of pelicans
s u s p e n d e d
time stops
for a moment
and kisses the sun
cloud-crowned
mountain goddesses
reveal themselves
gauzy capes of mist
s l i p p i n g
off white shoulders
this meteorite
holds a single grain
of 7 billion-year-old stardust
deep within,
I have always known that
something is out there
The Cherita, Book 47, February 2021
Issue: "some kind of magic"
candlelight
winking
in every window
how I miss
those nights we burned
each other down
A Cherita Lighthouse Award
Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 53, June 2021
barrel wave
the sun's diminishing
point of light
midnight sun
the vocal fingerprints
of wolves
the owl
we nearly saw
lantern light
alms
the lake receives
a pair of swans
waterlines
the stories we find
between
A fine Line: The Magazine of the New Zealand Poetry Society, Autumn 2021
the sway
of a hanging bridge
cloud forest
Brass Bell, June 2021
Theme: sound / no sound
days shorten
the clatter of dried peas
in a blackened pot
glacial stare the way we retreat into ourselves
distant bark
a murmuration of sheep
moves as one
Brass Bell, May 2021
Theme: edible haiku
garden solitude
only the hidden eyes
of seed potatoes
our neighbour
feeds it while we're gone . . .
sourdough starter
autumn flames
we gather rose hips
for our muesli
root cellar
the darkness lit
by jelly jars
Ribbons, Volume 17, Number 1, Winter 2021
Selfsame
buried seeds
spring from darkness
into light
we each blossom
in our own time
how sensuous
these rippling sands
at twilight
the evolving stories
of our womanhood
the Geminids
sling meteors above
distant mountains
that which pierces your heart
pierces mine also
dilly-dallying
along gravel roads
time s l o w s
the closer we get
to our childhood
Sunday, April 25, 2021
Cattails, April 2021
a fireball
illuminates the dark
life streaks by
before we know
what to make of it
I have learned
how to keep silent . . .
these pebbles
under my tongue
seasoned with rue
candle ice the way you blow hot and cold
frigid weather
a red rose shatters
on impact
Editor's Choice
This haiku took me back to an educational video that I had seen long ago, where a rose shattered after being dipped in liquid nitrogen. A startling observation by Debbie Strange from Canada, where frigid weather is the norm for a good part of the year and the cold freezes the red rose enough to shatter it on impact. The poet uses a powerful and unique image here. On another level, the use of 'red rose' and its various allusions cannot be escaped by the reader. Thank you Debbie Strange, for the many possible readings.
—Geethanjali Rajan
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
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
Nick Virgilio Haiku Association, April 2021
Haiku in Action: April 14th - April 20th, 2021, Week 16
flightless
the clipped wings
of refugees
(Note: The way we confine our fellow beings.)
Kokako, Number 34, April 2021
eddies of dust
the rooster's comb blends
into sunrise
feather stars
undulating across
the ocean floor . . .
beauty exists even when
we cannot see it
abandoned puppies
tumble from a torn box
there is more
than one way to learn
the art of mothering
Sunday, April 18, 2021
The Haiku Foundation: HaikuLife Film Festival 2021
This haiga video, comprised of previously published poems, was created to celebrate The Haiku Foundation's International Haiku Poetry Day HaikuLife Film Festival on April 17, 2021:
Black Velvet
(with recitation)
The Haiku Foundation: EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, April 2021
snowmelt
the wild crocuses
you loved
2nd Place, 2019 Morioka 1st Int'l Haiku Contest
fallow fields a light dusting of snow geese
Mariposa 39, 2018
Shortlisted 2018 Touchstone Awards
longer days
I knight my sister
with an icicle
5th HM, 2018 Robert Spiess Memorial Competition
Mariposa, Number 44, Spring/Summer 2021
leaves of grass
and hollow reeds sing
between our lips
we join the insects
orchestrating summer
the intricate lace
of decaying leaves
are we
any less beautiful now
that our youth is gone
This issue includes the results of the 2020 San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka:
a raven
believed it could fly
through me
unaware that I am glass,
pretending to be sky
3rd Place Tanka
World Haiku, Number 17, 2021
Translated into Japanese
wild bergamot
a hummingbird's tail
fans the flames
muskeg
crowberries absorb
the night
marsh reeds
we learn the secret
language of wind
Note: these haiku previously appeared in Akitsu Quarterly
Note: the haiga was printed in black and white
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