(Note: these haiga were first published in Haigonline's Winter Gallery 2021 - they are part of my "Solst(ice)" series)
Welcome to this archive of my published poetry, photography and art. Thank you for allowing me to share my creative passions with you, and for taking the time to visit. Please be kind, and do not copy any of the content on this site without permission and attribution. All rights reserved © Debbie Strange. I unfold my origami self / and swim into a lake of fire / washing my hair in ashes / the crane-legged words / of a thousand burning poems.
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- A Year Unfolding: Haiku
- Mouth Full of Stones: Haikai eBook
- Prairie Interludes: Haiku eChapbook
- Random Blue Sparks
- The Language of Loss: Haiku & Tanka Conversations
- Three-Part Harmony: Tanka Verses
- Warp and Weft: Tanka Threads
Sunday, March 20, 2022
The Cherita, Book 56, November 2021
Issue: "dark to light"
let us celebrate
the keepers
of blood memory
their stories
giving birth
to stars
A Cherita Lighthouse Award
Tsuri-doro: A Small Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Issue #8, March/April 2022
fallen cairn
mountain goats grazing
on clouds
suncups
around each stone
prairie crocus
Self-Portrait, Tanka Society of America Members' Anthology 2021
a plague
of smokestacks belching
obscenities . . .
on this frosted morning,
even they are beautiful
String Theory: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2021
Fata Morgana the (in)visibility of my (dis)ability
2nd Place
2021 Marlene Mountain Contest
Red Lights, Vol. 18, Number 1, January 2022
red-tinged grasses
adorned with the exuviae
of dragonflies . . .
sometimes I wish I could
leave this body behind
(note: "exuviae" - the dried outer casing of a young dragonfly)
New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition 2021
Kissing a Ghost - NZPS Poetry Anthology 2021
My thanks to Simon Hanson, the judge of this contest, and to Tim Jones, the editor!
the darkness
arrives on a thousand legs . . .
cosmic caterpillar
Highly Commended
Haiku Canada Review, Volume 16, Number 1, February 2022
heir(b)looms
childhood friends
felled like hapless trees
in old-growth forests
we prostrate ourselves
before the powers that be
Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 56, March 2022
trumpeter swans
we hear them before
we see them
heated debate
even the fence
is barbed
Chalk on the Walk Monoku Project (New Zealand) 2022
Curated by Sherry Grant
Haiga Feature: March 12, 2022
Brass Bell, March 2022
Theme: a haiku celebration of women and girls
ice road
I weave blue ribbons
through mom's hair
Bottle Rockets, Vol. 23, Number 2 (or #46), February 2022
ramshackle farm
thistles bind the fence
together
Blithe Spirit, Vol. 32, Number 1, February 2022
maidenhair
the light trembles
with rain
here we are
at the turning point
once more
another year pales
in comparison
A Fine Line: The Magazine of the New Zealand Poetry Society, Summer 2022
peace talks
the hiss of magma
hitting water
the swans
we hoped we'd become . . .
crook-necked gourds
beach closure
sand skips over
the dunes
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