Warp and Weft ~ Images and Words

Sunday, April 13, 2025

Contemporary Haibun, Volume 20, Red Moon Press, 2025

Honoured to have this haiga chosen by Ron Moss for Contemporary Haibun!

(note: this haiga received 2nd Place in the 2024 Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition)

Contemporary Haibun Online, Issue 21.1, April 2025

Haiga Gallery: selected by Ron Moss

The Abstractaphy Initiative, April 2025

Curated by Richard Grahn

(note: this tanka/kyoka art first appeared on the cover of Prune Juice 38, 2022)

(note: this haiga first appeared in Failed Haiku Senryu Journal 4.39, 2019)

(note: this haiga first appeared in Halibut, October 2018)

Akitsu Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2025

to-do list

a chameleon catches

its 100th fly

beach fair

a palmist reads

the waterline

flooded field

a scurry of dunlins

harvesting worms

Acorn, Number 54, Spring 2025

My thanks to the editor, Susan Antolin, for nominating the following poem for a Touchstone Award:

hurricane lantern

we drop anchor

between planets

Saturday, March 08, 2025

Haiku Poet Word Search, February 2025

Haiku Poet Word Search

Curated by Kelly Sauvage Moyer

February 20, 2025

https://haikupoetwordsearch.com/2025/02/20/debbie-strange/

Debbie Strange is a Canadian short-form poet, musician, and artist, working in multiple disciplines (photography, painting, ink, collage, monoprinting), who is grateful to live on Treaty 1 land. Her creative passions connect her more closely to the world, to others, and to herself, and help mitigate the effects of complex regional pain syndrome. She suffers happily from biophilia, logolepsy, and papyrophilia, with awesome new diagnoses appearing regularly! Debbie’s book-length haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks, won the 2020 Snapshot Press Book Award, and was released by the press in late 2024.

Note:

biophilia – love of nature
logolepsy – love of words
papyrophilia – love of paper

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refugee train
small hands starfished
against the glass

1^st Place, Triveni Haikai India Triveni Awards 2024

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Fata Morgana the (in)visibility of my (dis)ability

2^nd Place, #FemkuMag Marlene Mountain Memorial Haiku Contest 2021

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midnight sun
a polar bear’s breath
catches fire

3^rd Place, Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition 2024

Glossary:

bokeh (aesthetics of out-of-focus photography – a nod to my deteriorating vision)
tuckamores (stunted and deformed trees shaped by wind and sea spray)
Fender (my guitar)
alto (my voice)
aurora (northern lights & the dawn feature in many of my poems)
avifauna (a birder for decades)
campervan (our 1978 lime-green VW campervan named “Ludwig Van”)
wintertide (you have to appreciate winter if you live on the Canadian prairies)
empathetic (and hoping for more empathy in this world)
hinterland (the backcountry calls me)
kinkeeper (maintaining family ties)
yutori (slowing down to simply be, breathe, listen, & appreciate life & nature)
komorebi (light filtering through trees/leaves)
Percheron (I have a special relationship with a horse named Rival)
horticulturist (I’m now a balcony gardener, but every inch is packed with flowers)
wabi-sabi (appreciating beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, & incomplete)
beachcomber (collecting shells, driftwood, lost feathers - my happy place)