Hot News: 66 Haiku Selected for Butterfly Dream, Volume II

My Dear Fellow Poets and Readers:

I'm pleased to announce the following haiku selected for Butterfly Dream: 66 Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku, Volume Two. The anthology is scheduled to be published in early October 2016. Each poet whose haiku is included in the anthology will receive a copy of  its e-book edition.

Please post to all appropriate venues. Your time and help would be greatly appreciated.

Wishing you all a very happy and creative 2016.

Chen-ou 


Selected Haiku:

leaving my loneliness     inside her

micro haiku: three to nine syllables, 2014

George Swede


New Year's Eve
the dragon's mouth
full of light

NeverEnding Story, October 24, 2014

Bruce Ross


children's
  book
   sh
  elves

Best of Showcase, Under the Basho, 2013

Michael Dylan Welch


(r)egret along the riverbank acid rain

NeverEnding Story, November 23, 2015

Marianne Paul


frog on lily-pad
reflecting
frog on lily-pad

Wednesday Haiku, 88, October 31, 2012

Ed Baker


linden shadows
watching people watching
the blind man

2007 Suruga-Baika Literary Festival Award

Helen Buckingham


leaves falling ...
the rustle of a newspaper
between us

Sharpening the Green Pencil, 2014

Robert Kania 


winter drizzle ...
the voice
in my mind

NeverEnding Story, March 9, 2014

Tzod Earf


smell of rain ...
a dream unfolds in the chatter
of sparrows

Simply Haiku, 10:3, Summer 2013

Asni Amin


all day winter rain...
scenes from the passing year
reflected in the pane

NeverEnding Story, March 25, 2014

Rebecca Drouilhet


summer sale
adjusting her bra
in the shop window

NeverEnding Story, March 31, 2014

Ignatius Fay


New surname
carved deeply into
summerwood

Haiku Canada Members’ Anthology, 2012

David McMurray


face to face
with the wailing wall . . .
an empty bench

Mayfly, 53, 2012

Rita Odeh


in pine shade
for a while I forget
this life will end

Moonset, 7, 2010

Robert Epstein


cold front
the edges
of loneliness

NeverEnding Story, May 15, 2014

Polona Oblak


northern lights
just beyond the reach
of my walking stick

Haiku Canada Review, 8:1, February 2014

kjmunro


in the hot tub
my eyes on her floating breasts
hunter's moon

Honorable Mention, 2013 Harold G. Henderson Haiku Contest

Neal Whitman


ocean of sand --
thousands of wind paths
within each grain

Wednesday Haiku, 184, July 2nd, 2014

Ken Sawitri


morning mist
how thin the veil
between here and gone

Modern Haiku, 44:1, Winter/Spring 2013

Munira Judith Avinger


In memory of Srebrenica victims

spring blossoms ...
Srebrenica fields silent
with the sky

Freedom in the Mist, 2013

Damir Janjalija


Indian summer --
a maple ablaze
over her headstone

3LIGHTS, Autumn 2009

Natalia Kuznetsova


I drive                         
into a eucharist
of rain

Bright Stars, 1, 2014

Carole Johnston


cherry blossoms --
a veteran repolishing
his medals

NeverEnding Story, August 31, 2015

Lavana Kray


full moon --
darkness flickers at each turn
of the prayer wheel

Under the Basho, 1,  Autumn 2013

Sonam Chhoki


spring breeze --
          I catch the tune
she leaves behind

Heron's Nest Award, 8:2,  Summer 2006

Kala Ramesh


on the tundra
caging a winter sky
caribou bones

Third Place, 2014 Hortensia Anderson Awards

Debbie Strange


blue and white sky
blue and white sea
wind herding mares’ tails

A Hundred Gourds, 3:1, December 2013

Pat Tompkins


between the cypress and the bell-tower
the cold blue sliced by swifts

Modern Haiku, 37:1, Winter/Spring 2006

John Kinory


moonbow ...
in a grain of wheat
a farmer’s song

2nd Place, 2014 International Matsuo Basho Award

Sandip Chauhan


winter solitude --
my breath
clouds the moon

Third Prize, 2012 Diogen Winter Haiku Contest

Nancy Nitrio


blue fairywren
lifting for a moment
a weight we carried

A Hundred Gourds, 2:2,  March 2013

Simon Hanson


Deep into winter
writing poems I can share
with no one  

First Prize, Key West Robert Frost Haiku Contest

Sylvia Forges-Ryan


Independence Day --
I let him touch
a little bit of me

Beyond the Reach of My Chopsticks, 2011

Fay Aoyagi


from a lifted oar
a shimmer connects the sky
and sunlit river

First Prize, 2009 Genkissu! Spirits Up! World Wide Hekinan Haiku Contest

Beverley George


the flutter
of a butterfly --
her first ballet

NeverEnding Story, September 18, 2014

Karen O’Leary


autumn chill
dialing her dead mother's number
by mistake

Close to the Wind, 2013 Haiku North America Anthology

Joan Prefontaine


the yard: a pile of tires, a baseball

yards & lots, 2012

Jack Galmitz


winter quilt
threads of conversation
between us 

Cattails, 1, January 2014

Anne Curran


autumn equinox
measuring nightfall
pumpkin by pumpkin

The Heron's Nest, 16:3, September 2014

Tash Adams


her shadow
his shadow
their shadow

paper wasp, 20:2, winter 2014

Cynthia Rowe


first light ...
slow to rise
a phoebe's tail

Biding Time: Selected Poems 2001-2013, 2013

H. Gene Murtha


falling leaves
how will I know
my time has come

Editor’s Choice, World Haiku Review, April 2012

Susan Constable


damp morning
a gray yard
before the robin

NeverEnding Story, November 29, 2014

Marion Clarke


sick in bed
the gap
between the curtains

Mayfly, 57, Summer 2014
       
Olivier Schopfer


In memory of Brian Zimmer

winter night
where the mists part
another star

NeverEnding Story, December 10, 2014

Toki


where forest was
the old map is thick
with dust

Tinywords, January 10, 2014

LeRoy Gorman


Fukushima --
a kingfisher catches
stained moonbeams

NeverEnding Story, December 14, 2014

Judit Katalin Hollos


It could be nothing
it could be something
winter darkness

First Place, 2013 Porad Haiku Award

Peggy Heinrich


bus stop
a plastic bag jellyfishing
in the breeze

Acorn, 33, 2014

Ben Moeller-Gaa


twilight moon --
a hole in the chestnut
fills with stars

2013 Haiku Canada Members’ Anthology

Pamela Cooper


mountain cabin ...
you, me
and the spiders

Asahi, May 2013

Gabriel Sawicki


milky way –
one by one fireflies
up the hill

First Place, 2014 Haiku "Aha" Moment Contest

Archana Kapoor Nagpal


bare branch
the shape of everything
but the bird

Modern Haiku, 45:1, Winter/Spring 2014

S.M. Abeles


rusted railway
a quick wind unzips
the grasses

The Heron’s Nest, 15:2, June 2013

Jan Dobb


a child fills his bucket
with sunset twinkle
from the peak of wave

The Mainichi, October 15, 2014

Goda V. Bendoraitiene


coming storm
less and less space
between us

Cattails, September 2014

Maria Tomczak


spring skies
even the crow's caw
full of light

NeverEnding Story, April 16, 2015

Kris Lindbeck


the stylist
rinses away
the sound of her voice

First Place, 2009 Gerald Brady Senryu Award

Barry George


still the same winter pond still

Mu, 4, 2012

Julie Warther


moss-covered rocks ...
mother never talks about
the one that died

First Place, 2010 Haiku Pen Contest

Irene Golas


the drip, drip, drip
of hometown memories ...
roof icicles

NeverEnding Story, May 17 2015

Marilyn Humbert


news of war
wrapped on a fish --
the smell lingers

Vanguard Haiku 2nd Place, World Haiku Review,  August2014

Carl Seguiban


one after the other
three crows become one
with the fog

Modern Haiku, 28:3, Fall 1997

Larry Kimmel


acres of darkness
outside, inside
then a firefly

Pail in Hand: 25 Haiku, 2000

Angelee Deodhar


origami moon…
so many lies tucked
into the night

Frozen Butterfly, 1, October 2014

Shloka Shankar


somewhere between
knowing and not
winter fog

Acorn, 32, Spring 2014

Maureen Virchau