My Dear Friends:
The Haiku Foundation just published a free e-book of haiku
, Echoes 2: The New Resonance 20th Anniversary, that features all the poets in the first 10 issues of the
New Resonance series from Red Moon Press (its Grayscale print copies of the book may be purchased for $8
here). I am a
New Resonance poet and 15 of my haiku are anthologized in
New Resonance 7: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (published in 2011, one and a half years after I started writing haiku). Below are my haiku included in
Echoes 2:
cliff edge ...
the sound of waiting
for nothing
Highly Commended, New Zealand Poetry Society Haiku Contest 2016,
winter twilight
crossing the border
a child's shadow
Fourth Prize, New Zealand Poetry Society Haiku Contest 2016
distant sirens
over the border bridge
a blood moon
Shortlist, Touchstone Distinguished Poem Award 2015,
first glimpse
of her mastectomy bra
winter rose
Runner-Up, Devidé Haiku Award 2015
a monarch
folds into silence ...
budding petals
Second Place, World Haiku Competition 2014
im-mi-grant ...
the way English tastes
on my tongue
Second Prize, Kokako Haiku Competition 2013
(Note: you can read my
109 award-winning poems here)
Selected Haiku from
Echoes 2 for your reading pleasure:
everywhere
but the road I'm on . . .
moonshine
Shamrock
Scott Abeles
inauguration day
newsprint darkens
my fingers
Mariposa, 36
Susan Antolin
cat in the garden untangling twilight
Second Prize, Kusamakura Haiku Contest 2014
Annie Bachini
the carving knife
out of its sheath
winter darkness
The Heron’s Nest, 17:1
Francine Banwarth
abortion day
a shadow flutters
the fish tank
Rattle, 47
Roberta Beary
mountain summit —
back bent by the weight
of stars
Ito-en Oi Ocha Haiku Contest 2018
Meik Blöttenberger
rope swing
a kid launches himself straight
into summer
Mariposa, 25
Yvonne Cabalona
night time
in the hospice aquarium
the pulse of fish gills
The Heron’s Nest, 16:2
Joyce Clement
spring cleaning
an unmarked box
filled with mother’s smell
Echoes
Pamela Connor
moonlight fingering the blue of her prayers
Acorn, 39
Susan Constable
swifts wheeling to the edge of dusk
Presence, 53
Susan Diridoni
ebb tide —
we turn to the sound
of a whale’s breath
Acorn, 22
Connie Donleycott
between two mountains
the wings of a gliding hawk
balancing sunlight
Brussels Sprout, 2:1
David Elliott
just-fledged light
chips of wren song
from the log pile
Presence, 45
Claire Everett
humid night . . .
a tadpole breaks the surface
of ancient stars
Second Place, Sharpening the Green Pencil 2014
Chase Gagnon
midnight subway
watching her apply lipstick
he licks his lips
lit from within
Brenda J. Gannam
from a lifted oar
a shimmer connects the sky
and sunlit river
First Prize, Genkissu Haiku Contest 2009
Beverley George
stubble field —
a hawk and its shadow
meet at the mouse
Modern Haiku, 46:1
Robert Gilliland
the muezzin’s voice
breaks on the high note
Ramadan moon
Frogpond, 40:3
David Grayson
scattered stars shaking off the umbrella
Acorn, 39
John Hawk
interlocking lakes
a bald eagle rises
with its prey
Modern Haiku, 47:2
Elizabeth Howard
deepening dusk
a great blue heron
fades to sky
All That Remains
Catherine JS Lee
summer's end
the sparkle of coins
in the fountain
tinywords, 17:2
Bob Lucky
still warm
long after sundown
gravestone
Modern Haiku, 48:2
Jonathan McKeown
becoming morning . . .
the hedge redirects
a dove’s flight
Muttering Thunder, 2
paul m.
all day rain
the refrigerator’s
ommmmm
Modern Haiku, 46:3
Ben Moeller-Gaa
prenuptial contract
fish bones neatly spaced
on white china
Acorn, 30
Ron C. Moss
spring mist —
a mallard paddles
through our stillborn's ashes
Memorial Day
a layer of dust
covers the urn
H. Gene Murtha
snowmelt
the cascading notes
of a canyon wren
Modern Haiku, 46:1
Tom Painting
dusting off a trail map:
the edge
of winter
Second Prize, Kusamakura Haiku Contest 2005
Paul Pfleuger Jr.
refugee child —
folding and unfolding
his paper boat
First Prize, Sharpening the Green Pencil Contest 2017,
Stella Pierides
