17th Contest Selected Haiku Collection
prayer vigil
a ghost moth's wings
begin to close
mom's vital signs
we decipher the code
of lightning bugs
Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Tokutomi Haiku Contest, 2025
palliative care
a branch of loquat flowers
our light in the dark
Honourable Mention
Tokutomi Haiku Contest 2025
Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, 50th Anniversary Celebration Retreat at Asilomar, November 2025
Honoured to contribute a haiku to recognize the dedication of Tokutomi Dojin, Patricia Machmiller, who has been with the Society from its beginnings:
sunflower
the way she spreads
her light around
Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Haiga Holiday Celebration, December 2025
Delighted to have the following haiga included in the slideshow:
Geppo: The Haiku Work-Study Journal of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, Volume L:3, August 2025
May - July 2025
beach blankets
waves chase each other
back and forth
the horses
that got away . . .
whitecaps
Summer Challenge Kigo: Coolness, suzushisa
cooling winds
the hammock takes on
a life of its own
The Solitary Daisy, Issue 62, November 2025
Grateful to have the following work reposted from a haiga pubished in Tinywords 25.2, October 2025:
dawn chorus starlinging me out of night terrors
Whiptail, Issue 12, February 2025 (first publication)
The Solitary Daisy, Issue 57, July 2025
Grateful to have the following work reposted from Charlotte Digregorio's blog:
the peace
that accompanies
forgiveness
after this long drought
an ecstasy of rain
GUSTS, Number 25, Spring/Summer 2017
The Cicada's Cry: A Micro-Zine of Haiku Poetry, Winter 2025
first snowfall
the whinnies of horses
kicking up their heels
Double Horizon: An International Haiku Anthology, The Fishing Cat Press, 2025
Grateful to have work selected and translated by Jean Antonini and Gilles Fabre (and team) for this anthology!
Translated into French
cattle roundup
a charred bean can
full of rain
1st Place, 2024 Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest
bioluminescence
I skip a pebble across
the universe
seashores, Volume 2, 2019
1st Place, 2019 OtherWordly Intergalactic Haiku Competition
glassy lake
flocks of snow geese
pull up the moon
1st Place, 2017 Autumn Moon Haiku Journal Contest
starflowers
light the woodland . . .
we find our way
Award Winner, The 2017 Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition
scrub jay
nothing left of the blue
in dad's jeans
2nd Place, 2024 Betty Drevniok Award
marsh marigolds
dark waters patched
with light
Highly Commended, 2023, New Zealand Poetry Society Int'l Competition
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2025
hummingbird you lose the point of your story
battered dock
the turtle with a snake
in its mouth
Under the Basho, 2025
Personal Best
refugee train
small hands starfished
against the glass
1st Place, 2024 Triveni Awards
Author's note:
This poem arose out of my despair at witnessing the plight of the world's displaced children, who are facing traumas not of their own making. Their voices unheard, they use "starfished" hands to silently plead for mercy as the train pulls them away from everything they have ever known. In this instance, I felt that "verbing" was a dynamic and fresh approach not only to convey the shape of hands, but to reference the locomotion techniques of starfish. The children are dissimilar, and yet akin, to starfish. Though unable to regenerate limbs blown off in war, they are ruthlessly uprooted and battered by forces beyond their control.
Haiku
bluebell woods the meandering scent of this river
bouzouki
our wine bottle filled
with wisteria
pawned guitar
someone's initials carved
into the bridge
Postku
pitcher plant drowning in the chalice of doomscrolling
Haiga Gallery
The Haiku Foundation, Juxta 11 - Research and Scholarship in Haiku, December 2025
Grateful to have the following haiku included in the article "A Multitude of Perspectives" by Mary Stevens (a review of "One Thread": Zoka in Contemporary Haiku, by Janice Doppler):
dripping trees
I wait for the right path
to choose me
First Frost, Number 3, Spring 2022
Silver Birch Press, December 2025
Bugs & Insects Series:
dead orchard
the random blue sparks
of woolly aphids
3rd Place, 2018 Irish Haiku Society International Competition
Author's note:
This was written in response to a magical sighting of woolly blue aphids flitting about our campsite. Their iridescent winds and tiny, furry blue bodies make them look like woodland fairies. Though these little creatures are beautiful, they can also be deadly in numbers! this haiku is the title poem of my recent full-length collection, Random Blue Sparks (Snapshot Press, 2024).
Quail Eggs: A Tanka Journal, Issue 3, December 2025
seasons flash by
quicker than lightning
across this lake
the family cottage
falls to rack and ruin
Prune Juice, Issue 47, December 2025
Delighted to have the following work selected by the new editors, Pippa Phillips and Orrin Préjean:
hostas caught on the dilemma of a snail's horns
opening bracket sun dog closing bracket
Presence, Number 83, November 2025
narwhal migration
a child spots
her first unicorn
equinox . . .
when the sun forgets
to shine,
migrating goldfinches
still remember how
Eucalypt, Issue 39, December 2025
sunlight
butters the prairie hills
we gather
to give thanks before
our morning chores
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