6th Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Contest - First Place and First Runner-up!

Who wants to do the happy dance with me? Thank you, Lord for my two recent awards - First Place in the Traditional Category and First Runner-Up in the Photography and Mixed Media Category. This is one of the beautiful ways you have turned my life experiences into gifts to be shared to everyone! I am very grateful!!!

I hope you all enjoy these. Congratulations to all the winner! See all the winners and the commentaries here. 

First Place - Traditional Category

At first reading and viewing, this haiga by Chrissi Villa grips you. With each successive reading, the compounding layers of possibilities in this senryu are echoed visually in the varied and multi-textured circles of the image. One can’t help but to wonder of the other rings once worn. Are the bestowers now as nameless as the moon? The wonderful balance between fragment, phrase, and image invites the reader to insert themself into the narrative and make it their own without diminishing the original intent of the author, were we privy to it. (Commentaries by judges Kelly Sauvage and Bryan Rickert)

                             First Runner-Up - Photography and Mixed Media Category

This haiga by Chrissi Villa activates all our senses, as she invites us to view the textures, smell the flowers, and contemplate all the varied interpretations of her one line senryu. The image and senryu combined show a wonderful balance of softness and strength; yet, it is the sense of whimsy that offers an uncommon optimism. Oftentimes, when we think of abandoning a place or a situation, it is in the context of escape. Yet, in this instance, the leaving is a lofting—ripe with infinite possibility. (Commentaries by judges Kelly Sauvage and Bryan Rickert)

Behold Issue 6 on Beautiful Defect edited by Susan Furst

My collaborative split sequence and artwork published in Behold, Issue 6, Peace. You can find more poetry and artwork in this wonderful issue edited by Susan Furst here. https://www.beautifuldefect.com/ Thank you, publication twin Susan Furst!

Congratulations

on a bigger and more blessed issue!

Celebrating National Haiku Writing Month 2015 (Part 1)

Another full month of haiku writing! So glad I was able to join in again this year.

 

 

 

 

February 1 prompt: now

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February 2 prompt: noisily

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February 3 prompt: nervously

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February 5 prompt: nonstop

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February 6 prompt: nonchalantly

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February 7 prompt: nearest

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February 8 prompt: native

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February 9 prompt: nuclear

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February 10 prompt: novel

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Diogen Spring Haiku Contest 2014 - Haiga submissions

     All my three haiga were published among 12 others for the recent contest. Here's one of them. Photo taken less than a mile away from Lands End, San Francisco.

 

 

Summer Breeze

summer breeze

shadows in the moonlight

rock the boat    

       Above is one of my two haiku (found poems) appearing in Aubrie Cox's latest project Fool's Paradise. 
 

       Credits:
       "Summer Breeze" - The Isley Brothers
       "Shadows in the Moonlight" - Anne Murray
       "Rock the Boat" - Hues Corporation.
       Here's the link again in case you've missed my previous post regarding the free download of this wonderful collection.

       By the way, I'd like to take this chance to invite you to visit Aubrie Cox's blog Yay Words!. There's a doodleku going on! No, it's not her doodles. This January, you can 'ku to HM Yuan's doodles. I haven't jump in yet (not even sure if I'm doing it this time), but you can start catching up by clicking this. Enjoy! 


Related posts:
Fool's Paradise (A Christmas Gift from Aubrie Cox)

     

Grass

    August 10 NaHaiWrimo prompt is "grass", provided by Melissa Allen.

 

ocean breeze
his eyes locked

on her grass skirt

 

 

 

     Comments on my haiku may be found here. Click this for more information on the 31 Different NaHaiWriMo Prompters in August 2012. 

 

Taking the Haiku Plunge in NaHaiWrimo

    
      Since August 1, I've been joining all the haiku poets in writing haiku for the daily prompt. The first prompt is "heart", provided by Kat Creighton.

heart murmur

the summer breeze whispers

an old love song

     Find my haiku here. Click this to get more information about the 31 Different Prompters of NaHaiWriMo in August 2012. 

     

Spring Breeze

 

A Hundred Gourds (1:3 June 2012)

1st International Kukai - 6th Place Tie

lilac breeze

a sparrow alights 

on my mailbox

1st International Kukai
Prompt: sparrow
 

Doodlefest (Day 21-31)

(click headings to see the doodle of Aubrie Cox on Yay Words!)

I Doodle, You 'Ku - 21

dizzying thoughts

I take a break

to look at the moon

revision:

mind chatter

I take a break

to look at the moon

I Doodle, You 'Ku  - 22

floating bubbles

the child in her

never left

~

floating bubbles...

a child's laugh

in her laughter

~

rainbow bubbles

a child twirls

with a magic wand

I Doodle, You 'Ku - 23

waters of spring

finding the brooch

my mom used to wear

I Doodle, You 'Ku - 24

summer breeze

pulling his gaze from her

dandelion tattoo

I Doodle, You 'Ku - 25

checkmate—

surrendering to

a choir of birds

I Doodle, You 'Ku - 26

immigration papers

the tulip opens

once again

I Doodle, You 'Ku - No Doodle Day

blank page...

one by one

the stars whisper

I Doodle, You 'Ku - 27

snail mail

he reads my mind

across the room

I Doodle, You 'Ku - 28

hocus pocus...

under the stars

we need no magic

I Doodle, You 'Ku - 29

crimson sky

the click of his lighter

after making love

I Doodle, You 'Ku - 30

karaoke music

not a single star

stands out tonight


I Doodle, You 'Ku - 31

spring dream...

a fox hesitates

to leave a butterfly