This is my haiga (alcohol ink art painting and haiku) published for the Holy Week special on Susan Furst's Beautiful Defect. https://www.beautifuldefect.com/.../behold-volume-32-holy...
Showing posts with label rain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rain. Show all posts
Sunday, March 28, 2021
Sunday, December 27, 2020
Fujisan Tanka Contest
What a way to end the year! My tanka received honorable mention in the Fujisan Tanka Contest. Congratulations to all the winners!
Click this link to see all the winning haiku.
Monday, November 9, 2020
hedgerow a journal of small issue (Issue 132)
first rain
my pulse etching
a sunbeam
did it start
with a smile?
this opposite end of silence
*Found poetry culled from pages 33 and 67 of Raindrops Chasing Raindrops by Paresh Tiwari
Christine L. Villa
geese flying
across the full moon
this moment
when dreaming of you
takes me home
Christine L. Villa
Monday, July 13, 2020
Sonic Boom's Sixth Annual Senryu Contest
I'm so happy that I was given this opportunity to judge the Sixth Annual Senryu Contest of Sonic Boom . It was a pleasure picking out the winners and writing my commentaries for each poem.
I took screenshots of the results because I know one day only the list of winners will be posted. I'd like to keep a photo of my commentaries. If you would like to read them, here they are below. Right now, you can still view the whole thing by clicking here.
I took screenshots of the results because I know one day only the list of winners will be posted. I'd like to keep a photo of my commentaries. If you would like to read them, here they are below. Right now, you can still view the whole thing by clicking here.
Thursday, October 5, 2017
2nd Annual Haiku for Change Event 2017
My contribution to My Haiku Pond's, 2nd Annual Haiku for Change Event 2017.
Congratulations to all participants!
The results of the My Haiku Pond - 2nd Annual Haiku for Change Event 2017 are now available on the 100,000 Poets for Change website and available for download here.
The results of the My Haiku Pond - 2nd Annual Haiku for Change Event 2017 are now available on the 100,000 Poets for Change website and available for download here.
Saturday, April 2, 2016
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Atoms of Haiku
14 of my haiku are appearing in this collection. Thank you to the AU team!
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milkweed seeds . . .
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a tinge of pink
on a widow's cheeks . . .
cherry blossom buds
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silence between us
braiding the moonlight . . .
last evening walk
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winter wind
I tighten my scarf
with his memory
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the whip
of the winter chill—
recurrent cancer
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winter gales
the first few nights
without him
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butterscotch sun
his voice slides into
my bedroom door
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summer afternoon
I let the clouds weave me
another dream
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spring rain
a cypress tree
begins to twinkle
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winter night
a howling dog
brings out the moon
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summer night
warming his hands
on the piano keys
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mimosa blooms
butterfly wings draped
with fragrance
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milkweed seeds . . .
how the wind catches
me and my dreams
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wine moon . . .
drowning myself
with lies
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broken pot
what marigolds
in full bloom
Atoms of Haiku may be purchased on Amazon. Another book to add to my Wish List.
http://www.amazon.com/Atoms-Haiku-Collection-Author-United/dp/1511831022
Atoms of Haiku may be purchased on Amazon. Another book to add to my Wish List.
http://www.amazon.com/Atoms-Haiku-Collection-Author-United/dp/1511831022
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
World Haiku Association (106th Haiga Contest)
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(106th Haiga Contest, Feb. 2013)
Previously posted on my blog in July 14, 2012
Written for Haiku Heights #153
Prompt: First
Shared with Haiku My Heart
Friday, February 1, 2013
He Doodles, You 'Ku - Day 30
another birthday
waiting for the rain
to stop
he counts the cars
till he sees dad's
See doodle here.
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Mijikai Haiku
I fall
to pieces . . .
rain puddles
One of my four haiku in The Best of Mijikai Haiku 2012.
Purchase the book here.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Mountain Stream
mountain stream
the tinkling sound
of a rain chain
of a rain chain
October 7 NaHaiWriMo prompt: gutter
Prompter: Scott Abeles
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Time
August 26 NaHaiWriMo prompt is "time", provided by Jessica Tremblay.
after all these years
memories of you pour in. . .
cherry blossom rain
memories of you pour in. . .
cherry blossom rain
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Caribbean Kigo Kukai #37
finish line . . .
the winner kisses the ground
glistening with rain
Prompt: Olympics
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Boats
August 18 NaHaiWrimo prompt is "boats", provided by Alison Williams.
in the attic
grandpa's boat shoes
grandpa's boat shoes
Saturday, July 14, 2012
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Fox Dreams
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weeping willow
I wake up laughing
from a dream
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These haiga and haiku are my small contributions to Aubrie Cox's fox dreams on Yay Words!. It's now online so go ahead and read her delightful collection! For sure, you'll end up sharing this to everyone you know who love artwork, haiku, haiga, tanka, and rengay.
Thanks, Aubrie! I'm so blessed to be in good company. :-)
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Favorite Haiku of the Month
If you'd ask me who's my number one contemporary poet, I'd quickly say it's the multi-awarded Chen-ou Liu of Ontario, Canada. It's remarkable that English isn't his first language and yet he has managed to be a great prolific English writer. He's not only excellent in writing haiku, but also in writing other forms of Japanese poetry like tanka and haibun.
I discovered his haiku in 2010, when I shared the same issue with him in Berry Blue Haiku. I was a frustrated newbie that year, managing to write only one decent publishable haiku, but at the same time I was an eager reader, full of admiration for Chen-ou's remarkable talent.
These two captivating haiku below were among the June 2010 Haiku Picks of Berry Blue Haiku.
butterflies
wing over cherry petals—
shadows embracing
on maple leaves
glittering raindrops gather—
floating worlds
Since I had resumed writing haiku in the second half of 2011, I've been coming across Chen-ou's works. I have so many favorites, but I'm sharing some of the ones which have garnered him high praises and awards.
spicy chicken...
this impulse to ask
if she's married
Editor's Choice Senryu (Modern Haiku, 43:1 February 2012)
a deceased friend
taps me on my shoulder--
plum blossoms falling
Grand Prize Poem of the Year 2011 ( Heron's Nest)
attic window--
a few moonlit shadows
come and go
2nd Prize (The Klostar Ivanic Haiku Contest 2011)
moonlit branches . . .
glazed with autumn rain
droplets of me
Commendation (The Klostar Ivanic Haiku Contest 2011)
her face
in my whisky
the moon floats
Grand Prix (The Klostar Ivanic Haiku Contest 2010)
cherry petals
falling on cherry petals...
I dust your photo
Sakura Award (Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival 2010)
Included in my list of favorites is this unforgettable haiku sequence published in Frogpond 34:1, 2011.
A Life in Four Seasons
I write her
one poem every day
spring dewdrops
a butterfly
tattoed on her buttock
summer heat
autumn dawn
before the mirror I count
gray hairs
snow on snow
thoughts of her emerge
one at a time
Most of his published haiku are highly evocative. As Neal Whitman has said, he has "the gift of tugging at our hearts." If you like to read more of his haiku, go to Poetry in the Moment. You'll be able to see where to purchase his books. One of them is Following the Moon to the Maple Land, the first prize winner of the Spring Haiku Pix Chapbook 2011. On the cover of his chapbook is a photo that I had taken. Can you imagine how thrilled I was when the editor of Haiku Pix requested my photo for Chen-ou's chapbook?
For some unexplainable reason, I don't have a free copy of this, but thanks to Chen-ou because pretty soon I'll be getting my own copy. I'll be reading on my couch, following the moon to the maple land.
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