12TH Yamadera Basho Museum English Haiku Contest

I'm pleased to find out that these two haiku below were among the 186 selected haiku out of 308 submissions in the 12th Yamadera Basho Museum English Haiku Contest. 

25 Rhyming Kyoka

Delighted to be included here - 25 Rhyming Kyoka edited by Michael H. Lester. Thank you so much, Michael, for selecting my poem :-) Congratulations to everyone! 

Enjoy the all the rhyming kyoka.

Tanka Poets on Site (July 7 prompt)

a handsome stranger
give me another look . . .
I seal my lips
on a heart pendant
with my husband's ashes



prompt: kiss
See comments here. 

Haiku Sharing on Prose Posies

     This December, Cara Holman is inviting us to share our own haiku every day on her blog, Prose Posies. It may be published or unpublished as long as it is related in any way to her haiku post.

     For her first post, this is what she shared:

a stranger in the crowd

that looks like you

blue mist

(Shiki Kigo Kukai, November 2012)

     My response:

blossoms in her hand

he smiles without knowing

her name

Sketchbook (January/February 29, 2012: Vol. 7, No.1)

     My haiku doesn't convey any longing or loneliness like hers, but it also talks about a stranger. The two haiku matches somehow. Just like Cara said, it's like playing the card game of Crazy Eights. So easy and fun, isn't it? Go ahead and read all the haiku responses for the first post here. I'm sure you wouldn't want to miss it.