Fireflies' Light, Issue 23

First time in Fireflies' LIght! I have a bunch of haiku, senryu, tanka, cherita, and haiga included in the current issue. These are my haiga created by playing with alcohol ink, gel prints, and doodlng. If you want to read the full issue, here it is. Missouri Baptist University (mobap.edu)

New Haiku Grand Prix (Ito En) North America

Just found out yesterday that my haiku made it to the semi-finals. So honored! Click here to see the other 6 finalists last February 2020.

Brass Bell: A Haiku Journal (March 2017 Issue)

     Want to start your month right? Check out the beautiful March issue of brass bell: a haiku journal by Zee Zahava. It is dedicated to poetry, written by and about women from 16 different countries. So honored to be among friends and other amazing poets. View all the poems on Zee's blog here.

World Haiku Association (136th Haiga Contest)

 

 

World Haiku Association 

(136th Haiga Contest, November 2015)

 

World Haiku Association (131st Haiga Contest)

World Haiku Association 

(131th Haiga Contest, June 2015)

 

NaHaiWriMo (January 2015 prompts)

 

a piece of sky

mirroring myself . . .

spring pond

 

 

January 1 prompt: mirror

See comments here.

 

marmalade sky  . .

just knowing I'll see you

one day

 

 

January 2 prompt: marmalade

See comments here.

 

that feeling of knowing

you were already gone . . .

murmur of stars

 

 

January 3 prompt: murmur

See comments here.

 

a squirrel nibbles

the afternoon silence . . .

autumn song

 

 

January 4 prompt: morsel

See comments here.

 

purple magnolia . . .

I plunge into the deep

colors of sunset

 

 

January 6 prompt: magnolia

See comments here.

 

star magnolias

even on a moonless night . . .

dreaming again

 

 

January 7 prompt: mask

See comments here.

 

silent war ends . . .

her jar of mango jam

on my welcome mat

 

 

January 9 prompt: mango

See comments here.

 

first date

she hands him

a peppermint candy

 

 

January 14 prompt: mint

See comments here.

 

a firefly blinking

through the fountain mist . . .

memories of you

 

 

January 15 prompt: mist

See comments here.

 

autumn night . . .

a photo frame on her mantel

still empty

 

 

January 16  prompt: mantel

See comments here.

 

Tanka Poets on Site (April 15 prompt)

gasping each time

I see a beautiful sunset

he dreams

of sharing with me

my first sunrise

prompt: never done before

See comments here. 

NaHaiWriMo #12-16 Prompt

     I guess posting every day has still been a struggle for me. To make up for it, I'm posting all my haiku for NaHaiWriMo prompts last month. 

 

for two quarters

I took home a busker's song . . .
jazz moon

Feb. 16 prompt: busker

See comments here.

tire patch

he tries to pretend

nothing's wrong

Feb. 15 prompt: tire

See comments here. 

mountain sunset . . .
the clouds reaarrange 

my destiny 

Feb. 14 prompt: betrayal

See comments here. 

missing bookend--

my life falls apart

without you

Feb.13 prompt: bookend

See comments here.

brittle bough--

I break in two

without warning

Feb. 12 prompt: bough

See comments here. 

Tanka Poets on Site (February 3 prompt)

why wait for
my last sunset
I breathe in
all the colors
of the day


prompt: sunset
See comments here.

Kathy Uyen Nguyen wrote a response for my tanka.

all the day's colors
you gave me
with your breath--
it is now that I understood
the song of beginnings

Swimming in Lines of Haiku (I Quote, You 'Ku)

I tried my best to participate so here are a few tanka for Kirsten Cliff's quote for the day.


plucking a petal
from a budding rose . . .
I cannot help
wanting him more
too early


http://kirstencliffwrites.blogspot.com/2013/07/i-quote-you-ku-2.html

a bluejay drinks again
from an empty birdbath...
I open your closet
one more time to make sure
I remember missing you


http://kirstencliffwrites.blogspot.com/2013/07/i-quote-you-ku-day-3.html

all the beads
we used to string together
for someone else . . .
every minutes counts
in the shades of sunset


http://kirstencliffwrites.blogspot.com/2013/07/i-quote-you-ku-day-5.html

dishes still

piled up in the sink . . .

I now have

more time in my hands

to miss you

http://kirstencliffwrites.blogspot.com/2013/07/i-quote-you-ku-day-9.html?showComment=1374746184129#c4020157981485287479

after brain surgery
will he remember
how much he loves me . . .
the first thing he asks for
are ice chips


http://kirstencliffwrites.blogspot.com/2013/07/i-quote-you-ku-day-23.html?showComment=1374747524334#c5714681737075415665

revised:

after brain surgery
the first thing he asks for
is ice chips . . .
will he remember
how much he loves me

He Doodles, You 'Ku - Day 22

winter sunset . . .

I ask myself

again and again

who will take care of me

when I grow old

See doodle here.

 

Crossing the Bar

crossing the bar

the darker shade

of autumn sunset

 





#27 prompt: Honkadori-esque haiku - allusion to an older,

easily recognizable poem, book or song.

See Nahaiwrimo comments here.

*See Crossing the Bar by Alfred Tennyson here.

 

Sunset Glow

 

     This is my own haiku for the photo I posted on the 2nd Haiku My Photo Challenge last August 2012. Among the twenty-four entries from 10 different countries, Rick Daddario's haiku won first place. The full details of this peer reviewed contest are here.

     Alegria Albano Imperial just recently tweaked her own response, which I agreed to put in this photo. Check out jornales for the haiga, and while you're there, take the time to read all her wonderful poetry and prose. 

Strawberry Sunset

A Hundred Gourds (1:4 September 2012)

The 2nd Haiku My Photo Challenge

Dear haiku friends,

Yes, the Haiku My Photo Challenge is back! This time I’m experimenting on another set of rules. Instead of having a judge to select the winning haiku, why don’t we try a kukai-like (peer reviewed) haiga contest?  

Here’s how it goes:

1. Submit one haiku for this photo. Haiku must be your original work and may not be published anywhere, including online or in print.

     Example:

  the sunset glow

  still warm in our eyes

  blueberry kisses

  

Christine L. Villa

  

2. Email your haiku to chrissivilla@hotmail.com. Please type "2nd HMPC - haiku" as the subject line.

    Sign your entry and include your country of residence.

3. Deadline for sending your entries is August 31, 2012.

4. All participants are going to receive an invitation to vote with a list of all the entries. The list is numbered without the author's name.

    Please vote as shown in this example.

    Haiku #12 -- 1 pt. 

    Haiku #20 -- 2 pts.

    Haiku #51 -- 3 pts.

    Each voter has a total of SIX (6) points to distribute. It can be in increments of 1, 2, or 3.

    Reminders: Please don’t vote for your own haiku and don’t forget to sign your votes.

    You may leave comments while voting, but don’t exceed three lines. When published, the comments and votes will be given anonymous listings.

5. Email your votes to the same email address. Please type "2nd HMPC vote" as your subject line.

6. Deadline for sending votes is on September 10, 2012.

7. Results will be posted here on Blossom Rain no later than September 20, 2012.

    

8. All haiku entries will be posted with the author’s name. Votes will appear as follows:

Ex. 0, 5, 4 = 14

This means that no voter gave three points, 5 voters gave two points, and 4 voters gave 1 point. Total votes is equivalent to 14 points. 

   

9. Prizes: Since it is going to be our wedding anniversary on the 3rd of September and I’m in festive mood to celebrate all the blessings we’ve had in our marriage, I’m giving away a dozen postcards to the first prize winner. For the 2nd and third placer, I’m giving away six postcards each.

    Here are a few samples of my postcards, created using my own photos. 

10. Enjoy the challenge!

Chrissi

Marshmallow Sunset

 

 

Haigaonline (Volume 13 Issue 1, June 2012)

This may be viewed under "contemporary haiga."

 

First Appearance in Prune Juice

Prune Juice (Issue 8: Spring 2012)

World Haiku Association (96th Haiga Contest)

                                                    

World Haiku Association 
(96th Haiga Contest, Jan. 2012)

     I'm so fortunate that there's another photographer in the family, a much better one than me. My brother was generous enough to give me a copy of this breathtaking photo. As soon as I saw it published in WHA, I was eager to post it on Facebook and share it to him. I'm sure he's as ecstatic as I am and that he's also looking forward to seeing more of our works in the near future.    

     Manila bay, a natural port found in the Philippines, is famous for its boardwalk where you can view one of the most awe-inspiring sunsets in the world.   

     Kuniharu Shimizu's comment: "Photograph with mood and goes well with haiku."                                                                       

Pink Clouds

Haiku Pix Review (Fall issue 2011)

     This is actually my first attempt to poem an image. I love sunsets so I picked two from my photo collection and gave it a try. I'm glad I did because it made me more enthusiastic to keep on submitting. The editor accepted two of my haiga in August 2011, one for print and the other one for online. This is the one chosen for the print edition. If you want a copy, you can purchase the fall issue here, which finally came out this December.

     How about the online fall issue? I guess nobody knows when it's coming out. I'm sure that I'm not the only one who's anxiously waiting for it.

Semifinalist for July 2011

    watercolor sunset

  somebody's brushstrokes

  paint my window

  ITO EN North America New Haiku Grand Prix

  Seminfinalist for the month of July 2011

Shukan New York Seikatsu newspaper

*This photo which I took one winter day was the inspiration of my haiku.