Haiku, Tanka, and Haiga by Debbie Strange

1)

sakura

we learn the lesson

of resilience

Honourable Mention, Sakura Award (Canada)

2022 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational

2)

herring shoals

the ocean turns itself

inside out

2nd Place, Shintai Haiku

World Haiku Review, Winter 2021-2022

3)

prairie blizzard

squirrels take the shape

of their tails

Zatsuei Haiku of Merit, Neo-Classical Haiku World Haiku Review, Winter 2021-2022

4)

estuary light

the treble clefs

of flamingos

2nd Place

2022 Third Maya Lyubenova International Haiku Contest

5)

awaiting

rain’s unkept promise

crops wither

in the dust of dreams

passed down to me

1st Place

2022 Drifting Sands Monuments Number 1 Contest

6)

dried cattails

delicately spun with frost

confections

sweetening the bitterness

of winter without you

2nd Place

2022 Fleeting Words Tanka Contest

7)

stubbled fields

the remains of something

I cannot name

Editor’s Choice

Haiga in Focus, Number 52, 2022

8)

busker’s…