2019 Haiku Contest Results
Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 Dreamers Haiku Contest!
Small. Mighty.
We had over 600 haiku submitted to this contest. The number and quality of the entries made choosing the winner and honorable mentions very difficult, but we’re so pleased with the results. We hope you are too!
A special thank you to guest judge, Dr. Reinekke Lengelle, Symposium Co-Editor for the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, Assistant Professor at Athabasca University, and of course, Poet and Writer.
Winner:
Merrily Down the Stream
by Michelle T. Simon
overnight downpour
flash stream in the arroyo
happy ducks paddling
Honorable Mentions
empath
by Kelly Aiello
i am an ant
carrying the weight of a collapsed star
that doesn’t belong to me
Found
by Kathryn Comber
Found: thoughts of you and
fragments of her smashed guitar
swept under the rug.
Bonsai
by Robert Keeler
Haughty trimmed bonsai
Cut snip cut snip contemplate
Yikes time to pay rent
Why Dream
by gil olson
why dream ahead
when the fledgling maple leaves
beg our attention (now)
Hummingbird
by James Presley
Hummingbird hovers
At my window, lifted by its constant mantra—
A hosanna asking to be shared
Tea Haiku
by Renate Heru Utomo
vapours of rose tea
filling the garden
of our past
To read more haiku, check out last year’s winners!
Read more poems, like:
Dream Upon Dream
The Worst Drunk Poem I’ve Ever Written
Writing Myself Alive: An Episodic Poem
Maybe a Mango, Recovery, Yearly Physical
“In Her Garden” and “Fresh News”
This Is What Death Does
Rainlight, No Last Words
The Space I Take
The damsel in distress was not for me…
before whisky after jazz
Things I’ve Learned on the Road
We grew up on fear and became heroes…
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