A pleasant surprise! I just found out that one of the haiku I submitted for the annual contest of the Haiku International Association has received an 'honorable mention'. 😃
One of those 'WOW!' moments. One of my haiku has just been published in the Autumn 2023 edition of 'The Wales Haiku Journal'. (cf p 53). The whole magazine can be read and downloaded for free via this link: 👇🏽
Until 7th November, The Pan Haiku Review welcomes submissions of 3-line-haiku with a kigo (season word). Two haiku each, one published, one unpublished. Full details:👇🏽
The haikuNetra Journal is a new online haiku magazine founded and edited by haikuist Daipayan Nair from India. The level of the poems in issues 1 and 2 is really impressive. Welcomes submissions ongoing.
The Had Matter
looked on uffishly
as photons and
gluons danced
around tea time.
“We want matter!”
they screamed in
frenetic frenzy.
“We want to matter!”
“Both are important,
but you can’t be both,”
Had Matter said.
That is how photons
and gluons
lack matter,
but always will.
I'm very pleased that my entry for the monthly kukai of The Haiku Foundation with the theme 'wheat' received an honourable mention. You can read the full results and this month's theme: 👇🏽
To anyone who's interested in reading a collection of great haiku: 'The Auroras & Blossoms Haiku Anthology: Volume 1', featuring five of my haiku, can be purchased as an e-book for just
$ 1,99 until 1 August.
Square Peg (recently
of Round Hole)
bites everyone’s legs
at LexiCon Shack,
where a “the” and the “a”
sign art in the back.
The lines run-on
on adverbial tracks
in panel discussions,
where everyone’s
rushing for a
girl from Flushing
with free Oxford
commas in a
sack.