Over the moon to know that Random Blue Sparks has received 3rd Place honours in the 2024 Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards! My thanks to the judges, Scott Mason and Patricia J. Machmiller💐🥳. #haiku #nature #NatureWriting #NatureWritingByWomen

Happy Canada Day! So proud to live in this extraordinary country🇨🇦🥰. #CanadaDay2025 #hockey

So happy to receive this wonderful review of my new haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks. My thanks to Tim Dwyer and Gilles Fabre, editor of Seashores Journal. 🥳💐💞. #haiku #nature

Thrilled to have this #collage selected for Sonic Boom’s 2025 Vispo Gallery! My thanks to @shloks89 for the honour.💐💞. Please check out all the amazing work here:. #migration #FoundPoem #vispo

Grateful for this lovely review of my #haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks, by Graham Bates, editor of Kokako!💐. #nature #micropoetry #poetry #CanadianPoet

Thanks so much for this honour, Tim! Good luck to all💐🥳🥰.

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Autumn Moon #haiku Journal 8.2 spr/sum ‘25 - TY Astrid & Kristen💐. we emerge.from hibernation.aspen catkins. fox den.a white feather pinned.to the grass. #hibernation #spring #catkin #fox #feather #nature.

sunlight fills.cracks in the darkness.of sorrow.we spend our lifetimes.waiting to be whole. #tanka #sorrow #loss #grief #healing.

#tanka in issues 2, 3 & 4 of The Art of Tanka - TY Pamela💐. the fragrance.of hyacinth fills.my senses.there is no room.for sorrow today. my apron full.of grandmother’s sage.the blue scent.of prairie horizons.after longed-for rain. #hyacinth #sorrow #sage #prairie #grandmother.

#haiku in spr/sum ‘24 Akitsu Quarterly - TY Robin💐. fledged robin.a discarded kettle.lined with mud. air traffic.an oodle of gannets.churns up the sky. beaver dam.salmon seek refuge.from the drought. #robin #fledgling #gannet #BeaverDam #salmon #nature.

#haiku in Akitsu Quarterly fall/win ‘24 & spr/sum ‘25 - TY Robin💐. to-do list.a chameleon catches.its 100th fly. beach fair.a palmist reads.the waterline. flooded field.a scurry of dunlins.harvesting worms. gorilla hail.another crop pounded.to dust. #hail #farm #beach #chameleon.

Grateful to Richard Grahn for including my #haiga in the wonderful Abstractaphy Initiative 2025💐. eco-tourism - Failed Haiku 4.39.reconciliation - Halibut 2019.a derecho - @PruneJuiceMag (cover issue 38).ghost gun - Human/Kind 2020. #EcoTourism #reconciliation #derecho #GhostGun

Grateful to @AKITAHAIKU for translating selections from my haiku chapbook, A Year Unfolding (Folded Word, 2017) into Japanese💐. muddy jeans.the pasture speckled.with crocuses. wind gusts.a rotten burl full.of wild plums. #haiku #pasture #crocus #plums .

#haiku in Acorn Number 54, Spring 2025 - TY @AcornHaiku 💐. hurricane lantern.we drop anchor.between planets. #sea #planets #hurricane #lantern.

Hope you’ve all been keeping well. I’ve been missing in action for the last while due to some challenging times, but I’m here now (with the help of my reading assistant) to add lots of lovely acceptances to this archive! I think I’ve managed to catch up with most of you on IG….

A community note for the writers & poets out there. An account posting as Winnipeg author, Katherena Vermette, is fake. Katherena has informed me that the account @VermetteAuthor is impersonating her. Please block & report this as spam!. #Winnipeg #author #KatherenaVermette.

Beyond honoured to be included in Sonic Boom’s World Collage Day ebook! My thanks to @shloks89 & Robin💐 Please check out all the lovely work here:. #collage #garden

Thanks so much for including me in this amazing issue, Tim!💐. #haiku #senryu

TY so much for your patience while I recover from a chronic illness flare. I hope to be back soon. In the meantime, here is a lovely review of my new #haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks, by the editor of Kokako (a journal in New Zealand), Graham Bates:.