2020 Haiku Contest Results
Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 Dreamers Haiku Contest!
Once again, hundreds of haiku were submitted to this year’s contest. This is a hard contest to judge as there are so many great haiku poets out there! Ultimately, we chose a 1st place winner, a 2nd place winner, and 5 honourable mentions.
Thank you once again to guest judge, Dr. Reinekke Lengelle, Symposium Co-Editor for the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling and Assistant Professor at Athabasca University.
1st Place:
Haiku in the Time of Pandemic
by Hernani Francisco de Leon
April in High Park
Pink petals from Sakura
Fall through empty hands
2nd Place:
Zambezi
by Diana Woodcock
on the Zambezi
I float dragonfly-easy
Laze like crocodile
Honorable Mentions
A Begging Heart
by Roumiana Karapetrova
You drop a coin
In my beggar heart bowl
It sings for one brief moment.
A Thicket
by Crystal Bowden
If I painted you
it would be in long strokes,
sweeping tones of earth.
Dementia
by Barrie Levine
Memory skips and skims
Needle on a scratched LP
Jumping the deep grooves.
Haiku On The Moon
by Michael Baldwin
The fat yellow moon
fell into the lake tonight
But made not a splash
November morning
by Christine Hanolsy
Dawn is a grey cat.
Watch: even the frost-lined leaves
Barely make a stir.
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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