2022 Haiku Contest – The Winners!
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Dreamers Haiku Contest! Thanks to our guest judge, Reinekke Lengelle. Read the winning haiku…
Poems
an unknown package
it’s all garbage anyways that will just end up twirling around inside the Texas sized trash ball.
Kimberly Foulger Poetry Collection
I watch the door, I watch the window. And flinch at every noise. Dream every nightmare.
Nan Williamson Poetry Collection
Pandemic poverty more floods and fires and here and there a Machiavelli who can smile and smile and be a villain.
What is a Haiku? Tiny Poem, Big Meaning…
A haiku is a very brief Japanese poem of 17 total syllables in three lines. Line one is 5 syllables, line two is 7 syllables, and line three is 5 syllables.
Opera
She gave her life to art while her lover was tortured in the wing. My father would stare at the long avenues ahead.
0200 December 1st
where the humanity around me dissolves into bodies and the humanity within me dissolves into mind.
The Therapist Blues
Will my life be analyzed through a feminist lens? It sure as hell would be boring if you approached it biographically.
Last Night I Dreamt
The basement flooded and I watched the water fill the house to the rim. My books were ruined and I began to write my own.