A few I penned myself:
Woodlot at dawn.
As the chainsaw starts up,
the whip-poor-will stops.
Beaches spoiled.
Nesting on the gravel roof,
terns.
Skunk on the roadside,
please have the good sense
not to cross now.
Old garage --
on the moss-covered roof,
a maple seedling.
Bulldozer
pushing mountains of garbage.
Swirling gulls.
Flight over the forest,
a checkerboard below,
green losing.
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Gyrfalcon,
returning to the arctic,
rests atop a skyscraper. *
In that ugly ditch
over by the railway tracks,
nine kinds of wildflowers.
* Honourable Mention in Itoen-Shin (Green Tea) Haiku Contest.
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| Date |
Anthology |
Publisher, Editor, Poems Included |
| 1991 |
Silenced Spring: Haiku Canada Member's Anthology |
Haiku Canada, Brian Birch, The orange monarch/on wings of paper/Off to Mexico |
| 1992 |
15th Anniversary Haiku Canada Holographic Anthology |
Haiku Canada, Marco Fraticelli, A single acacia/sheltered in the arms of a dune/faces extinction |
| 1996 |
Jiyu-Katari (Free-Talking) - compilation of 7th Ito En "Oh-I, Ocha!" New Haiku Contest |
Ito En (Green Tea), gyrfalcon/returning to the arctic/rests atop a skyscraper (Courage Award) |
| 1997 |
20th Anniversary Haiku Canada Holographic Anthology |
Haiku Canada, Woodlot at dawn/As the chainsaw starts up/the whip-poor-will stops |
| 2002 |
dry waterfall - Kado Spring Anthology |
Kado Ottawa, Terry Ann Carter, Through bare limbs/large snowflakes falling./Silence. |
| 2004 |
Scent of Seaweed - Kado Spring Anthology |
Kado Ottawa, Grant Savage, stubble fields/flooded by melt water/and northbound geese |
| 2005 |
Past the Stars - Kado Spring Anthology |
Kado Ottawa; Terry Ann Carter, Claudia Radmore & Grant Savage; first warm day/overwintering butterfly/alights on a snow patch |
| 2006 |
Invisible Tea (for Marianne Bluger) - Kado Ottawa |
Kado Ottawa (Bondi Studios), Terry Ann Carter, Claudia Radmore & Grant Savage, Stubble fields/flooded by melt water/and northbound geese |
| 2006 |
Fire Pearls: Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart |
Seamark, M. Kei, First day back/after the funeral/reaching for the phone to call home/as I have each lunchtime/for fifteen years |
| 2007 |
30th Anniversary Haiku Canada Holographic Anthology |
Haiku Canada, Silent white owl/blinks as the first flake/hits his beak |
| 2007 |
Canadian Listers’ Corner |
Rolling Clouds Editions, Larry Neily, Silent white owl/blinks as the first flake/hits his beak & Bulldozer/pushing mountains of garbage/Swirling gulls & Gyrfalcon/returning to the arctic/rests atop a skyscraper |
| 2007 |
? - Kado 2007 Spring Anthology |
Kado Ottawa (Bondi Studios), ?, already blooming/as winter melts away from them/snowdrops |
| 2011 |
From Lime Trees to Eucalupts: Botanical Tanka |
Atlas Poetica, Angela Leuck, reading on a tombstone/about an ancestor/crossing with the pilgrims—/at my feet among olive-tinted leaves/scented mayflowers
Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia - Epigaea repens - The Mayflower or Trailing Arbutus is the provincial flower of Nova Scotia |
| 2011 |
Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume Four |
Keibooks, M. Kei, reading on a tombstone/about an ancestor/crossing with the pilgrims—/at my feet among olive-tinted leaves/scented mayflowers |