morning coffee –
fresh snow on the
Abajo Mountains
#DailyHaikuPrompt | mountain
#SmallPoems
smallpoems
Scorpius caught
in the oak branches –
winter evening
#DailyHaikuPrompt | clear air
#SmallPoems
arriving early --
before the blizzard
a bluebird on the fence
#DailyHaikuPrompt | robin (bluebird)
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each day the walk
in the woods with the dogs –
a self-seeding poem
#DailyHaikuPrompt | seed
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mist over the creek
a cold morning follows
the snow
#DailyHaikuPrompt | mist
#SmallPoems
at the fence line
deep snow drifts –
no place for the blackbirds to rest
#DailyHaikuPrompt | blackbird
#SmallPoems
this morning
the stillness of
a violet sky
#DailyHaikuPrompt | violet
#SmallPoems
#Rural
waking to the wildness
of coyotes
waning crescent moon
#DailyHaikuPrompt | moon
#SmallPoems
enough to know
a roadside where
wild roses bloom
#DailyHaikuPrompt | wild rose
#SmallPoems
early March inside the
cardinal’s song –
new moon
#DailyHaikuPrompt | new moon
#SmallPoems
last sip of coffee –
temporary
nirvana
#DailyHaikuPrompt | nirvana
#SmallPoems
#coffee
Okay, so it is official now. My poem 'Kiss' won fourth prize, and my poem 'Soap' won a Judge's choice award in the Ontario Poetry Society Ultrashort poetry competition. Very happy with this.
Max 8 lines of max 8 words each.
A book of the winning poems will soon be available here.
https://theontariopoetrysociety.ca/Ultra-Short-Poem-Competition-2025-Winners-List.html
Edited 360d ago
about softness –
this moonlight through the
swelling maple buds
#DailyHaikuPrompt | moon
#SmallPoems
a fiddlehead weaves
and waves –
jigs then reels
#DailyHaikuPrompt | fiddlehead
#SmallPoems
early March –
some lightning
with that snow
#DailyHaikuPrompt | lightning
#SmallPoems
porcupine –
my dog and a lesson
about space
#DailyHaikuPrompt | quill
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our entangled lives
wild grapes
#DailyHaikuPrompt | grapes
#SmallPoems
three crows kvetch
about an owl –
morning fog in the valley
#DailyHaikuPrompt | morning cloud
#SmallPoems
three centuries –
grooves sanded in the
cemetery stile
#DailyHaikuPrompt | sand
#SmallPoems
on a corner of the Milky Way
the local owls ask
existential questions
#DailyHaikuPrompt | milky way
#SmallPoems
early spring lantern
.
the brightness of
cardinals
#DailyHaikuPrompt | spring lantern
#SmallPoems
porch light
the crickets
pause
#DailyHaikuPrompt | lamplight (porch light)
#SmallPoems
high in the tree
a red bellied woodpecker
inspects the shriveled apples
#DailyHaikuPrompt | high
#SmallPoems
morning glories and meadowlarks –
stories my father told
of his boyhood farm
#DailyHaikuPrompt | morning glories
#SmallPoems
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