a fiddlehead weaves
and waves –
jigs then reels
#DailyHaikuPrompt | fiddlehead
#SmallPoems
smallpoems
about softness –
this moonlight through the
swelling maple buds
#DailyHaikuPrompt | moon
#SmallPoems
early March –
some lightning
with that snow
#DailyHaikuPrompt | lightning
#SmallPoems
porcupine –
my dog and a lesson
about space
#DailyHaikuPrompt | quill
#SmallPoems
blizzard warning –
the neighbor’s tractor trades
a plow for a plow
#DailyHaikuPrompt | plow
#SmallPoems
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 175d ago
once
I saw
snowflakes
stacked
five
deep
on a
twig
under an eagle screech
the soft red
of willows
#DailyHaikuPrompt | buds
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yesterday
the oaks’ east then
their west sides yellow
#DailyHaikuPrompt | yellow
#SmallPoems
buried in mud –
the squeaks of
spring peepers
#DailyHaikuPrompt | frog
#SmallPoems
false tranquility of distance –
the powerful always farthest
from the suffering
#DailyHaikuPrompt | tranquil
#SmallPoems
a teetering season –
next catkins and blackbirds
tumble into the wetlands
#DailyHaikuPrompt | catkins
#SmallPoems
Edited 8d ago
sweater weather –
skeins of geese ply
the March sky
#DailyHaikuPrompt | geese
#SmallPoems
in the backwater –
upturned buckets
filled with ice fishermen
#DailyHaikuPrompt | salmon (usually walleye)
#SmallPoems
last sip of coffee –
temporary
nirvana
#DailyHaikuPrompt | nirvana
#SmallPoems
#coffee
early March inside the
cardinal’s song –
new moon
#DailyHaikuPrompt | new moon
#SmallPoems
the dunes at Au Sable –
a landscape
remembers
#DailyHaikuPrompt | sable
#SmallPoems
a shiv-wind
finds my parka seams –
another January thaw ends
#DailyHaikuPrompt | thaw
#SmallPoems
Edited 60d ago
even through the sweetness
of cold melon –
this relentless rage
#DailyHaikuPrompt | cold/melon
#SmallPoems
ground blizzard –
sparrows hunker
in the lee of the tree
#DailyHaikuPrompt | sparrow
#SmallPoems
blizzard warning –
a cow herd disappears
in the snow
#DailyHaikuPrompt | blizzard
#SmallPoems
in the meadow
drifted snow and the memory
of sedge wrens
#DailyHaikuPrompt | meadow
#SmallPoems
roasting the last winter squash
.
crickets and a gentle
evening rain
#DailyHaikuPrompt | evening rain
#SmallPoems
an Iowa landscape –
mountains out of
molehills
#DailyHaikuPrompt | mountain
#SmallPoems
#Iowa
a glimmer inside
the indigo sky –
distant hope
#DailyHaikuPrompt | glimmer
#SmallPoems