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
the scent of early hay –
my mind occupied
by bobolinks
#DailyHaikuPrompt | cut grass
#SmallPoems
#Rural
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
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early summer –
cliff swallows
cruise the river
#DailyHaikuPrompt | swallow
#SmallPoems
the last brook riffles
before the lake —
my mother’s remaining life
#DailyHaikuPrompt | waterfall
#SmallPoems
weasel
in the chicken coop –
a crack in everything
#DailyHaikuPrompt | weasel
#SmallPoems
once
I saw
snowflakes
stacked
five
deep
on a
twig
under an eagle screech
the soft red
of willows
#DailyHaikuPrompt | buds
#SmallPoems
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
grass tuffs
to the plum thicket –
song sparrow
#DailyHaikuPrompt | plum
#SmallPoems
a hastily called
press conference –
her maudlin career
#DailyHaikuPrompt | maudlin
#SmallPoems
morning fog –
the flicker of
goldfinches
#DailyHaikuPrompt | yellow
#SmallPoems
the high desert quivers
with flowers –
spring rain
#DailyHaikuPrompt | refreshing
#SmallPoems
four inch hail
hurled from the clouds –
April showers
#DailyHaikuPrompt | clouds
#SmallPoems
a teetering season –
next catkins and blackbirds
tumble into the wetlands
#DailyHaikuPrompt | catkins
#SmallPoems
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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