Haiku, Tanka, and Haiga by Debbie Strange
1)
sakura
we learn the lesson
of resilience
Honourable Mention, Sakura Award (Canada)
2022 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational
2)
herring shoals
the ocean turns itself
inside out
2nd Place, Shintai Haiku
World Haiku Review, Winter 2021-2022
3)
prairie blizzard
squirrels take the shape
of their tails
Zatsuei Haiku of Merit, Neo-Classical Haiku World Haiku Review, Winter 2021-2022
4)
estuary light
the treble clefs
of flamingos
2nd Place
2022 Third Maya Lyubenova International Haiku Contest
5)
awaiting
rain’s unkept promise
crops wither
in the dust of dreams
passed down to me
1st Place
2022 Drifting Sands Monuments Number 1 Contest
6)
dried cattails
delicately spun with frost
confections
sweetening the bitterness
of winter without you
2nd Place
2022 Fleeting Words Tanka Contest
7)
stubbled fields
the remains of something
I cannot name
Editor’s Choice
Haiga in Focus, Number 52, 2022
8)
busker’s hat
a child offers coins
of dried lunaria
1st Place
2022 Bloodroot Haiku Award
9)
heated debate
even the fence
is barbed
1st Place
2022 Creatrix Haiku Prize
10)
canyonlands
a meadowlark sings
me out of myself
1st Place
2022 Drifting Sands Monuments Number 1 Contest
Biography:
Debbie Strange makes small poems, music, photographs, and art in Winnipeg, the heart of the Canadian prairies.
She has a deep reverence for nature, and this is reflected in her daily creative practice.
Finding the extraordinary in the ordinary helps to distract Debbie from chronic illness, connecting her more closely to the world and to herself.
A publication and awards archive, reviews of her books, and hundreds of haiga and artworks may be accessed at: https://debbiemstrange.blogspot.com
Akita International Haiku Network 
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #2: Hidenori Hiruta of AIHN presents haiku, #haiga, and #tanka by Debbie Strange!
Thank you so much for this lovely honour, and for all the hard work you do to promote haiku around the world!