World Haiku Series2022 (94) Haiku by Priscilla Lignori (USA)

Haiku by Priscilla Lignori

heading home at dusk

just before the stars are born

a great blue heron

76th Basho Memorial Haiku Contest 2022

Honorable Mention 

The stone fire pit—

a daddy long legs walks on

yesterday’s ashes 

The Mainichi 

August 29, 2022

Sudden reminder — 

of the beauty in this world 

the green hummingbird

Kyoto x Haiku Project 

Haiku of the World 2022

Scent of wet lilacs 

accompanies me back home 

from the burial

World Haiku 2022

Dandelion clocks.

the children run with the wind 

scattering wishes 

Ko Magazine 

Spring-Summer 2021

Taking the trash out

the evening suddenly fills 

with calls from barred owls 

Eastern Structures No. 21

April 2022

On the autumn leaves 

the invisible footsteps 

of the autumn rain 

Ko Magazine 

Autumn-Winter 2022

Christmas apple pie—

I stretch the dough enough to

fit everyone’s dreams

World Haiku Review 

Winter 2021/2022 

Unpublished Haiku 

The gold autumn leaves —

captive in the reflections 

floating on the lake

Winter’s on its way—

the white-throated sparrow’s song 

is still lighthearted 

BIO 

Priscilla Lignori is a haiku poet and a psychotherapist in private practice. She is the recipient of numerous international awards for haiku poetry including the 2013 Basho Memorial English Haiku Contest, the 2018 Akita International University President’s Award of the 6th Japan-Russia Haiku Contest, and the 2016, 2018 and 2019 Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi Memorial Haiku Contest. The founder of Hudson Valley Haiku-kai, a haiku group that meets monthly to share and discuss their haiku, she has published one book of haiku poetry, Beak Open, Feet Relaxed: 108 Haiku.