Debbie Strange
Born 1955 in Canada
Living in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Debbie Strange is a maker of poems, music, photographs, and art. She has an affinity for birds and water, and feels most at peace when exploring nature with her husband. Debbie's creative passions are her solace and salvation, connecting her more closely to the world and to herself.
website: http://www.debbiemstrange.blogspot.ca
stone cairns
a faded cap drifts
downriver
1st Place, 2015 Harold G. Henderson Haiku Contest
Frogpond, Volume 38, Number 3, Autumn, 2015
in cupped hands
the harvest moon rests
for a moment
1st Place, Bangor Haiku Group, 2015 Annual Autumn Moon Contest
rusted bucket
cherry blossoms patch
every hole
on the tundra
caging a winter sky
caribou bones
3rd Place, Second Annual “aha” Awards, 2014
cattails, May, 2014
rocky ledge
a wolf with the moon
in its mouth
3rd Place, Irish Haiku Society, 7th International Haiku Competition, 2015
ice fog
everything familiar
unfamiliar
3rd Place, Shintai Haiku Category, World Haiku Review, January, 2016
split chrysalis
all the ways we learn
to become small
Museum of Haiku Literature Award, Blithe Spirit, Volume 25, Number 4, November, 2015
Commentary in Blithe Spirit, Volume 26, Number 1, February, 2016
fog weaving
between fence posts
a coyote’s song
Hon. Mention, North Carolina Poetry Society, 2016 Griffin-Farlow Haiku Award
Pinesong ,Volume 52, Awards, 2016
the whistle
of a wood duck . . .
her last breath
curling leaves
you turn your face up
to the sun
Hon. Mention, Japan Information and Culture Center Autumn 2015 Haiku Contest
antelope
the humming of wind
in barbed wire
Hon. Mention, Lyrical Passion Poetry 2015 World Haiku Competition
out to pasture
only the wind upon
her bent back
Commendation, The Fourth Haiku Contest, Sharpening the Green Pencil, 2015
The Book of the Contest, Romanian Kukai Group, 2015
gone too soon
sakura blossoms
my old friends
Canada Sakura Award, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Invitational, 2015
stark branches
the first flowering
of snowflakes
Award of Excellence, World Haiku Association Commemorative Haiga Contest, 2015
World Haiku, Number 12, 2016
cloudless sky
a pelican’s pouch
full of light
Editors’ Choices, The Heron’s Nest, Volume XVIII, Number 2, June, 2016
on a bridle path
the scent of apple blossoms
in my horse’s mane
Hon. Mention, Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Tokutomi Haiku Contest, 2014
empty nest
on the for sale sign
mourning doves
Selected Haiku, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum 2015 English Haiku Contest
lavender
we pack her clothes
in silence
Selected Haiku, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum 2016 English Haiku Contest
sea otter . . .
the moon opens
on a stone
Acorn, Number 34, Spring, 2015
solar flares
a spill of buttercups
in the meadow
Acorn, Number 35, Fall, 2015
pussywillows
the swollen bellies
of feral cats
Acorn, Number 32, Spring, 2014
morning rain
a string of prayer beads
on each branch
Akitsu Quarterly, Spring, 2016
merlot moon
fires burn somewhere
close tonight
Asahi Haikuist Network, November, 2015
Sailing into the Moon, Haiku Canada Members’ Anthology, 2016
diurnal tides
the ebb and flow
of grief
Blithe Spirit, Volume 26, Number 1, February, 2016
gulls hunched
along the shoreline
more bad news
Blithe Spirit, Volume 26, Number 1, February, 2016
meadowlarks
grace notes that follow
me home
Blithe Spirit, Volume 26, Number 2, May, 2016
a tree frog
on the old van’s gear shift
endless rain
bottle rockets, Volume 17, Number 2, February, 2016
riding the sway-backed barn setting sun
Frogpond, Volume 37, Number 3, Autumn, 2014
frozen sheets . . .
we unpin the shape
of winter
Frogpond, Volume 37, Number 3, Autumn, 2014
tall grass prairie
the sound of summer
between our lips
Frogpond, Volume 38, Number 2, Spring/Summer, 2015
ancient lichen liver-spotted stones these hands
Haiku Canada Review, Volume 9, Number 1, February, 2015
ice jams at breakup there is nothing more to say
Haiku Canada Review, Volume 10, Number 1, February, 2016
lilac buds
no one notices
the bruises
Haiku Canada Review, Volume 10, Number 1, February, 2016
chickadee
the sound of your name
on my tongue
1st publication on DVD in Frameless Sky, Issue 1, December, 2014
2nd publication in the Haiku Canada Members’ Anthology, Comparing Tattoos, 2015
sun catcher
the flicker’s tail
a yellow fan
Kokako, Number 23, September, 2015
snowbound
every garden pot
a ptarmigan
Kokako, Number 25, September, 2016
crane silhouettes
i practice the kanji
for my name
Kokako, Number 25, September, 2016
the yink and yank
of white-breasted nuthatches
we no longer speak
Modern Haiku, Volume 46, Issue 1, Winter-Spring, 2015
autumn sunrise
a beaver’s fur glistens
with aspen dust
Modern Haiku, Volume 46, Issue 1, Winter-Spring, 2015
cabbage whites
shreds of the letter
I never sent
Modern Haiku, Volume 46, Issue 3, Autumn, 2015
the sound of rain
millions of monarchs
taking wing
paper wasp, Volume 22, Issue 2, Winter, 2016
morning chill
the dark field aglow
with pumpkins
paper wasp, Volume 22, Issue 2, Winter, 2016
above the marsh
a swarm of gnats spins
dusk into night
paper wasp, Volume 22, Issue 2, Winter, 2016
lambing season
swirls of fog become
a wolf pack
Presence, Number 55, June, 2016
coastal trail a rainbow appears in the orca’s breath
Presence, Number 55, June, 2016
rising wind
a volley of ducks explodes
from the marsh
Presence, Number 55, June, 2016
bobolinks
perched on thistle heads
the rain-streaked sky
loon chicks
on mother’s back
the weight of it all
water lily
the way you close
your hands to pray
World Haiku Association, 122nd Monthly Haiga Contest, July, 2015
A Splash of Water, Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology 2016