Cynthia Rowe
Born in Melbourne, Australia
Living in Sydney, Australia
http://www.cynthiarowe.com.au
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bare branch
the wild persimmon
snow-flecked
Grand Prize: First Place 2015 World Haiku Contest
neap tide
the old fisherman harvests
moon crystals
1st Prize/First Place European Quarterly Kukai VIII Edition Winter 2014 Cosmos
blossom moon
the pregnancy line
turning to pink
Honourable Mention Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2015
winter’s afternoon
a golden pheasant weaves
through bamboo
Honourable Mention Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition 2015
tree-lined stream
the falcon rowing
through air
1st Prize Thirteenth Annual Paper Wasp Jack Stamm Haiku Award 2011; published paper wasp tree-lined stream volume 181; published Diogen June 2012; FreeXpresSion November 2012
evening star
a bouquet of cherry blossom
on my front porch
Honourable Mention Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2014
mangrove
a crab’s pincer wedged
in tangled roots
1st Prize - Top Prize - 66th Matsuo Bashō Festival Haiku Contest 2012 – Bashō Memorial Museum; published Bashō Festival Haiku Anthology; A Vast Sky anthology 2015
shipping lane
the mist swollen
with foghorn
Honourable Mention 68th Basho Festival Haiku Contest, published 68th Basho Festival Anthology
tidal flats
the white-faced heron wades
into a rainbow
1st Prize Polish International Haiku competition 2011; published Diogen June 2012
river’s edge
the broken branch
joins up with itself
3rd Prize City of Perth Library Haiku Competition 2011
scattering his ashes
the lifeboat lifts
with the tide
1st Prize City of Perth Library Competition 2012
misty morning
all the way
to the sky
Neo-Classical Zatsuei Haiku of Merit –World Haiku Review March 2013
wild persimmon
autumn sun fills
the last leaf
Highly Commended Irish Haiku Society International Competition 2011; published Shamrock #21
hot breeze
bits of blue sky snagged
in the magnolia
Neo-Classical Zatsuei Haiku of Merit – World Haiku Review August 2013; FreeXpresSion January 2014
spring equinox
two pines leaning
into each other
Highly Commended Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition 2009, published Shamrock #12; published Diogen June 2012
even the stars
no longer . . .
harvest moon
Honourable Mention 2014 Autumn Moon Viewing Contest
memorial garden . . .
the shadowy gleam
of a ghost orchid
Honourable Mention 2014 World Haiku Competition
spring storm
only the sound of waves
through ochre fog
Highly Commended 4th HPR conference kukai, published Famous Reporter #40; translated into Romanian and published in Albatros Vol XI No. 21 Fall 2012/No. 22 2013
dusk
fingers of sun release
the mountain peaks
au crépuscule
des doigts du soleil
libèrent les cimes
Honourable Mention 18th Mainichi Haiku Contest 2014, published The Mainichi
sugar palm
sweet-smelling fronds
fan the breeze
Shintai Haiku Honourable Mention - World Haiku Review August 2013; FreeXpresSion November 2013
war memorial
the black-tipped wings
of a snow goose
First Honourable Mention Jane Reichhold International Prize Category 2015 ukiaHaiku Festival, published ukiaHaiku Festival booklet
winter solstice
the barbed wire fence
furry with frost
Highly Commended Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition 2010, published Shamrock #16; published Diogen June 2012; published Scope magazine June 2015
old railway track
a tumbleweed skips
through wild grass
Honourable Mention, 2015 World Haiku Contest
low tide
a butterfly settles
in my footprint
Special Mention The 6th Kokako Haiku & Senryu Competition
war veteran . . .
lobbing grain
at his hens
The Heron’s Nest Vol XIII 4 December 2011; published carving darkness: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2011
winter sale
no coins in the busker’s
violin case
2nd Place Shintai Haiku World Haiku Review December 2011
wolf moon
the snowflake
makes its shape
cattails UHTS May 2014
sundowner
a backlit cloud behind
the soup van
3rd Prize 7th Kokako Haiku and Senryu Competition, published Kokako #20
home late . . .
skipping through trees
the man in the moon
Commended New Zealand Poetry Society Competition 2012
enamelled top
my son’s smile spins
around the floor
Highly Commended Katikati Haiku Contest 2012
magpie season
the schoolgirl’s lunchbox
on her head
The Heron’s Nest Volume XI 2; The Heron’s Nest 15th Anniversary anthology Nest Feathers 2015
spring shower
a peacock sips pinkness
from the bromeliad
3rd Prize 7th Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition 2014
kayaking
her paddle tilts
the sun
Commended New Zealand Poetry Society Competition 2013, published NZPS anthology Given an ordinary stone
tidal inlet
a white-faced heron
shapes the rock
Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum anthology 2013
bushfire smoke . . .
yachts on the lagoon
have no masts
Commended Katikati Haiku Contest 2012
school magazine . . .
on the poetry page
a stray booklouse
Commended FreeXpresSion Literary Competition 2009, published FreeXpresSion Vol XVI Issue 6
earth hour . . .
threading beads
by moonlight
3rd Prize WA Poets Creatrix Haiku prize 2010; published Creatrix #10; The Haiku Foundation Haiku App; Runner-up The Haiku Calendar Competition 2014
on the pine
a feather stiff with sleet
ice moon
Highly Commended Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition 2013, published Shamrock #27
phone call
the pup’s squeaky toy
fills the silence
3rd Place Vanguard Haiku World Haiku Review December 2011
moon shadow
the same glowing eyes
by the roadside
A Hundred Gourds 3:2
last ferry home
the night empty
of stars
Commended New Zealand Poetry Society Competition 2014, published NZPS anthology Take Back Our Sky; published bilingually NeverEnding Story 2015
star jasmine –
reaching for blooms
he never sees
‘Rainy Day Stretch’ haibun – Kokako #13; The Haiku Foundation app
spring squall
a twisted branch connects
the pine to the sky
‘tree-lined stream’ paper wasp Jack Stamm anthology
love at first sight
this night-blooming
jasmine
Zatsuei Haiku of Merit Shintai Haiku World Haiku Review June 2015
waxing crescent
tracing your face
in the galaxy
Sharpening The Green Pencil Award collection 2015
autumn equinox
a crow on the wire
reverses its grip
The Heron’s Nest Vol X (4) – Special Mention Haiku; published Wind over Water 2009; runner-up the Haiku Calendar Competition 2012
musical evening
the frog punctuates
Handel
Honourable Mention, "Vanguard Haiku Section" (World Haiku Review, Summer, August 2012) [online]
evening news
a paper wasp lifts
from the satellite dish
Zatsuei Haiku of Merit, "Shintai Haiku Section" (World Haiku Review, Summer, August 2012) [online]
water boatman
ripples on the creek caress
my fingertips
Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum Anthology 2014 [online]
stone steps
an electric ant takes
the handrail
Highly Commended Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition 2012, published Shamrock #24; published Scope magazine June 2015
nectarine moon the sky dark with fruit bats
Highly Commended Katikati Haiku Contest 2014; published Scope magazine June 2015
cattle herd moving forward one mouthful at a time
Highly Commended New Zealand Poetry Society haiku competition 2015; published NZPS anthology 'scattered feathers'.
grape harvest warm in the backpacker’s hand
senryu section cattails UHTS September 2015 – selected Editor’s Commentary
estuary water birds the busyness of evening
Presence #50
storm-blown magnolia wind chimes echo the leaves
Presence #53