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
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stone cairns
a faded cap drifts
downriver
1st Place, 2015 Harold G. Henderson Haiku Contest
Frogpond, Volume 38, Number 3, Autumn, 2015
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in cupped hands
the harvest moon rests
for a moment
1st Place, Bangor Haiku Group, 2015 Annual Autumn Moon Contest
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rusted bucket
cherry blossoms patch
every hole
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on the tundra
caging a winter sky
caribou bones
3rd Place, Second Annual “aha” Awards, 2014
cattails, May, 2014
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rocky ledge
a wolf with the moon
in its mouth
3rd Place, Irish Haiku Society, 7th International Haiku Competition, 2015
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ice fog
everything familiar
unfamiliar
3rd Place, Shintai Haiku Category, World Haiku Review, January, 2016
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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
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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
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the whistle
of a wood duck . . .
her last breath
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curling leaves
you turn your face up
to the sun
Hon. Mention, Japan Information and Culture Center Autumn 2015 Haiku Contest
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antelope
the humming of wind
in barbed wire
Hon. Mention, Lyrical Passion Poetry 2015 World Haiku Competition
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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
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gone too soon
sakura blossoms
my old friends
Canada Sakura Award, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Invitational, 2015
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stark branches
the first flowering
of snowflakes
Award of Excellence, World Haiku Association Commemorative Haiga Contest, 2015
World Haiku, Number 12, 2016
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cloudless sky
a pelican’s pouch
full of light
Editors’ Choices, The Heron’s Nest, Volume XVIII, Number 2, June, 2016
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on a bridle path
the scent of apple blossoms
in my horse’s mane
Hon. Mention, Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Tokutomi Haiku Contest, 2014
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fireflies
so many reasons
to shine
Hon. Mention, Shintai Category, World Haiku Review, June, 2016
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empty nest
on the for sale sign
mourning doves
Selected Haiku, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum 2015 English Haiku Contest
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lavender
we pack her clothes
in silence
Selected Haiku, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum 2016 English Haiku Contest
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thunderheads
a squabble of crows
in the larch
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sea otter . . .
the moon opens
on a stone
Acorn, Number 34, Spring, 2015
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solar flares
a spill of buttercups
in the meadow
Acorn, Number 35, Fall, 2015
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pussywillows
the swollen bellies
of feral cats
Acorn, Number 32, Spring, 2014
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morning rain
a string of prayer beads
on each branch
Akitsu Quarterly, Spring, 2016
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merlot moon
fires burn somewhere
close tonight
Asahi Haikuist Network, November, 2015
Sailing into the Moon, Haiku Canada Members’ Anthology, 2016
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diurnal tides
the ebb and flow
of grief
Blithe Spirit, Volume 26, Number 1, February, 2016
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gulls hunched
along the shoreline
more bad news
Blithe Spirit, Volume 26, Number 1, February, 2016
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meadowlarks
grace notes that follow
me home
Blithe Spirit, Volume 26, Number 2, May, 2016
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a tree frog
on the old van’s gear shift
endless rain
bottle rockets, Volume 17, Number 2, February, 2016
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riding the sway-backed barn setting sun
Frogpond, Volume 37, Number 3, Autumn, 2014
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frozen sheets . . .
we unpin the shape
of winter
Frogpond, Volume 37, Number 3, Autumn, 2014
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tall grass prairie
the sound of summer
between our lips
Frogpond, Volume 38, Number 2, Spring/Summer, 2015
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dry lightning
her mattress scarred
with cigarette burns
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garden snail how you carry morning dew on your back
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ancient lichen liver-spotted stones these hands
Haiku Canada Review, Volume 9, Number 1, February, 2015
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ice jams at breakup there is nothing more to say
Haiku Canada Review, Volume 10, Number 1, February, 2016
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lilac buds
no one notices
the bruises
Haiku Canada Review, Volume 10, Number 1, February, 2016
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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
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sun catcher
the flicker’s tail
a yellow fan
Kokako, Number 23, September, 2015
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snowbound
every garden pot
a ptarmigan
Kokako, Number 25, September, 2016
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crane silhouettes
i practice the kanji
for my name
Kokako, Number 25, September, 2016
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the yink and yank
of white-breasted nuthatches
we no longer speak
Modern Haiku, Volume 46, Issue 1, Winter-Spring, 2015
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autumn sunrise
a beaver’s fur glistens
with aspen dust
Modern Haiku, Volume 46, Issue 1, Winter-Spring, 2015
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cabbage whites
shreds of the letter
I never sent
Modern Haiku, Volume 46, Issue 3, Autumn, 2015
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the sound of rain
millions of monarchs
taking wing
paper wasp, Volume 22, Issue 2, Winter, 2016
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morning chill
the dark field aglow
with pumpkins
paper wasp, Volume 22, Issue 2, Winter, 2016
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above the marsh
a swarm of gnats spins
dusk into night
paper wasp, Volume 22, Issue 2, Winter, 2016
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lambing season
swirls of fog become
a wolf pack
Presence, Number 55, June, 2016
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coastal trail a rainbow appears in the orca’s breath
Presence, Number 55, June, 2016
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rising wind
a volley of ducks explodes
from the marsh
Presence, Number 55, June, 2016
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evening fog
antlers ghosting through
the coulee
The Heron’s Nest, Volume XVII, Number 2, June, 2015
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crab spider
a frost moon dangles
out of reach
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bobolinks
perched on thistle heads
the rain-streaked sky
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northern lights
melting into the lake
a loon’s quaver
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loon chicks
on mother’s back
the weight of it all
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setting sun
dandelion seedheads
bend the light
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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