Marilyn Appl Walker
Born 1940, Garden City, Kansas, U.S.A.
Resides in Madison, Georgia, U.S.A.
American primary teacher, real estate sales professional, and poet actively writing and publishing haiku since 2002. She is the author of the haiku collection Listening to the Sky (2015)
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my thoughts
going every which way
forsythia
March Winner, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2009, Publication, Snapshot Press 2010
rain all day
i carve the darkness
from a peach
Acorn 25, Fall 2010
dog day afternoon
we take turns moving
the garden hose
Grand Prix Award, Hekinan Exposition Collection, Sept. 2006, Hekinan, Japan, Ginkisso Spirits Up Competition, 2006
day lilies closing . . . this new secret
Third Place Award, Penumbra Haiku Contest, Tallahassee Writers Association 2006
a lullaby
in grandpa’s first language
apricot blossoms
Finalist Award, Penumbra Haiku Contest, Tallahassee Writers Association, (slight change) 2005
blossoms
a lover’s whisper fades
into fragrance
Sakura Award, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival U.S. Invitational Winner 2007
wing beats
of a hidden bird
this cascade of blossoms
Sakura Award, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival U.S. Invitational Winner 2011
winter drizzle
the child’s red crayon
worn to a nub
February Runner-Up, Haiku Calendar Competition 2008, Publication, Snapshot Press 2009
we bring home
the wild magnolia seeds
starlit night
Frogpond, 28.2 Spring-Summer 2005
thunder moon
odor of the rodeo
kicking up
Frogpond, 31.1 Winter 2008
migrating geese
all the smiling faces
in the obituaries
Modern Haiku. 44.3 Fall 2013
wind shift
the canola field
smelling yellow
never younger than now i zest a lemon
this last day of my life so far wild lupine
Acorn 31, Fall 2013
first sun of the year
a street workman disappears
into a manhole
Honorable Mention, Tokutomi Haiku Contest, Yuki Teikei Haiku Society 2013
endless night
the scrape of a blizzard
across the plains
first dream
I buy a tanked lobster
For the ocean
Modern Haiku, 47.1 Winter-Spring 2016
cloud cover
the vendor places each peach
sunny side up
brightening stars
the sweet of honeysuckle
on the mare’s breath
Modern Haiku, 46.3 Autumn 2015
first spring gusts
all of the ponies
gallop together
sweet alyssum
a lullaby of rain
on a tin tub
sidewalk garden
a touch of rosemary
follows me home
Golden Haiku, 2020
before we open
the garden gate . . .
jasmine scent
Golden Haiku, 2020
still coming back
to my childhood home
a patch of horseradish
gibbous moon
she circles her baby’s
due date
Honorable Mention, Harold Henderson Award, Haiku Society of America 2020
spring at last
a mannequin gets dressed
for the beach
falling off the earth’s edge a wheatfield combine
these last days
the folds of a pinecone
gathering snow
Honorable Mention, January Kukai, The Haiku Foundation, 2022 (theme: snow)
autumn moon
i touch the stone
laid for me