Sheila Windsor Reads A Selection Of Her Haiku


calling each other
the free owl and the captive
unable to sleep
 
First Place – The BHS James W Hackett International Award 1998
 
 
it’s getting late
every sound
might be you
 
Runner-up – still – The Haiku Award 1998
 
 
single wisp of cloud
vapour trail
somewhere a cricket
 
Runner-up – still – The Haiku Award 1998
 
 
finding the bathroom
by moonlight
the cry of the fox
 
Runner-up – still – The Haiku Award 1999
 
 
into snow the crow prints mine
 
First Prize – The Herb Barrett Award 2001
 
 
October sun
a warm greenhouse tomato
settles in my palm
 
Highly commended - Haiku Presence Award 2001
 
 
bedroom curtains
apart just enough
crescent moon
 
First Prize – Kaji Aso Studio 2001
also published Hawaii Education Assoc. Anthology
 
 
winter trees
each day
more sky
 
First Prize – The 6th Shiki Commemorative Kukai 2001
 
 
swaying and dancing
shadows of leaves
on the piano lid
 
The New Haiku – 2002
 
 
red balloon until there’s only blue
 
First Prize – The Herb Barrett Award 2002
also published: RAW NerVZ
 
 
if i spin this globe faster we merge youandi
 
The cover of RAW NerVZ – Spring 2002
with ink drawing by Mark Windsor
 
 
hoar frost
the dead spider drawn
into a star
 
Second Prize – The Kamakura Shrine One Verse Competition – 2004
 
 
fireflies the space between stars
 
Commended – Haiku Presence Award 2004
 
 
funeral day
the cherry blossoms
about to break
 
Honourable mention – Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival
Haiku Invitational 2008
 
 
lullaby. . .
a turtle tracks back
to the ocean
 
First Prize – The Svetlana Marisova Memorial Kukai 2012