Very grateful to The Haiku Foundation panel for choosing my poem, and taking the time to write this wonderful thoughtful commentary.
Live for the Love of it,
Sasha A. Palmer (aka Happy)
Live for the Love of it
Very grateful to The Haiku Foundation panel for choosing my poem, and taking the time to write this wonderful thoughtful commentary.
she counts her years
on one hand
Happy and grateful that this haiku, which originally won second place in the inaugural Japan Fair international haiku contest, is one of the six winners of The Haiku Foundation Touchstone awards for individual poems 2021.
Live for the Love of it,
Sasha A. Palmer (aka Happy)
On behalf of photographer Nikolai Abramov and myself, author of haiku, I express gratitude to the Akita International Haiku Network for including our collaborative work (three photo-haiku) into the Network's official journal:
Thank you.