Mukai Farm & Garden is proud to announce the winners of Haiku Festival 2023!
The festival received over 570 haiku from 13 countries around the world. Prizes were awarded in five categories: Heritage, Nature, Reflections, Social Justice, and Young Poets.
A huge “Thank You!” to everyone that submitted haiku and/or donated to Mukai during our 4th annual Haiku Festival.
We couldn’t have done it without you!
Mukai Haiku Festival
2023 Winners
Mom’s 3-by-5 card
Fold apple pieces gently
into the cake dough
Ann Spiers – Heritage
strawberry picking
my young daughter has sunshine
dripping down her chin
Kelly Sargent – Nature
on my window sill
all the packets of spring seeds
I never planted…
Adele Evershed – Reflections
caught on a riptide
a suitcase spills its contents
old shirts and new dreams
Adele Evershed – Social Justice
Salmonberries bloom
Morning dew settles on their
delicate petals
Juno Leonard – Young Poets (ages 1-12)
Stop war
by shaking hands
with sunflowers
戦争は終わる
手をつなげば
ひまわりの花を持ち
Yoshiki Nobuhara – Young Poets (ages 13-18)
The fish are mere words,
I, the fisher, hold the net,
poetry, and cast
Ellen Zhang – People’s Choice Award
For a complete list of the haiku submitted to Mukai Haiku Festival 2023, please click here.
