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!
Winners
Mom’s 3-by-5 card
Anne Spiers – Heritage
Fold apple pieces gently
into the cake dough
strawberry picking
Kelly Sargent – Nature
my young daughter has sunshine
dripping down her chin
on my window sill
Adele Evershed – Reflections
all the packets of spring seeds
I never planted…
caught on a riptide
Adele Evershed – Social Justice
a suitcase spills its contents
old shirts and new dreams
Salmonberries bloom
Juno Leonard – Young Poets (ages 1-12)
Morning dew settles on their
delicate petals
Stop war
Yoshiki Nobuhara – Young Poets (ages 13-18)
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
The fish are mere words,
Ellen Zhang – People’s Choice Award
I, the fisher, hold the net,
poetry, and cast
For a complete list of the haiku submitted to Mukai Haiku Festival 2023, please click here.
