The Wee Sparrow Haiku Nook
Wee Zen Sparrows Watercolour by Colin Thom
The Wee Sparrow Haiku Nook
(In memory of Japan Society London´s Haiku Corner)
Submission Guidelines
Submission window is between the 1st and 15th of each month.
Send The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press´ co-editor Marc Brimble up to 3 of your previously unpublished haiku per month in English to weesparrowhaikunook@mail.com. (Poems which have been selected by an editor for a journal or other publication are considered ´published´. Poems included on social media or a closed group are considered ´unpublished´.) Work created by AI will be instantly rejected.
Write your haiku in the body of your email (no attachments) along with your full name as you would like to see it in print and your current country of residence. No bios necessary. In the subject line please write your full name only.
At the end of each submission window, Marc will carefully read and select 5 haiku to be featured here on our website along with one ´Haiku of the Month´.
Marc is looking for originality and skill. Haiku submitted do not necessarily have to follow 5/7/5 and poets may also submit monoku. Consider the month that you are writing in and include seasonal kigo in your haiku, as well as kireji.
Here are some useful resources you may like to explore to learn more about this form -
August 2024
Haiku of the Month
sunset
a little flame
in each rose
-Ruth Holzer, USA
Selected Haiku
summer rain stitching sky and mountain path
-Chen-ou Liu, Canada
uphill drive...
the increasing pitch of
the cicadas
-K. Ramesh, Chennai, India
mid August
early sighting of cranes
origami course
-Marjolein Rotsteeg, The Netherlands
flowery dress
a robin on her back
as she weeds
-Tony Williams, Scotland, UK
doe at the window
wants permission to eat
from the apple tree
-James Penha, Bali, Indonesia
September 2024
Haiku of the Month
my thinning hair leaves falling one by one
-Manoj Sharma, Kathmandu, Nepal
Selected Haiku
phoneless day
waiting for the first apple
to drop
-Laura Webb, UK
early morning mist
spiders sat
on trampolines
-Tony Williams, Scotland, UK
a leaf swirls
into my mailbox..
my late son´s letter
-David He Zhunang, China
the school playground
welcomes back the children
summer´s end
-Jenny Shepherd, UK
in a stinging wind
the scattering
wasp husk
-C.X.Turner, UK
October 2024
Haiku of the Month
footprints
first in the mud
then of it
-Curtis Alan, USA
Selected Haiku
lost in a
corn maze
star-gazing
-Paula Sears, USA
overnight
under the stone turtle
white mushrooms
-Rupa Anand, New Delhi, India
autumn evening
clouds imitate the shape
of a mountain peak
-Tejendra Sherchan, Nepal
behind the peacocks fan a red camelia
-Katherine E Winnick, UK
coffee on the porch
hyacinth beans climb the stairs
for their morning fix
-Perri Osattin, USA
November 2024
Haiku of the Month
late autumn shower
in one hand, her umbrella
the other, her love
-Seth Kronick, USA
Selected Haiku
waiting till we leave
to share their songs –
thrush and jay
-Maeve O´Sullivan, Ireland
spring...
cicadas fill the evening
lull
-Gwen Bitti, Australia
humpbacked moon dropping the 'peri' from my menopause
-Kirsten Cliff Elliot, UK
street preacher's call
mingling with the caw
of a crow
-Deborah A. Bennett, USA
farmers’ market—
colors of autumn
deepen dusk
-Neena Singh, India
December 2024
Haiku of the Month
winter gust
the scent of wood smoke
clings to my scarf
-C.X. Turner, UK
Selected Haiku
42nd Street —
carrying the smell of snow
into a taxi
-David Thorndale, Japan
an old tree -
six apples
and the yellowed sun
-Hynek Koziol, Czech Republic
shifting firewood
the year
in ashes
-Bonnie J Scherer, Alaska, USA
a sharp turn...
with me
the jasmine
-Pravat Kumar Padhy, India
giving the moon
the cold shoulder
sunflowers
-Wilbert Salgado, Nicaragua