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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.
Please note: Due to the large number of submissions we receive each month, only the poets who are chosen to be featured will be contacted by Marc.
Send The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press´ co-editor Marc Brimble up to 3 of your previously unpublished haiku per month in English to weesparrowhaikunook@mail.com.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 Poems included on social media or a closed group are considered ´unpublished´.)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
January 2025
Haiku of the Month
raven's call...
wherever you look
only snow
-Malgorzata Formanowska, Poland
Selected Haiku
alone as the sun
circles Casuarina . . .
last day of the year
-Monica Kakkar, India
winter evening
the mountain tucks itself
into a fog
-Wilbert Salgado, Nicaragua
curving
white flowers hold the
moon´s glow inside
-Sarah Mahina Calvello
morning chill
the scent of singed dust
from the radiator
-Curtis Alan, USA
cross country ski
following the trail
of warming chimney smoke
-Katja Fox, UK
February 2025
Haiku of the Month
winter sun
the warmth
of the cat´s purr
-Melissa Dennison, UK
Selected Haiku
first buds -
the things I had planned
this winter
-Michael Pappafava, Belgium
a bluish morning -
mist that dogs the hills
all day
-Tony Williams, Scotland
cornstalks swaying
in the coop
a brown egg
-Tuyet Van Do, Australia
caught by the breeze a kestrel´s cry
-Clive Bennett, Wales
the curve
of the ocean
seaglass
-Gareth Nurden, Wales
March 2025
Haiku of the Month
Mother's Day
the blackbird chooses
another twig
-Laura Webb, UK
Selected Haiku
spring equinox
the tire swing
full of rain
-Paula Sears, USA
in the corner of my eye—
the white
of a snowdrop
-Tony Williams, Scotland
jasmine and sandal
at the landing
faint chants
-Jiel Narvekar, India
night of shooting stars
where was I all this time?
I was sleeping
-Marie Derley, Belgium
among the windfalls a chaffinch nest
-Clive Bennett, Wales
April 2025
Haiku of the Month
arriving
a blossom petal
hitches a ride on my shoe
-Melissa Dennison, UK
Selected Haiku
sparrow on the fence
in my house
I am waiting for the next guest
-Boryana Boteva, Bulgaria
school bell -
weaving dandelions
into a crown
-Paula Sears, USA
cherry blossom
not enough shades
in my palette
-Nick T, England
rural road sunrise…
thousands of sunflowers
face east
-Margaret Anderson, Vancouver, BC
school run
one child stops
for a ladybird
-C.X. Turner, UK
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