Category: Haiku

lighting a path (haiku by Robert Michael Drouilhet)

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Post date February 24, 2014
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lighting a path

for the cherry blooms

first grade teacher

— Robert Michael Drouilhet (Picayune, Mississippi)

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival HaikuInvitational Winner – Best U.S. poem

This poem is comparing first grade students to cherry blooms. The teacher might be lighting the path of the students literally (perhaps with a flashlight during a field trip) or metaphorically as he is guiding them on the path of life.

The best haiku always leave room for interpretation and can have various meanings. Read some suggestions for writing haiku and submit your haiku to the contest starting March 1.

To learn how to write a winning haiku, visit our haiku table during Sakura Days Japan Fair (April 5-6 2014). Our volunteers are past judges and past winners of the VCBF Haiku Invitational, so they can answer any questions you may have about haiku. We will be in the glasshouse.

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Her hand in mind (haiku by Stephen A. Peters)

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Post date February 22, 2014
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her hand in mine

the cherry blossoms

on both sides of the street

-Stephen A. Peters (Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival 2013)

There’s nothing more romantic then a walk under cherry blossoms, except perhaps having a picnic under cherry blossoms. Check out the VCBF website for exciting news about our upcoming cherry blossom picnics in Vancouver.

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Haiku Hedge by Lesley Donaldson

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Post date February 18, 2014
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During cherry blossom season, Point Grey Road resident Lesley Donaldson hangs some of her haiku on her hedge for everybody to enjoy.

Lesley, who submits poems to the Haiku Invitational every year, won an Honorable mention in 2008 for her haiku:

Carpet of blossoms—
my granddaughter in her pink dress
Does a twirl

— Lesley Donaldson (VCBF Haiku Invitational 2008 – Honorable mention)

The laminated haiku will go up again this year. Come to see the four beautiful large cherry trees (on the corner of Collingwood street and Point Grey Road) and to read more of Lesley’s haiku, including:

Children’s tea party giggles—
The cherry blossoms
fall to join in

Blossoms cover the lawn—
my cats proudly walk
the pink carpet

The old man’s sticks fall—
a froth of pink blossoms
Rise from the ground

The smell of bread rising—
the cherry blossoms
slowly open

-Haiku by Lesley Donaldson

And don’t forget to submit your poems to the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational starting March 1st.

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A bird bath (haiku by Iris Liu)

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Post date February 17, 2014
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a bird bath

under a tree

filled with cherry blossoms

— Iris Liu, Winner Best Youth Poem

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2013

Submit your haiku to the VCBF Haiku Invitational starting March 1.

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Dappled sunlight

Get your picnic basket ready! The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival is proud to be presenting a new activity this year: a picnic under the cherry blossoms. O-Hanami (which means “flower-viewing” in Japanese) has been a tradition in Japan for centuries. Invite your friends, family and neighbors to have a picnic under cherry blossoms. Time and location of Cherry Blossom Picnics will be posted on the VCBF website.

dappled sunlight,

serving cherry blossom tea

to her dollies

— Ann Harreby (Coquitlam, British Columbia)

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2013, Sakura Awards