Duck & Dash Poetry recently ran an Anti Haiku competition. The rules were simple:
Maximum 5 entries per person Poets in WA only Anti Haiku must be the author’s original and unpublished work ONLY Work should be appropriate to share in a public forum Each Anti Haiku poem must be 1-6 lines long (including title and any spaces between lines) Each Anti Haiku poem must have a maximum of 40 total counts of both syllables and punctuations Poet’s were encouraged to interpret haiku and anti haiku as they liked, picking and choosing which haiku aesthetics to keep or reject.
The Haiku on Hay Poetry Competition was run by the City of Perth Library in conjunction with the 2024 Perth Poetry Festival. I was thrilled to be awarded a Highly Commended Certificate for my haiku:
It’s a little while since this was published but I remain delighted to be included with so many delightful and thought-provoking haiku in the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology. It’s been sitting on my bedside table for some time and I’ve never regretted picking it up and opening a page at random.
Over ten years ago, I wrote a deeply honest and personal poem about the feelings and emotions around motherhood that my monthly cycle aroused. I still don’t have children.