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Sakura Award 2012

Started by whitedove, September 18, 2013, 01:56:18 PM

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whitedove

September 18, 2013, 01:56:18 PM
This is rather old news, but I just noticed this section of the forum.  Last year I won a Sakura award for the United States in the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational.  Rebecca Drouilhet

Seanan

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September 22, 2013, 05:00:09 PM
It's never too late to celebrate that.

Congratulations!

What's the poem? Will you share?

S

Julie B. K.

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September 23, 2013, 09:39:17 PM
Congrats! I agree - it's never too late to celebrate. :)

Seaview (Marion Clarke)

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September 24, 2013, 06:08:11 AM
Well done to you - and Michael - Rebecca, two haiku stars!  ;D

marion

whitedove

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September 24, 2013, 04:43:27 PM
Many thanks, everyone!  Some of you know this story, but when I wrote the winning poem I was battling breast cancer with a rigorous course of chemotherapy.  My haiku that year was

brief lives
today the cherry blossoms
seem more permanent

I was thrilled when I was one of six in the United States in 1012 to receive the Sakura Award.  I have been cancer-free for over a year now, and I celebrate that, too.  Rebecca Drouilhet
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