OtherWordly Contest Results

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1. I love the humor in these haiku. Darrell Lindsey’s really tickled me.
   Great to know that a new generation will be seeing them.

2. Here’s are all the 31 Official Selections, which will all be published in the game…

   Eagle nebula
   a growing protostar
   gripped in its claw
   — Tracy Davidson

   starry night:
   I wonder, which one
   is closest to me?
   — Raquel D. Bailey

   bedtime
   the cat lets the dog out
   the airlock
   — LeRoy Gorman

   solstice comet
   I catch the tail end
   of a dream
   — Debbie Strange

   another nation
   enters the space race
   full moon
   — Karen DiNobile

   your presence
   after you are gone…
   earthshine
   — Rajandeep Garg

   moonrise after the visitor
   leaves three white petals
   — David Boyer

   backyard campout
   we fall asleep counting
   the ghosts of stars
   — Debbie Strange

   too long a voyage
   bots share love poems
   then refuse to speak
   — Tyson West

   through craft windows
   the slow arcing spray
   of space debris
   — Wendy C. Bialek

   planetary alignment
   photon sails
   tug at their lines
   — paul m.

   space travel—
   the professor’s expired gum
   circles the can
   — Robert Kingston

   barber shop mirrors
   a young boy wonders
   about infinity
   — Simon Hanson

   zombie satellites
   and rocket debris
   space tourism
   — Olivier Schopfer

   Saturn’s rings
   leftovers from a game
   of alien hoop-la
   — Tracy Davidson

   comets comb
   a jet black firmament
   the witching hour
   — Deborah Guzzi

   meteor shower
   over the campgrounds
   children grab their blankets
   — R.D. Bailey

   Alpha Centauri toyshop
   an Earth war game
   collects dust
   — LeRoy Gorman

   dark matter—
   a new look
   at what I can’t see
   — Jill Lange

   Milky Way Galaxy—
   stars outnumbered
   by passwords
   — Valentina Ranaldi-Adams

   across our lawn
   on dewy nights
   ten thousand tiny moons
   — Simon Hanson

   Milky Way
   moths hover
   around the lamp
   — Nikolay Grankin

   oil lamps
   all over the temple
   night sky
   — Rajandeep Garg

   a galaxy
   on the fawn’s back
   solstice eve
   — Debbie Strange

   solar flares
   a spill of buttercups
   in the meadow
   — Debbie Strange

   flash mob—
   we colonize the moon
   together
   — Susan Burch

   incoming inlaws
   the temperature on Mars
   goes up a degree
   — LeRoy Gorman

   languages yet
   to be discovered
   exoplanets
   — Olivier Schopfer

   Discount Dance Academy
   robot instructor
   with two left feet
   — Valentina Ranaldi-Adams

   black hole—
   nothing can pull him away
   from his video games
   — Raquel D. Bailey

   lights still on
   in the derelict ship
   a leaf unfurls
   — assu

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   ~ Competition stats:
   There were 970 submissions, from 198 poets, and the review process involved 3 judges.

   http://www.idea.orgI addition to the winners, and honourable mentions….

   1. congrats to all!

3. Many congratulations to Debbie, Tom and Simon and everyone whose haiku will be featured in the game – what a great idea!

   1. Thanks so much, Marion. Lovely to be included among so many fine poets!

4. I love the chosen haiku! The emotional content, creativity, humor and surreal …so strong and confident. Debbie Stange such a vivid positive gesture! Thanks to the judges for such great choices. This makes me smile.

   1. Thanks so much for your lovely comment, dear Kathabela!

5. Congratulations to Debbie Strange and all the others that had haiku recognised and published in this soon to be released game.
   Also to all the creators and judges, a well constructed idea that will see the genre touch souls it may never have touched.

   1. A thousand thanks, Robert!

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