OtherWordly Contest Results
You’ll recall that The Haiku Foundation announced the OtherWordly Haiku Contest to our audience a couple months ago. Well, the results are in.
All told, there were 970 submissions, from 198 poets, and the review process involved 3 judges: David Oates, Nicholas Sola, and Deborah P Kolodji. We hope you enjoyed the process, and the winning poems.
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I love the humor in these haiku. Darrell Lindsey’s really tickled me.
Great to know that a new generation will be seeing them.
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….
congrats to all!
Many congratulations to Debbie, Tom and Simon and everyone whose haiku will be featured in the game – what a great idea!
Thanks so much, Marion. Lovely to be included among so many fine poets!
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.
Thanks so much for your lovely comment, dear Kathabela!
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.
A thousand thanks, Robert!