Haiku by Karin Hedetniemi
Published in 2022
Haiku-in-Action 2022 • Week 22
home from hospice—
your empty cup
in the sink
Haiku Canada
3rd Place • The Betty Drevniok Award 2022
long walk with a friend
picking stories
from blackberry bushes
Haiku Canada
Honourable Mention • The Betty Drevniok Award 2022
orange sun —
we share the newspaper
in equal segments
Honourable Mention
2021 Little Iris Haiku Contest
cold winter night
grandmother’s playing cards
warm my hands
rainy day nap
I notice the dog’s muzzle
turning gray
glowing embers —
the last page
of a good book
Royal City Literary Arts Society
Haiku Special Feature • Issue 89 • February 2022
desert winter sun
a dog curls her nap
along adobe walls
Red Alder Review
Mid-Winter Haiku • January 1, 2022
Published in 2021
woodpecker tapping —
the steady click of
knitting needles
2nd Place
2020 Little Iris Haiku Contest
migrating geese—
pulling threads
from a sweater
Hedgerow
December 2021 • Issue 136
empty nest—
my fingertips linger
in the hollow
Akitsu Quarterly
Winter 2021
breath clouds
on a starry night
aurora borealis
Autumn Moon Haiku Journal
Autumn/Winter 2021-2022 • Issue 5:1
charity donation
buttoning your shirts
one last time
Nick Virgilio Haiku Association
Haiku-in-Action • Week 41
following
a new deer trail…
to my tulip stems
The Haiku Foundation
Aug 2021 Kukai • Honourable Mention
home from hospice
grasses
tall and wild
World Haiku Review
Summer 2021
first bouquet
of sweet peas—
her smile at the door
top step
on a shaky ladder—
sun-warmed peaches
Autumn Moon Haiku Journal
Spring/Summer 2021 • Issue 4:2
low tide laps the shore—
children tugging
on a sleeve
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
April 2021
patchwork of clouds—
a dragonfly stitches
the world together
Royal City Literary Art Society
February 2021 • E-Zine Issue 81
Page 39
Published in 2020
pouring morning tea
I turn sensing your presence
in a doe’s soft stare
Red Alder Review
December 2020 • Mid-Winter Haiku