Here is a selection of the fabulous haiku contest entries. Thanks! We’re down to the finalists and the winner will be announced soon.

Favourite Haiku Entries

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We saw him:

posing before us
full glossy black plumes, perfect
the elvis of crows

Inspired by Avan:

come birdie come come
giggles running laughing leap
fly little treasures

by Nathalie Mousseau

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1: civic duty

ornaments missing
off the mansion’s outdoor tree
found on bush in park

2: dead reckoning

darkness surrounds me
the strange knights watch overhead
show me east and night

3: curmudgeon’s smile

pack of youths about
strut in their long black trench coats
don my glasses, oh.

by miles steininger

1. crows to burnaby

autumn’s chill bites hard
long shadows overrun me
cloaked birds rise above

2. Lynn Canyon

black indigo sheen
spongy moss falls from above
a message received

3. Nest

stop. no trespassing.
squawks, warnings from protector
there goes my eyeball

by Heather Shay

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Raven

Ashen flakes alight
Gleam on lustrous onyx wings
First day of winter

by Matthew Vatta

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shining sun cant warm
the blustery day. instead,
it gifts ice sparkles.

by Jamie Donatuto

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Black winged bird watches
frosted branches glistening.
A Winter beauty.

by Corinne Imrie

Haiku # 1

Pink petals floating
A calligraphy of crows
Spring’s silence broken

Haiku # 2

Dawn of a spring rain
A young, newborn crow yawning
Cicadas emerge

Haiku # 3

Misty rains in spring
Dripping from the blackbird’s nest
Another year gone.

by Maria Entis

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pause to rest on the
black bones of a winter tree
white sky weary crow

by Joan Powell

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migration at dusk
like a river in the sky
the crows fly back home

by Eden Fineday

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roosting with crows

rain’s soft fingertips
on black wings. against sky trees
dark fruit of winter.

*
spring blossoms unfurl
against the mind’s blade. a crow
claws my startled breath

*
in orange twilight
they fly through my mind. untwist
dark tangles of thought.

by Daniela Elza

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Timeless Crow

Gifts bright you bring me -
leaving stars and moon behind
on wings dark twinkling.

by Jocelyn Pransky

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Flying so freely
Crows blot out the sun above
Homeward bound again

Darkness descends as
Wings flap in the northern sky
An eclipse of crows

by Ryan Murphy

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Scavenge the treetop
vagrant of the urban earth
home is on the wire

by Lauren Redman

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