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# The Solitary Daisy

Your Haiku Journal

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- [Issue 79 - Welcome Daisy Newcomers](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/08/issue-79-welcome-daisy-newcomers/) - We did enjoy the haiku from the newcomers and gave them a serious reading. Sorry if we missed anything else! All the rushing did inspire this month’s prompt
- [Issue 78 - Summer Haiku Part Two](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/07/issue-78-summer-haiku-part-two/) - We cannot thank you enough for paying off the loan for our dear friend’s grandmother’s pacemaker! She is doing so well, walking around the hospital corridors and attending physio. She will be home soon!
- [Issue 77 - Summer Haiku Part 1](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/06/issue-77-summer-haiku-part-1/) - Sally, Frithjof and I are involved with a nonprofit in Bangladesh called the Glory Future Foundation. They do great work with homeless children, including teaching English,
- [Issue 76 - Island Haiku](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/06/issue-76-island-haiku/) - moonlamps — the flow of a fluther island-blooming after ‘reef aquarium’ by Miko San Sheikha A., Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- [Honesty Slips](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/06/honesty-slips/) - What happens when you invite the fairy folk to your garden party? Disaster, of course! What started out as a lovely garden party quickly turns sour as the unusual guests give in to their mischievous selves
- [Issue 75 - In The Eyes Of A Child](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/05/issue-75-in-the-eyes-of-a-child/) - After all the positive comments from our haiku month calendar, we thought we should share it with you! Remember, prompts are just a starting point.
- [Issue 74 - Sea Creature Haiku](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/05/issue-74-sea-creature-haiku/) - This contains another column by our excellent commentator, Sean B. Wright. You may not know that Sean writes several columns on Substack. Sea Creature Haiku
- [Issue 71 - Birds Of Spring Haiku](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/03/issue-71-birds-of-spring-haiku/) - The Solitary Daisy 2026 Haiku Contest is well underway with over 175 haiku already received! Deadline is April 4th at midnight PT. Birds of Spring Haiku
- [Issue 73 - 2026 Haiku Contest Winners](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/04/issue-73-2026-haiku-contest-winners/) - Wow, wow, wow, is all we can say! Congratulations to all of the winners of the 2026 Solitary Daisy Haiku Contest!
- [Issue 72 - Under The Microscope Haiku](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/04/issue-72-under-the-microscope-haiku/) - Can you even imagine what Loss of Signal would feel like? I have been following the Artemis II mission and have run out of descriptors for everything I have seen
- [Issue 70 Signs Of Spring Haiku](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/03/issue-70-signs-of-spring-haiku/) - This is a deft spring haiku that links natural fluctuation with a small domestic moment. Its strength lies in the quiet mirroring between climate and sound.
- [Issue 69 - Calendar Haiku Part Two](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/02/issue-69-calendar-haiku-part-two/) - Last month, I attended an on-line workshop put on by Angela Leuck of Haiku Canada on creating your own haiku chapbooks.
- [Issue 68 - Calendar Haiku](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/02/issue-68-calendar-haiku/) - I'm really pleased to announce that we have a new team member here at the Solitary Daisy! Join me in welcoming Sean Wright.
- [Issue 67 - Hibernation Haiku](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/01/issue-67-hibernation-haiku/) - February is Haiku Month and we are happy to present another series of prompts for you to consider. Thanks to everyone who sent in suggestions! You can print out the calendar and hang it on your fridge
- [Issue 66 - New Year Haiku](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/01/issue-66-new-year-haiku/) - New Year Haiku - Here we are, already in the middle of January 2026! Hope you have all had some kind of relaxing break over the holidays.
- [Issue 65 - Moon Haiku](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/12/issue-65-moon-haiku/) - But really, the skill of submitters has grown over the year, making it more and more difficult to choose. Moon Haiku
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 15](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/11/the-solitary-daisy-issue-15/) - Josephine LoRe’s poetry has been read on stage and in global zoom-rooms, put to music, danced, integrated into visual art, and published in literary journals and anthologies in fifteen countries and five languages.
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 14](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/10/the-solitary-daisy-issue-13-2/) - David Brydges had his haiku published in the anthology Hope for Turkey and Syria (in aid of the Disasters emergency Committee) edited by Tim Saunders
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 26](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/04/the-solitary-daisy-issue-26/) - Some of you may even be joining us at Munson Pond in Kelowna, BC, for our first group Ginko walk!
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 28](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/05/the-solitary-daisy-issue-28/) - Can’t believe how May has flown by! Our garden in in full on flower now and all the bugs and bees are busy.
- [The Solitary Daisy Issue 34](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/08/the-solitary-daisy-issue-34/) - We’ve been receiving so many wonderful haiku based on the prompts, it’s been difficult to decide which ones to include.
- [Issue 46 Flicker Takes Flight](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/02/issue-46-flicker-takes-flight/) - I can't believe it has been a year since the first Solitary Daisy Haiku Contest! Sally and I are so happy to be doing this again.
- [Issue 54 - Haibun](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/06/issue-54-haibun/) - Haibun Uncertain Light On The Cruise Ship “Miracle” A tinny "You can't always get what you want" out of the mercifully muted loudspeaker. Glinting steel posts. Lights mirrored in the shiny rain-covered floor.I'm here for the sunrise. Not the gentle dawn before a few clouds in the west turn gold and pink and the sun,
- [Issue 55 - Kasugai Garden Haiku](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/06/issue-55-kasugai-garden-haiku/) - Canada Day is a bit of a tenuous celebration for us. While we absolutely love this country, we also recognize its colonial beginnings and the irreparable harm that was done by settlers and the government to the Indigenous people that have been here since time immemorial.
- [Issue 53 - Tanka](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/05/issue-53-tanka/) - Welcome to the tanka issue of the Solitary Daisy! Many thanks to Michael Dylan Welch for choosing the tanka for this issue from the many wonderful submissions that we received!
- [Issue 62 - Spooky Haiku](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/11/issue-62-spooky-haiku/) - Wow, your spooky haiku were so awesome!! Such a great variety of eerie ideas. Had our spines tingling!
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 16](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/11/the-solitary-daisy-issue-16/) - Michael Dylan Welch likes to be surprised by empathy and gratitude in haiku, has been active with haiku for more than 40 years
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 17](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/12/the-solitary-daisy-issue-17/) - I only know of one way to slow time down is to write haiku.
- [The Solitary Daisy - Issue 18](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/01/the-solitary-daisy-issue-18/) - Welcome back! We hope you all had a peaceful and fulfilling holiday season and that you feel ready to come into this new year on the lookout for haiku!
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 19 Winter Grove](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/01/winter-grove/) - I had the opportunity to sit in on Alan Summers’s workshop last week. It ended up being the most rousing “speed dating” session for haiku that I have ever been to!
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 20](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/02/the-solitary-daisy-issue-20/) - Sally and I took a ginko “drive” – a trip to write haiku – all the way to Ainsworth Hot Springs!
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 23](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/03/the-solitary-daisy-issue-23/) - What a joy it has been reading all of your haiku over the past two weeks.
- [The Solitary Daisy Issue 24](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/03/the-solitary-daisy-issue-24/) - Congratulations to the winners of the First Annual Solitary Daisy Haiku Contest!
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 27](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/05/the-solitary-daisy-issue-27/) - We were so impressed with the haiku that we received in the first annual Solitary Daisy Haiku Contest.
- [The Solitary Daisy Issue 32](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/07/the-solitary-daisy-issue-32/) - Canada’s Haikuist are noteworthy for their deep understanding of seasons, affinity with First Nations respect for nature, humor, and an uncanny ability to hit nerves
- [The Solitary Daisy Issue 33](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/08/the-solitary-daisy-issue-33/) - It’s been a hot, dry summer here in the Okanagan. We are fortunate enough to live in an area with dozens of lakes, the main one in my area being Okanagan Lake
- [The Solitary Daisy Issue 35](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/09/the-solitary-daisy-issue-35/) - This was supposed to be about fruit trees, sticky with heat, cherries warmed by the sun.
- [Issue 38 - Weather](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/10/issue-38-weather/) - Thank you to everyone who reached out to wish Sally and I both well since our last issue! We really appreciate it.
- [Issue 47 A Sense Of Place](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/03/issue-47-a-sense-of-place/) - A Sense Of Space Sally and I enjoyed your haiku about something that is unique to your country
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 22](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/03/the-solitary-daisy-issue-22/) - Our aim is to have the winners decided and announced by our March 30th issue. Because of the overwhelming response to this contest (452 at the time of writing)
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 25](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/04/the-solitary-daisy-issue-25/) - It’s been amazing weather here the last two weeks and it was great to take a ginko walk with Sally last Thursday!
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 29](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/06/the-solitary-daisy-issue-29/) - I’ve had a highly stressful week and haven’t done much creative writing at all. But I would like to share an essay I read on Troutswirl, the Haiku Foundation’s blog.
- [The Solitary Daisy Issue 31](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/07/the-solitary-daisy-issue-31/) - We are starting a new feature with this issue – Member Spotlight! This will allow us to run a cluster of haiku by one poet. This will be in addition to our prompt choices, so keep sending those in!
- [Issue 39](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/11/issue-39/) - at this lonely grave the one constant visitor is a winter wren
- [Issue 41 The Haiga Edition](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/11/issue-41-the-haiga-edition/) - completeTheHaiga is excited to see its collaborative spirit be extended by Solitary Daisy in this most recent issue.
- [Issue 42 Winter](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/12/issue-42-winter/) - Hello everyone! I can’t believe this will be our last issue of the year!
- [Issue 45](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/02/issue-45/) - The haiku that came in for this issue's prompt of a sense you don't usually use have been delightful - full of sounds and smells, tastes and touch.
- [Issue 64 - Music Haiku](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/11/issue-64-music-haiku/) - What a joy to receive all of your musical haiku! Sally and I spent quite a bit of time listening to all the music that inspired you. I have a whole new playlist now!
- [Issue 63 - Winter Haiku](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/11/issue-63-winter-haiku/) - For our upcoming issue, we want to challenge you to write a haiku or two inspired by music.
- [Issue 40](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/11/issue-40/) - Astronomical Haiku total solar eclipsethe growing shadowsof glaucoma -Kim Klugh, Lancaster, PA frost-bright moona deer’s breath risesto meet it -C.X. Turner, UK double meteor shower …this urge to hold onto what has been -Chen-ou Liu far from home a comet flicks its tail across our sky -Tracy Davidson, Warwickshire, UK a carriage of starsthis sweltering nighton your porch swing -Ceó Ruaírc,
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 13](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/10/the-solitary-daisy-issue-13/) - I fell in love with Marco Fraticelli’s haiku for this month. Here’s why! Two simple words: Alzheimer’s ward.
- [issue 43 Welcome 2025](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/01/issue-43-welcome-2025/) - I think of every new day as a fresh start – a blank page, waiting to be written upon.
- [Issue 48 Childhood memories](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/03/issue-48-childhood-memories/) - Happy belated World Poetry Day, everyone! The theme for 2025 is Poetry for Peace and Unity. I love the idea of this day.
- [Issue 49](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/04/issue-49/) - April 10th is Poem in Your Pocket Day! I encourage you all to write up one of your favourite haiku and share it with people you meet along the way that day.
- [Issue 56 - Festivals And Celebrations](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/07/issue-56-festivals-and-celebrations/) - Summer doesn’t know if it is coming or going here, with days over 35C then switching out to 23C in the blink of an eye.
- [Issue 57 - Natural Disasters](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/07/issue-57-natural-disasters/) - “Puff,” I replied, and so it was. Only instead of Cream Puff, it became Puff the Magic Wagon.
- [Issue 61 - Gratitude Haiku](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/10/issue-61-gratitude-haiku/) - An exhibit entitled "Haiga; The Art of Haiku" has opened at the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum in Coshocton, Ohio.
- [Issue 50](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/04/issue-50/) - Wow and congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Solitary Daisy Haiku Contest!
- [Issue 51 - In Translation](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/05/issue-51/) - Welcome to our In Translation issue. It was exciting to see each submission arrive in so many languages using so many different scripts. I was left wondering what each haiku sounded like, so in some future issue we will ask for audio clips to go with the haiku!
- [Issue 52 - Farm Animals](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/05/issue-52-farm-animals/) - Tanka is a Japanese short form. It is made up of five lines , with a short/long/short pattern like a haiku, and then two more long lines.
- [Issue 58 - Newcomer Haiku](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/09/issue-58-neucomer-haiku/) - Haiku sounds like I’m Saying hi to someone named Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello.
- [Issue 60 - Moose & Beaver 🫎🦫](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/10/issue-60-moose-beaver-🫎🦫/) - Last weekend Sally and I attended the Wine Country Writers Festival in Penticton, BC.
- [Issue 44 Food](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/01/issue-44/) - Before I begin, I want to send out a big THANK YOU to everyone who submitted to the food prompt. There were so many excellent haiku to choose from it was hard to restrict it to just eight.
- [Issue 59 - Funny Senryu](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/09/issue-59-funny-senryu/) - I love these cooler days and even cooler nights, when all the tourists have gone home and the beaches are empty.
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 36](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/09/the-solitary-daisy-issue-36/) - Hello and welcome officially to autumn! This is my favourite season
- [The Solitary Daisy - Issue 37](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/10/the-solitary-daisy-issue-37/) - So, it’s been a week. I couldn’t decide by myself about which haiku to post, so I just picked one from each of you.
- [The Solitary Daisy - Issue 30](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/06/the-solitary-daisy-issue-30/) - As Matso Basho once famously said, “Learn the rules, and then forget them.”
- [Ginko Walk at Munson Pond](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/05/ginko-walk-at-munson-pond/) - In our last issue, Michele told you our plans for a ginko walk on April 27 and invited those of you who could, to join us. We were so pleased to be joined by several people, for a total of seven walkers! Hopefully, those of you from different areas tried to get out and appreciate
- [Maude Roxby Ginko](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/04/maude-roxby-ginko/) - It was a perfect day - not too hot and not too cold. We wandered the boardwalk leisurely, stopping often to rest, look around, watch, and listen.
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 21](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/02/the-solitary-daisy-issue-21/) - Sally and I are proud to announce the first annual Solitary Daisy Haiku Contest!
- [An Interview with Isabella Mori](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/01/an-interview-with-isabella-mori/) - Isabella Mori writes novels, short fiction, poetry and nonfiction, and is the author of three books of and about poetry
- [Interview With Debbie Strange](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/01/interview-with-debbie-strange/) - Though I had dabbled in writing formulaic haiku off and on for years, it was not until joining social media that I discovered the depth and complexity of this form.
- [Haiku Essay by author Beth Kempton](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2024/01/haiku-essay-by-author-beth-kempton/) - We hope you will take the time to enjoy this lovely haiku essay by author Beth Kempton.
- [An Interview with Josephine LoRe](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/11/an-interview-with-josephine-lore/) - I don’t remember the specific time I was first introduced to haiku … elementary school perhaps? But I do remember reading Miss Happiness and Miss Flower, a book about two Japanese dolls who are adopted into a North American family, and how they wish to have a traditional Japanese house, furniture, clothing … how I learned to appreciate the simple elegance of the Japanese way of life. That for me is embodied in the concepts of haiku.
- [Interview with Michael Dylan Welch](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/11/interview-with-michael-dylan-welch/) - I wrote mostly short poetry as a kid, and learned of haiku in a 10th grade English class, in 1976.
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 1](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/05/364/) - Hi everyone and welcome to our first haiku newsletter. The purpose of these emails will be to stay up to date on upcoming contests and deadlines, share haiku, ask for critiques, and generally explore Japanese short forms and sequences.
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue Two](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/05/the-solitary-daisy-issue-two-🌼/) - Hello and welcome to my ramblings on haiku and other subjects! Hope you enjoy wandering though my garden of thoughts.
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue Three](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/06/the-solitary-daisy-issue-three/) - A. E. Housman once wrote that “I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.” Perhaps the same challenge applies to haiku,
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue Four](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/06/the-solitary-daisy-issue-four/) - I thought his explanation of syllables in haiku was very good. Some journals do insist on 5-7-5 still and others don’t want any 5-7-5,
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue Five](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/06/the-solitary-daisy-issue-five/) - Hello everyone! I’m so pleased to see all the fabulous haiku appearing in every newsletter! Well done!
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 6](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/07/the-solitary-daisy-issue-6/) - Here are 10 devices that can “turn off” experienced editors, judges & haikuists. You might want to avoid them or use them carefully:
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 7](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/07/the-solitary-daisy-issue-7/) - Hello! Konnichiwa, and welcome to The Solitary Daisy, a place for people who love haiku/senryu and other Japanese short forms.
- [A Brief History of Senryu](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/07/a-brief-history-of-senryu/) - There's often much talk about the difference between haiku and senryu. Many folks feel there shouldn't be a distinction,
- [The Solitary Daisy Issue 8](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/07/the-solitary-daisy-issue-8/) - There's often much talk about the difference between haiku and senryu. Many folks feel there shouldn't be a distinction, and I do understand their point; however, in the process of thinking about this specific point, it bears knowing a little bit about the history of both genres.
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 9](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/08/the-solitary-daisy-issue-9/) - “To Live Here” is a just-released anthology of haiku. Both Michele Rule and Sally Quon are contributing haiku poets.
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 10](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/08/the-solitary-daisy-issue-10/) - In lieu of a lesson this week, Michele has provided the following link to a video. Haiku: The Poetry of Focus with Scott Mason
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 11](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/09/the-solitary-daisy-issue-11/) - Although I’ve never been one for podcasts, this past Tuesday I impulsively decided to tune in to the Poetry Pea Podcast.
- [The Solitary Daisy – Issue 12](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/09/the-solitary-daisy-issue-12/) - Hello Haijin! Sally and Michele are waving at you from lovely Penticton, BC, where we are attending the Wine Country Writers Festival.
- [Interview with kj munro](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/10/interview-with-kj-munro/) - Originally from Vancouver, kjmunro moved to the Yukon Territory in 1991 & now lives on the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation
- [An Interview with Genevieve Wynand](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/2023/10/an-interview-with-genevieve-wynand/) - In 2017, life served up some challenges. My uncle, Victoria poet Derk Wynand, had learned of the upcoming National Haiku Contest put on by the League of Canadian Poets, and

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- [Lesson Three](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/lesson/lesson-three/) - Hello everyone! I’m so pleased to see all the fabulous haiku appearing in every newsletter! Well done! Today I want to spend a bit of time on the position of the poet in a haiku. It might be easiest to think of the poet as an invisible person. They are there, but you don’t “see”
- [Lesson Four](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/lesson/lesson-four/) - Hello and welcome to all our new subscribers! So glad to have you here with us in this haiku journey. For those of you who are new, we are figuring out a way to give you easy access to the earlier newsletters and lessons. Hope to have it sorted by next newsletter. But even if
- [Lesson Two](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/lesson/lesson-two/) - Hope you all had a chance to read Michael Dylan Welch’s essay in the last newsletter! I thought his explanation of syllables in haiku was very good. Some journals do insist on 5-7-5 still and others don’t want any 5-7-5, so make sure you read the submission guidelines carefully. Today I wanted to go more
- [Lesson One](https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/lesson/lesson-1/) - Hello and welcome to my ramblings on haiku and other subjects! Hope you enjoy wandering through my garden of thoughts. I’m no expert, and I welcome any comments you have or even contradictions 😊Sally asked me to do this and I can never say no to her, so here we are! Three-line poems! When else

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