The Best Haiku Anthology international competition awards $330 USD and is sponsored and judged by the team at Haiku Crush. The 2025 submission window opens on World Ocean Day on June 8th. All forms of traditional and modern haiku are accepted in this search to publish the best.
Zephyr morning stillness rhythmic movement zephyr and leaf
Leaf-whistles Needles oscillate Psithuric wind song
Trees shimmer Yawning deeply Anticipation stirs
long-awaited hues brilliant, buff, earthy wind song
long-awaited brilliant colors fleeting
burnt, buff, earthy, ushering in sienna hues, autumn's display
1. Magnolia Blossom elegant folds beautiful and simplistic cradling life
2. Captivated sense of errantry a whispered psithurism, she catches her breath
3. Zephyr morning stillness rhythmic movement zephyr and leaf
4. Mångata sea of midnight blue whimsical images skirt Mångata pathways submitted June 8, 2025
aureate
honeyed, tawny, burnt
Autumn's play
psithurism reeds sing in the wind howling change
a gentle psithurism passes through, catching her breathe
Captivated sense of errantry a whispered psithurism she catches her breath
a sea of midnight blue whimsical images skirt along Mangata pathways
night recedes behind the stars- no thought to pending troubles tomorrow sleeps
Evening's warm hues cast a spell of tranquility
a songless world yearns for echoes of a promised aria
Morning stillness Rhythmic movement Zephyr and leaf
life lives on in bifurcating branches of generational rings
leaf-whistles, needles oscillate in a psithurism wind
misty, moisty morning hovering fog clouds kissing the dew
Rhonda Bronte Brown is a National Board-Certified Teacher and retired teacher/counselor whose work has appeared in Better Than Starbucks, The Trouvaille Review, Meat for Tea, The Orchards Poetry Journal and The Best Haiku 2025 international anthology and several online journals. She holds both a BS and a Master’s degree and writes children’s literature and poetry exploring nature, SEL, and STEM.
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