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May 15th, 2026
Haiku Imperium and waxpoetryart.com present Haiku Imperium Collection #2.
Haiku Imperium Collection #2 is edited and designed by Kirk Ramdath. Published by Florencia Bay Books in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. Nanaimo is located on the traditional and unceded territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nation of the Coast Salish Peoples.
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EDITOR'S CHOICE
May 15th, 2026
Haiku Magazine Contest #2 – First Place
"Among the branches" (first line)
by David McMurray
(Algonquin Highlands, Ontario, Canada)
May 15th, 2026 in Haiku Imperium Collection #2
Haiku Contest #13 – First Place
"hum of a highway" (first line)
by Monica Kakkar
(New Delhi, Delhi, India)
May 15th, 2026
Haiku of the Americas Contest #1 – First Place
"my native bush guide" (first line)
by Karen Battoo
(St. Ann's, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago)
May 15th, 2026
Haiku Asia and Oceania Contest #2 – First Place
"Brown leaves brush blossom" (first line)
by Eliza Coco
(Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand)
May 15th, 2026
Haiku Europe Contest #2 – First Place
"Sun beats, healers tread" (first line)
by Justin-Lee Austin
(Poole, Dorset, England, United Kingdom)
May 15th, 2026
USA presents Haiku Contest #2 – First Place
"and rest the batter" (first line)
by Jerome Berglund
(Harvey, Louisiana, United States)
May 15th, 2026
"splendor of sunburst" (first line)
by Monica Kakkar
(New Delhi, Delhi, India)
May 15th, 2026
"Burbling sweet waters" (first line)
by Kuldeep Singh Bisht
(Bhowali, Uttarakhand, India)
May 15th, 2026
"autumn leaf's trust fall" (first line)
by Vaishnavi Pusapati
(Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India)
May 15th, 2026
"moved to the country" (first line)
by Marie Derley
(Ath, Wallonia, Belgium)
May 15th, 2026
"The robins sing songs" (first line)
by Remus
(Schoonhoven, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)
May 15th, 2026
"Woman at the stop" (first line)
by Zahir Turaj
(Zeewold, Flevoland, Netherlands)
May 15th, 2026
"symphony of sighs" (first line)
by Monica Kakkar
(New Delhi, Delhi, India)
May 15th, 2026
"The flowers wilted" (first line)
by John Chalk
(Linthicum Heights, Maryland, United States)
May 15th, 2026
"I called once again" (first line)
by Zahir Turaj
(Zeewold, Flevoland, Netherlands)
May 15th, 2026
"Under the frost moon" (first line)
by Guohua Li
(Montebello, New York, United States)
May 15th, 2026
"last train through the dusk" (first line)
by Vaishnavi Pusapati
(Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India)
May 15th, 2026
"The deep discomfort" (first line)
by Kailyn Kazlauskas
(Thompson, Manitoba, Canada)
May 15th, 2026
"All of a sudden" (first line)
by Eliza Coco
(Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand)
May 15th, 2026
"Reflection of light" (first line)
by Zahir Turaj
(Zeewold, Flevoland, Netherlands)
May 15th, 2026
"moon in the train" (first line)
by Marie Derley
(Ath, Wallonia, Belgium)
May 15th, 2026
"Write, edit, redo" (first line)
by Dean Monaghan
(Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland)
May 15th, 2026
"And with the same mouth" (first line)
by John Chalk
(Linthicum Heights, Maryland, United States)
May 15th, 2026
"In the snowy woods" (first line)
by Guohua Li
(Montebello, New York, United States)
May 15th, 2026
"You decide your path" (first line)
by Lynn Carole Brown
(Owensville, Missouri, United States)
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