Our trip around the world in 80 Englishes continues and March is Japanese English month. So we’re all about spring and poetry!
We have a haiku competition going and the winning haiku will be given pride of place on the macmillandictionary.com home page!
Your haiku should answer the question: ‘What’s your English?’ and will be posted here on the blog.To brush up on your haiku-writing skills, check out this link.
So grab that keyboard and send us your haiku!
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Congratulations !
Very very nice site
Thank you.. =)
My English is yours.
Is your English mine or ours?
Dear Macmillan Dictionary Team,
I keep enjoying & recommending this website to many colleagues. Not only in my homeland but also overseas.
I was very pleased to send my Haiku via Twitter.
Enjoy the competition!
Best wishes,
Maria
It’s always fun to run a haiku competition.
My website gives a useful introductory overview of haiku which is highly praised by both Japanese as well as British and American writers of haiku.
all my best,
Alan, With Words
another hot day
a leaking water pipe stopped
by the jackdaw’s beak
Alan Summers
Award credits: Honourable Mention, 14th Mainichi Haiku Contest (2010)
magnolia moon
Fukushima needs petals
for everyone’s heart
Alan Summers
花の月福島の民いやしけり
Japanese trans. Hidenori Hiruta (Akita, Japan)
Publications credits: Japan Aid Poster Auction, online and in Manchester art gallery (April 2011)