Haiku Poet Word Search

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Debbie Strange

Debbie Strange is a Canadian short-form poet, musician, and artist, working in multiple disciplines (photography, painting, ink, collage, monoprinting), who is grateful to live on Treaty 1 land. Her creative passions connect her more closely to the world, to others, and to herself, and help mitigate the effects of complex regional pain syndrome. She suffers happily from biophilia, logolepsy, and papyrophilia, with awesome new diagnoses appearing regularly! Debbie’s book-length haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks, won the 2020 Snapshot Press Book Award, and was released by the press in late 2024.

https://debbiemstrange.blogspot.com/ (archive of publications and awards)
https://www.instagram.com/debbiemstrange
https://www.snapshotpress.co.uk/books/random_blue_sparks.htm

Note:
biophilia – love of nature
logolepsy – love of words
papyrophilia – love of paper

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refugee train
small hands starfished
against the glass

1st Place, Triveni Haikai India Triveni Awards 2024

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Fata Morgana the (in)visibility of my (dis)ability

2nd Place, #FemkuMag Marlene Mountain Memorial Haiku Contest 2021

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midnight sun
a polar bear’s breath
catches fire

3rd Place, Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition 2024

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5 responses to “Debbie Strange”

  1. Mary Avatar
    Mary

    This could be the greatest number of words I’ve ever googled before 7:30 in the morning! These are really interesting words!

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    1. debbiemstrange Avatar
      debbiemstrange

      Thanks so much, Mary, for sharing my love of words!☺️

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    agilecata915e718b7

    I confess I didn’t know the meaning of quite a lot of the words in your Word Search, Debbie (“tuckamores”?!), but I did remember your beautiful senryu about the refugee child…

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  3. debbiemstrange Avatar
    debbiemstrange

    Thanks so much for reading, and for your lovely comment! A few definitions for you: bokeh (aesthetics of out-of-focus photography), tuckamores (stunted & deformed trees shaped by wind & sea spray – lots of these in Newfoundland!), kinkeeper (maintaining family ties), yutori (slowing down to simply be, breathe, listen & appreciate nature), komorebi (light filtering through trees & leaves)…for me, words are better than chocolate!

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  4. debbiemstrange Avatar
    debbiemstrange

    Thank you, Kelly, for including me in this fun project – a lovely way to begin my day!

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