As promised… here are my submissions for Japan Fair's 2026 Haiku contest.

I'm going to skip the usual explanatory preamble and get right to the poems.

Submission 1: Old Couch

Submission 2: Choo

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So once again, I did not place or get any kind of honorable mention (⸝⸝⸝-﹏-⸝⸝⸝)

Oh well! This year, the haiku contest overlapped with another creative writing project, so I was short on time (also I procrastinated.)

I think I drafted all of my ideas (including a few rejects) in the two days before the contest submissions were due. I offer this not as an excuse, just to document what the experience was like.

I was honestly expecting to come back to these submissions a month later and hate them, but I still like them quite a bit! They're a little bland, but there's some fun word choice and I think they fit the spirit of the contest well.

Watch out, 2027! Next year's entries will be even better.

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You can read the winners for this year's contest here.

My favorite this year was a youth honorable mention!

Congrats to Florin and all the winners!

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Feel like reading my entries for last year's contest (2025)? Check them out here