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Complete the Haiga is blessed with amazing contributors to the prompt. Every two weeks, a new featured poet and three of their Complete the Haiga pieces will be featured on this page. I hope to see your work here soon!
October 23rd-26th, 2025 - Seabeck Haiku Getaway
October 23rd-26th, 2025 - Seabeck Haiku Getaway
At Seabeck Haiku Getaway 4 inch haiga squares were provided to the attendees to create their own haiga. These were then put on display at the event. On the final day, 3 were selected to feature here on Complete the Haiga. There were many well crafted pieces and the selection was narrowed down to haiga by Lisa Gerlits, Nicholas Klacsanzky, and Kristen Lingquist.
prompt 62
prompt 62
Often when viewing an image, we focus on the recognizable qualities of line and color that define its form. Yet there is also an energy in the spaces between, something this haiga captures through the haiku’s callout to negative space, the old oak, and the crow. It reflects the Japanese aesthetic of ma, where even emptiness carries a presence.
Lisa Gerlits
Lisa Gerlits is an award-winning author and poet. Her middle grade novels include A Many Feathered Thing, Rewilding, and The Children’s Opera (forthcoming, 2027). Her poetry appears regularly in haiku journals, and she has received several nominations for the Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award for Individual Poems. Lisa lives with her husband and three kids in Silverton, Oregon where she enjoys gorging on berries and walking behind waterfalls. Visit her at www.lisagerlits.com.
prompt 116
prompt 116
What I liked most about Nicholas’s piece is the way he captures the moment of the owl’s call on a cold, starlit night. I have been in that moment. I have imagined that distant owl. The drawing feels like a signpost, pointing beyond itself to the unseen presence of the owl and the quiet expanse of night.
Nicholas Klacsanzky
Nicholas Klacsanzky is a haiku/senryu editor at Frogpond Journal, an editor of the blog Haiku Commentary, and a previous mentor for the Haiku Society of America. Visit his website at haikucommentary.wordpress.com
prompt 110
prompt 110
What drew me to Kristen’s haiga is how she weaves her single-line haiku along the edge of the image, making the poem part of the composition. The juxtapositions of the haiku take on a mythic quality. They imbue the image with the obstinate energy of crowness and perhaps some resolve in ourselves to be unsilenced.
Kristen Lindquist
Kristen Lindquist writes her haiku amid the natural beauty of Midcoast Maine. Her book Island placed second in the 2023 Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards; her chapbooks It Always Comes Back (haiku) and What We Tell Each Other (haibun) were winners of the Snapshot Press eChapbook Award in 2020 and 2023, respectively. She currently serves as the Haiku Society of America’s Regional Coordinator for New England and as co-editor for Autumn Moon Haiku Journal. Visit her blog and website at www.kristenlindquist.com.
October 26th, 2025 - Grace McKie
October 26th, 2025 - Grace McKie
Grace McKie
I only started writing Haiku a few years ago after COVID so it's a short journey. I took it up as a hobby. I soon discovered it's more than that, it's like finding a piece of mindfulness in my head and changed the way I view the world regarding nature and everything, it's so relaxing to do. Doing the haigas helped me to improve my writing. I loved reading how other people interpreted the pictures,and the project has really taken off that's fantastic and well done to Luke for all his great artwork.
-Grace Mckie
October 11th, 2025 - Lafcadio
October 11th, 2025 - Lafcadio
Lafcadio is a poet based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, writing primarily in haiku/senryu, tanka, and other forms of Japanese micropoetry. Since 2021 her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She enjoys exploring the potential of small poems to capture the vastness of nature and the human experience. She writes under a pen name because she likes to say nom de plume.
Ever since I first found Josiah’s drawings on social media, I’ve been a fan. His minimalist art pieces carry a quiet strength that invites reflection. Each piece creates a safe space for the poet’s voice. I often find inspiration there to write haiku, senryu, and tanka—and, on occasion, his drawings feel as though they match a poem I've already written. I’m grateful for the opportunity to have some of my work featured on his website; it’s a thoughtful and beautifully curated space for collaboration between image and word.
-Lafcadio
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