Nationally-recognized judge, Anna DiBella, awarded three poets awards of excellence in the annual Cape Cod Branch of the NLAPW Haiku Contest,July 2011.
She states, "Each Haiku rates equally in creative diversity, presenting unique aspects of contemporary American Haiku writing in both form and content. I cannot separate them into first, second and third."
Patricia A. Oplinger's winning first line: " as deep as your eyes ... "
A further collection of poems, many from years in the Middle East, but also the California San Francisco and Central Coast areas (Santa Cruz, Carmel, Big Sur, Berkeley, etc.).
My book of poetry is being redone by me, I have a beautiful cover designed and the book will have a few more than 200 poems in it. I am going to have it printed on demand here in Canada. When it is done I will let you know when it is done and if anyo
Selected poems from previous & forthcoming collections together with Q&R apps on each page to enable audio rendition simultaneously with the written text