Golden Week | Eleven Years Old
The Golden Week in Japan is a collection of four May holidays all clustered in a one week period. This year, Miss Ladybug decided to link her monthly Writing Challenge for May to the Golden Week: one haiku per day for seven days.
Golden Week has now ended and the kids and ladybugs from around the world have entered their haiku for the Golden Week Grand Prize judging. Miss Ladybug’s prizes are usually books, but sometimes, games, toys, or money. This time every poet got $7 for their collection of 7 haiku.
The Grand Prize was a haiku written by Miss Ladybug herself along with $20 so the winner could pick out their very own special prize. They also got a loaf of Miss Ladybug’s tasty banana bread baked with love.
This year’s grand prize winning Haiku collection was written by
ROLAND JOHNSTON
Congratulations to him from ladybugs everywhere on excellent creative writing. Here are some photos of the ceremony and the awards.
Our Haiku Master in the making is surveying the final printing of his Golden Week Haiku collection, the $20 prize money, the banana bread, and the haiku from Miss Ladybug. It was a great contest and we can’t wait to see what he writes next year.
A loaf of warm banana bread and his paper prizes and money.
This is the special haiku Miss Ladybug wrote just for the grand prize winner Roland.
Here is the fabulously insightful haiku collection written by young poet, Roland Johnston, grand prize winner of the Golden Week contest.
ELEVEN YEARS OLD
Second and third place winners were both ladybugs, Snatem and Pelta, respectively. They are an elderly couple, and very talented insect poets. Their haiku are currently being translated from Coccinellidae, the ladybug language.
Snatem and Pelta at their home in Hobbs Woods.
Roland’s granny also entered a collection of Haiku for Golden Week that received an honorable mention. You can read her work by clicking the button.