The ‘Mindful’ Activist Winners Announced

A haiku and photography competition

Climate Action Plymouth announces the winners of their creative challenge at Theatre Royal Plymouth. The winning entry for haikus was Alexia Bui with Nieve Fay taking first place for photography.

Competitors were asked to get creative and express how they felt about the climate emergency and biodiversity crisis through words and pictures. Entrants showed their appreciation of nature and expressed their concerns about the climate crisis and biodiversity loss.

The judges were very impressed with the quality of entries and after much deliberation chose the following:

Winning haikus

First Place: Alexia Bui

Red skies over the Hoe
Dartmoor is on fire, too dry
Kids chase balls, laughing

Runner Up: Alisar Alkehersan

Sunset unwinding
Scattering pins of colour
The artists paint her

Highly Commended: Bonnie Fraser

Seagulls drag debris-
their nest: cardboard, can, plastic/
old tree, mine-d, man-made

What is a haiku?

Haikus are short three line poems about nature.

• They have 17 syllables.
• The first line has 5 syllables, the second 7 and the third 5.
• They don’t have to rhyme.
• Full stops or commas and even capital letters are optional!
• Top tip: let one of your lines say something different so the haiku does not read as one sentence.

Winning Photographs