I won the first place of Dreamers Haiku Contest 2018 Thank you ! To be in the Summer https://www.dreamerswriting.com/stories-poems/emi-miyaoka-to-be-in-the-summer-contest-winner/ Dreamers Haiku Contest 2018 The Winners https://www.dreamerswriting.com/stories-poems/2018-haiku-contest-winners/ The reference to Shakespeare in a Japanese poem juxtaposes the two poetic traditions beautifully, while encouraging us to look up and be one with the beauty around us. – James Brandon MY ARTIST' S STATEMENT: First, thank you very much to Dreamers Creative Writing. I learned biology at university because I was interested in nature and “living”. Why are we living, what is life, and how should we live? I am still in the middle of this long way. Shakespeare, and many poets (as well as scientists), can show us ways of living these days by their universal thinking. Nature and mind are connected according to the Haiku worldview. I try to weave my will into