Haiku, related forms, and commentary on it. Digging deeper into the smaller things.
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Honored to have a haiku on The Touchstone Awards Individual Haiku Long List. It has a really interesting selection-well worth a read. Huge thanks to @WalesHaiku for nominating this poem and to the judges #haiku
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2 Apr 2025
Thankyou Lakshmi Iyer 🙏 for including my ku in the Haiku Dialogue longlist this week
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28 Mar 2025
negotiations
another day
of snow
-LeRoy Gorman
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28 Mar 2025
#Old #Haiku #personal #favorites
releasing a sparrow —
its heartbeat lingers
in my palm
John Wisdom
At about 12, a friend and I hit a tiny sparrow, that clung onto life like a dying soldier. I never forgot it.
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crowded shelter
layer within layer
of hushed silence
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Selected #Poems on 50,000 DEATHS in #GAZA tinyurl.com/4fta8c6z #poetry #writing
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25 Mar 2025
#Haiku #personal #favorites #pine #trees
wind-whipped pine
each needle glistening
in the torrid rain
John Wisdom … after writing this haiku, it tended to vary from the haiku norms. Hence, my reason for Tanka.
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3 Mar 2025
Glad to have my haiku published in failed haiku, volume 10, Issue 108.
Thanks Kelly and Mike. :)
failedhaiku.com/
#micropoetry #haiku #poetrycommunity #WritingCommmunity
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21 Mar 2025
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night ferry
pitching its way
through starlight
— Maire Morrissey Cummins
grandfather’s trembling feet
searching for the slippers
in this cold night
— Lanka Siriwardana
and a haiga by Bonnie J Scherer:
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17 Jul 2024
leaf skeleton--
the memory of who
I used to be
📷 gettyimages
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23 Feb 2025
5haikuSpoken:
issue 17
Tony Williams
Deborah A. Bennet
Tracy Davidson @tracydavidson27
Kala Ramesh
Jeremey Haworth
#micropoety #micropoem #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #5haikuspoken #poetrycommunity
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5 Feb 2025
The sixth of our Winter Series: an evocative and memorable #haiku from Jay Friedenberg, selected from our #Winter Journal.
You can find this and many others @ the link in bio…
#haiku #haikupoetry #micropoetry
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12 Mar 2025
Glad to have a haiku published in #femkumag issue 38, Spring 2025.
Thanks to Rowan Beckett Minor and Vandana Parashar.
femkumag.wixsite.com/home/is…
#micropoetry #haiku
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9 Mar 2025
Delighted to have my #haiku in Mamba – Journal of Africa Haiku Network -Issue 17, February 2025.
Many thanks to the Editor Emmanuel Kalusian and the Guest Editor Ayeyemi Taofeek for the publication.
The link to the fantastic issue is here- africahaikunetwork.wordpress…
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7 Mar 2025
#shahai by long-time contributor, Reid Hepworth @reidhepworth. #photography #lake #poetry #shore #poetrycommunity #moon #monoku #trees #pic #poetrylovers #night #micropoetry #haiku #photo #winter
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6 Mar 2025
remaining in the records
as a flightless bird
--reiko nakahara
記録には飛べない鳥として残る なかはられいこ
#senryu #gendaisenryu #translation
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I follow the trickle
of this childhood creek
Earth Day
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2 Mar 2025
two or three brooms
that should be sweeping
summer's fallen leaves
--Soha Hatano (1923-1991)
夏落葉掃くべき箒二三本 波多野爽波
#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation
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1 Mar 2025
soft orange leaves—
how weightless she feels
in my arms
— Anthony Lusardi
call to prayers
the vastness
of domed desert
— Douglas J. Lanzo
frosty dawn —
the metallic taste
of her lipstick
— Minh-Triêt Pham
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#haiku #poetry #poem
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