🧵2/2 Submit your senryu in the comments by tagging us or using the hashtag: #PJJournal. To submit by email use this link: prunejuicesenryu.com/submissions/

Welcome to Prune Juice's first official Complete the Haiga! Write a poem for the image below and the winner will be published in the December issue of Prune Juice! 🧵1/2 #PJJournal #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity

Great to debut in the new minimalist #poetry journal SMOLS thanks to editor Robin Jacobson. Mine is a 2-worder written listening to Ride while thinking about supernovae. Also sharing Kimberly Kuchar's wonderful redacted one. smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025_09_24_a... youtube.com/watch?v=gIsn...

Welcome back to PJ's prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning: #Nation (with or without the word in your senryu) What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on the human Find more here: www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-definiti... Tag: #PJJournal #prompt 02 #WritingCommunity

In case you need to hear it today: Being exhausted is completely valid. The world is exhausting and actively trying to wear you down. There is nothing wrong with you if you are feeling it. The wrong in this aspect is folks of the world trying to make you think this is normal.

condensation running down our glasses grandmother tells me about the child she lost in the war #tanka by Christopher Costabile Published in Fields of Gold poems of peace The Bamboo Hut 2022 - peace poems from around the world #micropoetry #tankapoem

a poet's greatest dilemma a rosebud about to bloom civilians killed in battle #tanka #5lines #tankapoem Published Bright Stars 6, An Organic Tanka Anthology M. Kei, Editor Also, Chinese translation & commentary by Chen-ou Liu is featured on the NeverEndingStoryHaikuTanka blogspot 6/2/2022

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obsessed with this photo of a puffin

the arms of the willow drape so lovingly i think of mother Fireflies' Light, Missouri Baptist University Issue 25, March 2022 #tanka #tankapoem #micropoetry

Just to stay sane, with warplanes wounding the ancient sky, I write one more tanka. Makoto #tanka #poem #fear

a tired man even my shadow staggers a bit - red shodyær #senryu

night audit— giving my last to a needy mom - red shodyær #EMPATHY #senryu

empathy— we cry, each of us for ourselves #senryu #empathy #PJJournal #prompt

eulogy... the danger of empathy #PJJournal #senryu #poetry

juice spilled in plumb line, printing fresh-pressed purple prose~ prompt #empathy rose. 🌹 #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #prompts #WritingCommunity #PJJournal #prompt 001

the cat gains another life persimmon sun #haiku #poetry #Caturday #poetrysky #poetsofbluesky #writesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #cats

the blank paper inside my leather journal blindingly white do i cover it with ink or live with the emptiness #tanka #TankaThursday

Welcome to PJ's new prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning #EMPATHY (with or without the word in the poem) What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on the human Find more here: www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-definiti... #WritingCommunity #prompt 01 #PJJournal

nameless tune being hummed— under a sugar moon even shadows are alluring #tanka

I hope everyone is looking forward to the next submission call for Prune Juice Journal prunejuicejournal.bsky.social It will be the first issue led by the new editor pippaesque.bsky.social As the social media manager for the journal I will be providing some writing prompts for you soon. Stay Tuned!

Very excited to be collaborating and bringing haiga to Prune Juice Journal!

Prune Juice is happy to announce that Complete the Haiga will be coming to the journal as a regular feature! Many thanks to @lessethereal.bsky.social for joining the team!

Welcome to Prune Juice's official Bluesky Account! We will be opening for submissions starting in October, and are particularly encouraging poems that engage with politics of the moment. Check out our page for more information: prunejuicesenryu.com/submissions/ #senryu #poetry #WritingCommunity

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." —Bernard M. Baruch #Quote

I'm extremely happy to appear in Heron's Nest XXVII/3. I've been trying to return to this #haiku journal for over four years so I'm extremely grateful to triagist Fay Aoyagi and the rest of the editors for their support. Congratulations to everyone featured. theheronsnest.com/September202...

butterfly-knife gleam; steelslit envelope spilling wilted white petals

on your open palm delicate lines I've memorised... trails that lead back to you #Photography Dan 23 Freedom @dan23freedom.art

Abdellatif Laâbi, tr. Donald Nicholson-Smith

Many thanks to guest editor @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social for selecting my work for this week's short list of verses for @haikufound.bsky.social in reaction to the work "Without Hope" by Frida Kahlo, and for the immensely thoughtful commentary. #haikufoundation #haikudialogue #haiku #ekphrasis

Happy to be in this week's #Haiku Dialogue! Thank you to guest editor Lafcadio @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social for selecting mine to appear. To see the full list of selections, visit: thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...

Thanks to Haiku Dialogue guest editor Lafcadio for including my poem in surreal II series at thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog... @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social

This weeks prompt ‘without hope’ the painting by Frida Kahlo has inspired a set of visceral, powerful ku. Thank you to editor @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social for including mine in the long list #haiku

suddenly dark clouds gathering in my mind I know I won't survive another storm #tanka #TankaThursday

humming birds around the feeder— the blur of summer weeks

Alone is alone, it would seem. But in this late September light, I notice how its richness at once makes me more mindful of my own solitude. red oak leaves shaking in the wind as do their shadow

Japanese Tea Garden rain dripping— we sip green tea and pull our futures out of broken cookies

soaring over a shallow mind to ruffle the stony feathers of their intolerance #tanka #TankaThursday #jump

Super happy to feature this Wednesday at the Haiku Dialogue. This was a tad difficult prompt to negotiate. Huge thanks to the guest editor @lafcadio2.0 🌹 @haikufound.bsky.social @kj-munro.bsky.social @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social

Happy to be in this week's commentary selections on #Haiku Dialogue! Thank you to guest editor Lafcadio (@lafcadiobsky.bsky.social) for the thoughtful analysis. Check out the other selections here: thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...

Much grateful to @lafcadio for including my poem for my first ever commentary @haikufound thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog... @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social

Delighted to have my ku selected for commentary by @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social in Haiku Dialogue. The prompt was a Self-Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse) by Leonora Carrington which I found quite challenging so doubly delighted it was chosen for a commentary. #haiku #LeonoraCarrington

death cult a flood of lies

our country's flag waving in the breeze fourth of july fireworks exploding over migrants in tents #tanka #TankaThursday

watching your eyes for a sign of desire while robin fledglings are gaping at their mother #tanka #TankaThursday #hunger

late afternoon sun, for a moment my faux philosophizing #senryu

river frogs are silent driving car comes to screeching halt #senryu

delicate mauve . . . this corn stubble field scratching the sky - Julie Bloss Kelsey, brass bell: a haiku journal (August 1, 2014) #haiku #poetry