Day 14. A sight staring contest— the Carolina wren on a wooden fence post #2025GratitudeChallenge #haiku

a loveliness of ladybugs her sigh unheard #haiku #senryu

Prune Juice celebrates ✨TEAMWORK✨ Read about our editorial team here prunejuicesenryu.com/meet-the-new... @pippaesque.bsky.social @asurashaiku.bsky.social @orrinonline.bsky.social @lessethereal.bsky.social @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social @ajarhiannavo.bsky.social @winnieartist.bsky.social

first freeze the moment we met #monoku

Also, STOP giving $$$ to the DNC. Only make donations directly to candidates who have the courage to stand up to the GOP and President. No more funding the Democratic National Committee. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @kenmartin.bsky.social #ShutdownFiasco #ACATaxCredits

Chuck Schumer is up for reelection in 2028. The post above lists the 8 Dems who voted YES on opening the government. DEMS had momentum! WHY? 🤬😤 This vote was influenced & led by @schumer.senate.gov. DEMS were chosen to vote with Republicans. The ones NOT up for reelection soon, so you’ll forget.

This is ALWAYS how they do unpopular votes. The 8 DEM senators & the year they are up for reelection: 🔵 Catherine Cortez Masto, 1929 🔵 Dick Durbin, n/a, retiring 🔵 John Fetterman, 2028 🔵 Maggie Hassan, 2029 🔵 Tim Kaine, 2030 🔵 Angus King, 2032 🔵 Jacky Rosen, 2031 🔵 Jeanne Shaheen, n/a, retiring

Prune Juice submitters: Turns out sending out acceptances is more work than we anticipated! We will be reaching out to those whose poems have been accepted in the next few days! Thank you for your patience! #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity

For not so small 🤩 #SmallPoemSunday W. S. Merwin - an excerpt from the poem Berryman <…> you can't you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write. Alt includes longer excerpt & commentary. I’ll link the full poem shortly.

Still a pretty smiley jam... www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf42...

Attention PJ submitters! We've had a chance to look over all of your submissions, and we should be reaching out by the end of this weekend with our initial round of acceptances! If you don't receive one, there is still a (slim) chance your poem may make it in. #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity

breath roots I become the tree on the exhale #senryu

an afternoon guest winter wren wings whirring snow softly stirring #haiku

No “h” in stiletto. Got it! What? Oh, no-way. For sure this time! Stilhetto

Meltdown imminent #Poetry #MentalIllness #MentallyIllMess

winter is coming the sound of a train in the distance #haiku

momentum, his body, the concrete skateboarder worried mother taps her foot a full emergency room #tanka #micropoetry #tankapoem #TankaThursday momentum

Geography I space my lines Just so #vss365 #haiku

poor man's moon tattered curtains on a rusty van #inkMine

If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done. —Norman Vincent Peale #quote

strong river currents carry the water downstream the momentum of time flowing past unbound while we skip stones from the shore #tanka #TankaThursday

a shocked world swore it would not happen again but here we are a pit of broken bodies stretches into forever —Tracy Davidson Atlas Poetica 34 #5lines #TankaPoem #Tanka #micropoetry

moonstruck nostalgia gains momentum leapfrogging from Taiwan to Toronto I'm its colonial subject —Chen-ou Liu #tanka #micropoetry #tankapoem #TankaThursday momentum Link to Chen-ou Liu’s blog:

we work briskly  into the momentum of the day  a long list of what to do,  once all there was,  was to fall in love   —Tom Clausen #tanka #micropoetry #tankapoem #TankaThursday momentum

a dust storm gathering momentum on the horizon... each word you say makes everything worse —Keitha Keyes Ribbons, 13:3, Fall 2017 #tanka #micropoetry #tankapoem #TankaThursday momentum Chinese translation here: neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com/2020/02/one-...

another mammogram
 woodpecker at my door #dailyhaikuprompt #woodpecker

the heavy weight of the family curse a fallen tree rests in the forest waiting for the axe #tanka #TankaThursday (last Thursday that is)

Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-consuming hatred. It can only be conquered by recognizing and claiming the wealth of values it represents for all. #quote Aberjhani

A short marble doric column rises a foot from a pile of gold coins. Upon it rest two chains. One very thin delicate gold, and the other very delicate sliver. At the edge of the stone reads some old words in a forgotten language. "You may only choose one." Anklet of glimmering. Anklet of shadow.

dove covered in mud nesting atop rail crane in old welding hut 🕊️ #haiku

Welcome to PJ's prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning: #suffrage (with or without the word in your senryu) What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on humans Find more here: www.hsa-haiku.org Tag: #PJJournal #prompt 6 #WritingCommunity

how many hostages does it take to make a genocide #PJJournal #prompt 05 #WritingCommunity #Senryu

tanka weekly #poetry challenge October 30, 2025 this week’s prompt: curse write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry #tanka resources to develop your practice: tankasocietyofamerica.org Tanka Society of America: www.tankasocietyofamerica.org

Only ONE DAY left to submit your work to Prune Juice! We're looking for your best senryu and related forms of #poetry, including #kyoka, #haibun, #gembun, #haiga, and #sequences. This month we are especially interested in work exploring politics. #WritingCommunity #submissions #poetrysubmissions

day planner— the puppet master tells us who to hate #PJJournal #prompt05 #WritingCommunity #senryu #poetry (prompt: genocide)

empty church on the altar priest’s scalp — Martina Matijević

Featured on Haiku Commentary dusty teddy bear brushing off my childhood — Martina Matijević blind date a wildflower my app can’t identify — Anthony Lusardi monsoon rain over the paddy fields a flight of dragonflies — Paul Callus #haiku #poetry #commentary

I punish killers but these are my chosen -God

Pleased to have a minimalist poem at SMOLS, thanks to editor Roberta Jacobson. Here's a graphical version. smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com

Yesterday's #haiku with the typo corrected: new asphalt in the rain the road becomes an obsidian river

Just insufferably blank pages— —ethnic cleansing. Makoto #senryū #PJJournal #prompt05 #prompt

Welcome to PJ's prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning: #genocide (with or without the word in your senryu) What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on humans Find more here: www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-definiti... Tag: #PJJournal #prompt 05 #WritingCommunity

Come and meet the new team at Prune Juice! Don't forget submissions are accepted thru Oct. 31 prunejuicesenryu.com/meet-the-new... #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #senryu #prunejuice

pine wind needles falling on the water's cool sound #haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1692-1694 translator: Jane Reichhold #micropoetry

winged seeds drift away on the wind the vows you broke finding fertile soil with someone else #tanka #TankaThursday #pinecone

what do I know about dragonflies I have no wings #haiku Published in Fireflies' Light (MIssouri Baptist University) Issue 22/March 2021 #micropoetry

old flame ... blowing on forbidden embers #haiku #haikufeels