Lafcadio
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haiku, senyru, tanka and other micropoetry she/her
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Marilyn Ward
about 13 hours ago
#DailyHaikuPrompt
#plover
heavy cloud a plovers whistle weaves through
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about 11 hours ago
a bare tree stands alone in the snow... tenderness
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Gofod Gwag (empty space) 📸
1 day ago
The case of the curious sheep
#coast
#photography
#sea
#photo
#nature
#wales
#cymru
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titmouse calls... today's sky is as blue as your voice whispering in my ear secrets of the universe
#tanka
#TankaThursday
about 11 hours ago
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Doug
about 12 hours ago
as if diminished by their labels wildflowers
#haikufeels
#haiku
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Jenn R-J
1 day ago
staring boldly ahead black eyed peas
#senryu
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RobertA Beary (they/she)
2 days ago
💜💜💜what a pleasure to read this on New Year’s Eve!
add a skeleton here at some point
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Jenn R-J
2 days ago
years end the streets littered with discarded dreams
#vss365
#senryu
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Used Robot Salesman
3 days ago
*working on a new pickup line. “SOOOoooo….um. You like bees or nah?”
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Orak⚜️
4 days ago
pacing this warm hallway in my dreams im much older
#tanka
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Thomas L. Vaultonburg
3 days ago
forgive yourself— the river never asks where the water has been
#haiku
#poetry
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Orak⚜️
4 days ago
stone of a cemetery angel impermanent me walkin' home
#senryu
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Eve Castle
3 days ago
Sharing a picture from a walk in Colorado summer 2025. May all who see today’s image feel the warmth & promise of the simple things along your path all week. Take care of you and 💝 remember to call someone to say, “Hello 🐝”
#PhotoShareMonday
My 📸, pic from my iphone photo roll ©️
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Kris Lindbeck
6 days ago
after solstice a single bird tries out a new song
#haiku
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Doug
6 days ago
a soft crackle— the turntable needle between memories
#haikufeels
#haiku
#senryu
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Eve Castle
8 days ago
snow’s falling! I see it through a hole in the shutter —Masaoka Shiki (Sept 17, 1867 - Sept 19, 1902) Tr. Janine Beichman
#haiku
#micropoetry
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Thomas L. Vaultonburg
8 days ago
nobody knows and somehow that helps
#haiku
#poetry
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Jenn R-J
8 days ago
years end we count the things we did to survive
#vss365
#senryu
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translucent frog in the amazon jungle crystal clear all that is honestly true lies behind your smile
#tanka
#TankaThursday
9 days ago
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Jenn R-J
10 days ago
holiday break dashing through the SNow IT workers
#senryu
#IYKYK
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Orak⚜️
11 days ago
steel fingers in worn leather gloves ... her breath ends
#senryu
#leather
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Eve Castle
12 days ago
Dust of Snow The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree. Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. -Robert Frost
#SmallPoemSunday
#poetry
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Doug
12 days ago
a verbal misstep hitting my head on the nail
#senryu
#SenryuSunday
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Thomas L. Vaultonburg
12 days ago
wind in pines— something wiser than me is breathing
#haiku
#poetry
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RobertA Beary (they/she)
14 days ago
winter dusk when dad would phone
#micropoetry
#haiku
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spinybear
15 days ago
the heavy silence does not bother the spider still in the window while I whittle the hours with shreds of light I have left
#tanka
#micropoetry
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
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she follows the boot prints you left in the snow she builds a paper house and waits for you there
#tanka
#TankaThursday
#surreal
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Eve Castle
15 days ago
autumn rains and two little houses by the swollen river
#Haiku
by Yosa Buson (1716-1783) (from book Classic Haiku, Tom Lowenstein, 2007)
#micropoetry
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Doug
15 days ago
next to the urn a canning jar for her memories
#PJJournal
#prompt
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#WritingCommunity
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Eve Castle
15 days ago
By Chen-ou Liu: For Ernest Hemingway who claimed the important thing for a writer is to tell a good story... The best ones are liars. at daybreak Death has a boot on my neck the first line for him I'm a slave to words
#TankaThursday
boot
neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-ro...
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A Room of My Own: A Dead Man Writing
For Ernest Hemingway who claimed that The important thing for a writer is to tell a good story... The best ones are liars. at daybr...
http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-room-of-my-own-dead-man-writing.html
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Prune Juice Journal
15 days ago
Welcome to PJ's prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning:
#ash
(with or without the word in your senryu) What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on humans Find out more here:
www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-definiti...
Tag:
#PJJournal
#prompt
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#WritingCommunity
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stiff breeze... another meaningless rant knocks us over
#senyru
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AdLibby
16 days ago
An
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Day 17 Five ku published in one of my favorite journals- Failed Haiku. I was so sorry to see it go. My thanks to all the editors that published me throughout the years and special mention to kelly moyer ‘Failed’ Editor who published the ones below
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Jenn R-J
17 days ago
mid December still waiting for my doge check
#senryu
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Jenn R-J
16 days ago
recalling our younger years walkie talkie
#vss365
#senryu
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Thomas L. Vaultonburg
16 days ago
bare tree- still good at holding sky
#haiku
#poetry
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Jenn R-J
about 1 year ago
Hello Blue Sky writers, you're invited to join me every Sunday for
#SenryuSunday
. There are no prompt words, just post your original Senryu poem to the hashtag, & visit the hashtag to enjoy everyone else's work. Here's a link with more information on the Senryu form
akitahaiku.com/what-are-hai...
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What are Haiku, Senryu and Tanka?
What are Haiku, Senryu and Tanka? To help you get started, here is a short introduction to Japanese poetry styles. What are Haiku? Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of 17 morae…
https://akitahaiku.com/what-are-haiku-senryu-and-tanka/
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Eve Castle
16 days ago
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. —Spinoza Dutch Philosopher
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Jenn R-J
16 days ago
mid December hanging heavy in the air the scent of war
#haiku
#senryu
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isabella mori
19 days ago
run down the smell of cheap sex on $5,000 leather seats
#PJJournal
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Used Robot Salesman
20 days ago
Look, you can stay here living in the past if ya wanna'. But, just sayin' for me....I already have my Valentine’s Day decorations up.
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Jenn R-J
20 days ago
parting clouds I pour myself into the sky
#DailyHaikuPrompt
#haiku
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Thomas L. Vaultonburg
21 days ago
thin ice - I hear my other life
#haiku
#poetry
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Shinobazu Pond 俳句
21 days ago
Appetite slims - puncturing his belt another notch.
#PJJournal
prompt 07: leather
#WritingCommunity
#Senryu
#poetrycommunity
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Dezmond Davanti
25 days ago
Just another husk cooked at the altar of commerce reporting for duty.
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Dezmond Davanti
22 days ago
Scattered fragments of a rant masquerading as midnight prayer.
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yellow leaves falling relieve the maple tree of its burden I prefer encumbrance to living without you
#tanka
#TankaThursday
22 days ago
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AdLibby
22 days ago
An
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Day 11 Published this week in Haiku Dialogue from the prompt/Working with the Soil Thank you to guest editor,
@arvinderk.bsky.social
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Prune Juice Journal
22 days ago
Welcome to PJ's prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning:
#leather
(with or without the word in your senryu) What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on humans More here:
hsa-haiku.org/hsa-definiti...
Tag:
#PJJournal
#prompt
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#WritingCommunity
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Jenn R-J
22 days ago
eleven months in a nation’s illicit acts include piracy
#vss365
#senryu
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