For when you need to breathe...

mining some ink? spill it #prompts Mon Jan 27, 2025 Weekly #Prompt - LUCID GAZE SHINE DAYBREAK GONE DARK post with hashtag: #inkMine

We shall not sip from the same glass, No water for us, or sweet wine; We’ll not embrace at morning, Not gaze from the same sill at night; You breathe the sun, I the moon, Yet the one love keeps us alive. ~Anna Akhmatova

tweet by tweet filling a bare tree warblers at dawn bare tree at dawn filled with chirrups filling the bare twigs with warblers sunset bare tree putting on new warblers at dawn #haiku

stillness meeting stillness oak's reflection in a pond #haiku

gasping for breath moon squeezed between highrises #haiku

Here's something I wrote a while back that might be useful to beginners as well :-)

So if haiku isn't about syllables, what is it about? A good starting point is that it is a juxtaposition of two fragments. For example: waiting for the butter to soften– summer rain -Francine Banwarth 3/8

First, forget about syllables. I won't stop anyone from writing 5-7-5 haiku, but most English language poets don't. Why? I’ll just link to this. www.graceguts.com/essays/urban... 2/8

A friend of mine mentioned some people have been asking about the free form haiku they've been seeing on Bluesky, so I'm creating a step by step guide to writing a haiku. Feel free to respond to the last thread (#8) with your ku if you want feedback or to share! #haiku #micropoetry #poetry 🧵 1/8

twigs itchy with buds a waiting magnolia full of collared doves

midwinter the startling absence of birdsong #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

just as it is the mountain without the moon Basho

the sky so full of stars and an unfinished moon cold winter night #haiku #poetry

when in love the body is infinite summer clothes --Hijiri Miyairi 恋すれば人体無限夏衣　宮入聖 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

what remains after letting go journeying down the path of healing #thepenflows #tanka #poetry #micropoetry

I guess I could see it that way...

the moment when there’s a hush upon the earth and it feels like a hug and you hug back staying there awhile #2wordprompt #poetry #micropoetry

#poem #poetry #writingcommunity

silver stars glimmer on the edge of dawn frosty windowpane #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #blueskypoetry

blossoms of the dogwood brief and beautiful an act of giving #tanka Fireflies' Light, Missouri Baptist University Issue 22, March 2021 #poetry #tankapoem

a book of poems by my bedside every window waiting for the moon

the kind of peace that calls you home soulwhispers #poetry #blueskypoetry

glimmer of rubies in the thicket a cardinal #DailyHaikuPrompt (glimmer) #haiku

a glimmer in my teacup -- winter moon #DailyHaikuPrompt (glimmer)

#poem #vss365 #silence

Excuse me, but are you talking to me?

Blue Velvet

For when you need to breathe...

a streak of silver in my hair shooting star

writing something tearing it up longing for someone Basho

as starlings kiss my still I fill my soul w/constellations golden glistening guiding me to peace in defiance of the rubicund regime that bleeds greed & grasps at superseding citizens from flight/feeling resistance requires recognition of their black dwarves & lack of a loving core that emits nothing

river of light flowing among stars on this dark and hollow night does aloneness make a sound #tanka

#CompleteTheHaiga @completethehaiga.bsky.social

gentle nod snowdrops peeking through fallen leaf lace #haiku #poetry #VSS365 #lace

a candle burns in the dark the song of crickets #DailyHaikuPrompt (candle, lawn)

Nature's artwork Snow swan...

The silence must be longer. This music is about the silence. The sounds are there to surround the silence. ~Arvo Pärt

if I should fall asleep let it be, the stars don't interest me, anymore there is nothing darker than the absence of light the deep well of unconsciousness the pain in this world makes us settle for the peace of oblivion still I hope they twinkle for other's eyes mine are closing down #poetry

the candle now a flickering flame still lights my way #dailyhaikuprompt - candle #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #writing #writingcommunity

Ivy Jacobsen

Wrapped up in soft dark Bluebells pucker, kiss the winds Longing dawns at dusk #vss365 #WalesHaikuJournal #haiku

American Robin Wide-eyed wonder...

Wren and Cherry Blossom. 🎨 Robert Fuller

Once upon a time, in a little house in the woods,

Snow impressions…painted wet in wet and letting the paint do as it pleases. Only adding a few details. 🙏🏻

Life fails to be perfect, but never fails to be beautiful. #Flowers

snow melt dreams stir the sleepy forest into green #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

Hold on to the beautiful moments. We're all going to need them.