morning stretches— a she-giant's hands push the roof skyward

watering the pots moths rise into the coolness the night sky bonewhite

weaving stars waiting River of Heaven scatter blue indigo #tanka #micropoetry

moon at the window imagining on your skin the pale scent of soap

“Because civilizations are finite, in the life of each of them there comes a moment when the center ceases to hold. What keeps them at such times from disintegration is not legions but language.” Joseph Brodsky, poet #quote from BrainyQuote

makes me feel good... crossing off things from my to-do list

hot afternoon wet hair cooling my back

Exquisite 💙

#completethehaiga 158 @completethehaiga.bsky.social

Komatsuken Hyakki — Descending Geese and Autumn Grasses Under the Full Moon

danse macabre— der krieger und die kaiserin waltz off the edge

sīþ, m/n.n: journey, voyage. (SEETH / ˈsiːθ) Image: Bestiaire d’Amour; N Italy, c. 1290; Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.459, f. 18r. #OldEnglish #WOTD

heat haze yellow grasses whisper of rain #DailyHaikuPrompt (parched)

Delighted to be part of The Zen Space Summer Showcase and Anthology 2026 thanks to Marie Marshall and guest editor extraordinaire Jerome Berglund. defining moment naming all the weeds in the garden #haiku #thezenspace thezenspace.wordpress.com/experience/s...

a street-corner fox pale light pooled under lamp posts alone in this world

Forest of Chojin/長神の杜/2026.07.04 #Kyoto #京都 #arashiyama #嵐山 #ForestOfChojin #長神の杜 #NearbyPark #近所の公園 #AutumnLeaves #紅葉 #lotus #蓮 #ハス

#dailyhaikuprompt #parched #winter #grass a cold winter in parched winter grass sleeping ladybirds

I stop for a squashed mango so fresh it's antless cicadas calling from live oaks between the lanes summer ratchets up #haiku from my morning trike ride

Self-heal (prunella) sends a blue ray from under my feet as I walk. HDT ~ July 16, 1851 #Haikufeels

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Togetsukyo/渡月橋/2026.07.04 #Kyoto #京都 #arashiyama #嵐山 #Togetsukyo #渡月橋 #NearbyBridge #近所の橋 #JapaneseBeautyberry #ムラサキシキブ #紫式部 #hydrangea #紫陽花 #アジサイ #GoldenLace #オミナエシ #女郎花

三官廟 33 #art #photo #photography #temple #Tainan #architecture #pillars #plants #architecture #sky #culture #LightAndShadow #ECK ©️skinskin

wrapped in yellow wallpaper girl, interrupted found-poem #haiku

#FromOneLine 423 Where can we go with just one connecting #prompt line? Let's see how many different places we can discover from just one starting point! Start your poem/vss with the opening line : They laid out the red carpet for us #FromOneLine 423 #prompt (Donated by JHA)

hlīsa, m.n: fame, reputation. (H’LEE-za / ˈhliː-za) #OldEnglish #WOTD

Reiko Ohara, Japanese actress, 1960s. She is depicted wearing a traditional yukata (a casual summer cotton kimono) featuring a classic Kaiawase (shell-matching game) pattern produced by the historic Tokyo dye house Chikusen.

#DailyHaikuPrompt #morningcloud shy sun peeps from behind morning cloud - a magpie chatters

Morning. Roseate Spoonbills, Audubon in Bird-Lore, 1914.

an unknown hymn tune taking the long way back home singing the air’s song

harsh words unfurling a sudden hailstorm #monoku #senryu

all these fallen petals yet the rose is still in bloom the lawn has more room #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

So beautiful

Ogura Pond/小倉池/2026.07.04 #Kyoto #京都 #arashiyama #嵐山 #OguraPond #小倉池 #NearbyPond #近所の池 #lotus #蓮 #ハス

swān-gerēfa, m.n: an officer whose manages forests for the pasturing of swine and the use of wood. (SWAHN-yeh-RAY-vah / ˈswaːn-jɛ-ˌreː-va) Image: Breviary; France (Metz), 1302/1303; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Yates Thompson 8, f. 6r. #OldEnglish #WOTD

heat wave the bird bath becomes a rhapsody in blue

the rain has written somebody’s name in the dust in a snaking script

a postcard arrives informing me that I'm middle-aged --Susumu Maruyama 中年のお知らせですと葉書くる　　丸山進 #senryu #gendaisenryu #translation

the ship heading out to sea -- it cannot carry all my longing --Shinko Tokizane 沖をゆく船あり思慕が載せきれぬ　時実新子 #senryu #translation

summer dusk~ the path to his house grown over #haiku

the girl who loved rain still here #haiku

Photographer Helen Levitt, Two Children Dancing, New York, 1940 #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

夕べの路地へ 88 #art #photo #photography #LightAndShadow #oldhouse #nightphotography #alley #Tainan #ECK #streetsnap #plants #windows ©️skinskin

summer pasture takes to the air all of a flutter #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (pasture)

Kenojuak Ashevak Birds from the Sea, 1960 Inuk artist #WomensArt

You might let fall a word, a note, a spark flung down the sky that makes a poem to be a doorway, a hymn to be a waypost or a map. You might be someone's North Star. You don't know. 🌟 #poem 2/2 L.C. Goodwin #art Yuri Beletsky

the shapes of water / today’s river

a single lightning splitting the evening sky silent treatment #DailyHaikuPrompt (haiku) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

#dailyhaikuprompt #morning #dew morning dew... the tender memories of an only son

will the flower remember the gardener next change of season #art #abstract #painting #humanart #flower #season #poetry