Wondering who will clear up the mess - looking out the airplane window. #artinspired #haiku #senryu

Another day holding it together - my frayed shoelace. #haikufeels prompt: fray #haiku #senryu 👞

A rumble of thunder - heading home for tea. Stewed fruit - disliking a dose of my own medicine. #dailyhaikuprompt thunder, stew #haiku #senryu

This week's Fallen Petals post. Five of the best Haiku/Senryu on Bluesky. Featuring poets: @shinobazupond.bsky.social @oevermann.bsky.social @flip89db.bsky.social @8rid6et.bsky.social @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social Motel Bibles and hot flashes open.substack.com/pub/thesehai...

A full 180 - future hopes fade into the past. #haikufeels prompt: angle #haiku #senryu 📐

Red petals soft furled within … #haiku 🌹

Taking fright a partridge poops taking flight. #dailyhaikuprompt fright #haiku #senryu 😳

Tinfoil lined nest - magpies chattering conspiracy theories. #dailyhaikuprompt nest #haiku #senryu 🤪

Thunder rolling through – rainless night. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Magnified - the scent of leaf mulch around its roots. #dailyhaikuprompt roots #haiku 🍂🌳

Moon rise - raindrops dot the windowpane. #dailyhaikuprompt moon rise #haiku 🌛

(Seen today in Tokyo … ) MONET EXHIBITION Sound of people taking pictures of pictures. ( … drove me nuts!) #haiku #senryu 🖼️

Needle spinning twixt north & south - umbrella struggles. #dailyhaikuprompt north wind, south wind #haiku #senryu ☂️

Scent of salty air and corroding iron – fishing boats at rest. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

All the wrong way about it we went. #haiku #senryu 🙃

Ad infinitum … always urging you to click before you’ve seen. #senryu #SenryuSunday

The Speleologist - wriggling through a gap in time. #haiku #senryu

Whittling away - same old stick in the mud. #haiku #senryu

A butterfly on a bearskin - changing of the guard. #haikufeels prompt: guard #haiku #senryu 💂

Rose tinted on the porch - a pint of milk. #dailyhaikuprompt porch #haiku #senryu

Threading through pine needles - ASAP. #dailyhaikuprompt pine sap #haiku #senryu

Lost amid the leaves - the moon. #artinspired #haiku 🌛

Gliding above the rooftops – the Shinkansen leaving the city. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku #senryu #川柳 #English川柳 #川柳inEnglish

All week just out of reach - my foggy memory #haiku #senryu 🤔💭

Warm evening air on the water – low tide. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

At the Immigration Office – sitting reading Robinson Crusoe. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku #senryu #川柳 #English川柳 #川柳inEnglish

Sat beneath the tree – summer haze. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

An alien alights overnight - warm scent of basil. #haiku 🪴

Boat sails drifting by - balmy night. #dailyhaikuprompt balmy #haiku ⛵️

Selling a world that once was - rusted shop sign. #dailyhaikuprompt rust #haiku #senryu

Easy chair gazing into space - empty, ink-black window. #SenseWrds Prompt 218 #haiku #senryu 🪟

Ruffled plumage shivering with the wind - broken umbrella. #BlueSkyRemnant #haiku “After the broken umbrella” ☂️

The night he died his voice - checking all’s alright? #dailyhaikuprompt grief #haiku #senryu

Matching her hair her mood - raven black. #dailyhaikuprompt raven #haiku #senryu 🐦‍⬛

Finger touch - The foreshore encircling emptiness, all around Sound waves echoing wet tears. #artinspired #cherita

EUGENIA & VINCENT Never knowing the long echo of her … “no.” #artinspired #haiku #senryu 💔

Bouncing back beneath bare feet - fallen leaves. #dailyhaikuprompt fallen leaves #haiku 🍂

This week’s Fallen Petals, best of Bluesky, Haiku and Senryu featuring poets: @haikuhawk.bsky.social @jennfel.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @shinobazupond.bsky.social @haikuforlife.bsky.social Heavy snow and uncertainty open.substack.com/pub/thesehai...

scintilla of self - in a sunbeam #haiku #senryu

Covered in cat hair - discarded winter coat. #dailyhaikuprompt winter coat #haiku 🐈

an abacus counting raindrops - waterlogged tatami #completethehaiga 149 #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu @completethehaiga.bsky.social 🧮🌧️

logging on late ... to the zoom meeting #completethehaiga 148 #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu @completethehaiga.bsky.social 🐟👔

Raking waves - a monk moonwalking. #dailyhaikuprompt wave, rake #haiku

Carbon copy – my name fading in triplicate. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku #senryu #川柳 #English川柳 #川柳inEnglish

Keeping quiet – a single silver strand seen in your hair. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku #senryu #川柳 #English川柳 #川柳inEnglish

All facade - reading an open palm. #artinspired #haiku #senryu

Small world - his hands thinning the bonsai’s roots. #artinspired #haiku

Gaudy day denied a mellow light - her eyes, walk on. #inkMine prompt: gaudy tenword #haiku #senryu #artinspired (after Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty”)

The gentle clink and crack of ice - warm summer moon. #dailyhaikuprompt summer moon, imbibe #haiku #senryu 🍹

Once window-shaped a bright light - winks out. #dailyhaikuprompt bright #haiku 🪟💡