Rubbing the mote from my eye - seeing stardust. #thingstowriteabout prompt: stardust #haiku #senryu ✨

CHRISTMAS DAY, 2003 Free as a bird - watching the sunset on Kamakura beach. #dailyimageprompt 37: bird, ocean, sunset #haiku

CLISSOLD PARK Summer evenings – a book and a bench by the pond. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

RIO, DALSTON Strolling home from a summer matinee, under peach-hued clouds. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

"Poems in Print - 2025" - a retrospective collection of my haiku published elsewhere in 2025. 📚🖋️ #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Sweetening a glass of Turkish tea – Nihal’s smile. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

An ancient alchemy in the oven’s heat - loaves turning gold. #inkMine prompt: bake tenword #haiku 🍞

Stirred by the breeze - twittering leaves. #dailyhaikuprompt twittering #haiku 🍃

Slumped scarecrow, taking wing - a murder of crows. #dailyhaikuprompt scarecrow #haiku #senryu 🐦‍⬛

Ice cold surge of seawater, glimmering across the sand. #dailyhaikuprompt glimmer, sand #haiku 🌊

Speaking without words - her black-veiled lips. #PoemsAbout #BlackVeils #haiku #senryu 💋

Fallen log lodged in the stream’s meander. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Long fronds swaying within the dark stream. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

COMING OF AGE [II.] Death’s radiance rises in darkness: Watching Mrs Victor’s soul ascend – into bright white light. (after J.G. Ballard’s ‘Empire of the Sun’) One of two #gembun #artinspired #shortverse #blueskypoets

Knocking over the soup tureen – the empty mansion, echoes. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku #senryu #川柳 #English川柳 #川柳inEnglish

Charcoal curls - drifting from the ice-bound barge. #dailyhaikuprompt charcoal #haiku ❄️

Cutting clean across my lens - blurredkingfisherflash. #dailyhaikuprompt kingfisher #haiku

Softly alighting on water - a feather drifting on. #haikufeels prompt: detach #haiku 🪶

Circling the sea and summer sky - a lone albatross. #dailyhaikuprompt lonely, summer sky #haiku 🌊

Dancing - diaphanous in a light summer dress. #dailyhaikuprompt light clothes #haiku #senryu

Eyes white out - blizzard blurred. #dailyhaikuprompt blizzard #haiku #senryu 👀

Cliff path - roaming into the wind. #inkMine prompt: roam sixword #haiku 🥾 #WildWalkPrompt cliff

Quill power - a feather in my cap. #PJJournal prompt 10: feather 🪶 #senryu #poetrycommunity

“Madame est malade …” Savouring the bitter tang of oranges picked in Seville. #vssdaily prompt: pick 🍊 #haiku #senryu #gembun

Reflecting in the ripples - evening rain. #dailyhaikuprompt evening rain #haiku 🌧️🌛

Still trying to climb this mountain in my smooth soled shoes. #dailyhaikuprompt mountain #haiku #senryu 🗻

ONO FIELD Chasing one another through dried grass - all the sparrows. #dailyhaikuprompt sparrow, meadow #haiku 🌾

LES SOUVENIRS DE MARCEL Every moment relived - catching a cough in a handkerchief. #paintku #haiku #senryu 🖼️

A silent deception, causing bad karma - blaming the dog. #haikufeels prompt: blame #senryu 🤫

Moth meditating merging into the leaf. #dailyhaikuprompt moth #haiku 🍂🍁

London Pub - blue haze hanging above the hubbub. #dailyhaikuprompt smoke #haiku #senryu 🚬🍺

Sitting on the train, desperately trying not to have a haiku moment. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku #senryu #川柳 #English川柳 #川柳inEnglish

River at high water, gentle flap of sails – evening light. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

From the lookout - all around a blank horizon. #haikufeels prompt: look #haiku

Rain sodden walk across a freshly ploughed field - feet double heavy. #dailyhaikuprompt rain #haiku 🥾

Too hot to hold - in a paper bag, roast chestnuts. #dailyhaikuprompt chestnuts #haiku 🌰

😊 Nicely paired with Jerome Berglund in yesterday's Asahi Shimbun:

Making a clean sweep a couple of swifts – scything the sky. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku #短歌 #短歌inEnglish #English短歌 #tanka (from a renku [of 20 haiku + 1 tanka] for the suburban ornithologist) 🐦

Following his nose – dog happily wandering anywhere. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Lined up outside the head teacher’s office - one fidget after another. #haikufeels prompt: fidget #haiku #senryu

Petrified – the unblinking stare of bone turned to stone. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Sliding into the mountains unseen - summer moon. #dailyhaikuprompt summer moon #haiku 🌝

A quickening tempo taking hold - spring thaw. #dailyhaikuprompt thaw #haiku 💦

Watching a warbler watching me – eyes flit silently, short hops jumping from bush to bush. #短歌 #短歌inEnglish #English短歌 #tanka

First published poem of 2026, in The Asahi Shimbun (2 January 2026). 😊

Parched yellow leaves – a row of pot plants stuck in the office. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

À côté du chapeau melon et du parapluie, un œillet rouge solitaire. *** Beside the bowler hat and brolly - a single red carnation. #dailyhaikuprompt melon #haiku #senryu 🌂

Beside the lamp, a cup of tea - gone cold. #dailyhaikuprompt cold #haiku #senryu ☕️

New addition to my TBR pile …

To each their own, modification in all things - Darwin’s finches. #vssdaily prompt: finch #haiku #sci-ku 🪶