Gazing up at Osaka Castle. An iguana – wearing a pink feather boa. #gembun #shortverse #micropoetry #poetry

Beginning to brown - too soon magnolia yields to early autumn. #WildWalkPrompt magnolia #haiku

Wind shivers a copse, where druids once communed with crows. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Mirroring earth and sky – Rushmere. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Two of mine featured by Dhugal J. Lindsay in The Mainichi's "Haiku in English: Best of 2025": mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Concentric circles merge – ripples on water. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

NIGHT CYCLE All my faith centred on two wheels – clinging to my ride. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku #senryu #川柳 #English川柳 #川柳inEnglish

5haikuSpoken: issue 23 Poets @tinamatijev.bsky.social @shinobazupond.bsky.social Melanie Alberts Jennifer Chiera Jerome Berglund #5haikuSpoken #haiku #senryu #spokenpoetry #poetrytok

Day’s end - we realise it’s one of our anniversaries. #SenryuSunday #senryu 🕰️

Peeking through broken glass - overgrown greenhouse. #inkMine prompt: break sixword #haiku #thingstowriteabout prompt: glass

Long day - headed home hopping puddles. #dailyhaikuprompt long day puddle #haiku #senryu ☔️🌧️🌈

Time ticks through - the feeling in my bones. #SenryuSunday #senryu Happy Birthday, Jenn. 🥳 @jennfel.bsky.social

Bee bumbling - looping back among the lupines. #haikufeels prompt: loop #haiku 🪻🪻🐝🪻🪻

Salt sheen - riptide and rock savouring the raw. #vssdaily prompt: riptide #haiku 🌊

I love how ‘Fallen Petals’ shows that haiku are actually *collaborations* between writers and readers … #haiku #senryu #blueskypoetry

Given free rain running puddles. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

遠霞国際電話鳴りにけり #俳句 #haiku #poetry #遠霞(とおがすみ) #音楽 #絵画 far spring haze— an international call begins to ring ＊I Wanna Rule The World / 10cc youtu.be/5VLXT4Cj6ts ＊クロード・モネ《国会議事堂》1900 - 1903年　シカゴ美術館

An empty office echoes - an unanswered telephone. #haiku #senryu

Standing on ceremony amid the fen – a frock-coated heron. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Warm scent of soba and tatami under thatch. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Pots, paint and brushes – mixing a mind. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Two arms – enfolding calm waters within. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Mirroring the pavement’s wet sheen – Westminster chimes. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Leaf litter - softly filtering sound from the flow. #haikufeels prompt: filter #haiku 🍂

There never was enough time until #artinspired #haiku #senryu

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose - Je m'oppose aux deux. (The more things change, the more they remain the same - I object to both.) #haikufeels prompt: change #haiku #senryu ✊

bladderwrack skeins - blisters popping in the sun #completethehaiga 140 #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu #tanka @completethehaiga.bsky.social

From "Four Seasons at the The Wee Sparrow Haiku Nook: August 2024-August 2025" [Free E-book]: online.fliphtml5.com/vpkoi/hfhh/#...

Briefly back to ’95 – browsing the Southbank bouquinistes. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku #senryu #川柳 #English川柳 #川柳inEnglish

Framing snapshots of places we’ll never see again. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku #senryu #川柳 #English川柳 #川柳inEnglish

Attempting to read the future in her eyes – too afraid to open my own. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku #senryu #川柳 #English川柳 #川柳inEnglish

Sheltering from the sun – a girl under a golden umbrella. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Iridescence alighting on a blue iris. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Long shadows reaching back to summer – evening light. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

After rain – frog songs fill the evening air. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

BOTALLACK MINE Sea salt working a white seam into blackened red brick. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

On a walk through the landscape of our childhoods – my mother and me. #gembun #shortverse #blueskypoets

A lost glove in a railway carriage – scent of cinders and steam. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku #senryu #川柳 #English川柳 #川柳inEnglish

Leaving the lawn unmown – a bee orchid amid the wild flowers. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Recalling the soft sound of wind chimes, hanging in my old kitchen window. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Under a fat tulip - two ribbits unseen. #completethehaiga 137 #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu #tanka @completethehaiga.bsky.social

UV cream melting into the melanoma scar. #dailyhaikuprompt violet #haiku #senryu

Lamplight slowly merging into dawn. #dailyhaikuprompt lamplight #haiku

Morning blue - moon fading into cloud. #dailyimageprompt #dip45 #haiku 🌛

Winter sun’s weak glare - clock chimes. #haikufeels prompt: glare #haiku 🕰️

Snow settled in deep nooks - first day of Spring. #dailyhaikuprompt spring #haiku 🤍

A paper lantern - the only moon to light the way. #dailyhaikuprompt lantern moon #haiku 🏮

After midnight – through the empty town following a fox. (blog post): shinobazupond.blogspot.com/2026/02/afte... #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku #haiga

In the Asahi Shimbun (6 February 2026): www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Sitting watching the snow falling simply. #haiku #artinspired ❄️