- all alone... a grasshopper leaps for the sun - #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #insects #relationships

- snowfall the joke I understand too late - #haiku #micropoetry #winter #poetry

- a dead roach on the basement floor years ago I too was invincible - #tanka #poetry #relationships #micropoetry

- puddle moon we dance around our goodbye - #haiku #poetry #winter #relationships

- this anger deeper every day wet leaves - #haiku #autumn

- moon long dead our bedroom quiet - #haiku #poetry #monostich #love

- moon I imagine her as someone else - #haiku #monoku #moon #poetry

- stage 4 painting the ocean dark - #monostich #haiku #poetry #micropoetry

- good luck elsewhere I boil the rice - #monostich #haiku #poetry

- ICE rumor... another crow leaves then returns - #haiku #poetry #politics #ICE

#haiku by Laurence Stacey. Laurence teaches English & Lit. courses at Kennesaw State University. He is also the recent coauthor of “Before the Earth: Haiku and Haikai.” #poetry #departures #cats #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #micropoetry #movingon #ksu

- cutting bamboo the war we imagine - #monoku #haiku #poetry #war

- paying bills delaying bills slow night - #haiku #poetry #micropoetry

#monoku by Laurence Stacey. Laurence teaches English & lit. at Kennesaw State University. In addition to studying #poetics, he is a longtime martial artist & is interested in connections between the disciplines he enjoys. #haiku #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #moon #poetrylovers #poetry #father #dad

- soldiers gone a spider descends to the floor - #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #war

- wild clover if you need a reason to leave - #haiku #poetry #micropoetry

- tariff news we let the weeds come back - #senryu #poetry #micropoetry

- after the fight dad leaving no moon - #monostich #haiku #poetry

- June dusk racing downhill the dog still wins - #haiku #poetry #micropoetry

- sun cooling the cicada's flight down - #monostich #haiku #poetry #micropoetry

#俳句 #haiku #poet:Kyoshi #era:1800s #era:1900s #kigo:autumn #kigo:scarecrow ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn (1899) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the terms "scarecrow" or "rain" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤

#俳句 #haiku #poet:Anon #era:1600s #kigo:summer #kigo:cicada ❖ source: #LafcadioHearn (1900) ❖ Sometimes incorrectly attrobuted to Bashō ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the term "cicada" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤

#monoku by Laurence Stacey. Laurence teaches English & lit. courses at Kennesaw State University. In addition to studying #poetics, he is a martial artist, interested in connections between the disciplines he enjoys. #haiku #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #moon #poetrylovers #poetry #love #autumn

- heatwave thoughts of a poem break down - #haiku #summer #poetry

- honeysuckle jobless I take one to go - #haiku #monostich #poetry

#senryu by regular contributor Laurence Stacy, a professor of literature @ Kennesaw State University & a martial artist who loves exploring the intersections of these & his many other varied interests. #poetry #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #haiku #decisions #crow #black #KSU

- warm night an octopus enters my dream - #haiku #micropoetry #dreams

- leaving the motel a thin cat watches - #poetry #haiku #duostich

- toad season all illness belongs to the gods - #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

- between graves a procession of ants - #haiku #poetry #micropoetry

- new ways of taxing the poor snow moon - #haiku #micropoetry #moon

- all things being equal vulture - #haiku #monostich #poetry

- what she says what I hear the business of crows - #haiku #micropoetry

- last warm day the stray cat sits closer - #haiku #micropoetry #winter

- brushing away a long dead moth he asks when I'm coming to service - #tanka #poetry

#senryu by regular contributor Laurence Stacy. Laurence is a professor of literature at Kennesaw State University & a martial artist who loves exploring the intersections of these & his other interests #poetry. #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #haiku #moon #swimming #black #KSU

- born again brown bats cover the sky - #haiku #poetry

- winter the way black tea weakens - #haiku #monostich #poetry

- unhoused a pigeon watches my hands - #haiku #poetry

From ‘Poetry for Public Consumption’ —Pam Goddard #PoetryAotearoa #poem #poems

- leafsmoke... the traumas we buried to be men - #haiku #poetry

A promise is a promise is a promise… @pogue.omg.lol A fwog for you. Well, a few. 🖼️ Qi Baishi's Frogs.

- only the cat hearing me fart... deep winter - #haiku #senryu #poetry

This is my new book with Dick Whyte. Please purchase it if you enjoy my work! :-)

- autumn in a world devils go by name - #haiku #duostich #poetry

- if I could do it all over bare toes in the grass - #haiku #duostich #micropoetry

- the places my mind always goes dry wind - #haiku #poetry

- year over... three ants hauling a fly - #haiku #poetry

- weeds I confront the fascist inside - #haiku #monostich #poetry

- rain softening the dead cat's eyes - #haiku #monostich #poetry