Duncan McNaughton

I should really and then I have to there's so much I but first love #TankaThursday #NaTankaMonth #micropoetry #tanka #poetrysky

Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar Barrios has been released! She should never have been locked away by ICE. As an emergency and trauma doctor, she served patients in South Texas with dedication. I am grateful that she will be reunited with her 5 year-old daughter Milena and husband.

rain barrel— a wasp drinking the whole sky #haiku #poetry

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...

Preemptive Riposte My answer is a no, Pray state your question, though, That is all I bestow. Preemptive is my no, Not bloody likely, though, Your move, I shall forgo. #poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #bluesky #blueskypoetry #blueskyart #art #dialogue

bookmail! @biswajitca.bsky.social new book of haiku and micro poems!! digging in tonight!

on the way to vote for herself the sunflower stops following the sun #NaTankaMonth #tanka #micropoetry #poetrysky Sunflowers were a symbol of suffrage at one point in time. Vote in person, volunteer to observe if you can, arrange ride shares. Vote strong, and do more than just vote.

opening up the cafe on a Monday morning I persuade a butterfly to settle up #NaTankaMonth #tanka #poetrysky

May is National #tanka month. Please add tag #NaTankaMo &/or #MayTanka Daily Prompts May 12-17, 2026: 12 - café 13 - sunflower 14 - first love (#TankaThursday) 15 - debris 16 - nap 17 - rare #TankaPoem #5lines Tanka Society of America: www.tankasocietyofamerica.org

how can I say this without becoming evil... not all belonging is nourishment not all belonging is nourishment not all belonging is nourishment not all belonging is nourishment not all belonging is nourishment

you never know the truth until it ends I keep starting the story over #NaTankaMonth #tanka #micropoetry

So Mother Mary is my gf's and I'm new favorite movie and we're confused about why people aren't freaking out? The soundtrack alone, people. Catch this in the theaters before it floats away like a ghost dress.

so long it's not home anymore I'm almost there but the highway keeps on going #NaTankaMonth #tanka #poetrysky

painting the walls again like it will change how it feels to be blue #NaTankaMonth #tanka #micropoetry

Chatting to my brother-in-law today & he said ‘Do you hear that noise… That’s the sound of the dog not barking’ There's formal constraint in this heart-breaking sonnet mirroring the holding in of the speaker's emotion ‘and love was surely what her eyes conceded’ #poetry #poemoftheday for Flash x

Violets are grue Roses, demonic Si enil txen siht Boustrophedonic.

I love how this poem moves from funny to serious I've seen this. The bar in Belfast International Airport. We heard the alarm, could smell the smoke & sat on & finished our pints. I have witnessed the second half of the poem too. It's time to pour our pints on the fire #Poetry #Poemoftheday

#writingprompt #writing #inspiration

the morning after my slept-in clothes wet with dew and you haven't woken up yet #TankaThursday #NaTankaMonth #tanka #micropoetry

#PoemsAbout #NamesNotNumbers starts Friday. Be specific. Detail over distance. Reality over rhetoric.

I love this intricate villanelle by Heaney written for his wife Marie This form is challenging, but what's especially brilliant is how the refrain lines are reworked in different pieces of conversation The final line is great 'but love – is longing to' #Poetry #Poemoftheday #seamusheaneysunday

The very first entry in Philip Larkin's Collected Poems (1988). Talk about starting as you mean to go on.

let me be a raindrop falling deep into the earth wild flowers in the spring — Genie Nakano from 25 Death Poems, Atlas Poetica, Special Feature, Guest Editor Michael H. Lester, 2019 (an individual’s reckoning with their own death) #jisei #tankapoem #5lines #tanka #NaTankaMo 5/5/26 prompt: earth

quiet nights you in your own world I wonder how many miles away are you now #tanka #TankaThursday #NaTankaMo #MayTanka

一生を書き上げるのにちょうどいい量のインクが脈打っている #短歌 #tanka

雨音が寄り添う夜に死ぬまでは人の姿を続けると誓う 陽だまりにだんまりの猫（どちらかというと植物に近い存在） DANGER!と書かれた君の引き出しをこっそり開ける 𓄿が出てくる #短歌 #tanka

玉ねぎに皮も中身もないように塗り重ねた恥そのものが私 雨上がり床に落ちてる猫の背が夏の気配を無言で示す カツパンよコメダ以前にこんなにも輝くカツとパンがあったか #短歌 #tanka

blue light a phantom in the hand #vss365 #monoku #micropoetry

May is National #tanka month. Please add tag #NaTankaMo &/or #MayTanka Daily Prompts May 6-11, 2026: 6 - stillness 7 - dew (#TankaThursday) 8 - paint 9 - highway 10 - start 11 - dismay #TankaPoem #5lines Tanka Society of America: www.tankasocietyofamerica.org

I wake up early to be alone before the day starts the stillness in a spoon #NaTankaMonth #tanka #micropoetry #poetrysky #WritingCommunity

the earth at perihelion wondering whether to come back or break the cycle #NaTankaMonth #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #poetrysky

if a candle were a flame it would consume itself before it had a chance to become a flame #NaTankaMonth #tanka #micropoetry

the dead girl never hears her murder ballad the hero wonders what rhymes with death #NaTankaMonth #tanka

Federico García Lorca, tr. James Wright

even though it's too sweet I take a slice of birthday cake and eat around the frosting #NaTankaMonth #tanka #micropoetry

remembering past lives... how the sun ripened until it burst #NaTankaMonth #Tanka #micropoetry

May is National #tanka month. Please add tag #NaTankaMo &/or #MayTanka Daily Prompts May 1-5, 2026: 1 - ripe 2 - cake 3 - wonder 4 - flame 5 - earth ICYM: the April 30th weekly #TankaThursday prompt is abundance #TankaPoem #5lines Tanka Society of America: www.tankasocietyofamerica.org

Goodbye #NationalPoetryMonth, hello #NationalTankaMonth!!! The first one I published: late snow still falling in love the blanket still warm from you your footprints not yet covered #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

This weeks best of Bluesky haiku and senryu. Featuring poets: @itsoprejean.bsky.social @thehaikutec.bsky.social @haikuforlife.bsky.social @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social @joypops.bsky.social Rotten peaches, Cherry Blossoms and faces in the rain open.substack.com/pub/thesehai...

pretty stoked this poem is on its way to getting 10k likes on IG!!

interrupting the green lion lion #vss365 #NationalPoetryMonth #monoku

Many thanks to Editor Eric Lohman for giving my poem a face on today’s Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective @freshoutmag.bsky.social

Grises kilómetros Impactan en la luna. Solo de piano. #Senryu #川柳 #libro #existencialismo #carretera #poema #poesia no es #Haiku #俳句

This #haiga is in the latest Fireflies Light, edited by John Han: aleph the oneness of us #art #haiku #one #together #unity #aleph More here: www.mobap.edu/about-mbu/pu...

Gotta go with gruntling!

golden hour— he rakes his shadow into a pile of leaves (previously published in Cold Moon Journal) #Haiku #NationalPoetryMonth #WritingCommunity I chose this gif for you, @ajarhiannavo.bsky.social

Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. Franz Wright

We close this year's #PoetryMonth with a stunning #senryu from Pippa Phillips (@pippaesque.bsky.social): pilgrimage mirror— a mountain smaller than my body Thank you for supporting the #PoetryCommunity! View more #NationalPoetryMonth #WolfPack Highlights by clicking below. Owwwoooooo! #poetry ✍️🐾