My heart is crying with joy. Today, I’ve been given a seat at the big boy's table. More details later. Maintenant, c’est un secret.

The Cicada’s Cry, Spring 2026 Edition. I’m truly grateful to Joanne for featuring this haiku among the work of such talented artists. thecicadascry.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

congrats David Oates and AJ Wentz for publishing issue 1 of 'Only Human: English Language Senryu'! 🎇🎉🥂 with senryu by @tregallery.com, @tinamatijev.bsky.social, me and many others :) > follow @onlyhumansenryu.bsky.social > read www.onlyhumansenryu.com > submit your senryu, kyoka and senbun in june

Grateful to Richard for allowing this piece to settle on Paragraph Planet. @paragraphplanet.bsky.social

Enjoying the new #RitesandTrials anthology from @thebrokenspine.co.uk and I’m chuffed to have a lil piece here from my wayward youth. So many great writers here!.

just in case just in case the women were right #haiga #senryu #haiku #Paintku

#Paintku "Tuesdays": Easter Special The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection by Eugène Burnand (1898) the depth of three-day grief — their gaze Add your haiku to join.

cave mouth— darkness tastes me before letting me in #haiku #poetry

This is the 5th poem I wrote in the Anti-ICE haiku workshop at the end of January. The prompt was word repetition and as you can see I focused on "eye". This one isn't necessarily just for ICE, it encompasses all the global atrocities. #haiku #fuckICE #micropoetry #eyeforaneye

caged bird's reflection hopping on pine tree branches - George Klacsanzky #haiku #poetry #poem

I'm celebrating #StPatricksday much like the snakes he purportedly banished from these lands: in absentia from humanity.

Let's put our brains together so that we can forge ahead. Remember, united we stand, divided we fall... 🤝 #LaurelAndHardy #StanAndOllie #StanLaurel #OliverHardy

2003, I was lost in the scene, late nights at Subway, subsidizing a dream. —The Skitzafonix (Vol 6)

first blush

I love how one piece of punctuation calls the whole poem into question in @tinamatijev.bsky.social's latest #Sciku. It's a fantastic poem and the science behind is well worth checking out too! The secret marriage of dark matter and fifth force. A matter of fact? thescikuproject.com/2026/03/12/d...

she still has the last word- headstone Martina Matijević #haiku #senryu

#poetryprompt #mpprompt

Les Paul's guitar

#Paintku Tuesdays Week 10 From the urban alienation in "Automat" (1927) by Edward Hopper to a domestic solitude in "Little Girl Looking Downstairs at Christmas Party" (1964) by Norman Rockwell. top of the stairs — learning the silent language of adults Add your haiku to join.

5haikuSpoken: issue 22 Poets @tinamatijev.bsky.social Shahran Morshed @krislindbeck.bsky.social Gary Evans Tony Williams #5haikuSpoken #haiku #senryu #spokenpoetry

Thank you, Emily, for including my poem "Five Docks Away" in Tap Into Poetry #20. Congratulations to all the poets featured in this amazing issue. Me Sunday cuppa needs a refill. 🍵🍵🍵

I burgeon within the universe as one of its young stars.

Grateful to Lavana for choosing my haiga as one of February’s best. ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

got himself a good poem on digital isolation 🟧️

Great shot from Columbo episode Étude in Black (1972) with Peter Falk and John Cassavetes...

#completethehaiga 139 #haiku art by Josiah @lessethereal.bsky.social @completethehaiga.bsky.social

#Paintku Tuesdays Week 9 Automat by Edward Hopper (1927) a single order the sweet smell of loneliness Add your haiku to join.

the softness of spring wind — grandma's hug

cicadas all these cries just aren't democratic

cold ice — an old neighbor greets me again

south wind — his false friend during a talk

waxing moon stuttering less with each line

fallen bamboo leaves… apologizing to her headstone

visiting her grave a butterfly

dandelion seeds… another in generation estate dispute

heat shimmer impasto of meadow #monoku

not making any move… an old frog

barley autumn our bench removed

dinner party — we dish the absentee

a dried tomato — grandpa's only living cousin

reunion I remember why I forgot them

koi fish — a vendor asks for my ID

light snow father's shopping list still on the fridge

Friday *John Garfield and Ida Lupino in #FilmNoir Out of the Fog (1941)

lying down beside a vagabond… moonlight

time dilation — a town drunk finishing a sente... Issa-inspired anti-haiku

early buds — all those children she never had

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Muppetstein

A new verse from returning contributor @tinamatijev.bsky.social: 𝗧𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲: 𝗡𝗼 𝗧𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲 rede̶m̶o̶c̶r̶acy̶t — Martina Matijević