Have we completely forgotten about the #powerofkindness in interaction? (Not asking for a friend, but for me, and on behalf of humankind.)

Reading up on #haiku #techniques & poetic devices again. open.substack.com/pub/forgotte... Good input! Once in a while I need to remind myself why and how they are used and also the broad range of misunderstandings that laid the ground & changed the whole course of English haiku. 1/2

just like any one in four schoolroom corners —Makoto #senryu #oneline #singleline open.spotify.com/track/0aV5uA...

A fairywren, fleeing from the great bushfire, without a moment's thought or any song left. —Makoto #tanka #bushfire open.spotify.com/track/6U4mlK...

he she it them —Makoto #senryu #concretepoem #concretepoetry

Joy Harjo

Reasons Not To Take Someone's Pain Seriously . . . . . . . . . . . . a woman or a child mentally ill and tea stains even stitches on a crumbled cotton wide field— giant elephant tracks on English lawns titles honours and the common rest the case —Makoto #senryu #sequence

A commitment to express the inexpressible from @alinaetc.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @annettemakino.bsky.social @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social 2/4 www.vianegativa.us/2025/11/poet...

only if you have new ways of owning the world #senryu

🖤 𝗦𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗠𝗢𝗢𝗡: 𝗛𝗔𝗜𝗞𝗨 | 𝗛𝗢𝗞𝗞𝗨 | 𝗛𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗞𝗨 🖤 It's finally here! My brand new collection of #haikai featuring 200 #haiku written between 2008-2019, and edited earlier this year. Paperbacks and ebooks available now! www.amazon.com/dp/1991310501 #poetry #poems #poem #hokku #booksky

Cover reveal! Yup. Another book, and this time it's a book-long tanka sequence. Read more about it on my blog! pi-and-anne.com/2025/11/06/o... #book #coverreveal #tanka #tankasequence #tankanovel

dandelions at the speed of the local train --Maya Okuzaka たんぽぽに普通列車の速さかな　奥坂まや #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

sooner or later they will come for you wriggling maggots — Deborah Karl-Brandt

walking home in my hand the coolness of an apple #senryu

Rachel Newling Australian Flowers: Blue Waterlily linocut on handmade Japanese paper

Here, a stone. Eight arms twined around, and still, he doesn't touch me. Hier, ein Stein. Von acht Armen umschlungen, und doch berührt er mich nicht. #tanka #poem open.spotify.com/track/6EOJjw...

warm thanks to @charlieulyatt.bsky.social for sending his chapbook <some presence>

Confluence October Issue 13, 2025 features Colleen M. Farrelly. There are two favorite poems of this awesome writer I want to share snow angels they find her lying on her park bench haunted basement a sock ghosts the washer

@manuelbianchibooks.bsky.social talks about my book of tanka 'etwas mit federn'/'something with feathers'!! Thank you so much, Manuel, so glad you like them 🤗 youtu.be/nS8V7G309U0?... #review If you fancy watching & hearing my #tanka in German: you can use subtitles for transl. if necessary!

parsley pieces on the counter—watching more "Forensic Files" #senryu

Fluff under pressure, a man in a shattered house & more with @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @dharmabam.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/10/poet...

Just insufferably blank pages— —ethnic cleansing. Makoto #senryū #PJJournal #prompt05 #prompt

Welcome to PJ's prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning: #genocide (with or without the word in your senryu) What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on humans Find more here: www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-definiti... Tag: #PJJournal #prompt 05 #WritingCommunity

under the moon under the moon under the moon undressed

#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

#haiku everything’s an island in the mist

Of Course, The Tissues In the Backpack Are Always Deep Down At the Bottom, Below Anything Else To the unyielding man who has no words, not for closeness, not for a journey to the rugged rocky coast: the hydrangea in two colours. 1/4 piandannes.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/o... #tanka #sequence

Shared some old art pieces by me here. The thing is. It's only six years but so much has happened and changed, and somehow it makes me so proud of myself. Not because my art is successful, but because my art saves me. Every day. Much more important.

March 2020.

Trauer, Angst, Wut. —January 2020. Grief, Fear, Anger.

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Happy 4th bday to whiptail! We are open for one week and are ready to receive your one-line beauties: poems, hybrids, seqs, & other creations! We love art, haiga, & shahai too! Need a little inspiration? Try the optional theme of FOUR (whatever that means to you). www.whiptailjournal.com/submissions

#haiku inside you they are no longer bubbles

Heute ist Tag der unsichtbaren Behinderungen und Erkrankungen 💜.

Come and meet the new team at Prune Juice! Don't forget submissions are accepted thru Oct. 31 prunejuicesenryu.com/meet-the-new... #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #senryu #prunejuice

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” —Virginia Woolf

Vielleicht aktueller denn je.

A current of ants along the remnants of Berlin Wall— —Makoto #haiku #poem #ants #BerlinWall spotify.link/dXc1noHBxXb

The magpies arranging their rocks— my otherwise green turns to frost. —Makoto #haiku #fourlines spotify.link/HC3TpK0AxXb