It's #NationalPoetryMonth and International #Haiku #Poetry Day! We're honored to uncover a new #senryu from John Hawkhead (@haikuhawk.bsky.social). ammonite spirals the role of kisses in survival Join us next Wednesday for more #PoetryMonth #WolfPack Highlights. #PoetryCommunity ✍️

Town Bridge in Bradford on Avon Ink & Watercolour #bradfordonavon #art #painting

A #haiku originally in @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social wild fennel a butterfly jitterbugs with its shadow Thanks to editor Strider Marcus Jones for the showcase. #haiga #butterfly #jitterbug

zero sum game how much a warplane rises as bombs fall away the air expanding with a terrible silence #tanka by John Hawkhead @johnhawkhead.bsky.social Published in Fields of Gold - poems of peace The Bamboo Hut 2022 - peace poems from around the world #TankaThursday prompt: game #tankapoem

Some suggested reading for all #books #dystopianreality

Taking a nap

From the latest five fleas (itchy poetry) edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen… mushroom picking who to bomb next #senryu #war #haiga #micropoetry #haiku #monoku #art #nuclearclock #mushroom Link: fivefleas.blogspot.com/2026/03/afte...

At 5-7-5 Haiku Journal with this: moonlit doorway kiss we still return to the place where our shadows merged Thanks to editor DJ Tyrer for posting! #haiku #senryu #kisses More here: 575haikujournal.wordpress.com

At 5-7-5 Haiku Journal with this: moonlit doorway kiss we still return to the place where our shadows merged Thanks to editor DJ Tyrer for posting! #haiku #senryu #kisses More here: 575haikujournal.wordpress.com

spread sheets filling fields with death tolls From the inaugural issue of Only Human edited by AN We to and David Oates. Well worth a read here: www.onlyhumansenryu.com #senryu #micropoetry #war

Orbits of a dark moon #colour #art #moons

Interesting that so many words for stupidity begin with D: dimwit, dumbass, dork, donkey, dunderhead, dipsh*t, dweeb, dinlow, dunce, durr-kiddy, drongo, dingbat, driveller, dope, dupe, dullard, duffer, dolt, dummkopf, dolt, dumb, Donald Any more?

Just out at NOON | Journal of the Short Poem edited by Philip Rowland: fog words lose their weigh t A fantastic publication found here: noonpoetry.com/wp-content/u... #haiku #monoku #micropoetry #shortpoetry

spread sheets filling fields with death tolls From the inaugural issue of Only Human edited by AN We to and David Oates. Well worth a read here: www.onlyhumansenryu.com #senryu #micropoetry #war

From the latest five fleas (itchy poetry) edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen… mushroom picking who to bomb next #senryu #war #haiga #micropoetry #haiku #monoku #art #nuclearclock #mushroom Link: fivefleas.blogspot.com/2026/03/afte...

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A new anthology ‘Turf Cottage’ is out from tsuri-doro press. Edited by Tony Pupello, it’s full of fine #haiku and #senryu - get a copy here: tsuridoro.org/tsuri-doro-p...

From the latest Leaf: Journal of the Daily Haiku edited by Ravi Kiran fox tracks pause … ellipses in snow Link: leafjournal.io #haiku #micropoetry #snow

Love these in the Wiltshire Music Centre - maybe some prompts for #haiku ?!

At 5-7-5 Haiku Journal edited by DJ Tyrer: a parting of clouds shafts of sunlight on the life that fills the graveyard #haiku #haiga #senryu Link: 575haikujournal.wordpress.com

From the latest Leaf: Journal of the Daily Haiku edited by Ravi Kiran fox tracks pause … ellipses in snow Link: leafjournal.io #haiku #micropoetry #snow

Just out at NOON | Journal of the Short Poem edited by Philip Rowland: fog words lose their weigh t A fantastic publication found here: noonpoetry.com/wp-content/u... #haiku #monoku #micropoetry #shortpoetry

A couple of #horrorku from Horror Senryu Journal edited by Thomas Tilton: yellow clouds swirls grow darker in the catheter quiet prayers a room full of shadows that look like wings #senryu #micropoetry Link: horrorkujournal.blogspot.com?m=1

Another from the same issue… talk of peace the shadowed whispers of treads through snow #haiku

In ‘Black & White Haiga’ edited by Lavana Kray: snow-rimmed tarn a blister-wind roils into a ghost dance #haiga #haiku #art Link: ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com?m=1

The latest five fleas (itchy poetry) edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen is out and includes these: needles of ice in the peace march wind counselling a word to the whys Link: fivefleas.blogspot.com/2026/03/afte... #monoku #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

The latest five fleas (itchy poetry) edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen is out and includes these: needles of ice in the peace march wind counselling a word to the whys Link: fivefleas.blogspot.com/2026/03/afte... #monoku #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

A recent memory from 5-7-5 Haiku Journal edited by DJ Tyrer: archaeology finding in an old bottle remains of a breath #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #archaeology #drinking #breath Link: 575haikujournal.wordpress.com

Mr Fencepost had a smile for me this morning 😁

A recent outing at 5-7-5 Haiku Journal edited by DJ Tyrer: where the willow trails tendrils in a thin-ice pool a mist of shared breath #haiku #micropoetry #life

Where two souls collide

A selection of #abstractart

Have you looked at PHR2? www.callofthepage.org/summer-schoo... Also look up Fay Aoyagi who uses traditional kigo though with contemporary settings. #haiku #kigo #seasons

In ‘Black & White Haiga’ edited by Lavana Kray: snow-rimmed tarn a blister-wind roils into a ghost dance #haiga #haiku #art Link: ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com?m=1

Regatta

A recent #haiku at the Asahi Haikuist Network edited by Prof. David McMurray: small silences suggestions of violet in a snowbank #snow Link to the issue: www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic...

A fabulous door! #doorway #history #heritage #architecture

Book review: Modō by Alan Summers Reviewer: SB Wright 🇦🇺 Mar 06, 2026 thesehaiku.substack.com/p/book-revie... #monostich #monoku #haiku #book #review #poetry #books

In the latest tsuri-doro edited by Tony Pupello: ice dawn a road salting truck spins new stars #haiku #micropoetry Read more here: tsuridoro.org

A recent #haiku at the Asahi Haikuist Network edited by Prof. David McMurray: small silences suggestions of violet in a snowbank #snow Link to the issue: www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic...

A recent outing at 5-7-5 Haiku Journal edited by DJ Tyrer: where the willow trails tendrils in a thin-ice pool a mist of shared breath #haiku #micropoetry #life

In the latest tsuri-doro edited by Tony Pupello: ice dawn a road salting truck spins new stars #haiku #micropoetry Read more here: tsuridoro.org

In the latest Password edited by Melissa Allen: cave spider the darkness opens her legs #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #darkness

In the latest Password edited by Melissa Allen: cave spider the darkness opens her legs #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #darkness

#senryu by longtime contributor, John Hawkhead @haikuhawk of Bradford-on-Avon, UK #poetry #haiku #ice #UnitedKingdom

For our adieu to #NaHaiWriMo, we curl into a tender moment from the incomparable John Hawkhead (@haikuhawk.bsky.social): cat howls we wake in moonlight still entwined Happy #Haiku Month, everyone! View all our #WolfPack Spring Highlights by clicking below. Owwwoooooo! #PoetryCommunity #poetry ✍️

Redaction #haiku #epsteinadministration #Basho

A new verse from returning contributor @haikuhawk.bsky.social: 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 the thing is then we arrived at where is the — John Hawkhead

Redaction #haiku #epsteinadministration #Basho

seasons turn a spent firework goes off again #haiku #fireworks