From tsuri-doro edited by Tony Pupello: controlled burns clearing the land of first nations See here: tsuridoro.org #haiku #senryu

Today’s haiku att 5-7-5 Haiku Journal: it has become clear that nothing is going wrong a white cane taps by Thanks to editor DJ Tyrer for taking it. Link: 575haikujournal.wordpress.com #haiku #senryu #selectiveblindness

spring narcissi the hallway mirror checked again At @haikufound.bsky.social per diem with this one originally at @waleshaiku.bsky.social #haiku #senryu

contrails our slow disintegration -John Hawkhead https://tinywords.com/2025/11/03/43708/

entering darkness a candle gutters wildly in the skull’s sockets — John Hawkhead

From tsuri-doro edited by Tony Pupello: controlled burns clearing the land of first nations See here: tsuridoro.org #haiku #senryu

At five fleas (itchy poetry) edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen: slipping on black ice masks #haiku #monoku #politiku Link: fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/afte...

#digitalhaiga by regular contributor, John Hawkhead of Bradford-upon-Avon, UK. (IG: @ haikuhawk) #poetry #haiga #art #digitalart #ink #mind #poetrycommunity #england #micropoetry #toad #poetrylovers #haiku #uk #senryu #photographylovers #artlovers

Some fine fungi in the bark compost today #fungi #mushrooms #mycelium #woodwideweb

Out at Suspect Device edited by Tim Gardiner - two eco #haiku crossing the lines on the road to extinction on the verge windhovers (always good to write about kestrels) Link: suspectdevicehq.blogspot.com/p/columns.ht...

A new verse from returning contributor @haikuhawk.bsky.social: 𝗢𝗼𝗵 𝗘𝗿 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝘀! a seaside guesthouse never more than two crumpets in the phnarr phenarr — John Hawkhead

From Kelly Moyer’s ‘Circle of Salt’ a five pointed star held inside a salt circle the candles gutter #halloween #haiku

Today's Feature: upon reflection the diving duck disappears right into itself John Hawkhead Winner - The Lincoln Underground Haiku Contest 2016

Today's Feature at http://MyHaikuPond.com lockdown sometimes the old teapot seems heavier John Hawkhead @HawkheadJohn April 5th Image: 'No. 44 Nagato', Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1852)

Today's Find at http://MyHaikuPond.com shooting star explaining to the toddler where I will go John Hawkhead @HawkheadJohn Image: 'Shooting Star', Yuji Watanabe

Today's Find #2: winter moon the glitter of icicles between prison bars John Hawkhead Shot Glass Journal, #29, September 2019 http://www.musepiepress.com/shotglass/john_hawkhead1.html

#happyinternationalhaikupoetryday One of my favourite collabs with John Hawkhead from Sonic Boom, issue 22. #haiku #micropoetry #writingcommunity

Today's Find (2 monoku & 1 monostich): stepping into rain the delicate frisson of chance encounters winter walk – we stop under mistletoe to gather our breaths falling out over coffee grounds for divorce John Hawkhead http://proletaria.org, February 7, 2019

Today's Find: autumn winds the full moon gathering leaves into shadows John Hawkhead (U.K.) Hedgerow #95, Nov. 2016

snowed in deep white drifts quilt the night ~John Hawkhead via @tinywords http://ow.ly/UFAT30nAwL7

Today's Find: rest home lounge all the chairs in a line to the exit John Hawkhead @HawkheadJohn Presence 69, March 2021 Image: 'Sacred Bridge, Nikko', Ito Yuhan

Today's Feature: another game show my mother settles down into her shadow John Hawkhead @HawkheadJohn The Heron's Nest 18, 2016 & Small Shadows, 2016 & They Gave Us Life - Celebrating Mothers, Fathers & Others in Haiku, 2017 (Ed. Robert...

zero sum game how much a warplane rises as bombs fall away the air expanding with a terrible silence #tanka by John Hawkhead Published in Fields of Gold - poems of peace The Bamboo Hut 2022 - peace poems from around the world #poetry

Today's Find: drifting mist the swinging lantern slowly disappears John Hawkhead More haiku etc. of http://MyHaikuPond.com

Today's Feature: plodding the towpath the old nag nods her head and I must agree John Hawkhead @HawkheadJohn Poetry Pea podcast, S4E14: Realistic haiku Image: 'Towpath at Koume Hikifune in the Snow', Inoue Yasuji (1883)

Feature #2: snowflakes falling on the child’s upturned face the stillness of stars John Hawkhead More haiku at: http://MyHaikuPond.com

Whiptail Journal, Issue 2, February, 2022 www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-arc... wren song the weight of a soul -John Hawkhead, UK

spinning top shadows a small boy curls his fingers round his father’s gun From 5-7-5 Haiku Journal edited by DJ Tyrer: 575haikujournal.wordpress.com #haiku #senryu #guns

spinning top shadows a small boy curls his fingers round his father’s gun From 5-7-5 Haiku Journal edited by DJ Tyrer: 575haikujournal.wordpress.com #haiku #senryu #guns

Recently in five fleas (itchy poetry) edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen: caged in bone under cardiac arrest #senryu #haiku #micropoetry #haiga

This #haiga appeared previously at @freshoutmag.bsky.social edited by Eric Lohman: my coat of arms fending off arms #haiku #senryu #art #dragon #women

somewhere in the house a slow-ticking clock darkness plays a card From ‘Circle of Salt’ edited by Kelly Moyer #haiku #haiga

dry goods hardly time to choose the right coffin — John Hawkhead

sinking chill we share his favourite wine at his funeral — Patricia Hawkhead

Two new #monoku out at Robin Beach Jacobsen’s five fleas (itchy poetry) today: caged in bone a heart under cardiac arrest a thread of hatred in the anagram Link: fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/10/morn... #haiku #senryu

The latest Cattails Journal is out. Thanks to #haiku editor Geethanjali Rajan who selected this as Editor’s Choice with a kind and insightful commentary: dagger hard dawn daylight starts to splinter along the ice road More to read here: www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/catta... #senryu #poetry

A new verse from returning contributor Patricia Hawkhead: 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗴𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 there was and there was not something of nothing — Patricia Hawkhead

buckets and spades small figures dig for bodies — John Hawkhead

lost wax process the inner light before the mortuary — John Hawkhead

A new verse from returning contributor @haikuhawk.bsky.social: 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 And lo! There came the AnarChrist! — John Hawkhead

From 5-7-5 Haiku Journal edited by DJ Tyrer; taking the slow path through the gravity of dusk a summer lake’s moon #haiku #micropoetry

Morning At Dotonbori, Osaka, Kawase Hasui, 1921 www.artic.edu/artworks/538...

Certificate from the editors of Autumn Moon Haiku Journal! mountain lake the glacial stillness in a heron’s eye #haiku #nature #heron #lake

Something Gothic this way comes… Submissions are OPEN for The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry. We want poems of neon dread, fractured love, haunted minds. Closing date: October 31st #PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry

Issue 1 of The Diutay Review is out. Edited by Lucas Pesso Feniman it features #poetry #haiku and #tanka hollow road haunted by the rising dust of generations Submissions are open here: www.diutayreview.com

A couple of #monoku at five fleas (itchy poetry) edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen: downtrodden an unexploded word slow corruption the body of state #haiku #haiga #senryu

A couple of #monoku at five fleas (itchy poetry) edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen: downtrodden an unexploded word slow corruption the body of state #haiku #haiga #senryu

Delighted to share the final list of haiku poets who are featuring in DOUBLE HORIZON, an international and bilingual haiku anthology, which aims to provide a panoramic overview of contemporary haiku written in English and French. #haiku

Four Views - The Inner Caldera #art #abstract

another slow night deciding what I should wear to my funeral — John Hawkhead