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#haiku
#haiga
#art
#tanka
#poetry
#senryu
#micropoetry
#tomfoolery
metallic buzz an advert arrives for flyspray Anyone else receive adverts after chatting near a phone on that very subject..?
#theyrelistening
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from the latest First Frost. Thanks to Dale Wisely and the editorial team for taking this: endless sky white curtains billow from the beach house Check it out here:
www.firstfrostpoetry.com
#micropoetry
#imagery
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Oops! I missed this one coming out at tinywords… sea cave echoes of desert wind There’s a comments section too!
tinywords.com/2026/06/15/4...
#haiku
#monoku
#time
#change
#micropoetry
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Certificate from the editors of Autumn Moon Haiku Journal! mountain lake the glacial stillness in a heron’s eye
#haiku
#nature
#heron
#lake
9 months ago
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Something from 5-7-5 Haiku Journal edited by DJ Tyrer: heated air warping into melted polythene the trees fall silent Read and submit here:
575haikujournal.wordpress.com
#haiku
#climatecrisis
#climatechange
#micropoetry
6 days ago
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from Echidna Tracks issue 17 (thanks to haiku editors Marilyn Humbert and Gavin Austin): spring showers a seam of opals where the truck parked
#oil
#rainbow
#micropoetry
#Australia
#EchidnaTracks
#opal
Link:
echidnatracks.com
10 days ago
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Peacock Butterfly (Aglais io) in the garden today!
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from the latest First Frost. Thanks to Dale Wisely and the editorial team for taking this: endless sky white curtains billow from the beach house Check it out here:
www.firstfrostpoetry.com
#micropoetry
#imagery
8 days ago
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Two
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just out at tsuri-doro edited by Tony Pupello: slide guitar blues the way the bottleneck kisses my lips last breath a cloud closes in on itself Many good things here:
tsuridoro.org
#smallpoemssunday
#senryu
#micropoetry
#tsuri-doro
15 days ago
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dadakuku
9 days ago
A new verse from returning contributor
@haikuhawk.bsky.social
: ☆ snomed gninommus feihc ni rednammoc eht raw stnevni — John Hawkhead
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snomed gninommusfeihc ni rednammoc ehtraw stnevni — John Hawkhead
http://dadakuku.com/2026/07/11/%e2%98%86/
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#haiku
from Echidna Tracks issue 17 (thanks to haiku editors Marilyn Humbert and Gavin Austin): spring showers a seam of opals where the truck parked
#oil
#rainbow
#micropoetry
#Australia
#EchidnaTracks
#opal
Link:
echidnatracks.com
10 days ago
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13 days ago
#senryu
by longtime contributor, John Hawkhead @haikuhawk of Bradford-on-Avon, UK.
#poetry
#vacation
#immigration
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from Lavana Kray’s ‘Black & White Haiga’ site: fading light moth wings flicker at our margins Photo taken in Bradford on Avon, England
#haiku
#moths
13 days ago
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Something new from The Zen Space, a showcase of
#haiku
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#senryu
on world issues. Editor Marie Marshall and guest editor Jerome Berglund have put together a really interesting selection (commentaries by Jerome). Have a read here:
thezenspace.wordpress.com/experience/s...
14 days ago
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just out at tsuri-doro edited by Tony Pupello: slide guitar blues the way the bottleneck kisses my lips last breath a cloud closes in on itself Many good things here:
tsuridoro.org
#smallpoemssunday
#senryu
#micropoetry
#tsuri-doro
15 days ago
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In today’s Asahi Haikuist Network edited by Prof. David McMurray: grass borders filled with hymns of rain planting a stone Have a read here:
www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic...
#haiku
#stone
#writing
#micropoetry
#grave
17 days ago
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rising sun a golden spider spins the dawn
#haiku
#spider
#dawn
#sun
24 days ago
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From the latest Suspect Device - Turning Japanese, edited by Tim Gardiner: bombing collateral the random flight paths of peppered moths Theme: War crimes and propaganda.
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#senryu
#warcrimes
#propaganda
20 days ago
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This was recently in ‘Circle of Salt’ edited by Kelly Moyer: stepping through whirlpools in ground mist a rollcall unfurls Link:
circleofsaltmag.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-ha...
#haiga
#haiku
#senryu
#art
22 days ago
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rising sun a golden spider spins the dawn
#haiku
#spider
#dawn
#sun
24 days ago
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A new
#senryu
at 5-7-5 Haiku Journal edited by DJ Tyrer: archaeology sherds of bone china showing under grandma’s skin Read and submit here:
575haikujournal.wordpress.com/2026/
#archeology
#age
#haiku
#micropoetry
about 1 month ago
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poppy petals… soft gossamer flutters in grandma’s hands
#haiku
#senryu
#poppies
#photography
#micropoetry
#life
29 days ago
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dadakuku
27 days ago
A new verse from returning contributor
@haikuhawk.bsky.social
: 𝗩𝗿𝗿𝗿𝗿𝗿𝗿𝗿𝗿 cartilage – sonata – strung – out – on – hyphens — John Hawkhead
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cartilage – sonata – strung – out – on – hyphens — John Hawkhead
http://dadakuku.com/2026/06/23/vrrrrrrrr/
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Quail Eggs Tanka Journal Issue5 is out, edited by Alison Williams and includes this: walking in the half-light of autumnal dusk my reflection passes by in the shimmered glaze of a hearse window Link to issue:
quaileggstanka.blogspot.com/p/issue-5-ju...
#tanka
#hearse
#poetry
#japan
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poppy petals… soft gossamer flutters in grandma’s hands
#haiku
#senryu
#poppies
#photography
#micropoetry
#life
29 days ago
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from the latest Autumn Moon Haiku Journal alongside @patricia-hawkhead owl calls hanging in the grey hour of a fading dream Thank you Kirsten Lindquist and Astrid Andreescu for taking this Many more small
#poems
here:
www.autumnmoonhaiku.com
#micropoetry
#owls
#dreams
about 1 month ago
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Here’s something topical at five fleas (itchy poetry) edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen… memorandum of understanding nothing More here:
fivefleas.blogspot.com?m=1
#senryu
#idiot
#lies
#failure
#micropoetry
about 1 month ago
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A new
#senryu
at 5-7-5 Haiku Journal edited by DJ Tyrer: archaeology sherds of bone china showing under grandma’s skin Read and submit here:
575haikujournal.wordpress.com/2026/
#archeology
#age
#haiku
#micropoetry
about 1 month ago
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from the latest Autumn Moon Haiku Journal alongside @patricia-hawkhead owl calls hanging in the grey hour of a fading dream Thank you Kirsten Lindquist and Astrid Andreescu for taking this Many more small
#poems
here:
www.autumnmoonhaiku.com
#micropoetry
#owls
#dreams
about 1 month ago
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Posting this again to celebrate the Trump deal where he has spent billions of taxpayer dollars, killed 120 schoolgirls among countless others including US personnel, alienated old allies & crashed world economies with nothing gained. Well done! fart of the deal
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com?m=1
about 1 month ago
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Recently at Smols edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen: fart of the deal
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com?m=1
#smols
about 1 month ago
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In Kelly Moyer’s ‘Circle of Salt’ zine with this: natural magic enraptured by a charm of goldfinches Here’s how to submit:
circleofsaltmag.blogspot.com?m=1
#haiku
#esoteriku
#nature
#magic
#micropoetry
about 2 months ago
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A recent outing at the new Cornflower Journal: morning light a thin white cloud where my hair was Lead editor Michael Pappafava and a team of selection editors have made an interesting first outing here:
haikudingen.be/magazine/
#haiku
#senryu
#micropoetry
about 2 months ago
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From the latest Password Journal edited by Melissa Allen: spinning a home galaxy of scars Read the whole issue here:
veryshortpoetry.com
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#senryu
#monoku
#poetry
#micropoetry
#haiga
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Another from five fleas (itchy poetry) edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen: winter coughs spreading urban foxes See here:
fivefleas.blogspot.com?m=1
#haiku
#micropoetry
#foxes
#winter
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This
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of shadowy footsteps was recently at five fleas (itchy poetry) edited by the irrepressible Robin Beach Jacobsen: Ψ crows’ feet casting runes in snow Ψ More fleas here:
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2026/06/afte...
#crows
#snow
#runes
#poetry
#art
#drawing
#sketch
about 2 months ago
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dadakuku
about 1 month ago
A new verse from returning contributor
@haikuhawk.bsky.social
: 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 piffle-waffles prattle-a-rat-a-tat-tat a puttle nonces — John Hawkhead
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piffle-wafflesprattle-a-rat-a-tat-tata puttle nonces — John Hawkhead
http://dadakuku.com/2026/06/05/battle-plans/
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This
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of shadowy footsteps was recently at five fleas (itchy poetry) edited by the irrepressible Robin Beach Jacobsen: Ψ crows’ feet casting runes in snow Ψ More fleas here:
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2026/06/afte...
#crows
#snow
#runes
#poetry
#art
#drawing
#sketch
about 2 months ago
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Here’s a haiku at 5-7-5 Haiku Journal: where the apple falls the shadow of a shadow not far from the tree Thanks to DJ Tyrer for publishing. The apple is a pastel sketch. Link to site:
575haikujournal.wordpress.com
#haiku
#senryu
#shadows
#art
#drawing
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Alan Summers
about 2 months ago
Advanced Haiku with Alan Summers By the end, participants will have up to 8 deeply considered haiku, lots of ideas and notes for further haiku, and a further developed sense of where they are in their haiku writing:
www.callofthepage.org/courses/haik...
#callofthepage
#haiku
#courses
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A recent outing at the new Cornflower Journal: morning light a thin white cloud where my hair was Lead editor Michael Pappafava and a team of selection editors have made an interesting first outing here:
haikudingen.be/magazine/
#haiku
#senryu
#micropoetry
about 2 months ago
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Here’s a haiku at 5-7-5 Haiku Journal: where the apple falls the shadow of a shadow not far from the tree Thanks to DJ Tyrer for publishing. The apple is a pastel sketch. Link to site:
575haikujournal.wordpress.com
#haiku
#senryu
#shadows
#art
#drawing
about 2 months ago
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This door in Bradford on Avon is straight out of Tolkien’s Middle Earth!
#lordoftherings
#TheHobbit
about 2 months ago
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In Kelly Moyer’s ‘Circle of Salt’ zine with this: natural magic enraptured by a charm of goldfinches Here’s how to submit:
circleofsaltmag.blogspot.com?m=1
#haiku
#esoteriku
#nature
#magic
#micropoetry
about 2 months ago
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ew at 5-7-5 Haiku Journal edited by DJ Tyrer: pour me in waters where the otters were last seen and may come again Link:
575haikujournal.wordpress.com
#haiku
#poetry
#plans
#nature
2 months ago
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dadakuku
about 2 months ago
A new verse from returning contributor
@haikuhawk.bsky.social
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#only #five #hashtags #allowed #piggy — John Hawkhead
http://dadakuku.com/2026/05/23/8855/
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A small poem from Smols edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen: hit and miscellaneous warplans
#senryu
#war
#lies
#Iran
#noplan
#obfuscation-nation
2 months ago
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Just out in tsuri-doro edited by Tony Pupello: slow day the poolman moves a cloud Much goodness here:
tsuridoro.org
#haiku
#senryu
#micropoetry
#writing
#pools
3 months ago
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from the Spring 2026 Cattails: luminous dial the glowing face of a newborn Thanks to Lavana Kray for the selection. Lots to see here:
www.cattailsjournal.com/welcome.html
#haiku
#senryu
#tanka
#haibun
2 months ago
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