Thankful to have this piece selected for the Summer 2026 issue of @waleshaiku.bsky.social #haiku #poem #poetry

Some names stay on the tongue... a blackberry collapses in my mouth the taste of your name - Vandana Parashar From the Summer '26 edition of the Wales Haiku Journal. Read the full issue here: www.waleshaikujournal.com #haiku #senryu #summer

Our Summer Competition ‘26 remains open until 31 July, and we’ve already been delighted by the powerful, poignant and playful poems arriving from around the world. We’re looking forward to seeing where the rest of the season leads. www.waleshaikujournal.com/summercompet... #haiku

Three of these wonderful journals have BlueSky accounts: @waleshaiku.bsky.social @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social

night sky
over our village home
my Universe Ashoka Weerakkody From the Summer '26 edition of the Wales Haiku Journal. www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2026

Massive thanks to Joe and Luci @loverpoetic.bsky.social for choosing this one of mine for the latest edition of Wales Haiku Journal @waleshaiku.bsky.social - 210 great works from poets round the world. #haiku #WalesHaikuJournal www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2026

Many thanks to the editors of Wales Haiku Journal for including my poems in the summer '26 issue. Means a lot. www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2026 curling back on itself... dead spider #haiku @waleshaiku.bsky.social

So honored to have 1 #haiku and 1 #haibun in @waleshaiku.bsky.social Summer '26 issue among so many other wonderful writers

Delighted to have these haiku in @waleshaiku.bsky.social summer issue Thank you to editors, CX Turner & Joe Woodhouse #haiku #summer #Cymru

A Sunday moment from the Summer '26 edition of the Wales Haiku Journal. family reunion
ripping the husks
off the corn - Tom Bierovic #haiku #poetry Read the full edition:
www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2026

Always a pleasure to read and be published in @waleshaiku.bsky.social Many thanks Joe and Luci 💚☀️🌱 #haiku #micropoetry #poem

A little lavender for a warm July afternoon. lavender field—
her purple crayon
worn to a nub - thomas david From the Summer '26 edition of the Wales Haiku Journal. www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2026 #haiku #Summer

cocoon opening—
first-graders
motionless - Patricia Haddock The opening poem from our Summer '26 edition. One small moment that opens the door to all that follows. www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2026 #haiku

☀️ The Summer '26 edition of the Wales Haiku Journal is here! We genuinely believe this is our strongest edition to date. 📖 Read the Summer '26 edition: www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2026 🏆 Also, our Summer Haiku Competition also remains open until 31 July. We'd love to read your work.

sudden breeze a whisper of green persimmons 🙏 to Joe Woodhouse and Luci Turner @loverpoetic.bsky.social for featuring this one in the Summer 2026 issue of @waleshaiku.bsky.social www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2026

Here's a poem that drifts lightly across the surface, then settles somewhere deeper. Second Place in our 2025 Summer Competition: sunlit hospice a seagull tilts into the blue - D W Brydon Our Summer Competition 2026 remains open until 31 July. www.waleshaikujournal.com/summercompet... #haiku

As we continue to read entries for this year's Summer Competition, we're revisiting some of the poems recognised in last year's awards. firefly glow – another memory I can't hold onto - Nada Mutlaq Our Summer Competition 2026 remains open until 31 July: www.waleshaikujournal.com/summercompet...

Some poems make us stop. Some make us smile. Occasionally, they do both. Here's one of those from the Wales Haiku Journal Summer Competition 2025 - one of last year's highly commended poems. how did I get here? a blueberry rolls down the bus aisle - D W Brydon #haiku #poetry

☀️ The Wales Haiku Journal Summer Competition 2026 is now open. Whether your summer arrives with cicadas, sea mist, monsoon rains, wildflowers, thunderstorms, or long evenings of light, we look forward to reading the many ways the season finds its voice in your work.

A handful of syllables that continue unfolding inside the mind. Today’s Word Emporium piece looks at ten lines - from Heraclitus to Rilke - that keep speaking long after the page is closed. open.substack.com/pub/thecurio...

As our Summer submissions draw to a close, here’s a little linguistic diversion from our sister publication, The Word Emporium. A clock ticks. Rain begins against the window. A glass meets another in celebration. The sounds are the same everywhere. Language teaches us to hear them differently.

Today, our companion space, The Word Emporium, shares three words for late spring. Lucent. Verdurous. Mellifluous. Three words paired with three photographs: a quiet exploration of settled light, deepening green, and the soft hum of life in motion. open.substack.com/pub/thecurio...

A haiku from our Spring Edition that encapsulates the positivity, and possibility, of the season. Many thanks to @farahauthor.bsky.social for these words. www.waleshaikujournal.com/spring26

There are words for the way spring arrives. Zephyr - the first soft movement in the air Resplendent - when light suddenly floods everything Sylvan - the deep green quiet of the woods We paired them with three photographs for today’s collaboration at the Emporium. open.substack.com/pub/thecurio...

Submissions for the Spring Edition of Wales #Haiku Journal are now closed. We received 520 submissions this season - our largest number by far to date, representing several thousand individual poems. Thank you all for sending us your words - We’re looking forward to building this one 😍

Submissions close at the end of March for the Spring Edition of the Wales Haiku Journal. There’s been a real surge of work this season: both in quality and quantity. Thank you to everyone who’s sent poems so far. A little time remains if you’d like to join. www.waleshaikujournal.com/submit

Congratulations @farahauthor.bsky.social , what a wonderful initiative to be a part of. Well deserved. Such a vivid, transportive haiku 👏

On St David’s Day 🌼 , we’re pleased to open submissions for the Spring ‘26 Edition of the Wales Haiku Journal. We welcome original #haiku, #senryu, #haibun and #haiga that speak of spring in some way. We look forward to reading the words this Spring brings. www.waleshaikujournal.com/submit

A new word has been placed on the shelf of the Haiku Emporium: Saijiki - a seasonal almanac of haiku. A quiet catalogue of the year: plum blossom, cicada hush, first frost. You can view this and the rest of emporium below. waleshaikujournal.com/haikuemporium #haiku #saijiki #wordoftheday

Want to submit your work this month? Here are some great opportunities: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s... Including @theargylelitmag.bsky.social @pictura.bsky.social @januaryhouselit.bsky.social & more

Sharing this #haiga from the latest issue of #waleshaikujournal. Please enjoy more #haiku #senryu #haibun here: www.waleshaikujournal.com #haikupoetry #micropoetry

a bullfrog
in dense fog
that recurring dream - Robert Witmer From the Winter 2025–2026 edition of the Wales Haiku Journal. 
Winter as atmosphere, not explanation. www.waleshaikujournal.com/winter2025

flu season … refilling the bucket of free lemons A #haiku by Jenny Polstra, from our Winter 2025-2026 edition. Winter, noticed through care and habit. www.waleshaikujournal.com/winter2025

The Winter 2025-2026 edition of @waleshaiku.bsky.social is out and includes this: gunmetal skies in the crow’s morning call an iron hawser Thanks to editors Joe Woodhouse and Luci C.X. Turner for the inclusion. Link: www.waleshaikujournal.com #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

a doe’s eyes the briefest part in the other’s story Doug Belleville, from our Winter 2025–2026 edition. A #haiku that pauses with a fleeting moment, then lets it go. waleshaikujournal.com/winter2025

~ dawn moon and star the walker follows his dog ~ freezing cold the conifer absorbs a delicate sunrise ~ With gratitude to Joe and Lucy Wales Haiku Journal Winter 25/26 @waleshaiku.bsky.social #haiku #WalesHaikuJournal

Happy to be back in @waleshaiku.bsky.social winter issue. Thanks to the editors, Joe Woodhouse and C.X. Turner. #haiku Read the issue here: waleshaikujournal.com/winter2025

hunger moon trying not to swallow this single grain of rice 🙏 to editors Joe Woodhouse and C.X. Turner for publishing this one in Wales Haiku Journal @waleshaiku.bsky.social Winter 2025/26 issue www.waleshaikujournal.com/winter2025

And thank you @farahauthor.bsky.social , for sharing your poignant pieces with us.

Whilst we wait for our Winter Edition to be released on Friday, we’ve added a word to our Haiku Emporium: Compresence. A word for being there together. For being part of the whole. You can find this, amongst many other words @ www.waleshaikujournal.com/haikuemporium #words #language #humanity

deep winter dawn the lingering notes of hu mantra Punlished in Wales Haiku Journal, Winter 2022-23

“A simple, powerful way to express love and gratitude to the Divine.” - @hifsays.bsky.social We loved this description shared with us by Hifsa, so we’ve added Hu Mantra to the Haiku Emporium - a #word rooted in devotion, simplicity, and #stillness. waleshaikujournal.com/haikuemporium

A new word has found its way into the Haiku Emporium - Hibernacle. Many thanks to @thehaikutec.bsky.social for this wonderful, wintry suggestion. You can find this and more words at www.waleshaikujournal.com/haikuemporium #haiku

A new mini journal is live, celebrating the poets nominated by Wales Haiku Journal for the 2025 Touchstone Awards. Thank you to everyone who continues to write, read, and support the journal. www.waleshaikujournal.com/touchstone2025

There are just two days left to share your #haiku, #haibun, or #haiga for our upcoming issue - the end of the window always comes sooner than we expect! Please send submissions to: [email protected] Our submission guidelines can be found @ www.waleshaikujournal.com/submit

Discover the full Haiku Emporium here: waleshaikujournal.com/haikuemporium

The Haiku Emporium is now open - a collection of words curated through curiosity, shaped by weather, landscape, and tradition, each one placed to invite moments of noticing. Step inside when you have a moment... www.waleshaikujournal.com/haikuemporium

Another highlight from the recent Autumn issue... Soft rain, tender ghosts — a quiet reckoning beneath the turning leaves. Tim Daly’s #haiku lingers in the new #WalesHaikuJournal: Amber • Auburn • Ash. 🌧️🍃 Find moments like this here: waleshaikujournal.com #micropoetry #autumnpoetry

A highlight from the recent Autumn issue... Night deepens, and something ancient stirs — feather, thought, reply. Kristen Lindquist’s #haiku listens into the dark in the new #WalesHaikuJournal: Amber • Auburn • Ash. 🌙🦉 Find moments like this here: waleshaikujournal.com