#inktober flying three tailed fish

I’ve never done #inktober and I’m already a day late, but here we go… a flame or faces

if she floats, America - Dan Schwerin, USA Whiptail Journal, Issue 5, November 2022 Read the Archives | home share.google/IFmdyYFnhc78...

Our first prompt with Prune Juice Journal 🎉. Please make sure to tag @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social or with #PJJournal in any responses or you can submit directly through their submission process: prunejuicesenryu.com/submissions/

Congratulations to @eric-a-lohman.bsky.social @moritherapy.bsky.social and Ellen Craft whose works have been nominated by #completethehaiga for the 2026 Best of the Net Anthology. View these and previous nominations at www.completethehaiga.org/best-of-the-...

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blood in my coffee ink or tears

Welcome back to PJ's prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning: #Nation (with or without the word in your senryu) What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on the human Find more here: www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-definiti... Tag: #PJJournal #prompt 02 #WritingCommunity

my aggregate settled out of the wind

I am happy to announce #CompleteTheHaiga has a new home: www.completethehaiga.org All previous prompt images are available for haiga!

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whiskey sours unfolding my rhythm the blues

I am excited to share that #completeTheHaiga is teaming up with Prune Juice Journal as a recurring feature! Follow along here and with @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social and @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social for upcoming image prompts you can submit to be considered for publication.

Welcome to Prune Juice's official Bluesky Account! We will be opening for submissions starting in October, and are particularly encouraging poems that engage with politics of the moment. Check out our page for more information: prunejuicesenryu.com/submissions/ #senryu #poetry #WritingCommunity

Prune Juice is happy to announce that Complete the Haiga will be coming to the journal as a regular feature! Many thanks to @lessethereal.bsky.social for joining the team!

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the mixing of ink my well to yours

what is this thirst? the winding trail your moon soaked lips—

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forgot who I was this imperfect reflection wind across the waters #micropoety #haiku #spoken

on the kingston ferry today

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One day to go!

Only a day left to submit up to five haiku to the 2025 Haiku Northwest Porad Award! sites.google.com/site/haikuno...

two haiku #micropoety #micropoem #poem #poetry #spoken #haiku

I went last year and loved it!

Sunday’s deadline to submit up to five haiku for the 2025 Porad Award is approaching fast. www.haikunorthwest.org/2025-events/...

Join us August 28th for a reading of Glimmering Hour, Haiku Northwest’s 35th Anniversary Anthology. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Words and Wine, J. Bookwalter Tasting Studio, 14810 NE 145th Street, Suite C, in Woodinville, Washington. Free reading and open mic. www.haikunorthwest.org/glimmering-h...

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There is still time to submit your haiku!

Haiku Northwest, founded in 1988 by Francine Porad, is a Seattle-based group that meets most second Thursdays to share and discuss haiku and related forms like senryu, haibun, haiga, tanka, and renku. Look to the space for updates and upcoming meeting events. www.haikunorthwest.org

my finger has become an animated 70’s dark fantasy with lens flare—so dramatic

quick drawing

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@pippaesque.bsky.social I learned how to thread bind a book today prior to a ginko walk with Haiku Northwest.

your smile is not the moon but how it challenges the light of every star including the sun #micropoety #micropoem #poem #poetry #spoken #poetrycommunity

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a quick reading of this morning’s haiku

summer moon in the breakers hardly a change

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everything I never was; dandelions #micropoety #micropoem #poem #poetry #spoken #poetrycommunity

street lamps bleed edge from shadow wash stars like stains that pocket a dirty sky #micropoety #micropoem #poem #poetry #spoken #poetrycommunity

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The 2025 Porad Award judge is Jacquie Pearce, an award-winning Canadian haiku poet and children’s book author. Editor of Last Train Home, an international anthology of haiku, tanka, and rengay on the theme of train travel, winning a 2022 Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award.