Trying everything I can to get back to writing poetry. Using a portable inkless printer seems to be doing the trick. #poem

Invisible to-do list items.

#senryu #haiga

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. — Martin Luther King #quote

gesturing with a bread stick the retired baker

A #haiga #haiku #monoku

And enough grief to fill the halls of a million gods with fervent prayers.

anguishing over coming up with fresh material in a world that offers as inspiration the same violence every day, every night

A mosquito that would bleed profusely if you slapped it (Google translate)

restless night kicked out of bed by a dream

reading Circe into the night balcony jasmines #haiku

to conceive of such a thing as providence... digging two-feet-long graves #poem

i wake up with incomplete thoughts... cooing pigeon #haiku

time tick-tocking in detached coldness to a jarring end come many warm desires #micropoem #poem

We can only hope to find some semblance of objectivity by showing compassion towards as many perspectives as possible. #sumie #chinesepainting #japanesepainting #bonsai #meditativeart #inkpainting #painting #sketchbook

ringing ears— not so bad as the last missile #senryu #micropoem

Another grumpy frog. #sumie #chinesepainting #digitalart #frog #inkart #enso #meditativeart

It is already another bloody sunrise, is it? . . . #sumie #sumi #sumiink #inkpainting #inkart #painting #chinesepainting #japanesepainting #frog #frogcore #frogart #minimalart #suibokuga #procreate #meditativeart

Springboarding onto a moon rising from one part of heaven into another. . . . #artwork #painting #neon #frog #frogart #nightart #lakeside #paintingart #enso #meditativeart #nature

night owl a flashlight walking down the street #NaHaiWriMo

Series: The World According to Man . . . #sumie #sumiink #digitalart #meditativeart #artivism #poetry #micropoetry #visualpoetry

Series: The World According to Man . . . #sumie #sumiink #digitalart #meditativeart #birdart #birds #artivism #poetry #micropoetry #visualpoetry

Series: The World According to Man . . . #sumie #sumiink #digitalart #meditativeart #artivism #poetry #micropoetry #visualpoetry

caught in the web... our eyeballs

This #haiku signboard is stood up somewhere in the Golden Triangle area in Washington D.C. Will be up until early May, among a hundred other selected haiku in this year's Golden Triangle haiku contest.

a whisper of blossoms across everything west of Japan #poem

We are good at making inspiring symbols of animals, making them gods and then anticlimactically we gut them of all dignity. #digitalart

A poster commissioned by mankind. They asked me to capture it in all its glory its immense, unrelenting and unconditional efforts to coexist peacefully with all of nature on Earth.

do not worry about the seedlings occasional rain Basho

The winding road seems to tie itself up in knots the more I stand still, calculating possibilities, hoping a shortcut opens right at my feet. #painting #sumie #digitalart #poetry #prosepoetry

In a world of territorial disputes, show me a creature that doesn't call this planet home. Between carving up the land, boiling the sea and choking the air, show me the consent of all the species who back our vision of a better tomorrow. #painting #sumie #digitalart #poetry #prosepoetry

A melting glacier and a tree that will be barren forever. The silence riding the wind is carrying a record of tragedies that will persist across seasons. The weight of a guilty conscience and the drag of utter helplessness of being just a grain of sand. #painting #sumie #digitalart

frost forming on the window how memories of my grandma phase shift #tanka #poem or whatever

neither coffee nor haiku... long cold night

With thanks to David McMurray while I study Zen wasps built a nest in the attic Asahi Haikuist Network 7 February 2025 www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

After falling down she asks for a bandaid for her doll too Garry Gay Each line clarifies the image, culminating in a snapshot of a little girl whose empathy extends to her plastic friend. We learn through play; the child shapes the adult. I imagine the speaker's a proud papa #haiku #GreatHaiku #4

F that.

one memory the million names of my dog #haiku #senryu

Tommy was averse to too much contact as she got old. She needed us to be in the vicinity but not coddle it or smother it with love. I understand that. #Barkronicles 004 . . . #comics #cartoon #pets #dogs

the whims of my ink brush mindfulness #haiku

#Barkronicles 003 #comics #cartoon #dogs #pets

#Barkronicles 002 #comics #cartoon #dogs #pets

Our EIC is offering her annual Introduction to Haiku workshop this weekend! Last few spots left. Click here for more: www.shlokashankar.com/workshops

Perhaps the start of a semi-regular comic? #Barkronicles 001 #comics #cartoon #sketch

Keeping alive the neural pathways that help me remember the face of my dog. #sketch #digitalart #dogs

unsolicited manuscript from me to me

roundabout route she eventually tells me what I already knew

the nature of man in reluctant ceasefires

a squiggle here a flourish there a dash of pastel over there just missing the heart of a Ghibli movie

migraine episode— flashes of the affairs of the world