cognitive dissonance on either side of the BBQ pit

the lighthouse scouring the twilit sea all I hear in the conchshells is your last sigh #tanka #TankaThursday 'twilight'

birdwatchers squawking at each other in disagreement

the summer before my grandmother died how the wind chimes smelled like lilacs #NaTankaMonth #tanka #micropoetry #poetrysky #poetry

#haiga #haiku

#haiga #haiku #painting

The selective outrage about slaughtering specific species of animals is stupid, superficial, hollow. #senryu #haiga #painting #digitalart

Some bird #haiga, #haiku

4 summer #haiku #haiga

This week’s fallen petals haiku and senryu commentary post featuring poets: @cinnatus.bsky.social @thehaikutec.bsky.social @laughingmonkey0.bsky.social @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social @mamahannatu.bsky.social Corpse flowers, guns and thin ice open.substack.com/pub/thesehai...

Can't be bothered with syllable count for this. #haiku

a week of rote rituals ... from time to time I go sit in the backseat with the grief #tanka

Some poems on my grandmother | #haiku #senryu

A few death poems l #haiku #senryu

Fresh off an edge-of-the-seat thriller. a dog chasing a man . . . they're together! #gembun #haiku

View the complete art series here: coffeeandhaiku.in/series-the-s... #meditativeart #painting #moonlight #visualpoetry

A #haiga #senryu #haiku #visualpoetry

Series: Wetland Vignettes #1 View/read them here: coffeeandhaiku.in/series-wetla... A series of haiga featuring scenes from wetlands, seemingly during the golden hour. #haiku #haiga #painting #birds

spread sheets filling fields with death tolls From the inaugural issue of Only Human edited by AN We to and David Oates. Well worth a read here: www.onlyhumansenryu.com #senryu #micropoetry #war

Series: Arrested by Spring Wind #painting #procreate #meditativeart #illustration #cherryblossom #natureart

a quarter of the new year gone my young white hairs #senryu #川柳 #haiku #俳句

spring thaw the seagull's foot slides a little #haiku

the cluster of stars is perhaps a knot in the fabric of space your touch unties a sigh of longing #tanka #短歌 #TankaThursday 'knot'

every conch shell echoing the same gentle desire the sand under our feet escaping together #tanka #短歌

Wow. This is really the first time I'm seeing a heron in this pose! When I think of a Heron, it is always a bird that's snaky, tall, upright on land or wings widespread in air that comes to mind. This photo got a chuckle out of me, how dorky a heron is when it sits like a duck in water. 😅

feeding a stray I grow a tail

feeding a stray — a leash is a leash #sumie #painting #inkwash #haiga #haiku #俳句

tanka weekly #poetry challenge March 26, 2026 this week’s prompt: knot write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry #tanka resources to develop your practice: tankasocietyofamerica.org Tanka Society of America www.tankasocietyofamerica.org

I've got a one-line #poem about you-know-who: shameleness trumps logic ~ P.S: Give me the Pulitzer already! And a Nobel Peace Prize while you are at it.

early autumn walk staggered, in single file mushrooms Find more haiku and haibun here: kasasagi.blog

morning sunshine music to my ears soft voices oyoguhito #senryu haikueye.blogspot.com

no fixed berths to watch the sunset nesting storks #haiku #俳句 #DailyHaikuPromot 'stork'

the beach guard's whistle ringing ... a soft shell #haiku #俳句 #DailyHaikuPrompt 'shell'

Today's #DaikyHaikuPrompt 'shell' reminds me of one of my award winning #haiku - that I've already been going back to recently. green seashell washed ashore a while ago moving by itself now matsuyamahaiku.jp/contest/resu... ~ I feel like I'm not writing like this anymore.

high tide the water hyacinths still out of reach #haiku #俳句 #DailyHaikuPrompt 'high tide'

#completethehaiga 143 #haiga #haiku #俳句 @completethehaiga.bsky.social

#completethehaiga 143 #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu #tanka

long day a sigh from the new pillow #DailyHaikuPrompt 'long day' #haiku #俳句

trick candles on my birthday cake I wasn’t born yesterday #haiku #senryu #SenryuSunday

world news midnight tears from yawning #SenryuSunday #senryu #川柳

#haiku #俳句 #川柳 #senryu pawn shop I ask if they take old poems

Reading The Count of Monte Cristo is an yearly spiritual and philosophical pilgrimage for me. #sumie #meditativeart #illustration #indiaink #suibokuga

A #haiga. It's supposed to be a monoku but botched it by adding an em dash too early before I realized it works better as a monoku. the white of grandma's hair golden hour #haiku

A visual poem coffeeandhaiku.in/we-need-to-t... #painting #indiaink #sumiink #visualpoetry

I've written a #haiku / #senryu after I painted this and wrote that sentence. spring day— pollination by landmines coffeeandhaiku.in/pollination/ #painting #meditativeart

Doing everything to not scare the fish. #painting #sumie #suibokuga #chinesepainting #japanesepainting

@completethehaiga.bsky.social #haiga #haiku