Award-winning and widely read: Leon Garfield. Browse highlights and teaching notes at schoolreadinglist.co.uk/tag/leon-gar...

Merry Christmas to my friends!🎄🎅🎄♥ #poems #poetrycommunity

Let’s see if I can continue my recent hot streak with today’s bird of the day. A few photos of various Eurasian oystercatchers (haematopus ostralegus) from over the years. As my good friend calls them, “Magpies with carrots on their face”. #Birds #WildlifePhotography #UKWildlife #Oystercatcher

Thank you, that's really kind!!!

my shadow pulls me on the wooden bridge betraying every step of my worn-out boot Fatma Zohra Habis #tanka #TankaThursday #poetrycommunity #inkMine #vss365 #boot

first light and soft frost the small green weeds of winter waking up alone

snow drifts piling against the barn door a cat hunkers down #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku

night before Christmas Santa frightened by a mouse #wss366

winter street a lost glove explains nothing perfectly #haiku #poetry

Have a great Winter Break however you take it! If you are a writer don't forget you are always on call! Be wonderful to those who work through the winter break so that we can take it as a holiday even more easily. Alan Call of the Page www.callofthepage.org

For the #ArtAdventCalendar: a brush pen sketch of a belted kingfisher, doodled as part of a past #Inktober challenge. I’ve spent much time attempting to get close enough to a kingfisher for a photo – and still so far the best I’ve achieved is this courtroom sketch. #birds

Children’s Literature News December 2025. 📚👍🏼 schoolreadinglist.co.uk/childrens-li... #kidlit Children’s book news for December 2025: award longlists and winners, a library card proposal, Book Nooks, bookshop plans, an MPs inquiry, and exhibiti...

missing the oystercatchers... #birds #birding

The Fayetteville Public Library displayed art by local artist Sarah Spence this year, and I was so glad I got to see it. Her Swan Lane series in particular is stunning.

winter gloaming— geese blurring sky and pond #haiku #haikupoem #prompt #haikupoetry #poetry #poem #haikufeels (dim) #blueskypoet #blueskypoetry #dailyhaikuprompt #vss365 #vssdaily #senryu #haikuwriter

Many thanks to guest editor Arvinder Kaur for selecting my monoku for commentary in this installment of Haiku Dialogue, using the theme of those who work the soil. Hello and congrats on the others who appear! 👋 thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...

testing the front door a snow drift gathers and waits #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt

A Christmas or New Year’s gift or both to a friend, family member or yourself! Haiku Playback www.callofthepage.org/courses/haik... #haiku #callofthepage #writing #poetry #courses

crescent moon a foal's whisker bends toward milk -Bill Cooper https://tinywords.com/2025/12/16/43513/

thud of the camellia bud finding myself again in mother’s house without teeth — Take 5ive, October issue, 2023 #tanka #poetry #poem

We're delighted to see Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly included in @theguardian.com's 30 authors on the books they give to everyone! Thank you Derek Owusu for choosing it 📚 #Booksky 📚💙 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

the boy has been strong before knowing pain —Makoto #senryu #poem open.spotify.com/track/5598Gf...

Fieldfares, Linnets and others on a rare sunny morning on the Cleveland Way Path along the edge of the North York Moors in the northeast of England. Pen and watercolour drawings from my own reference photos. 🪶🐡 #artAdventCalendar

another mouth to feed the milky way by Rich Schilling Whiptail Journal, Issue 14, November 2025 Read the Current Issues | home share.google/MewpI63VwoAW...

Wonderful!!! Thank you!

Cheers! Ah, the day moon was really sliced in half, as the train started to pull out of Bath Spa Train Station. Having a window seat afforded me that view. 🌜 🌛

all the words for snow ~ none for the snowflake melting in my palm #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (snowflake)

Poetry News → Chicago www.timeout.com/chicago/thin... #PoetryNews #PoetrySky

another dusk the automatic lights come on again oyoguhito #haiku haikueye.blogspot.com

in the wood at dusk flung out high as the first stars a loop of brambles

heavily discounted illicit copies of mediocre software #vss365

Featured on Haiku Commentary: border outpost— the sandbag wall sprouts weeds — Neena Singh the faint hum of the hallway light— still breathing — Anne Kulou autumn rose on his car’s dashboard —blind date night — Sheikha A. #haiku #poetry #commentary

New collection now out and available as a free PDF download: by ink of crow www.callofthepage.org #crow #haiku #haibun #tanka #monostich #monoku #corvus #crows

#haiku translucent on the light bulb an ant that got stuck

Wow!!!!!!!

A new verse from returning contributor @nberlat.bsky.social: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗹𝗲 The beetle? The beetle. The beetle? The beetle. The beetle? The beetle. — Noah Berlatsky

🪾 winter reveals trees’ true shapes how they’ve had to adjust #haiku #senryu #poem #writer

Woke and saw a News notification on my phone, and thought, “FINALLY, some fun news, instead of more hate and dread to start my day.” And then I saw everyone’s favorite Bluesky Dino expert wrote it 🥰 @restingdinoface.bsky.social

It’s made our Christmas Gift Guide 🎄🎁🎄 booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bfk-27...

cool evening the rising mist from carol singers #DailyHaikuPrompt (Breath, Cool Evening) #haiku

Morning ku all raked up the leaves of fall in the dust bins #haiku #senyru

last of the tomatoes an extra hot cup of coffee #wss366

white stillness~ a fox print perfect and alone #haiku

@berliedoherty.bsky.social #poetry

Whiptail Journal, Issue 12, February 2025 by Kati Mohr Read the Current Issues | home share.google/6cfqfNOYRiSN...

Read the beautiful poemword or one word poem in the latest Issue of Whiptail. November 2025 Issue 14 Whiptail.pdf share.google/O70bDsceWeKl... Consider writing your own poemword. Aram Saroyan and the Art of the One-Word Poem | The MIT Press Reader share.google/ZcGOhk4WteuA...

everything turned off the stars tonight by Dylan Stover Whiptail Journal, Issue 14, November 2025 Read the Current Issues | home www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-cur...

We are thrilled to share our nominations! Part 1: The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Awards (Poem and Haibun)! Our sincere gratitude for the writers and readers of exceptional one-line poetry who have made it a fun and exciting year for us at whiptail! Your support means everything to us.

More award nominations from your favorite journal of one-line poetry! Part 2: Pushcart Prize. Good luck!