Alan Summers
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Founder of Call of the Page, and Pan Haiku Review
https://www.callofthepage.org
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A comment response on how I must have thought unconsciously at the moment I created this haiku:
haikucommentary.com/2026/06/22/a...
#monostich
#haiku
#monoku
#poem
#poetry
#writing
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Herb Tate
about 23 hours ago
morning cloud be sure to notice when it goes
#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸
about 11 hours ago
Procol Harum’s Denmark performance of “A Whiter Shade of Pale” is regarded as one of the greatest live renditions of the song ever recorded. The band performed with a 72-piece orchestra and a 50- to 70-member choir. Edited for format. Watch the full version on YouTube.
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Kimberly Vanderhorst
about 15 hours ago
oh, my darling I cannot apologize loudly enough that I only know how to ache in whispers
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tinywords.com
about 14 hours ago
new neighborhood the dog and I both lost -Biswajit Mishra
https://tinywords.com/2026/07/07/49510/
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Catherine Baker
about 8 hours ago
orange ladybird purple potato flower clashing perfectly
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Jenn R-J
about 15 hours ago
morning clouds I resettle my head upon the pillow
#DailyHaikuPrompt
#haiku
#senryu
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about 16 hours ago
Magdalena's Secret Garden Kevin Kia.
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Carolyn Winkler
about 15 hours ago
Morning ku star jasmine–– my neighbor keeps her window open
#haiku
#senyru
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dadakuku
about 14 hours ago
A new verse from new contributor Travis Park: translation from English to English — Travis Park
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translationfrom Englishto English — Travis Park
http://dadakuku.com/2026/07/07/8950/
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The Haiku Foundation
about 15 hours ago
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Chorus 1 — Introduction and Old Pond Polls
Welcome to Moon and Finger, a feature for addressing and discussing any haiku topic under the sun, in depth, but particularly haiku poetics. The feature is hosted by Orense Nicod… The post Chorus 1 — Introduction and Old Pond Polls appeared first on The Haiku Foundation.
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about 19 hours ago
Tell the UK Government to Ban Bottom Trawling in Protected Waters Help us kick bottom trawling out of UK marine protected areas for good by sending a message directly to the people in power. Act now to save our seas!
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Tell the UK Government to Ban Bottom Trawling in Protected Waters
Help us kick bottom trawling out of UK marine protected areas for good by sending a message directly to the people in power. Act now to save our seas!
https://banbottomtrawling.oceanauk.justpost.cards/
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MyxlP
about 15 hours ago
@completethehaiga.bsky.social
#completethehaiga
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J Edward Neill
about 16 hours ago
Almost big enough to walk into... 'Neverwhere'
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Jenn R-J
about 17 hours ago
revealing an ecosystem parting fields
#vss365
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C. Oulens
about 17 hours ago
My haiku in
#TheZenSpace
showcase and anthology, EIC Marie Marshall, curated (along with a great commentary) by Guest Editor Jerome Berglund. Many thanks to both for including my piece in this amazing collection.
#Oulens
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
The link:
thezenspace.wordpress.com/experience/s...
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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep
about 20 hours ago
Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.
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Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal
about 18 hours ago
Congratulations to Patrice Lawrence, just announced as the new Waterstones Children's Laureate. She pledges to ‘champion the power of books to make us feel like we belong and stories as a tool for bringing people together.’
#KidLitUK
#BookSky
@booktrust.org.uk
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Raven
about 18 hours ago
www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/05/e...
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The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.”
https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/05/e-e-cummings-advice/
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Marilyn Ward
about 20 hours ago
#dailyhaikuprompt
#freeze
bright white trapped in overnight ice swan feathers
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Tanja
about 19 hours ago
july water lilies let girls be weird as they please
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Amy Borgman
about 19 hours ago
#twopageplustuesday
#poetry
#poem
#writingcommunity
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
I love this Jim Moore poem, from his powerful collection, Prognosis.
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AlinaX
1 day ago
autumn epiphany the turtles go up
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Pippa
1 day ago
midsummer turles all the way down
#PaintbyWords
#haiku
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Herb Tate
about 23 hours ago
Delighted to be part of The Zen Space Summer Showcase and Anthology 2026 thanks to Marie Marshall and guest editor extraordinaire Jerome Berglund. defining moment naming all the weeds in the garden
#haiku
#thezenspace
thezenspace.wordpress.com/experience/s...
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Summer Showcase and Anthology 2026
Introduction This is going to be a very exciting Showcase, because it is in the hands of a guest editor. I called for volunteers, and Jerome Berglund was among the handful who stepped forward with …
https://thezenspace.wordpress.com/experience/summer-showcase-and-anthology-2026/
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1 day ago
We need to spread the word. Tell Keir Starmer to ban deep sea mining before it starts.
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If you agree the UK government should stop deep sea mining before it starts, add your name.
Call on the UK to protect our oceans and stop deep sea mining before it starts.
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Zinoку.
1 day ago
In meadows, at the edge of the woods, and along roadsides, one often encounters an undemanding yet graceful plant: yarrow. While we most frequently see white or pale pink shades, nature sometimes offers more vibrant variations as well.
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Oliver
about 23 hours ago
".. the small Quebec town ... has become the first municipality in Canada to officially recognize trees as living beings with inherent rights ... declaring that trees deserve protection, including the right to life, natural growth, integrity, and regeneration"
www.facebook.com/groups/29053...
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Orak⚜️
1 day ago
仲居から仲居の死んだ話聞く — Takahashi Sanji a waitress tells me the story—of another waitress who died
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Orak⚜️
1 day ago
. れんげ菜の花この世の旅もあと少し — Tokizane Shinko lotus blossoms—this life’s journey now nearly over
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Kris Lindbeck
2 days ago
Just bought _Under Dust_ a book of paired tanka by Orrin Préjean *today* Orak
@orakdubwa.bsky.social
& Joy McCall
#SmallPoemSunday
Orrin: standing in a thin azalearain memories of childhood spent on Willow Street and the taste of figs 1/2 Joy's response & a link to my review below
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Orak⚜️
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雪月花いい年寄りにならはった — Yamamoto Mitsunori snow, moon, blossoms—he’s grown into a fine old gentleman
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AsurasHaiku
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ever since then I've been living as a noodle --Susumu Maruyama あれ以来麺類として生きている 丸山進 Note: or "as noodles"--麺類 is more literally "noodles [category] / noodle products," but "as a noodle" feels more natural in
#translation
. Perhaps "I've been living a noodle life"?
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#gendaisenryu
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ant ant ant ant ant
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#haiku
maybe you’re awake somewhere else
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Tanja
2 days ago
wrapped in yellow wallpaper girl, interrupted found-poem
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Orak⚜️
1 day ago
reading 'Jane Eyre' on a sudden thought i'd like a house with gables
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The 70s Guy
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Historic day for Bowie fans. On this day, 6th July 1972, 53 yrs ago today, David Bowie appeared on TOTP singing "Starman". Boy George, the Kemps, Siouxsie Sue, Gary Numan, The Cure's Robert Smith and many others were so impressed that they started their own bands.
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Orak⚜️
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new books arrive - in the dining room tearing up the box to release them
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「淋しさは交番一つ寺一つ」 — Kojima Rokurinbō Loneliness—one police box, one temple
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Orak⚜️
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「蝶を子が追へばその子を母が追ひ」 The child chases a butterfly—Mother chases the child - anon
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Orak⚜️
1 day ago
married and now divorced, peacock's feather in her fedora
#hiraku
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1 day ago
'Moonshine' by contemporary UK printmaker Janis Goodman
#WomensArt
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Catherine Baker
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a street-corner fox pale light pooled under lamp posts alone in this world
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S. Reeson / Experimental Poet
1 day ago
#promptcombo
#bestiary
@janpsolivagant.bsky.social
and this has gone to Instagram as an example of my process in evolution. I used the prompt as a focus, and it’s been surprisingly helpful. Let’s see what you lot think.
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Jenn R-J
1 day ago
I’m deeply honored to have this haiku published in the newly released Zen Space Showcase Anthology among the work of so many phenomenal haijin. Thanks so much to Editor-in-Chief Marie Marshall and Guest Curator Jerome Berglund. Congratulations to all featured poets.
drive.google.com/file/d/1IOnV...
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Thomas L. Vaultonburg
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I'm honored by this thoughtful reading of Vanished Roads from Magedah Shabo. One of the greatest gifts an author can receive is knowing someone spent time with the work deeply enough to see the conversations between the poems. Thank you for your generosity and care.
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mark r meyer / 3dotstudio
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origami another simulated view of the universe
#haiga
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Ham der kammerat Bo
2 days ago
Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys ☀️
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Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm do...
High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought
https://www.ecoportal.net/en/switzerland-5000-alpine-solar-muttsee-dam-winter-power/28487/
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dadakuku
1 day ago
A new verse from returning contributor GJ Welsh: 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝘀 So long story short, prison is nothing like looking through a fork real close. — GJ Welsh
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Real Bars
So long story short, prison is nothing like looking through a fork real close. — GJ Welsh
http://dadakuku.com/2026/07/06/real-bars/
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tinywords.com
1 day ago
dandelion diaspora seeking a place to land -Sondra J. Byrnes
https://tinywords.com/2026/07/06/49530/
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