his eyes locked on the ceiling summer straw #PJsenryu #senryu #poem #haiku #micropoem

The poems on Black and White Haiga for the June Challenge 2. You can also check out the poems for the June Challenge 1 at ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/2026/06/june... Thanks to Lavana Kray for two of mine for each prompt. Text versions in comments

tipping his hat to a passerby my day lifts up

My poem in Haiku Dialogue on the theme of ‘ Intoxication’. Grateful to the Guest Editor @dkarlbrandt.bsky.social @haikufound.bsky.social

#haiku by Melissa Dennison @melissa.dennison.54 of the UK. #poetry #ladybird #UK #spring

My debut with Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 9:2 Spring/Summer 2026 Many thanks to Editors: Astrid Andreescu and Kristen Lindquist Link to the full issue www.autumnmoonhaiku.com

complete the haiga Drawing by Josiah notmetaphor.com/ haiga # 155 @completethehaiga.bsky.social (not)brave new world maps romp the streets

#monoku by regular contributor, John Pappas. John is a touchstone-winning poet, literature professor & punk-rock drummer. He does all that in Boston, MA, USA. #poetry #spring #rain #haiku

fast forward the office leopard in broom closet #senryuslam #senryusunday

Autumn in Paris I want to be like Josephine Baker and walk down the street with a leopard #SenryuSlam even though it's a #tanka...

limestone my fossil heart #senryu #senryuslam ##senryusunday

bleached coral preparing myself for ghosthood #senryuslam

sea anemone— I split myself in two and wet his lips #senryu #senryusunday #senryuslam #micropoem @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social

ant bites they won't stop itching #senryuslam

heat lightning a nest of fire ants #senryuslam #senryu #prunejuice

first high . . . each raindrop strikes a note Published in Haiku in Action, June 12, 2026 #haiku #poetry #poem

none the wiser they continue to feed the leopards #senryuslam

monomorium pharaonis— the crease of his ear
 one follows it in #senryu #senryuslam #senryusunday #poem @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social

Welcome to Prune Juice's senryu slam! Tag your posts #senryuslam so we can find them! We'll be picking winners in each category! Anything you write, you can submit to us! Your 3d prompt is: CORAL (you don't have to use the word in your poem) #SenryuSunday #WritingCommunity #PoetrySlam

Papering the roof of my mouth - onigiri. #senryuslam prompt: seaweed #senryu 🍙🍘🍙😋

paradise lost snorkeling past the bleached reef #senryuslam

the unbought mockingbird hush, she says still hush #senryuslam

the patience of a leopard in the Serengeti waiting for rain #senryusunday #senryuslam

the residues of calcium in the pots my childhood #senryusunday #senryuslam

mocking bird everything the oracle says already said #senryusunday #senryuslam

fast forward the leopard in the office in the broom closet #senryusunday #senryuslam

the patience of a leopard in Serengeti the wait for rain #senryusunday #senryuslam

no kidding in deep waters mimic octopus #senryusunday #senryuslam

calamari a choice between rings and spiders #senryuslam #senryu

hoping the legs do not feel after death takoyaki #senryu #poetry #micropoetry #senryuslam

becoming an octopus so I can have three hearts to love you #senryuslam

cephalopod his arms
thrash the blanket in my hands #senryu #senryuslam #senryusunday @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social

one two many for the ocean road common octopus #senryusunday #senryuslam

the secrets in the old forts anthills #senryusunday #senryuslam

every step on thin ice sidewalk ants #senryusunday #senryuslam

coming undone the clank of her obidome #senryu #senryuslam

Welcome to Prune Juice's #senryu slam! Tag your posts #senryuslam so we can find them! We will be picking winners in each category! Anything you write, you can submit to us! Your 1st prompt is: ALGAE (you don't have to use the word in your poem) #SenryuSunday #WritingCommunity #PoetrySlam

bullwhip kelp—
 she hides her
face in the sheets #senryusunday #senryuslam #senryu @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social

another skeleton in the school closet blue coral #senryuslam #senryusunday #prunejuice

the last few Cuban cigars in the box pillar corals #prunejuice #senryuslam

fucus living through attachments with detachment #senryuslam #prunejuice #seaweed

algae nothing matters but matters #senryu slam

morning crow— my father-in-law’s rib cage whistles #senryu #senryusunday #haiku #poetry #poem #micropoetry

deep down the desire to be a different sparrow

My poem in Haiku Canada Memebers’ Anthology 2026. Thanks to editors Pam Cooper and Mike Montreuil now down to ghosts my childhood

distant mountains growing cataract

#SenryuSunday participants. Here is an upcoming creative challenge. Online poetry slams are super gun!

this world two beats of air

what no other bird is sleepless

complete the haiga Drawing by Josiah notmetaphor.com/ haiga # 154 @completethehaiga.bsky.social between a sword and a saw heartache