wind sounds the clock tonight not alone

not yet midnight already too dark for a poem to be out

complete the haiga Drawing by Josiah notmetaphor.com/ haiga # 147 @completethehaiga.bsky.social south facing window

One of the poems I shared at the Haiku Foundation’s Earthrise Rolling Haiku collaboration on April 17, 2026 dusty leaves of the village banyan a card game’s on

Thanks to editor Katie Dozier for including me in the 2026 One Art’s Haiku Anthology oneartpoetry.com/2026/04/17/o... every word out bracing itself ants

Very excited to receive the third place in the Whispers of Nature International Haiku Contest by the Sri Lankan Haiku Association. Grateful to judge Ravi Kiran, the Chair Palitha Senarathna, and Coordinators Radhika De Silva and Lanka Siriwardana. light breeze only the red-necked grebe not ripping

I had missed to post the second Haiga included in April issue of Chrysanthemum Thanks to Editor Beate Conrad and Klaus-Dieter Wirth and special thanks for translating the poems to German. www.chrysanthemum-haiku.net/media/Chrysa... Text versions in comments

Thrilled to be on Chrysanthemum with a haiku and two Haiga. Thanks to Editor Beate Conrad and Klaus-Dieter Wirth Thrilled to be on Chrysanthemum with a haiku and two Haiga. Thanks to Editor Beate Conrad and Klaus-DieterWirth

Thanks to guest editor Carole MacRury for including my poem@in the long list at Haiku Dialogue for the theme “ Sanctuary of senses:Touch and/or Taste” thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog... freshly mowed lawn the first taste of summer in the beer

even on a dry day mid week party

complete the haiga Drawing by Josiah notmetaphor.com/ haiga # 146 @completethehaiga.bsky.social dropped weight wishing the well into flooding

fog of war the call of a loon on repeat #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #SenryuSunday #senryu

Thanks to Editor Steliana Voicu for including my poems in the just released Spring issue of Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal enchanted-garden-haiku.blogspot.com/2026/04/ench... I will post the text versions in comments

afterlife the blues reverberating in a conch

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new immigrants I make progress with unlearning

Thanks to Lavana Kray for including my Haiga on April 5, 2026 at Black and White Haiga ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/2026/04/onio...

complete the haiga Drawing by Josiah notmetaphor.com/ haiga # 145 @completethehaiga.bsky.social simulations time testing the time-machine

quick turn of the weather second guessing shovelling

Hey, a serendipitously topical #haiku by me at 5-7-5 Haiku Journal, with a bit of #simile and #hypallage in there too, thanks to editor dj tyrer at Atlantean Publishing #war 575haikujournal.wordpress.com

round and round the search to me

Thanks to the Prune Juice editors Orrin Prejean and @pippaesque.bsky.social Pippa Phillips for including my poem in issue #48 wintered out the distance of to be You can download and read the issue here prunejuicesenryu.com/wp-content/u...

Thanks very much to Sanjeev Sethi, editor of the Indian Edition and Jack Caradoc the editor of The Candyman’s Trumpet for including my poem “Greyed” along with many leading Indian poets.

Grateful to Jorge Alberto Giallorenzi - editor for including my poem in the April edition of Espacio Luna Alfanje pink peony a black ant caught in the shot

spring the sun’s full on the window

Thanks to Lavana Kray once again, my Haiga is one of the best of March at Black and White Haiga. Congratulations to the fellow poets whose poems are with mine. Please check them at ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

complete the haiga Drawing by Josiah notmetaphor.com/ haiga # 144 @completethehaiga.bsky.social for a split second satori

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Grateful to Phillip Rowland for including my poem in issue 28 of “Noon” noonpoetry.com/wp-content/u...

Thanks to editor Ravi Kiran and founder Amanda White for including two poems and sahai in issue 9 of Leaf. leafjournal.io/leaf-issue-n...

books on the night table trumped by the cellphone

Thanks to guest editor Nancy Brandy for including my poem in the long list for Haiku Dialogue thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...

waning days my shadows make the most of me

complete the haiga Drawing by Josiah notmetaphor.com/ haiga # 143 @completethehaiga.bsky.social spring equinox the busker unpacks another day

between yesterday and today spring snow

thawing days in the darkest spots new nests

Thanks to Editor Dhugal J. Lindsay for including my poem at Mainichi today March 17,2026 mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Happy to be at Rattlecast, my reading of the poem”Parallel “ is at about 1.39hr mark. Thank you the Prompt Poems Editor Katie Dozier. Great show, with two outstanding poems as poets respond on war and a great selection poems from and interview with Nick Lantz www.youtube.com/live/WSYXHht...

A black rain falls; he rubs it off his face. —Beatrice Motamedi

Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is 2026 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor winner Nick Lantz. He'll share his winning poem, "Dolorimetry," as well as a series from his most recent book. Join us live at 8pm ET!

complete the haiga Drawing by Josiah notmetaphor.com/ haiga # 142 @completethehaiga.bsky.social new religion a bridge for the puddle

out of words me and my poem

plum blossoms— quite the surprise mid-march snow

the stars I aimed for in someone else’s crosshairs

Thanks Lavana Kray for including my Haiga on March 9th at Black and White Haiga ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/2026/03/bisw...

complete the haiga Drawing by Josiah notmetaphor.com/ haiga # 141 @completethehaiga.bsky.social waiting for the Bohemian waxwings winter wild berries

Happy International Women’s Day my wife her stars leading mine

My Devidutta son took the photo sometime in December unknown to me. I was taking a break from reading and trying to draw something which I am not good at ( I mostly rely on photos for poems but once in while I just go for it) The work wasn’t great but here it goes in the second slide

Thanks to Prof David McMurray for including my poem at a Asahi Haiku Network www.asahi.com/ajw/articles... Theme: imperfection drawing class the teacher tells us not to worry

peace just one more war should do it