#blueskyfeels (together) #haiku #poem #poetry #blueskypoetry #yinyang #balance My shadow and I Happiness and sorrow Live together

Not doubting at all Consciousness of maple trees Red leaves just chatting #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #tree

pumpkin patch i was out hunting myths and will-o'-the-wisps #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

trailside creek the reins slacken in my hand #vss365 #haiku

I feel the same way. Michael Rehling needs to take care of himself now.

A new verse from returning contributor Jerome Berglund: flagel handle with care — Jerome Berglund

#haiku homeless vet weeping in the trees homeless vet death sentence

A moment of peace Better than a day of fear Live inside that breath #Emoetry #Calm #Haiku #Poetry #Writing #Nature #BlueskyPhotography #Skyscape #Clouds #Stillness #PictureAndAPoem

from this month's (and the last issue) Failed Haiku #111 broken mirror she body-shames herself ~Nancy Brady, 2025 I will miss Failed Haiku; it was one of the first journals that ever published me. Thanks, Mike Rehling and all the other editors over the years.

Dew-covered red rose Perennial in her grace We wait her return #dailyhaikuprompt #Rose #Haiku #Poetry #Writing #BlueskyPhotography #Flowers #Gardening #Fall #Garden #Autumn #Nature #BloomScrolling

sparrow wings winnowing the blue sky harvesting song #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

reaching our true potential stretch goals #vss365 #senryu

Cincinnati Reds… teaching our daughter how to score the game ~Nancy Brady, 2025 published in Haiku Girl Summer, thanks Allyson Whipple for selecting this (and several other haiku) #haiku #summer #haikugirlsummer

splitting up friends become family ~Nancy Brady, 2025 published in Haiku Dialogue (No Man is an Island), selected by Marietta McGregor. Thanks! #senyru #haikudialogue #thehaikufoundation

Willow growing tall Dangling its vibrant leaves Making beaded drapes #dailyhaikuprompt (willow) #blacksky #art #blackpoetry #poetsofbluesky #3lines #makesomenoise

I’m also excited to have this senryu featured in Horror Senryu Journal today. Horror Senryu Journal recently moved to Bluesky. Follow @horrorsenryu.bsky.social for more excellent senryu and for submission instructions. #senryu #horrorku

rusted barbed wire a goldfinch perched on every twist #haiku #poetry #birds

soup kitchen busy with the smell of hunger #dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng, author of BRIDGE ACROSS THE SKY, an Angel Island verse novel (www.AngelIslandNovel.com). Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on Feb 24, 2014. www.HaikuDiem.com #daily #haiku #micropoetry

old age river refresh my memory #dailyhaikuprompt

wondering was it ever a time that the sun was a child #tanka

🖤 🤠 🖤 Cattle dog roundin' the grazin' livestock quickly safe from coyotes #poetry #haiku #senryu #yeehawgust day 25 #cattle #dog #hobonichi #journal #doodle #daily

hidden grove of sweet cherries our first kiss #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #poetry #micropoetry

starlight sifting through pine boughs onto my hands #haiku #poetry #trees

Her in the next chalet says she beamed from a moonbase. Silver beehive, glitter minidress, lectric swirlies on her face. Says her century's utopia. Perfection is mundane. Now's her favourite holiday. Junk food, adverts, & rain. Trip hazards & sarcasm. Dogs with unlikely names. #whistpr #vss365

clouds skim the window the beans have stopped flowering nothing tethers me

So thrilled to have had this contrarian senryu selected for Heterodox Contrarian issue. hunger games weapons picking off children of Gaza ~Nancy Brady, 2025 #senryu #drawingattentiontotheseatrocities #stoptheslaughter

Kokako, Issue #43, is now out and available for reading. Here's the link kokako10.wordpress.com/ Check out the whole issue (90+ pages of haiku, senryu, haiga, tanka, haibun, and reviews Thanks,Graham Bates autumn deepens... her body curls into the fetal position ~Nancy Brady, 2025 and a haiga

through decay of mulch and manure a seed sprouts #DailyHaikuPrompt (Decay,Seed)

✨✨ joy kite caught in cold rain --autumn damselfly ✨✨ #شيخه #sheikhawrites #micropoetry #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity

ghosts dare me to eat the pepper named for them #haikufeels

after the bush fire the destruction and decay gum tree seeds sprouting #DailyHaikuPrompt (Decay,Seed)

Congrats Biswajit, and I am proud to be one of the Contrarians, too.

soak the shiitake simmer the mushroom sip the soup #haiku #poetry #DailyHaikuPrompt - soaked

Good morning #BlueSky, have a wonderful day. #RoseWednesday #RedWednesday #EastCoastKin #Flowers #Nature #Photography

relearning use through therapy – – jazz hands ~Nancy Brady, 2025 Thanks to Lafcadio for selecting this senryu for commentary on The Haiku Foundation's Haiku Dialogue. So greatly appreciate this. #senryu #surrealism #haikudialogue Thanks also to the occupational therapists at Abilities

clouded moon… cracks in the night mended with silver #haiku #poetry

sleep wouldn’t come the night sat #grumpy in the corner crickets sawed through the heat like rusted blades moonlight pooling in hollows where dreams should be #FromOneLine #vss365

Every activated Guardsman has a family, a job, school, or something that they are leaving to do their duty. It’s one thing when it’s a war… or a real mass civil disturbance, which those only last a few days. But to rip these people from their lives for a show… is awful.

I don't know about you, but I love fractals. This card is only available from my store. store.creativerambli... #fractals #digitalart

moon knows our world waxes and wanes goes on turning #DailyHaikuPrompt (moon)

noisy crows living rent-free in my daydreams

late blizzard a song sparrow plumps his feathers ~Nancy Brady, 2025 Published in Presence, Issue 82 (July 2025) Thanks to the editors for selecting this haiku. #haiku #spring #presencejournal

#Wildflowerhour Wild Carrot, Daucus carota frequent on the footpath at Runnymede on the River Thames. As this is a native plant I like to think of it growing there when the Magna Carta was signed and sealed in June 1215.

Heading to the mid 90s today. Watering and weeding are done for the day.

going down easier than my pronunciation —Gewürztraminer ~Nancy Brady, 2025 Thanks to Timothy and Oana, the editors of Cold Moon Haiku Journal, for choosing this poem for publication (8/9/25) #haiku #wine #coldmoonhaikujournal #ilikeRieslingtoo

how the sky reappears, and then the small sun #dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng, creator of THE SHAPE A WING MAKES, poems by Fran Claggett-Holland paired with Freeman's art (www.AuthorFreeman.com/shape). Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on May 23, 2012. #daily #haiku #smallPoemSunday

Do I surrender now- while my heart is naked, waiting to be seen? #senryu #haiku

summer dusk describing an angel I never saw #vss365

when will you come home? the clack of the bead curtain says a storm’s coming

shadows pretending I can see them