You can check out my website and subscribe to my newsletter at www.booksbutterfliesandbeing.com if you’d like! Thank you, again, goodgoldencreative.com, for your designing magic!💗 #KidLit #HaikuSaturday (I post haiku on my website, too!😊)

peony a burst of laughter among old friends #HaikuSaturday 💚 #bloomscrolling

weathered wood-- velvety moss and clover the red sandstone #HaikuSaturday #haiku

buddha statue… something is different about the stone #haiku #HaikuSaturday

burnt a healing sting from within #HaikuSaturday #Haiku #Poem #Poetry stevenlstokes.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/b...

cold air pulses through a sun-dimmed room stippled skin #HaikuSaturday #Haiku #Poem #Poetry stevenlstokes.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/s...

awash in white springtime blossoms delight warm weather ‘petal’ storm #haiku #haikuSaturday #gardens #flowers #seasons #botany

My over-large-needs-to-be-trimmed rhododendron is in full, glorious bloom. #HaikuSaturday #haiku (Yes, it IS one syllable short--but adding anything would be extraneous and throw the rhythm off. I think.)

Happy Saturday! purple profusion perfume permeates the air laden with lilac #haiku #haikusaturday

meteor shower a wonderous hybrid of cosmic debris. #scifaikusaturday #vss365 #haikusaturday

Back in the #HaikuSaturday saddle again, kiddos… A darting shadow— not damsel in distress, but jewel in the crown. This Ebony Jewelwing is a species of broad-winged damselflies and a true princess in black!

Celebrating #haikuSaturday with this poem about our trumpet flower in the breeze: rain-greened leaves lifting wings flitter, seek, find, sip   from pollen-coated path #poem #haiku #nature #getoutdoors

Capturing inspiration at the Children's Garden, Franklin Park Conservatory! #HaikuSaturday #Haiku #poetry #writingcommunity

The wind's violent vagrancy, banging windows, demanding entrance. #poetry #haiku #HaikuSaturday

chick poised on the edge of its nest a fledgeling flies #HaikuSaturday #haiku

Nine-bark, most #wondrous Vision of Truffula blooms Dancing on zephyrs #HaikuSaturday #haiku #writingcommunity #halfbadpoetry #vss365 #PhotoCommunity

#haiku #haikusaturday #dogwalking #poop Couldn’t pick just one. Variations On A Theme one more tree to sniff ok let’s go you will never know how good this tree smells just hold the poop bag walking the puppy I am in charge of the poop bags the last tree I must investigate just hold the poop bag

A beacon beckons Colgate my Alma Mater reuniting friends #HaikuSaturday #haiku @colgate.edu

Deceptive grass blades morning sun— like lightning strikes— sudden star surprise #haikuSaturday

Finely cut fennel Sends smoky uncertainties Through solid borders #haikuSaturday

Out on a long "run," I spy this wooden hero. Don't mind if I do. #HaikuSaturday

an unfurling frond a spiralling fiddlehead the fern, I once was #haikusaturday #haiku #fern

#vss365 #wondrous #haiku #HaikuSaturday wondrous nights your touches fountains of roses #gabrielamariemiltonpoetry

Here are the 7 marvelous BlueSky versions of my 5/30/26 #HaikuSaturday #haiku posted so far. I'll post the complete list on Monday so more people can join in if they wish to do so.

#HaikuSaturday #haiku 5/7/5: flash of bluebird wings against a pewter gray sky-- first breath of morning short form: morning drizzle-- a bright flash of bluebird wings monoku: a bluebird flies through the first breath of morning Please add a version if you feel like it.

Here are the 10 fabulous Bluesky versions of my 5/23/26 #HaikuSaturday #haiku.

Vanilla Orchid’s tiny vine trying to grow yearning to blossom #HaikuSaturday #haiku

Maybe this will be the last of my color-themed #HaikuSaturday posts. thunderbolt from reeds explosion of black grey white willet lightning as a kenning winged energies

Happy #HaikuSaturday 💜 Lilac bouquet brings the fragrance of spring inside— I breathe a long sigh. #haiku #imageandverse #bloomscrolling

Here are the 9 gorgeous BlueSky versions of my 5/23/26 #HaikuSaturday #haiku posted so far. I'll post the complete list on Monday so more people can join in if they wish to do so.

retired from command the shipmind spent a century contemplating stars #SciFaikuSaturday #COMMAND #haiku

So pleased to have three #poems in the fall issue of Soul Poetry. The three are: Presence, Leavings, and Poetry's Web Unfolding on pages 62-64. The link is below. soulpoetry7.com/soul-poetry-...

thought i'd try another take on last night's #haiku #haikusaturday like strata in cliffs the sediment of us fossilised ifs and buts #senryu #micropoetry #vss365

The haikuKATHA issue 55, May 2026 Grateful to Kala Ramesh and all the editors of this issue for choosing my tanka. Do read the issue : trivenihaikai.in/post/haikukath…#TankaThursdayay#tankak#5lineses#vss3656#inkMinen#HaikuSaturdaya#haikuku

ear to forest floor echoes of dinosaurs ancient ferns still flourish #forestfriday 💚 #haikusaturday 💚 #nativeplants

bell chimes on cool church steps a ghost train #HaikuSaturday #Haiku #Poem stevenlstokes.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/g...

money being no object… petals in wind #haiku #HaikuSaturday

immersed in tinkling harp music a rapid waterfall. #HaikuSaturday #vss365 #cassiopeian

#vss365 #immerse #haiku #HaikuSaturday immerse in blues our breaths’ incandesce the lake still Love from Geneva💙 My photo

yesterday crumbles into tomorrow's forest of possibility #haikuSaturday #haiku #urbanrenewal #industry #newengland #westernMA

Celebrating #HaikuSaturday: blackberry bloom sways blossom bows to breeze’s breath birdsongs dip and rise #poetry #haiku

blue-green eggshells-- rat-a-tat-tat from within tiny robinettes #HaikuSaturday #haiku

Happy Saturday! azaleas flare like holiday fireworks colorful cluster #haiku #haikusaturday

#HaikuSaturday #Haiku #poetry #writingcommunity

The heat lies heavy, A blanket you can’t throw off - Burning while May blooms. #haikuSaturday

#haiku #haikusaturday Two poems rejected for the prompt seeing through the eyes of a child: screaming Mister C two girls point to a blimp is it gonna get us pinching buggers laughing at farts math is hard The first is a true story from the playground. The second is universal.

Mourning dove choir Hummingbirds in harmony Flicker drops a beat #haiku #HaikuSaturday #WritingCommunity #halfbadpoetry

sound of rain city clamour gives way to the wind #HaikuSaturday #haiku #amwriting

city ​​picnic on the grass verge is nibbling a pair of ducks #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #kidlit #fantaiku #scifaiku #sff #haikusaturday #scifaikusaturday #summer #senryusunday #thingstowriteabout #inkmine #bspp53 #grasses #2wordprompt #root #grass #dailyhaikuprompt #green #bravewrite #daisy #duck

Spread-fingered roots pulled by hand, seeds tucked earth overture #haikuSaturday