The Cicada's Cry Winter 2025: featured poets Joanna Ashwell (United Kingdom), Mirela Brailean (Romania), Goran Gatalica (Croatia), Ruth Holzer (Virginia, USA), Monica Kakkar (India), Deborah Karl-Brandt (Germany)

when war began ... your name cut into the beech trunk (FemkuMag) #haiku #senryu evamaria-limbach2.blogspot.com/2025/12/when...

Very much enjoying these two books by @pi-and-anne.bsky.social full of #art #tanka #haiku and #micropoetry Why not get yourself a copy or two?!

Confluence has a new issue out. Explore the outstandting tanka poetry of Cynthia Bale confluencehaiku.com/14-cynthia-b...

Haiku-Online-Kurs Viermal wollen wir tiefer in die verschiedenen Techniken des Haiku-Schreibens einsteigen. Nach kurzen theoretischen Einführungen wollen wir rasch ins eigene Schreiben übergehen. Di, 03.02., 03.03., 14.04., 05.05.2026, jeweils 18:00 – 19:30 Uhr 37,60 EUR VHS-Rhein-Sieg

A new verse from returning contributor Colleen M. Farrelly: 𝗚𝘂𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 Her boyfriend buys a bouquet of bitcoin and joins an online quantum paintball brigade. superposition his keyboard lovebombs her — Colleen M. Farrelly

Cover reveal! Yup. Another book, and this time it's a book-long tanka sequence. Read more about it on my blog! pi-and-anne.com/2025/11/06/o... #book #coverreveal #tanka #tankasequence #tankanovel

sooner or later they will come for you wriggling maggots — Deborah Karl-Brandt

skulls everywhere halloween decorating for terminal patients — Jerome Berglund

Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/ge...

ghost moon she whispers in my ear — Greg Schwartz

Confluence October Issue 13, 2025 features Colleen M. Farrelly. There are two favorite poems of this awesome writer I want to share snow angels they find her lying on her park bench haunted basement a sock ghosts the washer

cracked moon the scars will fade eventually — Deborah Karl-Brandt

the demonic child sucks on bones and marrow ... it is never enough

Definitely my book of the year!

I'm honored to be selected as a fellow 2025/2026. Please check out this exiting magazine. confluencehaiku.com?ref=confluen...

FeminisMUSS

How relevant 💙📚🪐 #booksky #goingpostal

untamed someone dancing to the vibes only they can hear

So proud of my friend Deborah Karl-Brandt @dkarlbrandt.bsky.social for winning The 6th Star Haiku Contest Overseas Grand prize!!! BRAVO! Mind you, the poem has been previously rejected by a big Western journal ... two-way-ticket made from star dust returned to stardust D. Karl-Brandt #haiku

Mein Online-Anfängerkurs an der VHS Rhein-Sieg zum Haiku. In drei Terminen zu je 90 Minuten geht es unter dem Titel „Das Universum in einem Haiku – schreibend durch den Alltag“ ab Di. 09.09.2025, 18:00-19:30 Uhr um das Schreiben eigener Haiku. Link zur Anmeldung www.vhs-rhein-sieg.de/kuferweb/web...

My #tanka #book 'something with feathers' is now available in German (as usual, it will take a while till it appears in international book stores). I'll update you here and the links on my site then of course! Anyway. #WinACopy this week! Choose if in English or German. Just leave a comment!

#booksky #writingcommunity

Another grumpy frog. #sumie #chinesepainting #digitalart #frog #inkart #enso #meditativeart

with this man with whom I have shared everything I now share the same cold

Comfort me with you being here: that's enough, as water always flows to where the path begins. #tanka #poem #magneticpoetry open.spotify.com/track/0pNeVo...

100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists. 1362 Days to go...

It's easier not to talk about it... how the wind howls and heavy hail hits the fertile ground

International-Haiku-Day I put all into a tanka

Happy to see that my #senryu made it to the 2024 #TouchstoneAward for Individual Poems Long List!!! 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬 ||: a basketball dribbles :||                                𝑓𝑓𝑓 𝐻𝑆𝐴 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑠' 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 2024

Some writing at Five fleas (itchy poetry) edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen palm-cupped water slowly trickling away our freedoms war crimes so many bodies of evidence More here: fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/03/afte... #warcrimes #freedom #senryu #micropoetry

Honored to be included in Haiku Poet Word Search haikupoetwordsearch.com/2025/03/26/d...

Befriending Evil Korean, Japanese and Jewish authors mingle with voices from America, England and the Netherlands. As I carry the whole world back to my apartment, I feel enriched. loan books Hitler by Shigeru Mizuki Inheritance by Rutu Modan a group of Nazis shouting Germany for Germans only

Poetry is greater than we think it is. It expands (us) (the world) (itself). Foremost, it makes me so happy. I want to go boldly where I find my happiness, in a world that has offered me on repeat the impression that I'm a weirdo and doing things wrong. I'm doing them quite right. #justthatyouknow

rainbow nobody wants my truth poem first published in 2023 (Haiku Girl Summer)

black beans to ward off evil ... election day This sunday Germany will vote.I hope that many people will go to the elections and then vote for a democratic party.

international women's day after the lecture she returns to the kitchen first published on Haiku Dialogue, The Haiku Foundation of Amerika, 19.02.2025

I cannot wait for humans (editors… journals…) to understand that the human experience is confusing and complex, and that there are numerous people on this earth that struggle with motivation (e.g. people who are depressed, people with ADHD, …). (1/5)

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

A short list of books that are not available in my new library: that deal with LGBT+ issues about art and writing that deal with religions that are not Christianity, Judaism or Islam about autism Writers from Africa, South America, Asia or India crossing the border will I ever really belong here?

useless, useless … in my thoughts I scold myself in my mothers voice I know there is darkness equal to value to the light

noodles in tomato sauce according to a Chinese recipe cooked by the German who writes tanka ... unlimited sky

Ten years later Willkommenskultur 2015/2026. War in Syria. The selfie showing a young refugee together with Angela Merkel goes around the world. To prevent a humanitarian catastrophe, the German Chancellor decides to open the borders.