viaduct— someone feeding pigeons wedding cake #haiku #poetry #senryu

watering at dusk the white peony petals a path to the moon

a mylar balloon floats shifting and glimmering towards the low white sun #haiku

*The Heart of Haibun* new #haibun chapbook / free download 🙏 Pamelyn Castro & Jeff Streeby editors O:JA&L 2026 Master Series Mixed Forms: Haibun Buttonhook Press & 🙏 my brother Kevin Beary for the cover art! ojalart.com/buttonhook-p...

Remember peace remember quiet breath remember dandelions in green lawns under the simple trees remember clear skies with a small bird you know calling to another remember knowing no one was harmed or doing harm that day. Remember peace. Remember quiet breath. Remember peace. #poem L.C. Goodwin

From outside my house, only the faint distant sound of gentle breezes wandering through bamboo leaves in the long evening silence. Late evening finally comes: I unlatch the door and quietly await the one who greets me in my dreams. #poem Otomo No Yakamochi Translation: Sam Hamill #resist

Variations on the Planets, a short chapbook by Mark Gilbert and Eavonka Ettinger, is available in paperback at minimum price via Amazon. It combines science & sci-fi in 37 individual #haiku within 8 poems. www.amazon.com/Variations-Planets-Eavonka-Ettinger/dp/B0DW9HBDGR or your own country's site.

In the breath of stars, names rain upon us; we seem never to be worthy. -Jay Wright

The Sufi in Winter The hem of a robe, a tree’s calloused bark, a frosted beard, a whiff of musk, dust on a turban. Nothing is lost in translation, not even a woolen sleeve smelling of woodsmoke. -Ranjit Hoskote

peeking… forget-me-nots and morning sun this moment less alone #imageandverse #coloraday #nature #haiku #tanka #NaTankaMo #tankapoem #tankathursday #MayTanka

Yes life feels heavy. But I’m proud of starting round four with the same publisher and making my work unabashedly queerer as I go. I’m a trans woman given a free space to be as gay, violent, and heartfelt as I want through the life stories of iconic fossil animals, hitting bestseller twice already.

satan is the trickster who we all love to trick, the cheat and the stickler all in one... had this in another manuscript recently - a bit of marginalia reading 'for satan can do nothing without permission'

early summer~ gathering elderflowers along the lane #haiku

Couldn't resist showing off a little.... #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku peony

a break in the rain all the birds' songs the facets of gems

H. D., from “Sea garden”

when the peony finally opens it talks to a bee or maybe just the moon

#ECK #FlowerReport #pink #peonies #photography #poetry #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt peony rush to live a moment … into rain

low field drained of shade empty dump sacks slumped like sheep dreaming of coolness

Another good cockchafer fact: as a result of studies by 1800s entomologists, the cockchafer was one of the first animals to be discovered to have a strong preference towards homosexuality. A lot of Victorians found this very upsetting and refused to believe it.

Goddamn ninjas cutting onions…

driving through Ohio today I see an old horse standing in a muddy field and a barn whose bones might collapse if it moves and on the other side of the center line butterweed blooming its timeless retort

creek song a rainbow thrashing against sky sculling the undercurrent of conversation   (Tan renga written by Billie D -Lorraine A Padden https://tinywords.com/2026/05/20/49726/

mother's day a pink peony blooming with ants #DailyHaikuPrompt

morning comes through the field without asking what has happened to us dew on the bent grass the small flies a silvering cloud above the ditch all of it brief all of it entering and leaving the one body of the day #poetry

Rose of Sharon blossom, leaning over under raindrops.

I can not read poetry with hiccups, let alone write it - the words will jump all over the page or worse, jump off it, so I have to run after & catch them, before they get lost in the wild. #FromOneLine

fading heat - even the moon looks weary * balmy night in may music, laughter, loud voices - I stay with pale moon #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #poetry

There’s only room for billionaires.

New Bird Poster! It's got 37 hand painted birdies of Eastern Canada at half their true size, based on photos I've taken myself. Bird names in Latin, English, and French. Link to my store in my story!

#haiku leucism a rare white orca the roses

Submission link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

and Jane Hirshfield says "Don't embarrass yourself." Hrm. Rules be like that. 😎

Which is the bird that cries in the river? Which is the bird that calls in the night? It is the wild goose that cries in the river It is the peacock that calls in the night. -Uraon poem, version by W. G. Archer (from Kenneth Rexroth’s The Poetry of Pre-Literate Peoples, ca. 1975)

Hullo #vss365 and to #signal An old poem today, in fact the first one I got published. My son is now at university but was five or six here…#poetry

Looks good! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

#completethehaiga 152 #haiku #senryu #haiga

#haibun by returning contributor, Vaishnavi Ramaswamy of Chennai, India. ( Instagram: @haiku_vaishnavir ) #haiku #poetry #prose #india

This is the sign Ozymandias' people put up when it seemed travellers weren't too impressed by the statue

From Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah's remarks on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas" Link above, another telling quote below, and discussions.

lake day~ cool lotion on warm skin #haiku

冬の犬すべてに飢ゑて風を咬む The winter dog, hungry, bites the wind. — Santaro Kawakami #senryu

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu a snapshot from somewhere south of here … your May autumn

complete the haiga Drawing by Josiah notmetaphor.com/ haiga # 152 @completethehaiga.bsky.social summer begins the path behind the house ends in wildflowers

早や恋になったか床机二人だけ Already it had become love — just the two at the bench — Suifu Kishimoto #senryu

Thanks! Yes, one joint collection and one solo collection on crows! The Comfort of Crows velvetduskpublishing.weebly.com/uploads/3/7/... cover design by @hifsays.bsky.social #haiku #crows

Right. So important to remember that tanka were originally written in one line (that is, when they weren't 3 and 2 line back and forths between two ppl) The other thing I keep coming back to is that tanka were originally often songs, and I'd like to keep that in mind when I write tanka.

bravely decaying in the wheat field the cat's bones --Shinko Tokizane 麦ばたけ健気に朽ちる猫の骨　時実新子 #senryu #translation

alive in January the possibilities of a goldfish --Shinko Tokizane 一月に生きて金魚の可能性　時実新子 #senryu #translation