None of them had labels a cupboard of jars clouded with years #bass drifts faint from another decade I move the glass as if it might open but the lids hold fast . . . roots through the floorboards remain unseen #vss365 #FromOneLine #poem

night river a bone white hand rowing itself — C.X. Turner

graveyard fog the jawbone grins without lips — C.X. Turner

Many thanks to @jeromeberglund.bsky.social for selecting my verse for Heterodox Haiku: Contrarians, haiku that goes against the grain. An excellent collection. The essays by @loverpoetic.bsky.social and @shortpoemz.bsky.social are also must-reads. 👇 archive.org/details/hete...

A new verse from returning contributor @loverpoetic.bsky.social: 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲 when the walls drink my moan nails click like teeth the joists smell of wing-dust I lean in whispering torn silk morning chill his breath of moths — C.X. Turner

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

your #laugh spilled gold across the meadow heat shimmer blurred the edges of everything we knew somewhere in the brushstroke sky you are still moving #vss365 #poem

From the latest @waleshaiku.bsky.social two young crows harrying a hawk the hill’s steep climb Thanks to editors Joe Woodhouse and @loverpoetic.bsky.social for the selection! #haiku #crows

#brownie of a sky . . . dense, sweet, crumbling at the edges his voice still stuck in my teeth from something he said while reaching I chew it again as dusk melts into the cooling tin #vss365 #poem

#haiku his low voice— a #charm I set adrift on the tide #vss365

Very much enjoyed reading @WalesHaiku summer issue. Grateful to editors, @loverpoetic.bsky.social and @joewoodhouse.bsky.social for including these two #haiku

Honoured to have a couple of #haiku* in the beautiful Summer 2025 issue of @waleshaiku.bsky.social. Thanks to editors Joe Woodhouse & @loverpoetic.bsky.social. Congrats to all who appear. Available to view free at www.waleshaikujournal.com * Great to have a Welsh poem in there! 1/2

☀️ It's here! 
The Summer 2025 Edition of Wales #Haiku Journal is live, filled with global voices and unique evocations of Summer. Like this one by Bryan Rickert. Join us, and celebrate summer in every line… www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2025 #HaikuCommunity #poetrycommunity #newissue

morning feathers still damp from dreaming we lift together innocence beneath us the sky begins to listen #vss365 #innocence #poem

#senryu taffeta lining the scent of her wrist still in the folds #vss365 #taffeta

Grateful to have placed first in the Haiku Foundation kukai! Thank you to everyone who read and voted. I'm honoured💖 #haiku #monoku #kukai

There are just a few days left to #submit to our Summer Edition, but if that’s a bit of a squeeze, there’s still a solid six weeks left to enter our inaugural Summer #haiku #competition ☀️. To discover more details, head to waleshaikujournal.com

Happy Friday haiku poets, new and experienced! This week’s #prompt: poppy / poppies Tag #WalesHaikuJournal and please read/share others that participate💖 We’re ready to follow wherever your creativity goes. #haiku #senryu

#haiku among poppies a cracked bowl catching the last rain #waleshaikujournal

Our community has now grown to over 5,000 across our social media. We’d like to thank you all for your support, your words, your time, your care for our #journal and this wonderful form. Thanks to Kevin Valentine for this #haiku which encapsulates our feeling on the journey…

I just introduced my 17 yo daughter to this much-loved poem. If you beat yourself up mentally though you don’t hurt others, if your brain is different so your thoughts are loud and tangled, if you’re conscientious but still very strict with yourself, then it’s also for you:

#haiku first swifts the #enigma of what follows #vss365

Summer’s #realm reminds us of our losing two brilliant Souls @DawnHosmer7 & @Poetryin13 (Scott Christopher Beebe) who were & will always be #progenitors of #vss365. Like you, they were some of my closest friends & inspirations. #RIPDawn🕯️ #RIPScott🕯️ We love and miss you…

#poem my bag is full of pockets each one holding a small sky: a breaking moth's wing, a stone rubbed thin by river breath. the weight shifts as i walk but never lightens. #FromOneLine

#haiku morning rain a lost guru’s footprints fill with tadpoles #vss365 #guru

Red Jumping Fox, a sculpture by Pascal Chesney, from Irish Arts magazine.

liminal noon dress clings behind knees salt beads at the throat diesel and elderflower thicken the air fingers touch nettles welcoming the sting blackbird gurgles deep in shade i wait #vss365 #liminal #summersolstice #poem

As night soars, I toss and turn; failing to answer, questions I cannot hear. Within me wheels, a restless churning; like a bird trapped, in a branchless sky. I stare off, at things beyond my vision; even my eyes, find no perch here. #sijo

in a #vortex we descend #parallel paths now one thread in between our heartbeats silence speaks what’s left unsaid eyes meet and time dissolves a glance, a spark, a secret spell so spin when dreams begin let's dance where forever falls. #vss365

#senryu living between worlds two suns, two shadows bluesky and X #vss365 #parallel

#poem i walk between #parallel fields one thick in wild thyme sticky with resin and bees the other humming cold wires metal tasting of storms my breath gathers their scents sweet, electric, bruised i carry them all like seeds in my pocket, slipping through fingers that never quite close #vss365

#haiku vortex foxglove the unopened blooms still know your name #vss365 #vortex

A paper #realm collapses in its sweat. Spinning selves taste rye in their autumnal wounds. Me, I'm sitting on the side of a hill with my headphones on, watching the sun grow wisdom teeth. Today is a good day. Color blurs the newspaper and a speech is cut short to make room for a dance ball. #vss365

#poem I made no claim— still, a #realm gathered where your name thinned air, ivy curled towards absence. I waited so long Even the dusk gods stood with me, quiet— but nothing shifted. Now the realm is mine. It bears strange fruit, speaks in altered winds I no longer follow the same path. #vss365

Squirrel on gold, Brunetto Latini, Li Livres dou Trésor, Rouen c.1450-1480.

#vss365 The string snapped but still I stirred dark honey into cool ash braided stinging nettle through tangled hair not to ward you off only to keep the memory warm a quiet part of me still listens in river grass for the #susurrus of thorn-bright bramble gods calling me to bloom #FromOneLine

#senryu #haiku ink-dark dusk a #susurrus of pages almost your voice #vss365

No Accident #Primordial heat lifts from the tarmac. She presses orange peel to her wrist, pulse steady. Bees stagger through the buddleia. Somewhere, a boy laughs—too young to know it's not forever. buddleia scent a wasp circles her ankle bruise #vss365 #haiku #prose #haibun

#vss365 elderflower dusk the #self i carry home not quite mine #haiku

#haiku #senryu #tanka #monoku #bookreviews Still feeling very grateful for this kind note from Cynthia cxturner.etsy.com

#haiku #senryu #monoku #summer #competition #prizes www.waleshaikujournal.com/summercompet...

inside dreams i exchange words with the past - sharing a personal favourite poem from @loverpoetic.bsky.social and my book 'Building Sandcastles A Book of Short Poems' (available on your local Amazon site!) #senryusunday #senryu #micropoetry

#haiku watershed light your name softens in the dust #vss365 #shed

It's a paid competition, which I don't usually do, but it is in support of one of the best online haiku journals out there, so I may go for it -- it's not a lot of $ (or rather £) either. Open until August 15th.

Happy Friday haiku poets, new and experienced! This week’s #prompt: seed packet Tag #WalesHaikuJournal and please read/share others that participate💖 We’re ready to follow wherever your creativity goes. #haiku #senryu

We are delighted to invite haiku #writers from around the world to take part in the Wales Haiku Journal 2025 Summer Competition. We welcome you to join us in celebrating the season, wherever you are, through the meditative form of #haiku. www.waleshaikujournal.com/summercompet...

he pushes eyelids up and up until his eyes are the proper shape for someone who is happy for someone else #vss365 #shape

#poem not planted yet something took root— a #shape i worked around as if it belonged as if absence were part of the plan all along #vss365