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Jenn R-J

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Haiku, Senryu and Tanka Poet. Touchstone nominee 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025. Business Systems Analyst. Host of #SenryuSunday writing prompt

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hello Blue Sky writers, you're invited to join me every Sunday for #SenryuSunday. There are no prompt words, just post your original Senryu poem to the hashtag, & visit the hashtag to enjoy everyone else's work. Here's a link with more information on the Senryu form
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What are Haiku, Senryu and Tanka?

What are Haiku, Senryu and Tanka? To help you get started, here is a short introduction to Japanese poetry styles. What are Haiku? Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of 17 morae…

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Jenn R-J

@jennfel.bsky.social

dam cracks their waning enthusiasm
#vss365 #monoku #senryu

January 27, 2026 at 3:20 PM

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg

@wolftwinthomas.bsky.social

cold water—
my hands know
this already
#haiku #poetry

January 27, 2026 at 3:10 PM

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Tina Mowrey

@tmmowrey.bsky.social

Thankful to have a haiku featured in Mayfly again. I do love this little magazine. 💜 #haiku #poetry #mayfly

drought season
longer each year
memory loss

January 26, 2026 at 11:45 PM

Jenn R-J

@jennfel.bsky.social

Now do Stephen Miller.

January 27, 2026 at 1:06 AM

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isabella mori

@moritherapy.bsky.social

Open letter to Basho
A #haibun by Michael Rehling
#haiku

open letter to basho
By michael rehling

hey. just asking for everyone i guess but what is a haiku. you seemed to know but i was three hundred years late to your party in the north country. i hate the whole time travel ban you know. i want to ask you if so and so and that other person really know what you thought. they think they do but they argue all the time so i dunno. my buddha and the singing bowl on my altar just sit there waiting for me. it is so lonely i think i will write a haiku.

thinking this
then that
morning zazen

January 26, 2026 at 12:01 AM

Jenn R-J

@jennfel.bsky.social

I hope I live long enough to see the reckoning.

January 26, 2026 at 11:23 PM

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John Pavlovitz

@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social

January 25, 2026 at 9:04 PM

Jenn R-J

@jennfel.bsky.social

in the aerie
on the cusp of greatness
a fledgling eaglet
#vss365 #haiku

January 26, 2026 at 5:03 PM

Jenn R-J

@jennfel.bsky.social

I’m excited to have these two horror senryu featured in Horror Senryu Journal today. Thanks so much to Editor Thomas Tilton.

#senryu #horror

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A text based image of two horror poems.

The first one reads:

trailing behind

the bone collector
our missing teeth

The second one reads:

last rites
escaping with a whoosh
my held breath

January 26, 2026 at 3:11 PM

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gracemac.bsky.social

@gracemac.bsky.social

pisces moon
born on the cusp
double fish and chips.
#vss365 #senryu

January 26, 2026 at 1:51 PM

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Hege A. J. Lepri

@hegelincanada.bsky.social

around the church
a stumbling legion
snow angels

#SenryuSunday #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

January 25, 2026 at 11:08 PM

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Sean Wright 🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️♿

@sbwrightpoet.bsky.social

After The Birthday Girl #Haibun #Haiku #Poetry #Murakami

More at: kasasagi.blog/2026/01/26/a...

After The Birthday Girl

Coming to the end of Murakami's The Birthday Girl, I pause. The narrator is precise, focused; the ending unresolved. We never learn what the protagonist wishes for. We only know she receives it. The story closes on a wish withheld.

crippled
each step I wish
were easier

January 26, 2026 at 4:20 AM

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Wendy Gent

@wendyg63.bsky.social

blizzard warning
we wonder which winds
to face into

#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #blizzard

January 24, 2026 at 5:50 PM

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Wendy Gent

@wendyg63.bsky.social

all lined up
at the swimming pool’s edge —
sparrow chatter

#dailyhaikuprompt #sparrow

January 22, 2026 at 4:56 PM

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Hege A. J. Lepri

@hegelincanada.bsky.social

fresh snow
all the whiteness in the world
can't cover evil

#SenryuSunday #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

Frozen branches of a small bush in a field of snow

January 25, 2026 at 10:15 PM

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rick

@rickehling.bsky.social

One gets always with
so much Standing behind a
Naked Emperor
©️Rick Ehling ✍️01/25/2026
#senryu #senryusunday 🇺🇸 #autocracy

January 25, 2026 at 9:44 PM

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Mary Beth D.

@shewordcrafts.bsky.social

world beeps and boops
on with my granddaughter
hamster robot

#SenryuSunday #senryu #haiku #poet #writingcommunity

January 25, 2026 at 9:07 PM

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elly from earth -- Elly Nobbs

@pleides.bsky.social

winter's spell hides life
under hard snow, blurs time-lines
searches old photos

#thingstowriteabout (enchantment) ✨
#senryusunday #senryu #haiku #poem

January 25, 2026 at 7:51 PM