“I’ll take you to her
said the mortician when I returned to collect you
& he gestured toward a pedestal,
lit by a spotlight, guarded
by a velvet rope.” —excerpt from “You’d Be Thirty Today” by Lo Naylor

#booksky

Grateful 🙏 💕🥳
@sfreligh.bsky.social
@claremacqueen.bsky.social
@haikufound.bsky.social
#haibun *Grief: The Uncut Version*
#TouchstoneAward

thehaikufoundation.org/2024-touchst...

nuclear clouds
in the next world
i am childless

Roberta Beary

🙏 Acorn #Haiku 53 fall 2024
editor @susanantolin.bsky.social

#jazz

Reading from The San Francisco Haiku Anthology, Volume Two, yesterday in Mill Valley, CA at the gorgeous O'Hanlon Center for the Arts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FXv...

Winner – Meera Rehm (England)

spring arrives
for my blind sister too
white-eye’s song

Winner – Elliott Simons (USA)

cracked bricks
laced with moss
kintsugi

THE BRITISH HAIKU SOCIETY AWARDS 2024 – RESULTS
The David Cobb #Haiku Award
Judges – Ikuyo Yoshimura and Maeve O’Sullivan #poetry

Happy #HaikuDay !

Celebration suggestion: check out free course materials, tips, prompts, recommended reading, & haiku at
www. haiku-insight.org

#haiku

#haiku

dreamworker
the dog at the door
of childhood

-Beverly Acuff Momoi
tinywords.com/2025/04/16/4...

Happy Haiku day

The spring issue of Acorn will go in the mail next week. Here's a sneak peek at a few of the poems included in the issue. Enjoy!

www.acornhaiku.com/sample-poems

Have finally moved to Blue Sky! Looking forward to connecting with poets here!