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Do scroll down for… #haiku #haiga #art #tanka #poetry #senryu #micropoetry #tomfoolery
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Today’s haiku att 5-7-5 Haiku Journal:

it has become clear
that nothing is going wrong
a white cane taps by

Thanks to editor DJ Tyrer for taking it. Link: 575haikujournal.wordpress.com

#haiku #senryu #selectiveblindness
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
spring narcissi
the hallway mirror
checked again

At @haikufound.bsky.social per diem with this one originally at @waleshaiku.bsky.social

#haiku #senryu
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
From tsuri-doro edited by Tony Pupello:

controlled burns
clearing the land
of first nations

See here: tsuridoro.org
#haiku #senryu
November 6, 2025 at 7:58 AM
At five fleas (itchy poetry) edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen:

slipping on black ice masks

#haiku #monoku #politiku

Link: fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/afte...
November 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Some fine fungi in the bark compost today

#fungi #mushrooms #mycelium
#woodwideweb
November 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Out at Suspect Device edited by Tim Gardiner - two eco #haiku

crossing the lines
on the road
to extinction

on the verge windhovers

(always good to write about kestrels)

Link: suspectdevicehq.blogspot.com/p/columns.ht...
November 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
From Kelly Moyer’s ‘Circle of Salt’

a five pointed star
held inside a salt circle
the candles gutter

#halloween #haiku
November 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
spinning top shadows
a small boy curls his fingers
round his father’s gun

From 5-7-5 Haiku Journal edited by DJ Tyrer: 575haikujournal.wordpress.com

#haiku #senryu #guns
October 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Recently in five fleas (itchy poetry) edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen:

caged in bone under cardiac arrest

#senryu #haiku #micropoetry #haiga
October 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
somewhere in the house
a slow-ticking clock
darkness plays a card

From ‘Circle of Salt’ edited by Kelly Moyer

#haiku #haiga
October 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Two new #monoku out at Robin Beach Jacobsen’s five fleas (itchy poetry) today:

caged in bone a heart under cardiac arrest

a thread of hatred in the anagram

Link: fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/10/morn...

#haiku #senryu
October 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The latest Cattails Journal is out. Thanks to #haiku editor Geethanjali Rajan who selected this as Editor’s Choice with a kind and insightful commentary:

dagger hard dawn
daylight starts to splinter
along the ice road

More to read here: www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/catta...

#senryu #poetry
October 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Certificate from the editors of Autumn Moon Haiku Journal!

mountain lake
the glacial stillness
in a heron’s eye

#haiku #nature #heron #lake
October 15, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Issue 1 of The Diutay Review is out. Edited by Lucas Pesso Feniman it features #poetry #haiku and #tanka

hollow road
haunted by the rising dust
of generations

Submissions are open here: www.diutayreview.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A couple of #monoku at five fleas (itchy poetry) edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen:

downtrodden an unexploded word

slow corruption the body of state

#haiku #haiga #senryu
October 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Four Views - The Inner Caldera

#art #abstract
September 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
At 5-7-5 Haiku Journal edited by DJ Tyrer:

moonlit spiderweb
a helicopter searchlight
follows the barbed wire

See here: 575haikujournal.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/h...

#haiku #senryu
September 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The Sum of All Fours

#art #abstract
September 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Where the rainbow melted
September 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Here’s a recent outing at Circle of Salt, a new venue edited by Kelly Moyer.

trapped inside
a crusting salt circle
middle age demons

Check out more posts here: circleofsaltmag.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-se...

#haiku #circleofsalt #demons
September 19, 2025 at 6:54 AM
From ‘Casting the Runes’ by MR James
September 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
September 16, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Out today at 5-7-5 Haiku Journal edited by DJ Tyrer:

undulating road
an approaching limousine
in and out of sight

#haiku #death

Link: 575haikujournal.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/h...
September 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
And as a #haiga
September 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM