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A Haiku Notebook - written and posted by Tim Chamberlain | Tokyo, Japan. 🌿 https://shinobazupond.blogspot.com/
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Kasamatsu Shiro - Misty Evening at Shinobazu Pond (1932)     Shinobazu Pond is a haiku notebook written by Tim Chamberlain , an Englishman ...
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Yesterday, I went to visit the Sekiguchi Basho-an.

Along this road
Goes no one,
This autumn eve.

- Matsuo Basho
(trans. R.H. Blyth)

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November 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Calcified forms
groping through the dark
- time’s long white fingers.

#inkMine prompt: form
tenword #haiku
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
So many
vermillion leaves -
all clamouring for attention.

#dailyhaokuprompt vermillion
#haiku 🍁
November 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Time stilled -
broken shoji patched
with newsprint.

#haikufeels prompt: repair
#haiku
November 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
His serene highness
– a frog at home
in the empty palace pond.

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Palace Pond
Leaf 216 – Senryu (or witty, tom-foolery)   Another poem about the Alhambra in Granada, Spain (see Leaf 119 ) – and a thought which stru...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Merged amid
the autumn mist -
scent of a bonfire.

#dailyhaikuprompt bonfire
#haiku 🔥🍂
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Waking up –
a kitten warmly snuggled
in the crook of my neck.

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Waking Up
Leaf 215 – Looking Back   Kasamatsu Shiro - Onion Flowers (1958) This is a poem about a kitten who came to live with us, briefly, while ...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Scenting withered grass -
steam rises from
fresh green tea.

#dailyhaikuprompt withering tea
#haiku 🍵
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Written with an archaeologist's eye on the so-called era of the "Dark Ages." ⚔️
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#SenseWrds Prompt 146
#blueskypoetry #blueskypoets
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Dried cherry stones
cracking underfoot
– late summer sun.

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Dried Cherry Stones
Leaf 214 – Looking Back Kaii Higashiyama - Morning (1975)   At the end of my street, where I grew up, there was a neat row of cherry tre...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
😧 Somewhat shockingly, this one breaks a rule about NEVER writing haiku that rhyme. But if I blame the two very delicious glasses of red wine which I've just drunk a little too quickly this evening, maybe just this once we can let this one slip by unnoticed? 😉 ... Cheers! 🍷😁🍷
For a pint of beer -
spinning another yarn
the grockles love to hear.

#haikufeels prompt: yarn
#haiku #senryu 🍺
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Raking leaves -
the wind wants
to play too.

#dailyhaikuprompt rake
an Issa-esque #haiku 🍂
November 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Toiling through the ruins
of a Toltec temple -
a line of ants.

#dailyhaikuprompt ants
#haiku 🐜
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A rainbow lurking
amongst the weed -
Lac de Champex.

#whistpr prompt: lurk
#haiku 🐟
A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for November 16, 2025: #LURK

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Thru 6am morning mist -
slow thunderous trundle
of a wheelie bin.

#haiku #senryu
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Waves in profusion
hurling white surf
and salt spray.

Chatter of pebbles
rolling and receding
– a desolate beach.

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#linkedverse 🌊
Chatter of Pebbles
Leaf 213 – Reflections   The sound of the sea is an enchantment, akin to the sound of the breeze filtering through trees.     Wave...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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End of the walk -
her fingers scented
with crushed lavender.

#haikufeels prompt: crush
#haiku 🌿
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
His brush held still -
lost in admiration
at Matsushima.

#dailyhaikuprompt pine admiration
#haiku on Matsuo Bashō #俳句
A Poetic Pilgrimage to Matsushima
Matsuo Bash ō, 1644-1694 I first read about the beauty of Matsushima in the pages of Matsuo Bashō’s travel journal, Oku no ...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Keen to cut the clouds -
his fingers
let the line unspool.

#haikufeels prompt: keen
#haiku 🪁
November 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Sun dips
in evening deeps,
river stilled.

#haiku #artinspired
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Silent focus,
peering into a pool of light
– ink-black windowpanes.

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Silent Focus
Leaf 210 – Looking Back   This poem attempts to evoke all the many late nights during the long winter months over the years which I spen...
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November 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Sunlight -
gilding cloud peaks
and mountain silhouettes.

#dailyhaikuprompt cloud peaks
#haiku 🌥️🗻
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
A puddle
fracturing underfoot
- winter moon.

#dailyhaikuprompt winter moon
#haiku 🌙
November 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Paw-prints quickening
through a light dusting
- first snow.

#dailyhaikuprompt first snow
#haiku ❄️🐾
November 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM