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A Haiku Notebook - written and posted by Tim Chamberlain | Tokyo, Japan. 🌿 https://shinobazupond.blogspot.com/
But, appropriately enough, the gate was firmly closed! 😆

the morning glory -
all day long, a bolt
fastened on my gate

- Matsuo Basho
(trans. Makoto Ueda)

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November 22, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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
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
Overhead -
the starry night’s
absinthe-tinted glow.

#whistpr prompt: starry
#haiku#vangogh
#artinspired 🎨🖌️
November 8, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I have two poems in the new edition of "Chrysanthemum 35 (October, 2025)." Many thanks to editor, Beate Conrad. It's fascinating to see my haiku translated into German. Read the whole issue here: www.chrysanthemum-haiku.net/media/Chrysa...
October 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Tea and poetry. Always a good combo. 🍵
September 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
And my first poem for Fresh Out (posted on your Facebook page on 8 August) appears not to have made it to Bluesky.
September 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Actually, this poem is by me.
September 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Harvest festival
soon becomes a fiesta -
sparrows amid the barley.

#dailyhaikuprompt harvest / sparrow
#haiku
September 9, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Made it into the Mainichi Shimbun again this week. #haiku
September 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The first of two new poems by me which both came out today. The other is in what (I'm very sad to say) will be the last issue of 'Failed Haiku' (Issue #111): failedhaiku.com/2025/08/31/i... #haiku #poetry #shortverse
September 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The missing poem, as posted on Fresh Out's Facebook page:
September 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
As posted on Facebook earlier this month: @freshoutmag.bsky.social #haiku
August 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Awesome tune! ♥️ - Thank you for un-erasing my memory! 😎👍
August 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I made it into The Mainichi Shimbun today! - Many thanks to Dhugal J. Lindsay. #haiku
August 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Slipping into
the sea, the sun
brazing the sky.

#BSPP prompt: 34 - "Ekphrastic Skies"
#haiku JMW Turner - 'Sea and Sky' (c. 1825-1830)
Tate Britain #BlueSkyPoetry 🌅
July 16, 2025 at 7:42 AM
#wss366 prompt: bounty ⚓️
#shortverse #blueskypoetry
July 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Nice to find myself in such good company. Thanks to editor,
Kelly Moyer (Failed Haiku #110). #haiku #senryu

Full Issue available here: failedhaiku.com/2025/06/30/f...
July 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Fruits of this weekend’s bookshop foraging in Tokyo. 😊
June 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Two strangers,
tilting umbrellas
- taking in a rainbow.

#haiku #senryu 🌈 ☔️
#tokyo 26 June 2025
June 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Very pleased to be back in the Asahi Shimbun again today, with a third haiku this month - Thanks to David McMurray.
#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku
#senryu #川柳 #English川柳 #川柳inEnglish

AHN: www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
June 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Returning to an old and familiar friend …
June 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Today, only a half-moon bridge:

A lunar-grey ellipse
- waxing gibbous,
over a green pool.

#haiku at Koishikawa Korakuen Gardens.
June 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Subtracting slivers of sky
- riverine refractions rebound,
across a ribbon-cut conduit.

#haiku after ambling around Koishikawa Korakuen Gardens yesterday.
June 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The second of my poems in today's Asahi Haikuist Network; nicely paired too. [2/2]
#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku
#senryu #川柳 #English川柳 #川柳inEnglish

AHN: www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
June 6, 2025 at 1:51 AM