#DailyHaikuChallenge
grandfather: wellspring
of stories and gentle lies
the child needs to hear

#DailyHaikuChallenge #wellspring #haiku
November 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
frost and fog, settling
over the sleepy small town
november last days

#DailyHaikuChallenge #frost #haiku
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Photons and fabric
Colours and visions so bright
Futures faded now

#dailyhaikuchallenge
#haikuchallenge
#faded
#poetry
#haiku
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Compare if you must,
I am a pomegranate,
you want McIntosh.

#DailyHaikuChallenge #Haiku #Micropoetry
October 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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on the snowy shoulder
a crow picks hungrily at
a deer carcass

#dailyhaikuchallenge (blackbird)
#haiku
February 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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brooding clouds
stew simmering
on the back burner

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#DailyHaikuChallenge (stew) #haiku #senryu #poem

📸 - Madeline Olivia
November 23, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Smouldering platform
No flames, but combusting still
Please heed the warming

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#haikuchallenge
#smouldering
#poetry
#haiku
July 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
#dailyhaikuchallenge (sunflower) #Blueskypoet #poetry #haiku #photography

Stretching skyward
Joyful sunflower
Beacon of hope
January 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Blues, stripes, pinks and swirls
There is always time to look
To the eastern sky

#dailyhaikuchallenge
#haikuchallenge
#daffodil
#poetry
#haiku
July 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
When does it begin?
Tomorrow becomes today
Morning claims its time
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#haikuchallenge
#morning
#poetry
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September 18, 2025 at 6:53 AM
the crone bends her head
over yellowing pages
writing out her life

#DailyHaikuChallenge #yellowing #haiku
November 30, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I’ll flirt with danger
We understand each other
But I won’t tempt fate

#dailyhaikuchallenge
#haikuchallenge
#flirt
#poetry
#haiku
November 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A flash of colour
Dogwood and willow rustle
Cardinal darts off

#dailyhaikuchallenge #cardinal #haiku #poetry #micropoetry
December 29, 2024 at 1:15 AM
summer blaze, swept through
the brick fireplace, scorched black
all that’s left standing

#DailyHaikuChallenge #fireplace #haiku
November 27, 2025 at 7:29 AM
On the Great North Road,
speeding down dusty tarmac,
red kites circle above

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#haiku
#poetry
#poem
#writingcommunity
May 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Collectively, we,
The adjuvant therapy,
To this lump, the Dump.
#dailyhaikuchallenge #adjuvant #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity #resist
July 20, 2025 at 6:37 AM
A valley of death
Holds beauty in the sunlight
Silent comfort waits

#dailyhaikuchallenge #ireland #gravestone #moody #dramatic #lifeanddeath #haiku
July 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This fact check again
Staircases labelled spiral
Are mostly helix

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#haikuchallenge
#spiral
#poetry
#haiku
August 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
on the chilly side
sunset on the morning
side of the mountain

#haiku #DailyHaikuChallenge (chilly)
September 22, 2025 at 6:10 AM
They came from heaven
Colour joy until fall leaves
Rake into rainbows

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#haikuchallenge
#rake
#poetry
#haiku
November 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
On a box of fruit
Foot stuck firm for the journey
Snail mail, I suppose

#dailyhaikuchallenge
#haikuchallenge
#snail
#poetry
#haiku
August 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Once of air, reformed
Crafted by ancient systems
Joy as we see trees

#dailyhaikuchallenge
#haikuchallenge
#trees
#poetry
#haiku
July 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Earth's crust, torn apart,
Magma surges, hot and bright,
#Effusive outpouring.

🌍 🌋

#DailyHaikuChallenge #PoetrySky
December 10, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Poetry is a living object. Here's Edit No. 1 to today's challenge. Not a haiku.

rain pours down
rushing nature's attempt to slowly thaw
its icy beauty

#dailyhaikuchallenge
#poetry #haiku #thaw
January 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM