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#poet haiku / haikai ND✨ 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘯’𝘴 𝘕𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘹 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸… he/him married

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Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · Aug 12

TELL ME OF YOUR TRIALS
#poem

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 52m

mid October
watching the dung beetles
climb higher
#vss365 #haiku #senryu

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YourMoonliness @yourmoonliness.bsky.social · 4h

half a daffodil later my sun-drenched heart

#monoku
#dailyhaikuprompt #sun

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Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · 5h

the best protests 🙌🏼

Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · 16h

thank you, Amy.. very much appreciated 🐸

Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · 1d

👏🏼 especially love “north wind clarinet”

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 1d

#completethehaiga 118
#haiga #haiku

@completethehaiga.bsky.social ✨

a withered reed
uncoils in the breeze
north wind clarinet

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 1d

roadside diner
sharing a deluxe meal
the turkey vultures
#vss365 #haiku #senryu

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dadakuku @dadakuku.bsky.social · 2d

A new verse from returning contributor @thehaikutec.bsky.social:

𝗽𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲

we share blushes
use the wrong phrases
shuffle heatwaves
nest-building a conifer
of red sneakers

— Alan Summers

pomegranate and chocolate

we share blushesuse the wrong phrasesshuffle heatwavesnest-building a coniferof red sneakers — Alan Summers

dadakuku.com

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 1d

october night
the full moon a blossom
forgetting to wilt

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

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Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · 1d

#completethehaiga 120
#haiga
#haiku

Drawing by Josiah @lessethereal.bsky.social

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Amy Borgman @ireneaddie.bsky.social · 2d

mingling in
yellow grass and crunching leaves
patient ticks

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Haiku #Senryu

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Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social · 3d

wildfire smoke —
the hospital’s automatic
doors

Modern Haiku 56.3(2025)

#haiku #senryu #micropoetry

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Amy Borgman @ireneaddie.bsky.social · 5d

#senryu #haiga #disco
#completethehaiga #bellbottoms
@lessethereal.bsky.social
@completethehaiga.bsky.social

A minimal line drawing that can be interpreted in various ways, with a senryu poem.

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Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · 6d

crisp bite
of the hunter’s moon
geese in formation

#DailyHaikuPrompt (geese)
#haiku

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 6d

Delighted to have this piece included in the long list of selections in the latest installment of Haiku Dialogue, with the theme of ‘From apprentice to master or how to walk the path of music’. Thanks so much to Guest Editor Deborah Karl-Brandt

#senryu

thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...

A text based image of a poem. The poem reads

two left feet
she finds a rhythm
all her own

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Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social · 6d

A haiku from Modern Haiku a few years ago

#haiku #senryu #micropoetry
#autumn #tanka

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Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · 7d

if only
we could avoid this talk
. . . October rain

#DailyHaikuPrompt (avoid)
#haiku
#senryu

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 8d

harvest moon
a chill ripples up
the scarecrow’s back
#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

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Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 8d

Featured on Haiku Commentary:

broken bridge—
the river teaches me
its alphabet

— Thomas L. Vaultonburg

vacation at grandma’s
cicada’s symphony
singing me to sleep

— Tuyet Van Do

school bathroom—
the scent of fresh deodorizer
lingers in my hair

— Alexander Groth

#haiku #poetry #poems

Haiku by Thomas L. Vaultonburg, Tuyet Van Do, and Alexander Groth

broken bridge—the river teaches meits alphabet — Thomas L. Vaultonburg (USA)Commentary from Hifsa Ashraf: This haiku reflects wreckage, destruction, and loss—possibly due to war, natural erosion, o…

haikucommentary.wordpress.com

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Amy Borgman @ireneaddie.bsky.social · 8d

night chill
the orb weaver mummifies
a woolly bear moth

#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 8d

early morning
at the bird feeder — a clash
of hungry beaks
#vss365 #haiku

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 8d

crisp blue sky
a pair of chuck taylor's
hanging from a wire

- Deborah A. Bennett
Tsuri-Doro Haiku/Senryu, Issue 25

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Alan Summers @thehaikutec.bsky.social · 8d

Make it fresh, make it interesting, push not pull at boundaries.
#haiku
www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haik...

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YourMoonliness @yourmoonliness.bsky.social · 7d

taking the long way home the traffic in my mind

#monoku
#dailyhaikuprompt
#avoid

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Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 12d

dahlia blossom—
the many layers
of her touch

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First Place, Seabeck Haiku Getaway 2020 Annual Kukai

#haiku #poetry #poem #micropoetry

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