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Thou shalt have a fishy
On a little dishy,
Thou shalt have a fishy—
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Wendy Böht-Khamsin @wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social · Oct 31
#DailyHaikuPrompt
Has one word per hemisphere.
Choose the one you're in.

You can't be in two opposing seasons at the same time.
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Fish at mountain's foot
Spies cloud at peak. Soaring there,
Eagle peers through mist.

#Haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt: #Cloud
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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Lived on a houseboat.
Had a face like an old boot.
Somehow bedded girls.

#Senryu #Haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt: #Quince #Quincy

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Quincy - Theme Song
YouTube video by Minister Faust
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January 29, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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🎵Hi, my name is Quincy.
Yes, my name is Quincy!
No first name, just Quincy –
Quincy, M.E.

#DailyHaikuPrompt: #Quince #NotAHaikuAtAll #IHaveNeverEatenQuinceJam

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Quincy - Theme Song
YouTube video by Minister Faust
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January 29, 2026 at 8:32 AM
wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social
Bowl of soup, eaten,
But for the beans, left in bowl.
This has been bean soup.

#Senryu #Haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt: #BeanSoup
January 28, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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Slender form, ice-clad.
Jack Frost? No. She's dead, a pro,
The killer's latest.

#Senryu #Haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt: #Hoarfrost
January 27, 2026 at 7:07 AM
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Carbon-based lifeform,
All its life burnt out, now serves
As another's pen.

#Senryu #Haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt: #Charcoal
January 26, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Reposted by Wendy Böht-Khamsin
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Non-masked MN National Guard are out handing out hot chocolate, coffee and donuts to protesters. One simple act has de-escalated the situation and helped gain the trust of people. See the difference between professional soldiers and the pretend tough guys in CBP and ICE?
January 25, 2026 at 10:47 PM
wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social
Must get lonely when
Closer than your neighbour's face
Is their gun barrel.

#Senryu #Haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt: #Lonely
January 25, 2026 at 5:56 AM
wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social
The alpha lizard
One day will die. Then creeps in
The beta lizard.

#Senryu #Haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt: #Blizzard
JD Vance with both thumbs up Stephen Miller with one thumb up
January 24, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Reposted by Wendy Böht-Khamsin
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The fool slides o’er the ice that you should break.
January 23, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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A "little brown job",
Innocuous, lacking song.
But fun corruptions.

#Senryu #Haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt: #Sparrow
sparrow-grass, noun. A corruption of asparagus. sparable, noun. A small headless nail used by shoemakers. Origin: altered from sparrow-bill from its shape.
January 22, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Reposted by Wendy Böht-Khamsin
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A THREAD. Which I have decided to call 'Reasons Why Owls Are Excellent'.

1. They are always putting the needs of others before their own.
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Dec 13
Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.
The fabulous owl, Lady Jane Grey, with her handler, Pete, in Totnes, Devon.
January 21, 2026 at 1:28 PM
wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social
Tyrant ends his speech,
Waits for applause, hears silence.
Quiet defiance.

#Senryu #Haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt: #Quiet #PleaseGod
January 21, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Greenlandic tundra—
Distant wisp of smoke rises.
Smells like tanned chicken.

#Senryu #Haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt: #Smoke #TACO
January 20, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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“I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace.”
January 20, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Reposted by Wendy Böht-Khamsin
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“Trump is the first president not to issue an official proclamation recognizing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day since President Reagan made it a holiday.”
January 19, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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In the old days, kids,
If you fell asleep mid-show,
You woke up to snow.

#Senryu #Haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt: #Snow

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"Dream On" Opening
YouTube video by Joliet82
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January 19, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Reposted by Wendy Böht-Khamsin
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There’s no chance of snow.
The neighbor is watering
his prickly pear bush.

#Dailyhaikuprompt (snow) #Haiku #MicroPoetry
January 19, 2026 at 9:05 PM
wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social
The ant farmer's plough
Was a pin in a matchstick.
.tur nip a edam tI ↩️

#Senryu #Haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt: #Turnip
#TinyThings
January 17, 2026 at 5:45 AM
wendybohtkhamsin.bsky.social
The Hotel Piss Prize
Is all that you'll ever win,
Orange-gilded fool.

#Senryu #Haiku #MAGA #NobelPeacePrize
Donnie Trump grins inanely, clutching a gold-framed Nobel Peace Prize medal, which has just been "given" to him by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. The Nobel committee has confirmed that regifting a physical Nobel prize medal does not constitute the conferment of the prize to the giftee, just as an imposter does not become a Navy admiral by pinning on an admiral's medal.
January 16, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Storms rage and seas rage,
Battles of monkeys and men.
Then Sol reclaims us.

#Senryu #Haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt: #Rage
January 15, 2026 at 5:56 AM
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Short comedian
Remarried one year after
Wife's suspicious death.

#Senryu #Haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt: #Cold
A section from Patton Oswalt's Wikipedia page
January 13, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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People, organise! Resist! ICE does not belong in your creek! Keep this unnatural "justice" from destroying your community!
haikutsunami.bsky.social HaikuTsunami @haikutsunami.bsky.social · Jan 11
with this turning tide
the ice now flows up the creek
unnatural justice

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Haiku #senryu #tanka
#upthecreekwithoutapaddle
January 11, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Reposted by Wendy Böht-Khamsin
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Interdimensional Portal Of The Week.
An interdimensional portal I found in the side of a sandstone holloway in Dorset. I crawled through this and found myself at one of the county's better-stocked branches of Co-Op, so felt that, ultimately, it was definitely worth ruining my best pair of trousers. Incidentally, it really fucks me off that when I write "holloway" autocorrect wants to capitalise the "H". I suppose it's not the most heinous crime, but it feels like yet another example of the modern world deciding that the things named after things are somehow more important than the things they are named after and possibly even attempting to completely wipe those things that they are named after from the face of history. I am thinking of course here about when you Google a word but then the first thing that comes up is not the original meaning of the word but some awful fucking corporate entity which has stolen the word and is in the process of sucking out the soul of it.
January 11, 2026 at 8:58 AM