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Nicholas Klacsanzky

@haikuforlife.bsky.social

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An editor at Haiku Commentary and Frogpond journal. Author of “Transported" and “Zen and Son.” See my poetry at https://nicholasklacsanzkyspoetry.wordpress.com/poetry/

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 2d

misty garden light
the rabbits are wearing
raincoats of dead leaves

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

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Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 2d

obscuring
the view of Kyiv . . .
strangers' fingerprints

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Last Train Home: an anthology of contemporary haiku, tanka, and rengay, 2021

#haiku #poetry #poem

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Rowan Beckett Minor @waitingforrowan.bsky.social · 9d

My September 2025 Publications are up! Be sure to let me know in the comments which poem was your favorite 🫶🏻

#haiku #senryu #poetry #author #writingcommunity

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September 2025 Publications

Publications:stopping for gasin the middle of nowherecricket song Creatrix, Issue 70rain again. . .church bells echoingafter the funeral Creatrix, Issue 70muggy eveninga vial of lake...

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Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, there is no exact approximation of kireji in English. Sometimes in English we use two lines, three lines, and even four to show the cut more, despite punctuation. Writing a one-line haiku in English sometimes lends to more readings, though.

Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 3d

a forest blurs by—
the dash between dates
on a tombstone

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Last Train Home: an anthology of contemporary haiku, tanka, and rengay, 2021

#haiku #poetry #poem #micropoetry

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Jocelyn @jocelynx44.bsky.social · 6d

a fresh wind
takes hold of my thoughts
& sets them free

#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku

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Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 5d

Here is an essay on haiku that explains more: www.graceguts.com/essays/the-d...

Graceguts - The Discipline of Haiku

First published in Schuylkill Valley Journal online on 2 March 2016. Also published in the print edition of Schuylkill Valley Journal, Volume 42, Spring 2016, pages 103–107. Originally written in May ...

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Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 5d

Haiku is traditionally written in one line in Japanese. In English, it is usually written in 1-4 lines. Syllables don’t match well with Japanese sound units. The closest approximation is 3-5-3 syllables but even that is not accurate due to language differences. Please read more about the subject.

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Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 6d

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…

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Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 6d

What is your reasoning for it not being a haiku?

Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 7d

A one-line haiku:

light snowfall the matter of not mattering

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Wales Haiku Journal, winter issue, 2025

#haiku #poetry #poem #micropoetry

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Andrew Brindle @andrewbrindle.bsky.social · 14d

open sky
the figure dissolves
into blue
#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

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Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 9d

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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Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 9d

Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Mayfly, Bottle Rockets, and more more.

Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 10d

Excellent haiku! I can definitely see it in a journal.

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 11d

broken bridge-
the river teaches me
its alphabet
#haiku #poetry

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Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 10d

Grateful to have a rengay (linked-verse) with my good friend Jacob Salzer in the newest issue of Raining Rengay. You can read the issue here:

rainingrengay.wordpress.com/rr-issue6/

#rengay #linkedverse #poetry

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RAINING RENGAY – ISSUE SIX, October 2025 Guest Edited / Foreword by John Thompson (USA) FOREWORD Thank you, Sherry and Zoe, for inviting me to help you edit this issue of Raining Rengay.&nbsp…

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Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · 12d

country road
turning up the volume
of stars

—The Heron’s Nest, Volume XXVI, Number 4: December 2024

#haiku

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Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 13d

summer taxi ride . . .
the colorful blur
of my Kyiv

літня поїздка в таксі . . .
розмиті барви
мого Києва

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Cattails, October, Editor’s Choice, 2020

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 13d

all in vain
the black, thick
sound of rain!

--Onifusa Sato

徒労のみ黒き茂りの雨音よ　佐藤鬼房

#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

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Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 15d

train station
where’s your destination
mr. cockroach?

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The Heron’s Nest, September 2020, Volume XXII, Issue 3

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry

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YourMoonliness @yourmoonliness.bsky.social · 16d

strands of silver
in my hair
shooting stars

#dailyhaikuprompt

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Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 17d

rain starts—
each stone I step on
placed by a stranger

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The Haiku Hecameron: Gratitude in the Time of COVID-19, 2020

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 19d

new year's dawn
and everyone's birthday
wild chrysanthemums

- Deborah A. Bennett
The Haiku Foundation,
Haiku Dialogue, January 2025

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Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 19d

yawn—
a caw reverberates
in my mouth

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Published in Kingfisher, #1, 2020

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry

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