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Lafcadio @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social · 2h

I hope you enjoy your haiku journey! Don't get too bogged down by the parameters. 😊

Lafcadio @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social · 14h

thank you!

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isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social · 17h

gagged
I swallow
my poem

#haiku #senryu

Prune Juice Journal @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social · 4d

Welcome to PJ's prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning: #Censor (with or without the word in your senryu)

What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on humans
Find more here: www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-definiti...

Tag: #PJJournal
#prompt 04
#WritingCommunity

a close up of a man 's mouth with a white shirt on against a blue background .

ALT: a close up of a man 's mouth with a white shirt on against a blue background .

media.tenor.com

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Lafcadio @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much Eve!

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completeTheHaiga @completethehaiga.bsky.social · 1d

This week's featured poet is @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social who has been creating haiga from the very first post. Please follow the link to see her wonderful selections ✨✨✨

three selections of Lafcadio's haiga poetry. follow the link for the individual haiga.

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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 2d

The half-raw bread burns—
the censors join the censor in me.

—Makoto

#senryu #poem #PJJournal
#prompt04 #censor
#WritingCommunity

Prune Juice Journal @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social · 4d

Welcome to PJ's prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning: #Censor (with or without the word in your senryu)

What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on humans
Find more here: www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-definiti...

Tag: #PJJournal
#prompt 04
#WritingCommunity

a close up of a man 's mouth with a white shirt on against a blue background .

ALT: a close up of a man 's mouth with a white shirt on against a blue background .

media.tenor.com

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 2d

sun-catcher the verve of a hummingbird’s wing
#vss365 #monoku

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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 3d

twenty twenty-five:
mags ask for sunshine haiku
and I like Christo

#senryu #poem #prompt04 #censor #PJJournal #WritingCommunity

Prune Juice Journal @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social · 4d

Welcome to PJ's prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning: #Censor (with or without the word in your senryu)

What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on humans
Find more here: www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-definiti...

Tag: #PJJournal
#prompt 04
#WritingCommunity

a close up of a man 's mouth with a white shirt on against a blue background .

ALT: a close up of a man 's mouth with a white shirt on against a blue background .

media.tenor.com

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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 3d

All these sages
Sleep
with their mouths open

—Jack Kerouac, Collected Haikus

www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...

www.google.com

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Lafcadio @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social · 2d

the rain
washing away the mud
on the steps
I delete your message
from my phone

#tanka #TankaThursday

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Prune Juice Journal @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social · 4d

Welcome to PJ's prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning: #Censor (with or without the word in your senryu)

What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on humans
Find more here: www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-definiti...

Tag: #PJJournal
#prompt 04
#WritingCommunity

a close up of a man 's mouth with a white shirt on against a blue background .

ALT: a close up of a man 's mouth with a white shirt on against a blue background .

media.tenor.com

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Lafcadio @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social · 7d

last hummingbird
an empty teacup sitting
beside her chair

#haiku

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Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 11d

arrow smith
carving a life
out of nothing

#senryu #PJJournal

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 22d

mother gone
moonlight
shimmers
the last
white
rose

in memory Marie Beary

#haiku #deathpoem

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Lafcadio @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social · 8d

💙🥚

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 8d

post breakup —
i switch back
to soft boiled

#PJJournal
#WritingCommunity
#Prompt03

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Lafcadio @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social · 9d

a mended quilt
stretches across the grass
end of summer
we see the subtle beauty
in all the many patches

#tanka #TankaThursday

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Lafcadio @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social · 10d

oh OK I was just teasing anyway!

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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 10d

morning news
four eggs
loose
on the countertop

#senryu #poem #PJJournal #eggs #prompt

Prune Juice Journal @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social · 10d

Welcome to PJ's prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning: #eggs (with or without the word in your senryu)

What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on humans
Find more here: www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-definiti...

Tag: #PJJournal
#prompt 03
#WritingCommunity

a raccoon is peeking out of a pot of eggs on a table .

ALT: a raccoon is peeking out of a pot of eggs on a table .

media.tenor.com

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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 10d

organic eggs—
contemplating the cost
of IVF
#senryu

From @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social
#prompt03 eggs

#PJJournal
#WritingCommunity

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JRBHaiku @jrbhaiku.bsky.social · 10d

the president
splattered with eggs thrown
crowd cries “OEUF!”

#PJJournal
#prompt 03
#WritingCommunity

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Lafcadio @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social · 10d

beautiful...the hummingbirds here disappeared yesterday as if they knew it was October

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 11d

the subtle hum
of the tea kettle’s simmer
days of summer
shorten into autumn
the last hummingbird visits

#TankaThursday subtle #5lines #micropoetry

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completeTheHaiga @completethehaiga.bsky.social · 10d

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Cendrine Marrouat @cendrinemedia.bsky.social · 10d

Drawing by Josiah
@lessethereal.bsky.social

Haiku by Cendrine Marrouat
@cendrinemedia.bsky.social

@completethehaiga.bsky.social

#completethehaiga #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu #tanka #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets

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Lafcadio @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social · 10d

and write the poetry! 😊

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