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Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · 19d
chamomile tea
the north wind’s inside voice

#DailyHaikuPrompt (north wind)
#haiku
#duostitch
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library sneeze
all those heads
have eyes

#haikufeels (hush)
#haiku
#senryu
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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ireneaddie.bsky.social
first frost
the hushed child
colors inside the lines

#haiku #HaikuFeels #hush
November 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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#completethehaiga 125
#haiku
art by Josiah @lessethereal.bsky.social
@completethehaiga.bsky.social
s’éloignant de l’appel du vide mes yeux persistent
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Deeply honored to have both a #Haiku and a #Senryu included in Issue 40 of #FemkuMag. Every poem in this issue is truly stunning. Thanks so much to Editors Rowan Beckett Minor and Kelly Sargent for including mine.

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A text based image of a haiku poem. The poem reads: honeysuckle our tongues rush headlong into the swoon A text based image of a senryu poem. The poem reads gym class my body learns new ways to keep the score
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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“Mighty Girl”
#poem ✍🏼
edited repost— one of my earliest poems (2023)
November 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Rockford Haiku from the weekly haiku hike I've taken with Ryan Davis for six years always starting in the heart of downtown Rockford. This is a photo of the historic Faust Landmark Hotel and my haiku.

December fog
a graceful visitor
who refuses to stay
#haiku #poetry #photography #rockfordhaiku
The historic Faust Landmark Hotel in Downtown Rockford, Illinois through the photograhic lens of Ryan Davis.
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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jennfel.bsky.social
laundry day
washing away the scent
of Madrid
#SenryuSunday #senryu
November 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Sunday morning
awash in the achievable
I stack the dishes
#SenryuSunday #vss365 #senryu
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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ireneaddie.bsky.social
floating
in my latte heart
the last fruit fly

#senryusunday #senryu #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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empty pie tin
the apology fading
from my face

#SenryuSunday
#senryu
#haiku
#haikufeels (fade)
November 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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mamajoules.bsky.social
One of my friends posted this November #gratitudechallenge on FB (not sure the original poster). I thought it would be fun to post a gratitude haiku/senryu a day instead. What are you grateful for?

Day 1. A smell

lavender & pine soap—
easing my way
into the holidays

#2025GratitudeChallenge
#Haiku
November 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Day 22. A tradition

bundling them up
in the back of the car . . .
winter lights

#2025GratitudeChallenge
#poetry #haiku #memories
November 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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withered grass
the naked oak
a little taller now

#DailyHaikuPrompt (withered grass)
#haiku
November 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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solo hike
all those games my mind played
as a child

#haikufeels (mind)
#haiku
#senryu
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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slow brewed
sweetening the taste
with conversation

#haikufeels (speak)
#DailyHaikuPrompt (tea)
November 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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crushed cayenne
on the tip of my tongue
her name

#haikufeels (crush)
#haiku
November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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no drip candles
the inconvenience
of crying

#senryu #senryusunday
November 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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youngest child
teaches the new boss
to expect less

#SenryuSunday
#haiku
#senryu
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Sunday in Madrid
an unexpected onslaught
of Americans
#SenryuSunday #senryu
November 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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autumn butterflies
as if wild happiness
always stayed near

#haiku
November 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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bright nexus
warm cat tree presents
a Pye hole

#BlueSkyArtShow #Bright
#EastCoastKin
#haikuchallenge Nexus

#haiku #俳句 #senryu #FreeVerse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Caturday #catsofbluesky #Photography
This is a close-up portrait I took of Pyewacket, my blue-grey mink ragdoll. He is peeking from a grey carpet-lined hole in the top bed of our cat tree. With blue eyes staring into the camera, his white whiskers and creamy, smokey, fluffy, grey-striped hair plumes around his sweet face. I asked him for this photo, and he was very pleased with it. Yes, I showed it to him, and he gave this image a slow blink. When I announced the opening is now called a Pye hole, he smiled. This portrait inspired my haiku for today: bright nexus warm cat tree presents a Pye hole
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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deflating swan
where to next time
we transport . . .

#vss365 (transport)
#haiku
#senryu
November 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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#digital #haiga by new contributor, Stephanie Zepherelli, a Cali native & former dance professor. She has lived on #Oahu the past 40 years, has a drawer full of mismatched spoons & a tribe of Madagascar geckos #poetry #poetrylovers #haiku #politics #micropoetry #penny #hawaii #cancelled
November 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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blue note classic
the barfly taps out
time again

#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (classic)
November 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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warm winter moon
grandma’s Flexible Flyer
in a Polaroid

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt (winter moon)
November 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM