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Do scroll down for… #haiku #haiga #art #tanka #poetry #senryu #micropoetry #tomfoolery
A #haiku from last year in @waleshaiku.bsky.social

late frost
puffs of small cloud
in a wren’s song

#wren #songs
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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My new #book 'Don't Write About the Moon' is now AVAILABLE in book stores 🥰!!

pi-and-anne.com/books/

#WIN A COPY!

Comment here 1-2 of your own fav. haiku/tanka that include the moon or night till Nov 30, I'll share the best on my blog & pick a winner from the entries in early Dec 😁!

#giveaway
Books | Bücher
Don’t Write About the Moon €9.90 Buy now ‘A moth, a nocturnal creature, finds its way in the dark.’In her debut tanka novel, Makoto metamorphoses—craving a flight path, fluttering through ope…
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November 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Have you writers of #haiku and #senryu been to Kelly Moyer’s ‘Circle of Salt’ circleofsaltmag.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-ha... ?
A Haiga by John Hawkhead
~ John Hawkhead has been writing short-form poetry for over 30 years, publishing three books of haiku & senryu in that time. He lives in t...
circleofsaltmag.blogspot.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
From Frogpond 46.1

summer showers
the soft sibilance
of her kiss

#haiku
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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#digitalhaiga by regular contributor, John Hawkhead of Bradford-upon-Avon, UK. @haikuhawk #poetry #haiga #art #digitalart #poetrycommunity #england #micropoetry #poetrylovers #haiku #uk #senryu #artlovers
July 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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gothic revival taking a breath at his open casket

— John Hawkhead
October 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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#haiku & #tanka journals reopening for submissions today:

- bottle rockets
- Frogpond
- Kokako
- Quail Eggs
- right hand pointing
- The Cicada's Cry
- tsuri-dōrō
November 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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currently open #haiku (& related forms) contests:

- 11/23/25: Polish International Haiku Competition
- 12/31/25: IHS International Haiku Contest
- 1/31/26: San Francisco International Competition for Rengay
- 1/31/26: Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition

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November 2, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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We're pleased to present our March 2025 issue, featuring short poems and visual poetry by 34 artists. Happy reading! 🙂

Cover Artist: Jean LeBlanc

Download here:

sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/cu...
March 28, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Tickled pink to announce that my new book, the improbability of sea monkeys, is now available at an Amazon near you! It’s available in print and kindle version.

Amazon Canada:
a.co/d/g8gRIHa
Amazon US:
a.co/d/d7W0YvO
Amazon India:
amazon.in
Amazon UK:
www.amazon.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Highly recommended
I have a few of these left, if you’d like one drop me a line for a great deal.

#haiku #senryu #micropoetry #writingcommunity #writing
June 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A couple of #haiku out at @nvha.bsky.social Haiku In Action

#senryu #NickVirgilio
November 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
#haiku writers…
In celebration of me losing my bus pass, this week's prompt is "Lost and Found." Now excuse me while I go check my coat pockets...again.

Click the link in the bio to send us up to three haiku related to this prompt by May 18th for a chance to be featured in our weekly publication.

#poetry #prompt
November 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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From tsuri-doro edited by Tony Pupello:

controlled burns
clearing the land
of first nations

See here: tsuridoro.org
#haiku #senryu
November 6, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Today’s haiku att 5-7-5 Haiku Journal:

it has become clear
that nothing is going wrong
a white cane taps by

Thanks to editor DJ Tyrer for taking it. Link: 575haikujournal.wordpress.com

#haiku #senryu #selectiveblindness
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
spring narcissi
the hallway mirror
checked again

At @haikufound.bsky.social per diem with this one originally at @waleshaiku.bsky.social

#haiku #senryu
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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contrails our slow disintegration

-John Hawkhead
https://tinywords.com/2025/11/03/43708/
November 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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entering darkness
a candle gutters wildly
in the skull’s sockets

— John Hawkhead
November 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
From tsuri-doro edited by Tony Pupello:

controlled burns
clearing the land
of first nations

See here: tsuridoro.org
#haiku #senryu
November 6, 2025 at 7:58 AM
At five fleas (itchy poetry) edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen:

slipping on black ice masks

#haiku #monoku #politiku

Link: fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/afte...
November 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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#digitalhaiga by regular contributor, John Hawkhead of Bradford-upon-Avon, UK. (IG: @ haikuhawk) #poetry #haiga #art #digitalart #ink #mind #poetrycommunity #england #micropoetry #toad #poetrylovers #haiku #uk #senryu #photographylovers #artlovers
November 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Some fine fungi in the bark compost today

#fungi #mushrooms #mycelium
#woodwideweb
November 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Out at Suspect Device edited by Tim Gardiner - two eco #haiku

crossing the lines
on the road
to extinction

on the verge windhovers

(always good to write about kestrels)

Link: suspectdevicehq.blogspot.com/p/columns.ht...
November 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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A new verse from returning contributor @haikuhawk.bsky.social:

𝗢𝗼𝗵 𝗘𝗿 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝘀!

a seaside guesthouse
never more than two crumpets
in the phnarr phenarr

— John Hawkhead
Ooh Er Missus!
a seaside guesthousenever more than two crumpetsin the phnarr phenarr — John Hawkhead
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November 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
From Kelly Moyer’s ‘Circle of Salt’

a five pointed star
held inside a salt circle
the candles gutter

#halloween #haiku
November 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM