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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 6h

loneliness
seeping into the rock
cicada's voice

#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1689
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry #poetry

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 6h

what began as mine
returns
as everything
#haiku #poetry #zen

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Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social · 6h

i have a garden
and everything in it
is lovely

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Amy Borgman @ireneaddie.bsky.social · 1d

night chill
the orb weaver mummifies
a woolly bear moth

#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku

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Jo Fox @joxfoxo.bsky.social · 5h

words from long ago
old and faded love letters
each, a paper ghost

#dailyhaikuprompt #ghost #love #haiku #poetry #words

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Two Winters Woods @2winterswoods.bsky.social · 23h

Weather changing
Knees old

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Philippa R. Francis @philippa.bsky.social · 2h

#Gothtober photopoem shared 8th October 2025

Photo shows an old moss-covered apple tree with the remains of a nest in its leafless branches.The poem reads ~ worn chenille lagging/ an elbowful of snagged sticks:/ scant stock for winter

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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 1d

seascape in a stone wall

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Misako @misakouroco.bsky.social · 1d

A memory drifted in: my late mom’s favorite Doyo (song for kids). I couldn’t recall every word, but...
"...what if a canary forgets to sing? ...Let it float on a shimmering boat in the moonlit sea; it will sing again, its song remembered."
A tenderness I’ve longed for.
Take care, everyone 🤍🫶✨

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scare-ah 🕸️ @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social · 22h

harvest moon—
my plate was always full
when you loved me

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Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social · 10h

moments before dawn
the ghosts assure me
they are not mirages

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 11h

relic of old dreams daytime moon

#haiku #monoku
#haikufeels
#OneLineOctober

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 19h

in the last field, where the deep eye
is altar,
a last stone
is stammering another.

-Gustaf Sobin

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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 11m

Wonderful!

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Kathleen Gresham Everett @everettpoetry.bsky.social · 19h

Man in the moon, but I know she is a woman.
Only a woman walks from window to window
in the middle of the night,
checking on her children and pulling
her light cotton robe around her shoulders,
padding on worn slippers
that make the faintest shirring sound
gliding so softly against the floor

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 1d

& you find fullmoon eventually - cowl of cloud streaming off - slanting fast into dark

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 2h

& in the small, rusting, rowan a spider spparently in open sky, a web so fine nothing can see it - work of balanced tension, infrastructure of autumn

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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 23h

chopping a chilli
the incense rises to you
God of pain and love

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Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 2d

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