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Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · Aug 12

TELL ME OF YOUR TRIALS
#poem

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 1h

Delighted to have this piece included in the long list of selections in the latest installment of Haiku Dialogue, with the theme of ‘From apprentice to master or how to walk the path of music’. Thanks so much to Guest Editor Deborah Karl-Brandt

#senryu

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two left feet
she finds a rhythm
all her own

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Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social · 1h

A haiku from Modern Haiku a few years ago

#haiku #senryu #micropoetry
#autumn #tanka

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Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · 21h

if only
we could avoid this talk
. . . October rain

#DailyHaikuPrompt (avoid)
#haiku
#senryu

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 2d

harvest moon
a chill ripples up
the scarecrow’s back
#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

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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

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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Amy Borgman @ireneaddie.bsky.social · 1d

night chill
the orb weaver mummifies
a woolly bear moth

#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 1d

early morning
at the bird feeder — a clash
of hungry beaks
#vss365 #haiku

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 1d

crisp blue sky
a pair of chuck taylor's
hanging from a wire

- Deborah A. Bennett
Tsuri-Doro Haiku/Senryu, Issue 25

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Alan Summers @thehaikutec.bsky.social · 1d

Make it fresh, make it interesting, push not pull at boundaries.
#haiku
www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haik...

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YourMoonliness @yourmoonliness.bsky.social · 23h

taking the long way home the traffic in my mind

#monoku
#dailyhaikuprompt
#avoid

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Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 5d

dahlia blossom—
the many layers
of her touch

—

First Place, Seabeck Haiku Getaway 2020 Annual Kukai

#haiku #poetry #poem #micropoetry

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Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · 5d

👏🏼 👏🏼

Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · 5d

👏🏼 what a fun scene

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Amy Borgman @ireneaddie.bsky.social · 5d

vibrant cosmos
blooms at summer’s edge
and beyond

#bloomscrolling #haiku
#flowersonfriday #shahai
#dailyflowers #nature

Bright pink flowers with green leaves and a backdrop of woods.

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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 6d

organic eggs—
contemplating the cost
of IVF
#senryu

From @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social
#prompt03 eggs

#PJJournal
#WritingCommunity

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Alan Summers @thehaikutec.bsky.social · 7d

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fetid wind socks shareholders again
Alan Summers

#haikufeels #OneLineOctober #prompt word "fetid"
#monostich #monoku #haiku

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 7d

I’m beyond honored that my poem received an honorable mention in The Haiku Foundation’s Monthly Kukai for September, with the theme of “Pink”. Thanks so much to Beverly Acuff Momoi for her thoughtful commentary. To read the winning poems, click on the link.

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bubblegum pink
steadying the bicycle
my father’s hands

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Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · 7d

love it 🙌🏼

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Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · 7d

backcountry swamp becomes me

#monoku
#haiku
#haikufeels
#OneLineOctober

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