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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 17h

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New Year’s Day—
giving the etch-a-sketch
a good shake

Mary Stevens (USA)

The Heron’s Nest, 23.3, 2021 & Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: Daily Haiku Special, Oct. 8, 2025.

Image: "Sunrise on New Year's Day at Susaki", Utagawa Hiroshige (1853)

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 1d

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after the sermon
the silent grace
of falling snow

Steve Hodge

Hedgerow, Issue #122, Winter 2017.

& The Midwest Haiku Traveling Rock Garden

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 5d

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beach umbrella
my shadow beneath
is digging a hole

Boryana Boteva

Issue 110 (July 2025) of Failed Haiku – a journal of English Senryu. Edited by Kelly Moyer.

Image: Seven-Mile Beach in Sagami Province, by Utagawa Hiroshige (1858)

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 10d

Today's Feature:

school vacation
the sound of a horse race
down the stairs

Lakshmi Iyer, India

Failed haiku, Issue 98, Feb 2024

Image: "Meiji Emperor at Horse Race", by unknown (1885)

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 15d

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the heaviness
of an empty hand
fishing day

Ravi Kiran

Commended haiku, NZPS 2024 Contest.

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 16d

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river walk
the frogs and katydids silent
at our presence

Anthony Lusardi

Akitsu Quarterly, Fall/Winter 2025

Image: "Ono no Tofu Standing on the Bank of a Stream and Watching a Frog Leap to Catch a Willow Branch", Totoya Hokkei (1825)

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 16d

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pesticide spray
a black moth clings
to my hand

Hifsa Ashraf

THF Per Diem: Haiku of the Day, Sept. 22, 2025

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 17d

Author's Note: “I often feel the most satisfying moments of creative expression are when I move aside and allow the cosmos to come through as its own expression of creativity.”

My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 17d

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funeral day
between raindrops
falling darkness

Ron C. Moss

Triveni Spotlight, 21st September 2025

www.trivenihaikai.in/post/triveni...

triveni spotlight: 21st September 2025

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts: Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Anju Kishore21st September 2025triveni spotlight September 2025funeral daybetween raindropsfalling...

www.trivenihaikai.in

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 18d

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family dinner—
everyone chewing
on the unsaid

Neena Singh

Haikuniverse, September 18th. 2025.

haikuniverse.com/haiku-by-nee...
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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 27d

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mother's wake
her special occasion dress
finally worn

Joseph P. Wechselberger, USA

Prune Juice, Nov. 2019, Issue #29

Image: “Hair Combing”, Torii Kotondo (1932)

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · Sep 7

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snowy pavements—
shop window mannequins
in bikinis

Caroline Ridley-Duff, UK

Haiku Foundation Dialogue, July 2023

Image: "Lovers Walking in the Snow (Crow and Heron)", Suzuki Harunobu (Edo Period)

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · Sep 6

Today's Feature:

a farmer sets
the curve of his cap
prairie skyline

Chad Lee Robinson

The Deep End of the Sky (2015)

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · Sep 5

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surface ripples
the plucked chord
of a bullfrog's call

Jay Friedenberg

Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2025

Image: "Two Mallard Ducks", Watanabe Seitei (Ca.1900)

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · Aug 31

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funeral pyre
they're banning books again
at the Kremlin

Mikō (Michael Smeer), 31 Aug. 2025

Info: russiapost.info/culture/hybr...

Russia’s Hybrid Book Censorship and Propagandistic Agenda

Publisher Vladimir Kharitonov looks at rising book censorship in Russia, describing the tools used to get rid of “bad” books and explaining how current practices differ from Soviet times.

russiapost.info

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · Aug 29

Today's Feature (haiga) at MyHaikuPond.com

wind shift
a koala perched
in the moon

Ron C. Moss, 2025.

Author's Note: Original sumi-e art and haiku (haiga) by Ron C. Moss. Contains my red seal thumbprint, one of the traditional ways of signing an artwork.

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · Aug 23

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · Aug 23

Today's Feature (sumi-e haiga) at MyHaikuPond.com
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wetting my brush . . .
the blue fish scatters
ink-drop stars

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Ron C. Moss, Tasmania

Kokako #43, September 2025

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · Aug 22

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night frost—
still searching
for my father's hand

Giuliana Ravaglia, Italy

The Mainichi, 11 February 2025

Image: "Mother and Daughter", Toshimine (ca. 1901)

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · Aug 19

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an ash cloud
in the river...
letting go of papa

Neena Singh

LEAF, August 2024, and Triveni Spotlight, June 17, 2025.

www.trivenihaikai.in/post/triveni...

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · Aug 11

Today's Feature:

meteor shower . . .
a gentle wave
wets our sandals

Michael Dylan Welch

First Prize: 2000 Haiku Society of America H. G. Henderson Haiku Contest & Frogpond XXIV:1, April 2001.

Image: Meteor over Izu Oshima island & Mt. Fuji by Itou (@orecola)

www.graceguts.com/commentary/m...

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · Jul 6

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lovingly placed
by the open window
caged birds

Marco Fraticelli (Canada)

In My Life: Happy Birthday, Volume 1. -&- Daily Haiku Special, June 30, 2025, at Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog.

Image: "Two ladies with Birdcage", Toyohara Chikanobu (1838-1912)

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · Jun 22

Today's Feature:

rain, rain ...

we let her unborn twin

return to loam

Mark Haris

burl, Red Moon Press March 21, 2020, .AND. triveni spotlight, June 2025.

www.trivenihaikai.in/post/triveni...

triveni spotlight: 21st June 2025

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts: Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Kashiana Singh21st June 2025triveni spotlight June 2025rain, rain ... we let her unborn twin ...

www.trivenihaikai.in

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · Jun 17

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floating
in red twilight
the seagull and the sea

Djurdja Vukelić-Rožić

Azami, 38, Japan 1996, .AND. NeverEnding Story: Butterfly Dream, June 6, 2025.

Image: "High Mountain and Red Sunset", Yamaguchi Susumu, (Ca. 1950s)

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · Jun 14

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underneath
the same moon
the ant and I

Rowan Beckett Minor (USA)

Frogpond, Vol. 42, No. 2, Winter 2019 .AND. The Daily Haiku Special: June 14, 2025 at Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog.

Image: Moon-viewing party by Toyohara Chikanobu (ca.1889)

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