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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne

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Tanka/Haiku/Senryū Touchstone Award '24, Marlene Mountain Memorial Award '23 (2.) She has a Lego mini figure set of her inner demons & collects heart-shaped stones: She likes that a lot. Then she throws them into water & waits. piandannes.wordpress.com

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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 8d

Currently finishing a big project, a #tanka #novel. A book-long tanka #sequence. A novel in fragments. Proud of having pushed through, of following what feels right.

#book #release end of '25.

Realising,
at a late noon breakfast,
that my poems need to be
a mountain lake to go
ballistic.

—Makoto

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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 1d

Now I am!!!

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 1d

TOAST

Every morning –
I hum in my head
a Tori Amos tune,
while slipping a buttered
blade in the marmalade.

#短歌 #短歌inEnglish #English短歌 #tanka

Eating Toast with Tori

Leaf 172 – Art Inspired Tori Amos - Under the Pink (1994) Tori Amos’s ‘Under the Pink’ (1994) was one of those albums which I played o...

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t.j. zhang ☾ @kurokuroart.bsky.social · 1d

paper butterfly
clipping it on to
her golden hair

#haiku #poem #journal

seventh moon, twelfth day, 2025

yesterday, Liz's last day of visit. we were originally going to play the card game "Noir" in my room but we decided to spend that morning sitting on a platform over a stream by a pond. we thought that we could always play the card game online and that the best thing to do right now are the things we won't be able to do when we're far away from each other again. so we sat there quietly, holding hands, in the dappled lights.

paper butterfly
clipping it on to
her golden hair

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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 1d

if I don’t climb this tree
I will be a demon woman
maple leaves at dusk

—Takajo Mitsuhashi

from Haiku, a monthly haiku magazine, May 2022 Issue, Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa, Tokyo

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Today’s Haiku (October 5, 2025)

この樹登らば鬼女となるべし夕紅葉　　　三橋鷹女 kono ki noboraba kijo to narubeshi yūmomiji if I don’t climb this tree &nbs…

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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 1d

An unknown bird
with the shape of a shell
above,
in a tight curve,
leaving this sure game—

#tanka #poem #magneticpoetry #magneticpoem

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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 1d

Sea gulls.
Water heaving less
in the far-off ocean,
more in the flotsam
he picked up for me.

#tanka #poem #magneticpoetry #magneticpoem

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 2d

swimming across
the river, child in arm --
A-bomb anniversary

--Tetsu Hayashi (1926-2008)

子を抱いて川を泳ぐや原爆忌　林　徹

#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 2d

though the storm crows a night light child

#haikufeels #OneLineOctober #prompt

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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 2d

though the storm crows a night light child

#haikufeels #OneLineOctober #prompt

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Alan Summers @thehaikutec.bsky.social · 2d

.
a midnight gloss shaking feathers into aurora
Alan Summers

#haikufeels + #OneLineOctober #crow #prompt
#monostich #monoku #corvid

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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 3d

Pssst. Your turn to turn your phone/computer off and do something with your hand too :)

Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 3d

I connect with my hands by doing something that I only do for two people, and I know that both of them will be happy about it: knitting scarves. I'm happy because I knit & give gifts, and other people, family and friends, will be happy & wear them. That is so much better than a like on social media.

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Òrak @orrinonline.bsky.social · 3d

くやしゅうて玩具の兵隊を並べ

Out of spite,
I line up
the toy soldiers

- Shinko Tokizane

#senryu

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Òrak @orrinonline.bsky.social · 3d

崩れきる間際に書いた人間詩時実新子

Written at the very moment
of collapse—
a human poem

- Shinko Tokizane

#senryu

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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 3d

Yarn
wound around the chair,
with emphasis—

—Makoto

#senryu #poem

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Navigating

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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 3d

No ruler
to measure
street hugs—

—Makoto

#senryu #poem

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Go Your Own Way - 2004 Remaster

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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 3d

Artificial questions
left in the school yard
to tan—

—Makoto

#senryu #poem

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Don't Bring Me Down

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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 3d

The wind
in the cedar,
not for long—
Sunday hymns.

—Makoto

#senryu #poem

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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 3d

I knit a moss green scarf,
at loss what else to do,
tied up in knots—
say, how can humans be
so stupid?

#tanka #poem #sunday #war #pained

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In Our Bedroom After the War

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ant ant ant ant ant @antfive.bsky.social · 4d

#haiku
the sunflower king
his consorts
heads heavy

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 5d

I'm self-publishing ♡, I don't have the energy to hunt for a publisher or to deal with bending my poetic vision ... But I invested in a great editor and every cent was worth it.

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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 6d

morning news
four eggs
loose
on the countertop

#senryu #poem #PJJournal #eggs #prompt

Prune Juice Journal @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social · 6d

Welcome to PJ's prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning: #eggs (with or without the word in your senryu)

What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on humans
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a raccoon is peeking out of a pot of eggs on a table .

ALT: a raccoon is peeking out of a pot of eggs on a table .

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 6d

The game’s afoot!

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 6d

“National Poetry Day,” huh? Sure, why not. Anyway here’s Paul Celan.

A Leaf, treeless
for Bertolt Brecht:

What times are these
when a conversation
is almost a crime
because it includes
so much made explicit?

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