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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · Apr 23

Introducing 'Shinobazu Pond' - A Haiku & Haikai Notebook shinobazupond.blogspot.com/p/about.html

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Kasamatsu Shiro - Misty Evening at Shinobazu Pond (1932) Shinobazu Pond is a haiku notebook written by Tim Chamberlain , an Englishman ...

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 2h

Watching her form
slip gracefully by
beneath shimmering waters.

#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Beneath Shimmering Waters

Leaf 173 – Art Inspired Priscilla Watkins - Painting from the 'Brockwell Lido' series Another of my many #artinspired poems. This one...

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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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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 2d

Small yet
sonorous –
the wren exhales.

#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

The Wren

Leaf 171 – Art Inspired Liza Adamczewski - Garden Icons: Singing for his Supper This is another of my #artinspired haiku. I wrote it ...

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 6d

Pink candyfloss
clouds alight overhead
– each summer evening.

#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Candyfloss Clouds

Leaf 167 – Reflections I wrote this haiku after seeing a succession of wonderful sunsets here in Tokyo this summer. Pink can...

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 7d

“Me time”
multiple clicks –
changing room selfie.

#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku
#senryu #川柳 #English川柳 #川柳inEnglish 📸

Me Time

Leaf 166 – Senryu (or witty, tom-foolery) This senryu was written as a reflection upon the Instagram age in which we all seem to live ...

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 8d

Spent shotgun cartridges
mired in mud and rust -
how many hunter's moons?

#dailyhaikuprompt hunter's moon
#haiku #senryu 🌙

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 8d

a ripple passing through the leaf litter.

#OneLineOctober #Haiku #Monoku 🍂

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 8d

a ripple passing through the leaf litter.

#OneLineOctober #Haiku #Monoku 🍂

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 8d

Bare trees
and grey skies –
a stopped clock.

#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

A Stopped Clock

Leaf 165 – Reflections Harry Wingfield - Alarm Clock (1971) Living, and especially growing up, in the UK, I used to find British winte...

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 9d

So far to go -
bamboo shoot
breaking the earth.

#dailyhaikuprompt shoots
#haiku

Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 9d

High tide line -
sodden sand ridges
echoing clouds.

#dailyhaikuprompt high tide
#haiku

Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 9d

West wind shepherding
rose-coloured clouds
at dawn.

#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Rosy-Fingered Dawn

Leaf 164 – Reflections This haiku was probably written with an unconscious allusion to the ancient Greek poet, Homer, in mind (see als...

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 10d

Monday morning
one hour late -
the week, already unmoored.

#FromOneLine Prompt No.392
#haiku #senryu ⏰

FromOneLine - submissions OPEN @fromoneline.bsky.social · 10d

#FromOneLine 392

Where can we go with just one connecting #prompt line? Let's see how many different places we can discover from just one starting point! Start your poem/vss with the opening line :

Monday morning. One hour late.

#FromOneLine 392 #prompt

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 10d

Mud under the eaves
of the akiya -
also empty.

#dailyhaikuprompt eaves
#haiku
空き家 'akiya' is the Japanese word for an vacant/unoccupied house.

Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 10d

A myriad of moons -
caught in a
spider's web.

#vssdaily prompt: web
#haiku 🕸️

vssdaily @vssdaily.bsky.social · 10d

The #vssdaily #prompt for 9/29/25 is #web

Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 10d

Bell on the buoy
tolling the turns
of wind and wave.

#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Bell on the Buoy

Leaf 163 – Reflections A short way along the coast from the village in Cornwall, where my family always used to stay for our summer ho...

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you! 😊

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 11d

Long shadows
reaching back to summer
- evening light.

#haikufeels prompt: long
#haiku

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 11d

Long shadows
reaching back to summer
- evening light.

#haikufeels prompt: long
#haiku

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 11d

Low tide -
tasting the salty
tang of samphire.

#dailyhaikuprompt low tide
#haiku

Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 12d

GALLERY GOERS

Hearing
the self-conscious creak
of floorboards underfoot.

#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku
#senryu #川柳 #English川柳 #川柳inEnglish

Gallery Goers

Leaf 161 – Reflections Art galleries are strange places. Oddly hushed, yet echoey. They can either be almost empty on sunny days, or b...

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 12d

Light and leaves –
flashing through the wood,
boys on their bikes.

#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Light & Leaves

Leaf 160 – Art Inspired Linocut by Alexandra Buckle This is another one of my ekphrastic or “art inspired” haiku. Seeing this paintin...

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 12d

Pebbles shimmying
beneath
sun dappled water.

#dailyhaikuprompt dapple
#haiku

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 12d

Lightbulb filament
frazzle burst -
twin charred strands.

#dailyhaikuprompt strand
#haiku #senryu 💡

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 12d

No consolation -
coffins
draped in flags.

#PJJournal prompt 02: nation
#WritingCommunity #Senryu

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