Part autobiographical, part projected from another life.

a mess of our own ma(d)king
#oneline #senryu

Haiku Across the Senses - this long-standing & popular course is a stepping point between "Introducing... Haiku" & "Intermediate Haiku" classes, also a good reboot for anyone wanting to remind themselves to use all of the senses over their writing: www.callofthepage.org
#haiku #writing #senses

Against a black background, a #haiku by longtime contributor, John Hawkhead @haikuhawk of Bradford-on-Avon, UK reads, “talking a man down from the edge of the world pasts we wish for” #poetry #roof #mentalhealth #UnitedKingdom

#haiku by longtime contributor, John Hawkhead @haikuhawk of Bradford-on-Avon, UK
#poetry #roof #mentalhealth #UnitedKingdom

A couple of dark #senryu out today at Thomas Tilton’s ‘Horror Senryu Journal:

bottomless well
a stone sinks slowly
into the earth

bloodwork
all the early clues
ignored

See more here: horrorkujournal.blogspot.com?m=1

#haiku #micropoetry #horror #chills

Don’t turn anything off!

It's #NationalPoetryMonth and International #Haiku #Poetry Day! We're honored to uncover a new #senryu from John Hawkhead (@haikuhawk.bsky.social).

ammonite spirals
the role of kisses
in survival

Join us next Wednesday for more #PoetryMonth #WolfPack Highlights. #PoetryCommunity ✍️

Town Bridge in Bradford on Avon

Ink & Watercolour

#bradfordonavon #art #painting

A #haiku originally in @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social

wild fennel
a butterfly jitterbugs
with its shadow

Thanks to editor Strider Marcus Jones for the showcase.

#haiga #butterfly #jitterbug

zero sum game
how much a warplane rises
as bombs fall away
the air expanding
with a terrible silence

#tanka by John Hawkhead @johnhawkhead.bsky.social

Published in Fields of Gold - poems of peace
The Bamboo Hut 2022 - peace poems from around the world
#TankaThursday prompt: game #tankapoem

Some suggested reading for all

#books #dystopianreality

Taking a nap

From the latest five fleas (itchy poetry) edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen…

mushroom picking who to bomb next

#senryu #war #haiga #micropoetry #haiku #monoku #art #nuclearclock #mushroom

Link: fivefleas.blogspot.com/2026/03/afte...

At 5-7-5 Haiku Journal with this:

moonlit doorway kiss
we still return to the place
where our shadows merged

Thanks to editor DJ Tyrer for posting!

#haiku #senryu #kisses

More here: 575haikujournal.wordpress.com

At 5-7-5 Haiku Journal with this:

moonlit doorway kiss
we still return to the place
where our shadows merged

Thanks to editor DJ Tyrer for posting!

#haiku #senryu #kisses

More here: 575haikujournal.wordpress.com

spread sheets filling fields with death tolls

From the inaugural issue of Only Human edited by AN We to and David Oates. Well worth a read here: www.onlyhumansenryu.com

#senryu #micropoetry #war

Orbits of a dark moon

#colour #art #moons

Interesting that so many words for stupidity begin with D:

dimwit, dumbass, dork, donkey, dunderhead, dipsh*t, dweeb, dinlow, dunce, durr-kiddy, drongo, dingbat, driveller, dope, dupe, dullard, duffer, dolt, dummkopf, dolt, dumb, Donald

Any more?

Ah, it was a regular visitor throughout winter here (nr Bath) so we left seeds out.

Just out at NOON | Journal of the Short Poem edited by Philip Rowland:

fog words lose their weigh
t

A fantastic publication found here: noonpoetry.com/wp-content/u...

#haiku #monoku #micropoetry #shortpoetry

Known as the ‘hedge sparrow’ here. We see one regularly in the garden - quite solitary.

Sorry, the editor is AJ Wentz (before & after predictive text!)

Love these birds - ink sketch

spread sheets filling fields with death tolls

From the inaugural issue of Only Human edited by AN We to and David Oates. Well worth a read here: www.onlyhumansenryu.com

#senryu #micropoetry #war

Paddle steamer?

👍

From the latest five fleas (itchy poetry) edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen…

mushroom picking who to bomb next

#senryu #war #haiga #micropoetry #haiku #monoku #art #nuclearclock #mushroom

Link: fivefleas.blogspot.com/2026/03/afte...

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A new anthology ‘Turf Cottage’ is out from tsuri-doro press. Edited by Tony Pupello, it’s full of fine #haiku and #senryu - get a copy here: tsuridoro.org/tsuri-doro-p...

From the latest Leaf: Journal of the Daily Haiku edited by Ravi Kiran

fox
tracks
pause …

ellipses
in
snow

Link: leafjournal.io

#haiku #micropoetry #snow