Photo of spaces between dry weeds, against an endless blue sky

does "negative space"
make her absence feel so present?
at Ann's house, after

#haikusaturday #haiku #grief

No Kings III Refuse to submit Tyranny cannot succeed We stand together ~Traci VW Haiku with art of a silhouette crowd of peaceful protestors in front of buildings in NYC

No Kings III

Refuse to submit
Tyranny cannot succeed
We stand together

~Traci VW

#haikusaturday #nokings #resist #nokingsday #nodictator #standtogether #haiku

A new one for #HaikuSaturday. #haiku. It sure didn't feel as if spring was anywhere near close today!

Pelicans over Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic lapping
pelicans coasting, we rising
resistance dawning

#haikuSaturday #nokings

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#haikusaturday #poetry #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #haikufeels #writingcommunity

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Who minds all the stars,
Sees to the circling systems'
Illusive music?

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Welcome, first crocus,
a sign that seasons change as
we proclaim NO KINGS.
#HaikuSaturday #NoKingsRally

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Mind over matter
Does it - that is what they say
Rise mind, rise - away

.

#ScifaikuSaturday mind #amwriting #fantasy #haiku #scifaiku #poem #poetry #poet #WritingCommunity #SciFiSat #scifi #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #HaikuSaturday #poem #ScifiSat #MicroPoem #Poets #scifi #SFF #BlueSkyPoet

itter springtime wind
never touches the unjust.
Innocent huddle..

#poetry #haiku #HaikuSaturday

Photo of two pink tulip buds surrounded by their green leaves. A haiku on the photo reads… Nurturing hugs slowly releasing We’re ready to bloom —Kim Campbell, Books, Butterflies, & Being Photo by Kim Campbell

#HaikuSaturday #BloomScrolling

Plum blossoms 🌸

Pear blossoms as yet unopened

Second bloom of plum
Three varietals grafted
One glorious tree

#illusive blossom
Pear waits for leaves to unfurl
Springtime finale

#vss365 #writingcommunity #halfbadpoetry #HaikuSaturday #haiku #PhotoCommunity

Photo of a starling perched on a chair at an outdoor cafe, looking at the cakes

Most charming starling
Takes the spare chair - winsome stare -
Claims to be starving.

#haikuSaturday

(Coincidentally, ‘Stare’ is an old name for these clever birds.)

#vss365 #Illusive #HaikuSaturday #gabrielamariemilton #haiku

a sonata for the salt
breath on Illusive lips

#haiku #haikusaturday
Two local #spring #bird prompt poems not selected so I am posting here. The state bird of New Jersey is the Eastern Goldfinch, also known as the wild canary:

pitch pine open mic
warblers and wild canaries
throwing rhymes

twenty robins
rummage in melting turf
then the hawk

green radish sprout surrounded by dirt, sticks, and brown leaves

first sprout I see
wish upon a radish
garden star
#HaikuSaturday 💚 #gardening

A clump of yellow daffodils blooms out of mulch

Happy Saturday!
spring’s fickle weather
daffodils on cloudy days
bring their own sunshine
#haiku #haikusaturday

#HaikuSaturday #Haiku #poetry #writingcommunity

Celebrating #haikuSaturday:

fresh fig leaf presses
skyward from weathered, bare branch
beams fall warm and kind

#poetry #haiku

don't trust a rogue
wrapped in my blanket
orphic thunders

#InkMine #wrap
#BraveWrite #orphic
#DailyHaikuPrompt #thunder
#Haiku #HaikuSaturday #micropoetry #micropoem

by pleating's slats
kitty peaks into garden;
spotting her foe

#vssdaily #slat
#HaikuChallenge #garden
#Haiku #HaikuSaturday #micropoetry #micropoem

Various skyward photos of clouds taken in a variety of places.

today . . .

i'm torn between
being a warrior and
wanting to wander

. . . away.

#haikuSaturday #haiku #warrior #wander #nokings #poetry

Spring's doorbell
a woodpecker drums
its welcome

#haikusaturday #haiku #amwriting

dilated eyes—
my cat staring
behind me

#caturday #haiku #senryu
#haikusaturday

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hospice …
bed rails shimmer
in the morning light

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#haiku #senryu
#haikusaturday

embracing
the unspeakable
mountain view

#haiku #HaikuSaturday

Above Fumes alone the scent of bread above fumes (C) Steven Stokes

alone
the scent of bread
above fumes

#HaikuSaturday #Haiku #Poem

stevenlstokes.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/a...

No kiss, must Resist
for frogs become princes and
we’ll have No Kings here

#haikusaturday #haiku #nokingsday #resist #poetry #saveourdemocracy #frogsarebetteranyway 🐸

a man in a red cape is surrounded by smoke and holding a sword . ALT: a man in a red cape is surrounded by smoke and holding a sword .

the bandits flee his
illusive genius: stand
by for mind control

#vss365 #illusive #scifaikusaturday #mind #haiku #scifaiku #sff #senryu #prompt #writesky #haikusaturday #scififilm #timebandits #80s

eyes closed
sea foam green and beach glass blue--
tides in the dark
#HaikuSaturday #haiku

LEAF Issue 9, April 2026

Thank you, Amanda White White and Ravi Kiran for selecting my haiku to be in LEAF issue 9, April 2026. Happy to share the space with so many excellent writers.

leafjournal.io/leaf-issue-nin…
#haiku #HaikuSaturday #inkMine
#poetry #poetrycommunity
#vss365