Sakura blossom on a moss-covered oriental lantern. Poem in gree as in post.

••⋅☾#片歌 - #発句☽⋅••

Spirits dwell
Unseen unheard
Abiding still

Humans dwell
Unseeing blind
Deaf to all

••⋅☾#katauta - #TanRenga

#poetry #詩 #Haiga #俳画 #NMPoetry #PoetryOnTheFly #Photography
#マストドン写真部 #写真
#urbanphotography #都市写真
#Spring #Sakura #FloweViewing #OrientalLantern
#春 #桜 #花見 #ランタン

••⋅☾#片歌 ☽⋅••

Astro Truff
Suburban style
Conforming

••⋅☾#katauta☽⋅••

#PoetryOnTheFly #NMPoetry #Satire #SatricalPoetry

••⋅☾#片歌 - #発句☽⋅••

Astro Truff
Lawn of convenience
Breaking no rules

Sign says
Dogs mustn't pee
On the lawn

••⋅☾#katauta - #TanRenga☽⋅••

#PoetryOnTheFly #NMPoetry #Poetry #Satire #SatiricalPoetry

••⋅☾#片歌☽⋅••

Candle flame
Monk's dying wish
Incense on the pyre

••⋅☾#katauta☽⋅••

#MastoPrompt #Monk
#PoliticalPoetry #PoetryOnTheFly #NMPoetry

Crows and Jay

••⋅☾#片歌☽⋅••

Jay protest
Crows are fed
Too shy to dine

••⋅☾#katauta☽⋅••

#PoetryOnTheFly #Crows #Jay #Corvids #NMPoetry

#MastoPrompt #Gimble

••⋅☾#片歌☽⋅••
My words
Gimbal in the wabe
#PoetryOnTheFly
••⋅☾#katauta☽⋅••

••⋅☾#ものく☽⋅••
gimble not gambal pun intended
••⋅☾#Monoku☽⋅••

••⋅☾#片歌☽⋅••

Silent now
The morning doves
Teeth upon my hand

••⋅☾#katauta☽⋅••

#Poetry #PoetryOnTheFly #Aging #HiakuFeels

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# #Dog #Dreams

          ••⋅☾#ものく☽⋅••
Moonbeam reflected in #dogwood’s hallowed bark
          ••⋅☾#Monoku☽⋅••

          ••⋅☾#片歌☽⋅••
Moonbeams
Softly reflected
In Dogwood’s bark
          ••⋅☾#katauta☽⋅••

          ••⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅••
Moonbeams
Softly reflected
Days Shadow
In a Dogwood’s
Hallowed […]

#Monoku

rosco dreaming muffled barks at shadow doggies

#Katauta

Rosco dreaming
Muffled barks
At shadows doggies

#Dogs #dogsofmastodon #PoetryOnTheFly #Poetry #dreams

Two crows face each other. One on a retaining wall, the other on a lawn. Street in the background. 3-line poem as in the message.

#MastoPrompt #Indignent

•⋅☾#ものく☽•

Indignant having to share kaimi's bounty

•⋅☾#片歌☽⋅•
Indignant
Having to share
Kaimi's bounty

Copyright 2026 Do not use in AI

#Crows #Corvids
#poetry #詩 #Senryu #川柳 #Monoku #katauta #Haiga #俳画 #PoetryOnTheFly #Photography #マストドン写真部 #写真
#urbanphotography #都市写真

Phew ! That was close ! I don't make such noises !
Wordle 1,678 6/6
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#wordle #quordle #WQuers #wordle1678

Musical Madama Butterfly retold
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🔥 Current Win Streak: 579 days
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#travel #meme #wanderlust #katauta #zenlike

Spontaneous #Katauta

Write poem with me
about our life and our cats
so he responded

Cats have two braincells
cat got the meow neko
we have three braincells

#poetry

KATAUTA
Octopuses’ arms,
each with a mind of its own:
multitasking made easy.

#katauta #micropoetry #poetry #inkmine #skypoets
#poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #animal #octopus
katauta: three lines of 5, 7, 7 syllables

**#MastoPrompt 07/2** #Effuent
**#Katauta:**

•─────⋅☾#片歌☽⋅─────•

One percent
On a golden throne
Effluent wealthy

#NMMP #NMPrompts
#senryu #PoetryOnTheFly #poetry #poetrycommunity
#Political
@poetry

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**#WSS366 07/2** #Blue 番 2

* **#Monoku:** *(< 17, no caps or punctuation)*
* **#Haiku:** *(5-7-5 metre)*
* **#Katauta:** *(5-7-7 metre)*
* **#Waka:** *(5-7-5-7-7 metre)* #WakaPoetry

I use morae not syllables

•─────⋅☾#ものく☽⋅─────•

Clear blue fearless lemming

•─────⋅☾#俳句☽⋅─────•

For clear […]

# #Wss366 7/1 #Cool

## #Katauta #片歌

A cool hand
Your gentle touch
Bedtime fever

NMPrompts #NMV366
#senryu #和歌 #PoetryOnTheFly #poetry #poetrycommunity #Fever #熱 #熱病
@poetry

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**# WritersCoffeeClub 06/27**. Share an experience of writing in a restrictive format **Part 3**

* **# Monoku:** _( < 17, no caps or punctuation)_
* **# Haiku:** _(5-7-5 metre)_
* **# Katauta:** _(5-7-7 metre)_
* **Waka:** _(5-7-5-7-7 metre)_ #WakaPoetryI use mora not syllables […]

KATAUTA
My branches stretch far –
Too easily I topple.
I need to dig deeper #roots.

#7syllablesentence #roots #katauta #haiku #senryu
#senryusunday #inkmine #micropoetry #poetry
#poetrycommunity #nature
A katauta is a Japanese poetry form of 3 lines of 5-7-7 syllables. Two katauta make a sedoka.

KATAUTA
On the horizon:
the sizzle of summer days.
The honeyed month of May ends.

#katauta #micropoetry #haiku #inkmine #poetry
#skypoets #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity
#3lines #summer #nature
A katauta is a three-line Japanese poem, 5-7-7 syllables in English. Two katauta make a sedoka.

KATAUTA
Inwardly mobile,
this butterfly with one wing
soars across internal skies.

A katauta is a Japanese form with three lines,
similar to a haiku but 5, 7, 7 syllables.
#katauta #haiku #micropoetry #inkmine #poetry
#poetrycommunity #bskypoets #meditation #reflection

KATAUTA
Unicorns exist
for those who believe in them.
Honor imagination.

A Katauta (Japanese) is similar to a haiku or senryu,
three lines, but 5-7-7 syllables. Two related katauta
make a sedoka.
#haiku #katauta #poetry #inkmine #bskypoets
#poetrycommunity #micropoetry #3lines #poem

Most of the poetry I write now aday is very context dependant and appears in my novels. I posted a couple today where I modified the last line to be context independent.

Tenth century
Nobles and poets,
Show off with their ryhme.

#Katauta #Waka #Poem #Poetry #poetrycommunity

草地にて
Tキュピドキュピド
呼び立てている

(Kusachi ni te
T kyupido kyupido
Yobitatete iru)

“In the grassland
T. cupido cupido
Calling out”

#片歌　#時 #katauta #poetry

Last couplet of an otherwise unwritten poem, recast as a katauta

In staid suburban
avenues and lanes, leafmould
mulls to marmalde, and stains

#katauta #haiku