Overthinking -
Escher-like ideas
spiraling inwards.

Spiraling inwards -
ideas Escher-like
overthinking.

[repeat]

#haikufeels prompt: idea 💡
#haiku #senryu #linkedverse

Anent the solstice -
winter yet
darkening deeper still.

***

Hesitating
before turning back -
the longest night.

***

Weeping pent wax -
the candle’s light
starts to lengthen.

#dailyhaikuprompt solstice
#haiku 🌞🌛 #linkedverse

Amid beechen green,
summer sings o'er
the Vale of Health.

Long gone,
but echoing still -
light-winged song.

Dreams passing on,
soft incense drifts
through the boughs.

#dailyhaikuprompt nightingale
#haiku #linkedverse 🪶 #johnkeats

Autumn Leaves Leaf 221 – Reflections   Fukuda Heihachiro - Autumn Leaves (1943) Autumn seems to be a season with its own animus/anima.     Leave...

Three poems on 'Autumn Leaves.' Featuring a collaboration with Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social

#haiku #tanka #gembun #renku #linkedverse #blueskypoets

Chatter of Pebbles Leaf 213 – Reflections   The sound of the sea is an enchantment, akin to the sound of the breeze filtering through trees.     Wave...

Waves in profusion
hurling white surf
and salt spray.

Chatter of pebbles
rolling and receding
– a desolate beach.

#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku
#linkedverse 🌊

Together Leaf 212 – Reflections   Dmitry Levin - Winter River (2015) A series of linked verse, marking the slow passage of time.     TOGETH...

Low hum –
electric heater,
slowly
turning and
returning.

#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku
#短歌 #短歌inEnglish #English短歌 #tanka
second in a sequence of #linkedverse

This time last year,
together ascending
the Tama River.

Maple leaves aglow -
woodsmoke and
rushing water.

Russet, yellow, brown
and green leaves -
burnishing the mountains.

#haiku #artinspired
#linkedverse 🍁

RR-Issue 6 RAINING RENGAY – ISSUE SIX, October 2025 Guest Edited / Foreword by John Thompson (USA) FOREWORD Thank you, Sherry and Zoe, for inviting me to help you edit this issue of Raining Rengay.&nbsp…

Grateful to have a rengay (linked-verse) with my good friend Jacob Salzer in the newest issue of Raining Rengay. You can read the issue here:

rainingrengay.wordpress.com/rr-issue6/

#rengay #linkedverse #poetry

Still Waters Leaf 152 – Art Inspired   Claude Monet - Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies (1899) The Met There is perhaps a little-known connection be...

Leap-frogging lily pads,
leafy stepping stones
– painted and real.

#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku
#短歌 #短歌inEnglish #English短歌 #tanka
first in a sequence of #linkedverse

Empty Lighthouses (Leaf 138) – Art Inspired   These three haiku can either be read independently, or as a triptych of linked verse. Loosely inspired by Vi...

Automated moonlight
dapples the dark sea,
beneath its white beam.

A brush of light,
sweeping across
the windowpane.

Retired lighthouse keeper
– counting the pips,
after ‘Sailing By.’

#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku #linkedverse

Weltschmerz Leaf 127 – Reflection   John William Waterhouse - Miranda, The Tempest (1916) Weltschmerz (German, noun), literal meaning: ‘world-pain’...

WELTSCHMERZ

Waiting, waiting for this tide
to turn; so our ailing ship
can right its keel again.

...

#haiku #haikai #linkedverse #poetry
(first in a series of linked short verses)

Mrs Emma Peel (Leaf 71) – Senryu (or, witty tom-foolery)   Modern Mrs Emma Peel and John Steed, the traditional English Gent ’  . Mary Quant and Pierr...

On a timeless appeal ...

Dial a deadly number,
to connect –
direct to the heart.

#SenryuSunday #senryu #haiku #linkedverse
the first in a sequence of linked verse:

Waves in profusion
hurling white surf
and salt spray.

Chatter of pebbles
rolling and receding
- a desolate beach.

#dailyhaikuprompt
profuse desolate
#haiku #linkedverse

Automated moonlight
dapples the dark sea,
beneath its white beam.

A brush of light,
sweeping across
the windowpane.

Retired lighthouse keeper
- counting the pips,
after 'Sailing By.'

#blueskyrelay prompt: lighthouse
#linkedverse #haiku #shippingforcast #mantovani

Mercury rapidly soaring -
asphalt regressing into
lava-like liquefaction.

Urban flyovers rising
high overhead, roasting
concrete shade below.

Glass walls so arid and smooth,
sun climbing by degrees
- a city sweltering.

#haikufeels prompt: soar
(NB poems 2 & 3 inc. anagrams of ‘soar’)
#linkedverse