Haikus are not just
Three lines of five-seven-five
Although this one is

#NotAHaiku #Haiku #Writing #WritingCommunity

Sisyphus’ rock

careened down the mountainsides

with pruned dishpan hands.

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #notahaiku #absurdity #dishes #chores

Eighty-five pound dog

spends most of my mornings off

sleeping on my lap.

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry #notahaiku #dogs #springbreak #trapped

Haiku Horror Writing Prompt #1713: #ravenous
#haikuhorrorprompt #notahaiku

craving

with great adamance
you state you are not ravenous,
but we know you are

04-02-2026

Haiku Horror Writing Prompt no. 1702: hierodule
#haikuhorrorprompt #notahaiku

waning winter -
neighbour's cat
still wears white socks

#catku
#poetry
#notahaiku

Haiku Horror Writing Prompt no. 1642: writhe
#haikuhorrorprompt #notahaiku

something wicked, something wild

under weather, under want
under waters
something writhes

03-14-2026

this world held together
by the heartbeat of hammers--
the roof of my mind opens

#notahaiku

Bright childhood joy
means a new toy.

Aged joy deeper,
a toss & keeper.

𓂃 ོ𓂃

#dailyhaikuprompt
#joy
#poetry #haiku
#notahaiku
#havenspark
#decluttering
#mariekondo

Haiku Horror Writing Prompt no. 1666: winking
#haikuhorrorprompt #notahaiku

advocate

some say they saw you winking
I know I saw you shrinking
defending obscene thinking

02-15-2025

I don't want to be an evergreen tree always on, always go. I want to be in the flow Sure green…then yellow, orange and brown, Falling leaves upon the ground To sprout bright green all anew, Days of each, just a few.

I have decided.
I am deciduous.

𓂃 ོ𓂃

#dailyhaikuprompt
#evergreen
#poetry #notahaiku
#havenspark
#decided #deciduous

Lol, yes it is! 😅

That's why I staunchly appreciate the hashtag #notahaiku 😄

icy fangs dangle death
but I chew meat with molars,
grizzlies may bare their claws,
I'd rather dance with polars

#notahaiku but #fun 😄

On Google maps, my
mum and dad
don't live there anymore

#NotAHaiku

Mud slept, Yertle dug

Through dark, finding bleaker times

Instead of sunshine.

#haiku #notahaiku #hibernation #turtles

As a grownup, I

Now understand why #grunge bands

Were always angry.

#haiku #notahaiku #micropoetry #promises #society #politics #everything #bullshit #90s

If only.

The fact that these greedy
dictatorial murdering bastards
are still repeating the same shit
every 100 years
merely reinforces my atheism.

#NotAHaiku

Cornflower for we
Share the blooms

Cornflour for u
Make baked goods

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#dailyhaikuprompt
#cornflower
#poetry #haiku
#notahaiku
#shortnight
#sleepyam
#havenspark
#spelling

A classical Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock–style painting depicting feudal-era rice paddies flowing across rolling hills. Hundreds of Edo-period farmers stand knee-deep in flooded fields, wearing traditional clothing and straw hats. Each figure is quietly absorbed in a modern smartphone, its pale blue glow lighting their faces. The cold, artificial light contrasts starkly with the warm earth tones of the paddies and sky. The scene features delicate hand-inked linework, flat color planes, subtle gradients, and mist-softened mountains in the distance—an understated anachronism merging premodern agricultural labor with contemporary digital fixation.

Attention farming in social media is like rice farming in feudal Japan:

every post is a grain,

both require endless cultivation for sustenance.

#NotAHaiku

Haiku Horror Writing Prompt no. 1613: hollow
#haikuhorrorprompt #notahaiku

the space between us

I share myself with you
until there's nothing left inside.
I'm hollow when you're with me
and I echo when you're not.
we spend our nights together
but live our day apart.

12-24-2025

of sealing wax
and blooming things - the long night
taps at my window

#DailyHaikuPrompt (long night)
#NotAHaiku
#micropoetry

Hare the chimes
Somebunny loves you

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#dailyhaikuprompt
#hare #chimes
#poetry #orisit
#haiku
#notahaiku

hands that weave
chrome and reeds
can only mean
puckered thighs

#DailyHaikuPrompt (withered reeds)
#NotAHaiku
#70sBauhausRattan

what happens when I'm tired and bored and feeling all the weight of November? #badhaikuday!

#notahaiku
#no-etry
#dailyhaikuprompt

endless sea of sand -
cry me a river!
a desert farewell

*

cry me a river
the desert
will imbibe your tears

(anybody knows Crimean river? favorite Mondegreen)

😭🌊

Prompt no. 1574: lurking
#haikuhorrorprompt
#notahaiku

I'll post an actual haiku later...

This poem was already drafted and was asking to be tidied up a bit, and volunteered itself for the subject of the prompt.

Prompt no. 1570: sinister
#haikuhorrorprompt

shade

your shadow cast
exotic
sinister, to the left

it's something quite
narcotic
a vice left unconfessed

2025.03.31

#notAhaiku #APoemADay

cracking waterless ground
humanity weeps
desolate consolation

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#dailyhaikuprompt
#desolate
#poetry #notahaiku

day of peace
night dream angst
awake with a groan
new day of peace tainted
by stresses of past
breathe, bitten, breathe

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#dailyhaikuprompt
#groan
#poetry #notahaiku

It's Scary Tacos
Ready to jump in my mouth
Not so scary now!

#BrekkieHauki

,... With some fava beans and a nice Chanti

#Notahaiku
#very very scary movie line

swing forward…
swing back
swing left…
swing right
😵‍💫
watchin' is
makin’ me dizzy
😵‍💫
I choose the riptide

𓂃 ོ𓂃
#dailyhaikuprompt
#swing
#poetry #notahaiku
#ichoosetheriptide