Extinctions happen.
Ours won’t be the first or last.
Life is reinvented.
Beauty always remains.
#shortpoetry
#writingcommunity

Letters flutter in a swarm
Too light to be a danger
Until they land

#vss365 #writingprompt #letters #poem #poetry #shortpoetry #senryu #poetrycommunity @redsaid1.bsky.social

bones bend skin
light scale, dark heart
melancholy

#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #shortpoetry

Strange but true.
In many pics
it’s hard to tell the difference.
Beginnings lead to endings.
But the end of one day
is the beginning of a new one.
That’s why cats perk up at night -
getting ready for what’s next.
#shortpoetry
#ThoughtForTheDay
#HappySaturday
#Caturday

The moon will not
collide with Earth.
It’s actually
moving away.
Losing a dear friend
might be worse.
#shortpoetry
#Cosmic

Some nights, grief feels as vast as the universe.

#grief #micropoetry #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #shortpoetry

Many thanks to Robin White for publishing my senryu in this issue of Akitsu Quarterly! Read more of my work at www.markhendricksonpoetry.com #haiku #haikupoetry #haikuoftheday #haikulover #writing #writer #poetry #haikucommunity #dailyhaiku #poetrycommunity #poem #poetrylovers #shortpoetry

Those magic hours
when cats truly own the world.
When peace, curiosity
and intensity rule.
#shortpoetry

🌿🦉💫🌸 All responses have gone out! Thanks to everyone who submitted. Here is our breakdown for anyone interested:

Fiction: 70 pieces (~29% accepted)
Poetry: 170 pieces (~11% accepted)

If you submitted and haven’t heard back, please let us know.
#writingcommunity #microfiction #shortpoetry #haiku

True. Borders are tricky.
Boundaries often flex and bend
and, if you’re lucky
E X P A N D…
#haiku #shortpoetry
#writingcommunity

Her beaten fingers
push endlessly against the keys
playing like it’s the only way out

🎵

#AmpersandAfterDark #writingprompt #poetryprompt #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #shortpoetry #prompt: "playing like it’s the only way out" @madp03t.bsky.social

“I always tell the truth
even when it painful.”
I lied to the mirror

#poetry
#Shortpoetry
#Badpoetry

Deflate this pressure.
Clear out the weather.
Sand off the desert.
until I’m forever dust.

#Poetry
#Shortpoetry
#Badpoetry

Radio silence
She failed to understand
What turned the dial

#haikufeels #writingprompt #fail #poem #poetrycommunity #poetry #shortpoetry

She bound down the path
Big, buoyant, bouncing boobies
Bobbing in their cups

#MadMarch #writingprompt #cup #senryu #shortpoetry #poem #poetry @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

Lost and lonely hat
What minds did you once hold close
In your dark embrace?

#poem #poetry #senryu #micropoetry #shortpoetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

slowly tiptoeing
around what we mean to say
time to step on it

#poem #poetry #senryu #poetrycommunity #shortpoetry #writingcommunity

Thank you to Amanda White and Leaf Haiku Journal for publishing this piece in today's issue! #micropoetry #micropoem #haiku #haikupoetry #haikuoftheday #writing #writer #poetry #haikucommunity #dailyhaiku #poetrycommunity #poem #poetrylovers #shortpoetry

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

fog words lose their weigh
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A fantastic publication found here: noonpoetry.com/wp-content/u...

#haiku #monoku #micropoetry #shortpoetry

Some need a little.
Some need a lot, and a bit more.
We all need each other.
#shortpoetry
#writingcommunity

I am but
the nobody you
thought you knew.

I am but
the listless eyes
that watch you pass by.

Haynakuguy 2026

#shortpoetry #Iambut

It might look fragile,
precarious, unstable.
To us - the finch
doesn’t seem to mind.
#shortpoetry #birds

My thanks to M.P. and all the editors at Molecule for publishing two of my pieces today! You can download the entire magazine here: moleculetinylitmag.art.blog Read more of my work at markhendricksonpoetry.com #writing #writer #poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #poetrylovers #shortpoetry #nonfiction

Here is the next Monday excerpt from my book.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CL5Q5WS9/

#poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #poets #gratitudebook #poetrybook #poetrybooks #ilovepoetry #shortpoems #shortpoetry #inspirational

Thank you Teri “Sakyu” Santitoro for publishing of my poems in the latest issue of Scifaikuest (print)! This is the second of the two. Read more of my work at www.markhendricksonpoetry.com #scifi #haiku #haikupoetry#writer #poetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetrylovers #shortpoetry #scifaiku

Thank you Teri “Sakyu” Santitoro for publishing of my poems in the latest issue of Scifaikuest (print)! This is the first of the two. Read more of my work at www.markhendricksonpoetry.com #scifi #haiku #haikupoetry#writer #poetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetrylovers #shortpoetry #scifaiku

Here is the next Monday excerpt from my book.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CL5Q5WS9/

#poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #poets #gratitudebook #poetrybook #poetrybooks #ilovepoetry #shortpoems #shortpoetry #inspirational

Que el silencio
llene tu boca de pus,
y no salgan más sonidos
ni más estruendos degradantes
ni la historia deformada
a tu comodidad.
#poesíamatutina #lunes #monday #shortpoetry

La mano entre buganvilias
emerge rosada,
pero no tanto.
Tal vez nunca sea flor.
#shortpoetry #primerpost #arrancandodeinstagram

a #poem I wrote

Tear open my chest and whisper to my heart

Set free the butterflies that
hold me back
And let me flutter

Hope grips your hand
And my trust is all yours

See

It hurts when I fall
So Please

don’t let go

#poetry #shortpoetry #love #hope #anxiety #mentalhealth #tinypoem #poets