# Magnanimous pitch.
What's good for the geese will be
good for the salmon.

#dailyhaikupromt Geese Salmon
#haiku #vss365

#senryu by returning contributor, dl mattila, an American poet and writer who takes pleasure in brevity. #haiku #poetry #ice #heat

#senryu by returning contributor, dl mattila, and American poet and writer who takes pleasure in brevity. #haiku #poetry #ice #heat

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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Stock photo of blackened whole fish meal presentation with salad on a plate and a glass of wine from Pexels.com Text: Gave up giving up things for lent for lent this lent. My involution https://haikudread.net/2026/03/06/involution/

Creep on Catkin fringe
Reach around the orchid bloom
Part the flora drape

#dailyhaikuprompt Catkin Orchid
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

#bountiful display
like two tone orchid petals
emotional gloss

#dailyhaikuprompt Orchid
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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Stock photo of building cornice sculpture depicting Adam and Eve from Pexels.com Text: Wild bird chirped above Bee buzzed around the garden Eve bit the apple https://haikudread.net/2026/03/05/buzzed/

New under the moon
Carpet bomb antiquity
Uncouth culture dump

#dailyhaikuprompt New Moon
#haiku #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems

Slays till none survive
Buffy's idle #lethargy
Willow leaves the set

#dailyhaikuprompt Willow Leaves
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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A.I. image generated from haiku text of a frog sitting on a railing with a bird on the wing above Text: the balustrade hop was the way of the frog while sparrow soared the rail https://haikudread.net/2026/03/04/balustrade/

#haiku / #senryu by M. R. Pelletier. M. R. Pelletier lives in Kansas, but his haiku #poetry travels the world. #poetrylovers #fire

good morning evening
time to call it a day and
tuck in to a snooze

#dailyhaikuprompt Evening Morning
#haiku #poetrycommunty #smallpoems

First hint of morning
Until last light of evening
The force that drives me
Is a choice between either
The #cataract or the stick

#dailyhaikuprompt Evening Morning
#haikufeels #vss365 #haiku #tanka
#TankaTuesday #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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Stock footage of vignette CU moon in limbo from Pexels.com Text: with it's mass effect the moon is a harsh mistress yet the earth abides https://haikudread.net/2026/03/03/mistress/

Violet Lilly
Iris Daisy Poppy and
Wild Irish Rose
A trip through Cupid's garden
Fragrant sense of memories

#dailyhaikuprompt Wild Rose
#haiku #tanka #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems

take Dawn's #splendor ease
wrapped in silk wild Rose petal
flying geese wing flaps

#dailyhaikuprompt Wild Rose Flying Geese
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

#senryu by Jennifer Gurney. Jennifer lives in Colorado where she teaches, paints, writes and hikes. Her #poetry is widely published, two of her poems have won international contests and one was turned into a choral piece. Jennifer has 10 books of poetry. #haiku #colorado #pickles (image by ChatGPT)

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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A.I. image generated from haiku text of a warrior human and a pachyderm walking down the same path towards us Text: Asked for a slight push Instead got a nasty shove Not what you asked for https://haikudread.net/2026/03/02/shove/

chickens come to roost
fresh from a #timid march home
scratch sky blue barn door

#dailyhaikuprompt Fresh Blue Sky
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

February 2026

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

https://haikudread.net/2026/02/

Fresh karma served up
Under a blue marble sky
Hold on for dear life
A sphere tries to cast you off
A flat plate offers an edge

#dailyhaikuprompt Fresh Blue Sky
#haiku #tanka #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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Stock photo of an empty chair, through a door,of a barren room, with a peeling paint wall from Pexels.com Text: an Absence can be Painful Scarring Horrendous or very Welcomed https://haikudread.net/2026/03/01/absence/

Amid crash bang boom
Fool's #quest to find tranquil times
In lantern lens glare

#dailyhaikuprompt Tranquil Lantern
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

It will be tranquil
Spending nights by lantern light
Once we're all unplugged

#dailyhaikuprompt Tranquil Lantern
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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Stock photo of a fine gumbo on a table set with a blue plate Pexel.com Text: you do you haiku I do haiku as I do haiku gumbo roux https://haikudread.net/2026/02/28/roux/

#senryu by longtime contributor, John Hawkhead @haikuhawk of Bradford-on-Avon, UK #poetry #haiku #ice #UnitedKingdom

Straining lust buds burst
Garments settle on the floor
Possessed and obsessed

#daiyhaikuprompt Buds
#haikufeels #vss365 #haiku
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

#obsessed nightshade eyes
buds on spuds settle on me
terror tubar taunts

#daiyhaikuprompt Buds Potato
#haikufeels #vss365 #haiku
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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Stock photo of full frontal catfish face rising from the murky depths Pexels.com Text: under cosmic log phat first catfish lounges in primordial muck https://haikudread.net/2026/02/27/catfish/

A frog on a log
Obsessed on a midair fly
Ribbit Ribbit (slurp)

#dailyhaikuprompt Frog
#haiku #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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Stock photo of gas tank gauge on Empty from Pexels.com Text: Info aura gauge Attention gone with the wind Need a refill soon https://haikudread.net/2026/02/26/refill/

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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A.I. image generated from haiku text off blue suit red tie wearing person sitting at a desk with stacks of cash Text: faux billionaire vibe tuned in to treasonous crime watch the huckster gibe https://haikudread.net/2026/02/25/huckster/

#lispyGopherClimate Tuesday-evening-in-the-americas (0UTC Wed.) #archive #peertube
https://communitymedia.video/w/iXYav8oAJHD2SwdGgjPEgo

#climateCrisis #haiku from @kentpitman

@ramin_hal9001 on the kill-a-billion-people-using-the-climate-crisis #3e style big business conversations happening exposed by the Epstein stuff. w t h ! #doctorStrangelove

Safety from scraping - #i2pd #i2p

#commonLisp conditions #gopher

I joined https://ontologforum.com/ #knowledgeRepresentation

Chat in #lambdaMOO! @mdhughes @rat #technology

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Lispy gopher someodd climate banner! The gopher and many-eyed lisp alien beneath someodd's craft 0UTC wednesday anonradio.net 8UTC Sunday toobnix.org #unix_surrealism analognowhere.com @prahou@merveilles.town

Green data centers
cannot bend Climate physics.
Growth can't be sustained.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #Climate #ClimateDenial #denial #green #energy #GreenEnergy #AI #LLMs

#monoku #senryu by Anne Fox (IG: @annefox333 ) of Broomes Island, Maryland. USA #poetry #haiku #maryland

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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Stock photo over the shoulder photo of a person sketching a person from Pexels.com Text: takes reflected light on my retina to draw you in my memory https://haikudread.net/2026/02/24/reflected/

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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Stock photo of person wandering through amber waves of grain towards a distant vague horizon Pexels.com Text: Make America Coddiwomple Again should be our new mantra https://haikudread.net/2026/02/23/coddiwomple/

@OpenComputeDesign @kabel42

#Haiku is calling. ;)

Clear air goes to seed
Quality improved for years
Undone by Greed State

#dailyhaikuprompt Seed Clear Air
#haiku #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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The connection has timed out browser error message Text: connection timed out waiting for a single truth to be forthcoming https://haikudread.net/2026/02/22/forthcoming/

#Blatant crime charge jam
First degree mopery rap
Late on the upbeat

#dailyhaikuprompt Late
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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Stock photo of traffic jam to and from a dark city from Pexels.com Text: never regret time wasted with long commute on short highway to hell https://haikudread.net/2026/02/21/regret/

Day sail began with
Ginger and Mary Ann to
Gilligan's delight

#dailyhaikuprompt Day Sail
#haiku #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems

#senryu by new contributor, thomas david. thomas is from West Sussex in the United Kingdom. His #haiku and senryū have appeared in Failed Haiku, tsuri-dōrō, Wales Haiku Journal, Cattails, Cold Moon Journal, The Heron’s Nest and now, FreshOut. #poetry #poetrylovers #uk

#senryu by new contributor, thomas david. thomas is from West Sussex in the United Kingdom. His #haiku and senryū have appeared in Failed Haiku, tsuri-dōrō, Wales Haiku Journal, Cattails, Cold Moon Journal, The Heron’s Nest and now, FreshOut. #poetry #poetrylovers #uk

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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A.I. image generated from haiku text of a small sphere half filled with fluid on the floor of a sunny waiting room Text: Was it reverent To being irrelevant With the relevant https://haikudread.net/2026/02/20/irrelevant/

#mystified fire hire
told rollover in clover
soak well to moisten
then douse well with fresh water
to make smoulder and glisten

#dailyhaikuprompt Fresh Water Clover
#haiku #tanka #TankaThursday
#haikufeels #vss365 #smallpoems
#poetrycommunity

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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Stock photo of single plastic chair in a flooded wilderness of ruined household items from Pexel.com Text: reservoir of grief overflows in my aura gauge me sloppy sad https://haikudread.net/2026/02/19/reservoir/

Joy of memories
Conjured up out of nowhere
A quiet time friend

#dailyhaikuprompt Friend Joy
#haiku #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems

memorable end
to dashboard light night quest was
my #bouncy friend Joy

#dailyhaikuprompt Friend Joy
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

#haibun by returning contributor, Vaishnavi Ramaswamy of Chennai, India #poetry #prose #haiku #gummy

#monoku by returning contributor, Pippa Phillips @pippaesque #imago #poetry #sunlight #haiku

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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A.I. image generated from haiku text of two cloaked figures imploring each other in a stark dark wasteland Text: some people need to deceive so as to achieve the things they receive https://haikudread.net/2026/02/18/receive/

plum flowers far and near
shall I go to the south?
shall I go north?
梅遠近南すべく北すべく
-Yosa-no-Buson (与謝蕪村 1716-84).

one branch makes
Kyōto's sky...
plum blossoms
片枝は都の空よむめの花
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1802.
Trans. David Lanoue.
#haiku #plumblossoms #ume

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Oimatsu's 'ko-no-hana' (此の花) are a nod to the ume blossoms now beginning to appear in the grounds of nearby Kitano Tenmangu.

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Bright pink plum blossoms at Kitano Tenmangu.

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Plum blossom inspired sweet.

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Hanging lantern at Kitano Tenmangu featuring the shrine's plum blossom motif.

quail they will about
the incriminating file
#mountainous spewing
obfuscating volume dump
challenging Easter egg hunt

#dailyhaikuprompt Egg Quail
#haiku #tanka #TankaTuesday
#vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact #tanka #TankaTuesday

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Stock photo of a paper check list with a hand holding a pen and checking items off from Pexels.com Text: All to do list done All smug and self-satisfied All items checked off All finished the best I could All existence put away https://haikudread.net/2026/02/17/checked/

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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Stock photo of cash floating past United States of America flag from Pexels.com Text: money united buying blighted access while buying more excess https://haikudread.net/2026/02/16/access/

wake the subtle note
of morning glory rising
from our evening bed

#dailyhaikuprompt Note Morning Glory
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

flatten the bell curve
with #miniscule consumption
of noisy twaddle
dispatched note from office of
a sack of angry weasels

#dailyhaikuprompt Note
#haikufeels #vss365 #haiku #tanka
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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Stock photo of abstract light beam connections from Pexels.com Text: connectivity not necessarily an infused connection https://haikudread.net/2026/02/15/connection/

mythical grapes bark
pilgrimage marching orders
ethereal hymn

#dailyhaikuprompt Pilgrimage Grapes
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

Pilgrimage carry
Fermented bliss squeeze of grapes
Heavy on our lips
Up the stairs to the attic
Scene of our very first #kiss

#dailyhaikuprompt Pilgrimage Grapes
#haikufeels #vss365 #haiku #tanka
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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A.I. image generated from haiku text of a fuzzy knitted critter holding up a ball of yarn on a stick Text: While spinning a yarn Never let the plausible Block the possible https://haikudread.net/2026/02/14/spinning/

We've made no promise.
Our glue is stronger than words..
Love speaks best in deeds

Deeds can't promise, but sustain.
Futures are built, not promised.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #love #promises #future #commitment

Notes to follow on a conversation thread.

#tanka by returning contributor, Nicholas D. Klascanzky @klacsanzky of Seattle, Washington. Nicholas has several #poetry collections published and has won many awards for his #haiku and other work. #guitar #Family

from time to time I
admit walking back the cat
to know where I went
and chill in the #lacuna
of the matata I've seen

#dailyhaikuprompt Chill
#haiku #tanka #haikufeels
#vss365 #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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A.I. image generated from haiku text of an clear line off sight dwelling or prison open to the world Text: Age of privacy Freedom to fail on your own Pre panopticon https://haikudread.net/2026/02/13/privacy/

Minute by minute
I ripen in my dotage
Decrepitude honed
Put off to another day
Evergreen avoidance ways

#dailyhaikuprompt Evergreen Ripen
#haiku #tanka #TankaThursday #senryu
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

ripen to yummy
a debut made in the #dark
evergreen telos

#dailyhaikuprompt Evergreen Ripen
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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Stock photo of long straight stretch of wet pavement through a sparse tall tree forest from Pexels.com Text: It's all well and good to arrive, but I'm more of a journey person https://haikudread.net/2026/02/12/journey/

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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A.I. image generated from the prompt, "Chuck the albatross." of an sledged albatross with three sailboats on the water background. Text: done with this baggage chuck the albatross of self off awareness ledge https://haikudread.net/2026/02/11/chuck/

#haiku / #senryu by long-time contributor, Deborah A. Bennett @d.a._bennett | Deborah draws her inspiration from the teaching of ancient religious philosophers & haiku poets who were also riveted by the purity & beauty of nature. #poetry #poetrylovers #winter

Late night Violet #ache
By dim attic lamplight glow
Languid evening dreams
Sonnets scratched in written hand
Of acts breaking social ban

#dailyhaikuprompt Violet Lamplight
#haikufeels #vss365 #smallpoems
#haiku #tanka #TankaTuesday
#poetrycommunity

#haiku by new contributor, Maria Cristina Pulvirenti, of Italy. #poetry #poetrylovers #italy #hellebores

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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Stock photo of a frogs exposed underbelly from Pexels.com Text: thin skinned self-righteous criminal underbelly casts off it's veneer https://haikudread.net/2026/02/10/underbelly/

#splitsequence #haiku / #senryu by long-time contributor, Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays | Inspired by the three-days Basant Kite Festival starting from Feb 06 in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan #poetry #kite

one plum blossom
brings us just one more
step to the warmth

梅一輪
一輪ほどの
暖かさ

-Hattori Ransetsu (服部嵐雪 1654-1707).
Trans. Gabi Greve.

#Kyoto #京都 #Japan #plumblossoms #umeblossoms #梅 #和菓子 #生菓子 #spring #haiku

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Pink ume blossoms at Kitano Tenmangu.

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White ume blossoms at Kitano Tenmangu.

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A pink ume blossom inspired sweet.

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Nao-san enjoys the plum blossoms at Jonan-gu.

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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A.I. generated image from haiku text with key words functional, suffering,sublimation, and time; over a colorful ribbon spinning clock face craiyon.com Text: I've settled into A functional suffering Sublimation time https://haikudread.net/2026/02/09/function/

A flurry of stars
Cast out into the expanse
As Milky Way spins

#dailyhaikuprompt Flurry Milky Way
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

Milky Way boundaries
Will not halt matter's flurry
Beyond the #pale storm

#vss365 #haikufeels #haiku
#dailyhaikuprompt Flurry Milky Way
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact #tanka

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Stock aerial photo of a generic looking residential cul-de-sac from Pexels.com Text: A lost thoroughfare Rambled over confusion Fever dream sickness An emotional wasteland To a silent cul-de-sac https://haikudread.net/2026/02/08/ramble/

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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Stock photo of a group of humans all dressed in white staring at their phones from Pexels.com Text: battles waged using weapons of mass distraction semper fi cyphers https://haikudread.net/2026/02/07/cypher-fi/

@Aphelion

We clutch existence,
wanting proof we're even here.
Time proves otherwise.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #time #life #existence #philosophy

take the #wound in stride
frantic undulate panic
through slow painful mend

#dailyhaikuprompt Mend Undulate
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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A.I. image generated from haiku text of human figures in black attire out on a green expanse craiyon.com Text: my daily delight; Tai Chi with the Elvi out on the grassy knoll https://haikudread.net/2026/02/06/elvi/

#haiku / #senryu by Vishal Prabhu (IG: wilderness.es.poet ) from the Greater Himalayas, India. #poetry #india #newyear

under cosmic log
phat first catfish lounges in
primordial muck

#dailyhaikuprompt Catfish
#haiku #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems

#TankaThursday rant
With the warmth of a catfish
Lacking #lambent light
In deceitful blank dead eyes
Ex flopping on ghosted shore

#dailyhaikuprompt Warmth Catfish
#haikufeels #vss365 #haiku #tanka
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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Stock photo overhead view of people's feet wearing ice skate on clear cracking ice from Pexels.com Text: the nexus between dry and wet skates on thin ice of flimsy resolve https://haikudread.net/2026/02/05/skate/

@mastosalo
What is #Haiku? It’s
an operating system.
Ah, thanks! Now I know.

What is a #haiku?
I don’t know, how about you?
I don’t have a clue.

power drinking champ
the barley soaked reprobate
passed out on the bar

#dailyhaikuprompt Barley Soaked
#haiku #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems

#senryu by Laurence Stacy. Laurence teaches English & literature courses at Kennesaw State University. He is also the recent coauthor of Before the Earth: Haiku and Haikai. In addition to studying poetics, he is a longtime martial artist, and is interested in connections between the disciplines he enjoys. #poetry #haiku #goodbye #moon

there's barely a #ghost
of a chance for this lie soaked
cohort to earn back
any modicum of trust
we had in any of them

#dailyhaikuprompt Barley Soaked
#vss365 #haikufeels #haiku #tanka
#senryu #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact

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Stock photo off confused entwined strips bunched into a messy stream ball from Pexels.com Text: poisoned LLM with obtuse poetry one haiku at a time https://haikudread.net/2026/02/04/poison/

#lispyGopherClimate #lisp #technology #podcast #archive, #climate #haiku by @kentpitman
https://communitymedia.video/w/c3GdAXe7BQTbK3VrcXCm7E
& @ramin_hal9001
On the #climate I would like to talk about the company that found #curl and #openssl's #deeplearning many (10ish) 0-day vulns "using #ai ". (#llm s were involved).

This obviously relates to my #lisp #symbolic #DL https://screwlisp.small-web.org/conditions/symbolic-d-l/ (ffnn equiv). Thanks to everyone involved with that so far.

I implemented that using #commonLisp #condition handling viz KMP.

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LISPY GOPHER SHOW anonradio.net every 000UTC unix_surrealism; the gopher and lisp alien wade through flooded wreckage helped by two demons.

scattered bitter cold.
and yet, half a world away,
record heat still mounts

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #weather #cold #heat #RecordHeat #ClimateDenial #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact #tanka #TankaTuesday

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A.I. image generated from tanka text of a gilded sponge umbrella Text: One thing's for certain The big umbrella of greed Makes sure that most folks Will not get trickled down on Gilded sponges soak it up https://haikudread.net/2026/02/03/sponge/

#haiku / #senryu by Ash Evan Lippert. Ash is an emerging queer writer from South Carolina.Their #poetry has appear widely, online and in print journals. Their debut chapbook, “god of the body”, is available through Yavanika Press. Find them on Bluesky (@wanderstruck.blog) & IG: (@wanderstruck_haiku). #southcarolina #shadow

#shahai by long time contributor, Elizabeth Crocket. Elizabeth is a Canadian poet who has been the featured artist for three Haiku Foundation online galleries. She has had two books shortlisted for the Touchstone Distinguished Books Award. #haiku #poetry #canada #night