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Our whimsical lust
Falls like a cigarette ash
Off the glowing coal
On the butt of this smoke break
To the ashtray of our days
#haikufeels #haiku #tanka #TankaTuesday #poetrycommunity #smallpoems
Fueled by a full moon
Stormed through a cold winter night
To beast on beast warmth
#dailyhaikuprompt Cold Full Moon
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems
the #sole reason for
bean is to cold steal my will
for the next full moon
#dailyhaikuprompt Cold Full Moon
#vss365 #haikufeels #haiku
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
Planting a chestnut
In a pastoral setting
Grove or grave results
#dailyhaikuprompt Chestnut Pastoral
#haiku #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems
After the announcement of FreshOut’s Touchstone nominees for 2025, everyone wanted to know which poems were nominated. Here are the final three. #poetry #haiku #thehaikufoundation #touchstone #poetrylovers
After the announcement of FreshOut’s Touchstone nominees for 2025, everyone wanted to know which poems were nominated. Here are the next two. #poetry #haiku #thehaikufoundation #touchstone #poetrylovers
After the announcement of FreshOut’s Touchstone nominees for 2025, everyone wanted to know which poems were nominated. Here are the next three. #poetry #haiku #thehaikufoundation #touchstone #poetrylovers
After the announcement of FreshOut’s Touchstone nominees for 2025, everyone wanted to know which poems were nominated. Here are the next three. #poetry #haiku #thehaikufoundation #touchstone #poetrylovers
After the announcement of FreshOut’s Touchstone nominees for 2025, everyone wanted to know which poems were nominated. Here are the next two. #poetry #haiku #thehaikufoundation #touchstone #poetrylovers
After the announcement of FreshOut’s Touchstone nominees for 2025, everyone wanted to know which poems were nominated. Here are the first two. #poetry #haiku #thehaikufoundation #touchstone #poetrylovers
Cosplay electric
Playing bear on a trellis
Crackle in the #air
#dailyhaikuprompt Bear Trellis
#vss365 #haikufeels #haiku
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
A lesson to learn
Partaking in profuse mirth
Triggers a tariff
#dailyhaikuprompt Mirth Profuse
#haiku #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems
yule be happy to
#survive another Xmas
night into mourning
#dailyhaikuprompt night
#vss365 #haikufeels #haiku
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
#haiga series by new contributor, Teri Sethi @tejisethi13 | Teji is a poetry disciple from India who loves concocting blends of chai & haikai. By day, she’s a therapeutic nutritionist; by dusk, she wanders into the nostalgic lanes of her childhood, gathering verses from memory. Teji has dedicated the past 4 years to curating Triya, a bilingual space for haiku, tanka & micro poems. #poetrylovers #haiku #brownhistory #india
Make holiday hay
In a lush festive garden
Ripe for the plucking
#dailyhaikuprompt Hay Garden
#haiku #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems
Cosmic overcoat
At the threshold of #Saturn
Rings of a shade tree
#dailyhaikuprompt Overcoat Shade Tree
#vss365 #haikufeels #haiku
#poetrytcommunity #smallpoems
#senryu by Dr. Randy Brooks, Prof.Em. of English at Milikin U. in Decatur, Illinois #neighbors #poetry #winter #haiku
Frosty the Snowman
wins the snowball #fight every
winter solstice night
#dailyhaikuprompt Solstice
#vss365 #haikufeels #haiku
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
#monoku by new contributor, Pegah Rahmati Nezhad ( @rahmati_pegah ) is a physician, scientist, artist, & poet from Tehran, Iran. She loves micropoetry & lyrical prose, & believes in the power of words. #poetrylovers #pain #tehran #haiku
FreshOut’s Touchstone Nominees for 2025!!! #poetry #haiku #micropoetry #thehaikufoundation #poetrylovers
value not blooming
on social media vine
is being #humble
#dailyhaikuprompt Blooming
#haikufeels #vss365 #haiku
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
It's with gratitude
that the drinking lantern lights
for all winter trolls
#dailyhaikuprompt Winter
#haikufeels #vss365 #haiku
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
happy holidays
when they hydrangea of hope
bloom for scant moments
#dailyhaikuprompt Hydrangea
#haiku #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems
like a sword in stone,
petals wait, sheathed in thorns.
worthy, you slip through
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #roses #thorns #SwordInTheStone
long night nectar quaff
prodigious ambrosia munch
satiated beasts
#dailyhaikuprompt Long Night Ambrosia
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems
palpable #regret
with dawn's first glimmer after
ambrosia frolic
#dailyhaikuprompt Ambrosia
#haikufeels #vss365 #haiku
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
As climate warms things,
snow drifts off, not just from here,
but also from now.
#DailyHaikuPrompt #SnowDrift #snow #drift #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #warming #GlobalWarming
(Thanks for the prompt, @dailyhaikuprompt ... even if I'm a day late. We'll perhaps call it prompt drift...)
Fluttering outside
Just thought it was a dim moth
It was something else
#dailyhaikuprompt Moth
#haikufeels #haiku
#poetrycommunity
#smallpoems
moth eaten moral
fabric will only dim light
on faulty #recall
#dailyhaikuprompt Moth
#vss365 #haikufeels #haiku
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
Hold still, Cimate Change.
Please just let me live my life.
Let loose on my kids.
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDenial #ClimateCost #family #love #sacrifice #irony #cost
With winter fast approaching the northern hemisphere, here is a wintry-themed #shahai by regular contributor Reid Hepworth @reidhepworth | Reid lives in a small cottage in Georgian Bay, Ontario where she spends her time listening to trees, talking to all manners of wildlife and writing short form #poetry #photography #poetrycommunity #pic #micropoetry #haiku #canada #photographylovers #photo #poetrylovers
the clever swallow
flees a looming snow drift for
the southern sunshine
#dailyhaikuprompt Snow Drift Swallow
#haiku #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems
#haiku by Joseph Wechselberger @jwech15 Joseph lives in Browns Mills, NJ USA. Retired since March 2007, he began writing haiku/senryu in 2018. His work has been thrice Touchstone-nominated, and has appeared in over 48 haiku journals and anthologies.
#poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #autumn #NJ #soup #tofu #clouds #micropoetry
#haiku by regular contributor, John Pappas. John is a touchstone-winning #poet, literature professor & punk-rock drummer. He does all that in Boston, MA, USA. #deer #poetry #silence #poetrycommunity #boston #snow #poetrylovers #autumn #micropoetry #light
pain, given time's weight,
can mass gravitas enough
to nova as joy
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #pain #sadness #joy #time #gravity #gravitas #nova #metaphor
no holly berries
in the stew for you #boho
you'll thank me later
#dailyhaikuprompt Stew
#haikufeels #vss365 #haiku
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
With crown of holly
#Boho - chic freewheeling ways
Profuse chick magnet
The season to be jolly
Ho Ho Fa-la-la-la-laaaa
#dailyhaikuprompt Profuse
#vss365 #haikufeels #haiku #tanka
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
Lies flash in the pan
#Monotonous chimes resound
Truth set to simmer
#dailyhaikuprompt Chimes
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
we're ephemeral
yet words afford illusion
brief immortals we
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #life #immortality #ephemeral #illusion
@Aphelion This haiku tries to capture the thought your poem upthread left me with.
Sad dark cloud tears up
Reaching quota rationed woe
Waterfall due soon
#dailyhaikuprompt Dark Cloud Waterfall
#haiku #senryu #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems
Deep split fracture fare
Conjures full force waterfall
Hasty #apogee
#dailyhaikuprompt Waterfall
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
Snowflake creation
Has roots in water vapor
That came from the ground
#dailyhaikuprompt Snowflake Roots
#haiku #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems
#Successor brush strokes
Roots of each fractal snowflake
Make up my outlook
#dailyhaikuprompt Snowflake Roots
#vss365 #haikufeels #haiku
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
#haiku by Tuyet Van Do, of Melbourne Australia. Tuyet’s poetry has been widely published in various journals & was nominated for a Touchstone Award for Individual Poems in 2022. #poetry #mother #sun #micropoetry #haiku #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #Australia #Melbourne
Gwyneth Paltrow hawks
Her personal star fragrance
In candle format 👃
#dailyhaikuprompt Star Fragrance
#haiku #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems
want feasible joy
from an #illicit drop of
fragrance of a star
a guaranteed wash over
of pure explicit comfort
#dailyhaikuprompt Star Fragrance
#vss365 #haikufeels #haiku
#tanka #TankaThursday
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
#haiku by new contributor, M. R. Pelletier. M. R. Pelletier lives in Kansas, but his haiku #poetry travels the world. #poetrylovers #flocks #poetrycommunity #fields #kansas #micropoetry
#haiku by new contributor, Ash Evan Lippert. Ash is an emerging queer writer from South Carolina. Widely published in journals , both online and in print, their debut chapbook, “god of the body”, is available through Yavanika Press. Find them on Bluesky ( @wanderstruck.blog ) & Instagram ( @wanderstruck_haiku ). #poetrycommunity #poetry #poetrylovers #micropoetry #snow #night #pines
Young Prince Charles #bewitched
By watching Camillia
Obsess while grazing
#dailyhaikuprompt Camillia Grazing
#vss365 #haikufeels #haiku
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
#lispyGopherClimate #emacsconf ! #archive pending https://communitymedia.video/c/screwtape_channel/videos
#deepLearning #worstCaseScenario #chatGPT #LLM #academic e.g. 2024. (side topic) #ai
@eduardoochs #emacs problems and #eev
https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks/modern/
@ramin_hal9001 's #schemacs #scheme
https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks/schemacs/
Mine (emacs as intelligent #lisp agents)
https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/115677498331867468
Neat: #python using lisp #swank + #slime
+ #climateCrisis #haiku from @kentpitman !
telnet lambda.moo.mud.org 8888
co guest
@join mdh
"hey #emacs
take breadth of a breath
remember the cool evening
we spent together
#dailyhaikupromt Breath Cool Evening
#haiku #senryu #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems
Focus on the breath
Stretch your awareness inward
#Consolation piece
#dailyhaikuprompt Breath
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
#haiku by new contributor, Tony Williams. Says Tony, about himself. “I’ve been writing haiku for 5 years now and been published widely. I’ve been fortunate to have won awards in several of the major competitions. I like nature, I like science, I like chai! #sinewave #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #micropoetry #autumn #beach
Climate exhausts us,
but keep pushing—it won't rest
until we do not.
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #relentless #ClimateDenial
Dropping from up north
Mister Carrington sunspots
Wild iris ray blooms
#dailyhaikuprompt North Wild Iris
#haiku #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems