Search results for tag #haiku
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A waning blood moon
Coagulates no loose beams
In dusty craters
#dailyhaikuprompt Waning Moon
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity
Sip #naïveté
The daily grind ground me down
More Wild Irish Rose
#dailyhaikuprompt Wild Rose
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetry #poetrycommunity
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo shows the Whaler's Monument (Hvalfangstmonumentet) in Sandefjord, Norway fromPexels.com
Text:
Having ambition
Be the whale in the puddle
Splash enough for some
https://haikudread.net/2026/09/11/ambition/
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This week's Climate thought
arrived before its deadline.
But will your response?
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDenial #LispyGopherClimate
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Text:
phones had a cradle
you could hang up with gusto
slamming home your point
/haikudread.net/2026/09/10/cradle/
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo of a classic white head sculpture wrapped in a clear plastic bag from Pexels.com
Text:
Free to go about
Inflicting his vanity
On events du jour
https://haikudread.net/2026/09/09/vanity/
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#shahai by regular contributor, Jerome Berglund ( @Berglundjeromehaiku ).
Jerome currently hails from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, where he produces fine poetry and art featured here many times and in many other publications.
#poetry #haiku #photo #NOLA
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In this #shahai by regular contributor, Jerome Berglund ( @Berglundjeromehaiku ), a black and white photograph shows a very full, colorless blossom, nested in its own foliage. In the top left corner, an accompanying haiku reads, wild iris one of the slats bent back at an angle Jerome currently hails from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, where he produces fine poetry and art featured here many times and in many other publications. #poetry #haiku #photo #NOLA
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#lispyGopherClimate oops I didn't realise @SDF was being cyberbullied so I think we are going to try #peertube toobnix
https://toobnix.org/a/screwtape/videos I'll fix the archives sometime.
I just wasted [] four hours in a phlebotomist's with apparently only a single bloodletter operating !
Anyway, as well as
@kentpitman 's #climateCrisis #haiku
- Kent's halfbaked OMEGA #lisp (superset of lisp1 and lisp2 )
I wanted to talk about "setting up shop" (in #lambdaMOO obvious) things these days.
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Willow leaves the scene
On gusty #moonglade breezes
To employ magic
#dailyhaikuprompt Willow Leaves Gusty
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetry #poetrycommunity
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Stock photo of an adult with disheveled hair, wearing a dark outer garment over a blue shirt, with one hand pressed against their forehead and eyes cast downward, which appears to show an expression of deep mental strain, worry, or distress from Pexels.com
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anxious dread as a
chronic fretting fussbudget
not a worry wart
https://haikudread.net/2026/09/08/fussbudget/
#haiku by Deborah A. Bennett. Deborah (IG: @d.a._bennett ) draws her inspiration from the teaching of ancient religious philosophers & haiku poets who were also riveted by the purity & beauty of #nature #poetry #poetrylovers
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Against a white background, this #haiku by Deborah A. Bennett reads, child’s dime sinking in the fountain water damselflies Deborah A. Bennett @d.a._bennett draws her inspiration from the teaching of ancient religious philosophers & haiku poets who were also riveted by the purity & beauty of #nature #poetry #poetrylovers
The encroaching dusk
Envelops all it touches
Low Tide marketing
#dailyhaikuprompt Dusk Low Tide
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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A.I. image generated from haiku text of bearded fisherman with a large mythical gin blossoms nose wearing a DISSOLUTION badge beside a swamp boat
Text:
Fearsome florid nose
Beacon for misadventures
Dissolution badge
https://haikudread.net/2026/09/07/florid/
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo silhouette of a person standing inside a large, circular concrete tunnel with smoke flares from Pexels.com
Text:
A parallax view
In a tunnel vision world
Broadens horizons
https://haikudread.net/2026/09/06/parallax/
#shahai by returning contributor, Biswajit Mishra.
Biswajit Mishra is a bilingual poet writing mostly in English and occasionally in Odia. Born in India and having spent a few years in Kenya, Biswajit and his wife Bharati currently live in Calgary, #Canada #poetry #photography #haiku
@biswajitmishra.ig
biswajitpoetry@biswajitca.bsky.social
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In this #shahai by returning contributor, Biswajit Mishra, a cloudy sky of many colors is seen above power lines and traffic signs. The accompanying #haiku reads, unspoken words the potential clouds my day Biswajit Mishra is a bilingual poet writing mostly in English and occasionally in Odia. Born in India and having spent a few years in Kenya, Biswajit and his wife Bharati currently live in Calgary, #Canada #poetry #photograp
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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A.I. image generated from haiku text of a colorful fantasy quilt featuring castles, dragons, clocks, cats, and musical notes
Text:
every night in bed
I toss and turn on top of
a fever dream quilt
haikudread.net/2026/09/05/quilt/
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Text:
Big Graft takes the mound
As we fall for each grift pitch
That's all he'll serve up
https://haikudread.net/2026/09/04/slider/
Splendid and fertile
The imaginary soil
In dark matter brain
#dailyhaikuprompt Splendid Soil
#haiku #poetrycommunity #poetry
Make the #elixir
From sprouts of splendid soil
Fan the harvest flames
#dailyhaikuprompt Splendid Soil
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetry #poetrycommunity
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #tanka #TankaThursday #senryu #artifact
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A haiku a day
Say error out the geezer stream
Subconscious byway
Even wordy rambles need
Archetypes for real play
https://haikudread.net/2026/09/03/geezer/
In the beginning
Water wasn't all that clear
Covalent bondage
#dailyhaikuprompt Clear Water Beginning
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity
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Text:
con swindle then sue
abuse evade elude laws
Bunco artists all
https://haikudread.net/2026/09/02/bunco/
#lispyGopherClimate Tuesday-night-in-the-Americas (0UTC Wednesday) every week since 2022 #lisp #lambdaMOO #technology #podcast feat. The #Gopher .
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#climateCrisis #haiku by ANSI #commonLisp's @kentpitman whom is joining us again this week!
+ @jhlagado } I am hoping these two will talk about their overlapping ( #zork / #adventure(6) #gamedev ) and parallel contemporaneous computing histories. ( #lisp / #basic #programming )
And @ramin_hal9001 !
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#Empathetic gift
Put my back into mauling
The mulberry spice
#dailyhaikuprompt Spice Mulberry
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels #senryu
#poetry #poetrycommunity
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #tanka #TankaTuesday #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo of a person dressed in dark tactical or fantasy-style gear with a hood, captured mid-air leaping above a bushy landscape under an overcast sky from Pexels.com
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seems when a vision
begins to blossom in me
that's when my kindred
mnemonic assassins leave
me alone with strangled dreams
https://haikudread.net/2026/09/01/assassins/
#haiku by returning contributor,Joseph P. Wechselberger (IG: @jwech15 ). Joseph has been writing haiku since 2018. His work has been Touchstone-nominated / long-listed many times and widely published and anthologized across the web. #haiku #poetry
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Upon a white background, this #haiku by returning contributor,Joseph P. Wechselberger (IG: @jwech15 ), reads, a mallard’s eggs beginning to hatch swamp pinks Joseph has been writing haiku since 2018. His work has been Touchstone-nominated / long-listed many times and widely published and anthologized across the web. #haiku #poetry
#senryu by new contributor, Vikram Kolmannskog, marking the recent (Aug. 28) passing of champion of gay rights and inclusion of all kinds, Norway’s King Harald V. Vikram is a queer-of-colour poet, psychotherapist and professor living by the forest outside of Oslo, Norway. Find more at his website: www.vikram.no
#poetry #haiku #Norway
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Against a plain white background, this #senryu by new contributor, Vikram Kolmannskog, marking the recent (Aug. 28) passing of champion of gay rights and inclusion of all kinds, Norway’s King Harald V, reads, late summer bouquet boys who love boys and the king has died Vikram is a queer-of-colour poet, psychotherapist and professor living by the forest outside of Oslo, Norway. Find more at his website: www.vikram.no #poetry #haiku #Norway
The grapes of ICE throw
blatant injustice into
nations melting pot
#dailyhaikuprompt Grapes Ice
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Text:
"You are what you buy"
My morning message barrage
Glad pitch vaccine worked
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/31/vaccine/
#haiku by returning contributor, thomas david (IG: @thomas.david575 ). Thomas is from West Sussex in the United Kingdom. His haiku and senryū have appeared here before and in many other fine publications. #poetry #oldpond #frog #England
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Against a white background, this #haiku by returning contributor, thomas david (IG: @thomas.david575 ) reads, empty pond the frog in my throat Thomas is from West Sussex in the United Kingdom. His haiku and senryū have appeared here before and in many other fine publications. #poetry #oldpond #frog #England
Spud the mean old crow
Tried to pass as a raven
Peeks at the beaks tell
#dailyhaikuprompt Potato Crow
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity
urban camouflage
carved potato crow stands watch
from street corner shrub
#dailyhaikuprompt Potato Crow
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Text:
take inventory
of misanthropic choices
pattern detected
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/30/pattern/
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo of a tall bearded iris (Iris germanica) flower in full bloom, featuring ruffled standards in pale bronze-white and velvety deep purple-maroon falls with a bright yellow-orange beard
Text:
crazy dance upon
the wild Iris of my
top secret third eye
haikudread.net/2026/08/29/iris/
Full moon light highlights
In dark grove with swale sparkle
Night magic music
#dailyhaikuprompt Full Moon Grove
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity
diffuse full moon light
on heavenly pleasure grove
#tissue issue tier
#dailyhaikuprompt Full Moon Grove
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetry #poetrycommunity
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo shows a colorful pattern of retro homemade audio mixtape cassettes in various bright shades like yellow, blue, green, purple, and orange.from Pexels.com
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Reality mix
Shuffle random access bliss
Cassette tape life fix
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/28/kerfuffle/
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#haiku 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 & one was turned into a choral piece. Jennifer has 10 books of poetry. #stones #colorado #poetry #river
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Against a plain white background, this #haiku by Jennifer Gurney, reads, who molds these heart-shaped stones the river or my tears Jennifer lives in Colorado where she teaches, paints, writes and hikes. Her poetry is widely published. Two of her poems have won international contests & one was turned into a choral piece. Jennifer has 10 books of poetry. #stones #colorado #poetry #river
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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A.I. image generated from haiku text of jovial travelers whistling toward doom
Text:
oh so jovial
as we whistle down the path
to our doom by Jove
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/27/jovial/
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Text:
analog nest is
unalloyed digital fray
realities fright
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/26/unalloyed/
#haiku / #senryu by Oana Maria Cercel (IG: @oana_maria_ ). Oana lives in Italy where she writes and co-edits Cold Moon Journal. #poetry #italy #silence
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This #haiku / #senryu by Oana Maria Cercel (IG: @oana_maria_ ), reads silent womb the grayness of another winter Visually, the poem is presented on a background of dark gray clouds, on a moonless winter night. Oana lives in Italy where she writes and co-edits Cold Moon Journal. #poetry #italy #silence
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Join in live on #lambdaMOO . https://lambda.moo.mud.org/ !
- It is yduJ's halfbirthday @nosrednayduj https://hachyderm.io/@nosrednayduj/117153529001379734
- #haiku by @kentpitman
Pursuant to great moomail I got from slak, I want to talk about postscarcity lambdamoo virtual reality, UBI, and #VR and #lisp.
+ being impactful.
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#haiku by returning contributor Tony Williams (IG: famwill2019 ). Tony has been writing haiku since 2020, when he finally retired to spend more time with vegetables, flowers, trees, etc. No book, but occasionally considering one. #poetry #raspberries #summer #rain
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Against a plain white background, this #haiku by returning contributor Tony Williams, reads heavy rain . . . spotting rust on the raspberries Tony has been writing haiku since 2020, when he finally retired to spend more time with vegetables, flowers, trees, etc. No book, but occasionally considering one. #poetry #raspberries #summer #rain
Climate here's just fine.
But please stock food stores better.
I can't grow all that.
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #food #FoodSecurity #FoodInsecurity #FoodSupply #GlobalWarming #heat #famine #drought
Don't leave a fresh peach
Sitting on a hearth too long
Fetid fruit festers
#dailyhaikuprompt Fresh Peach Hearth
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #tanka #TankaTuesday #senryu #artifact
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From mercurial
To mundane maliciousness
A rogues gallery
Narcissistic Neocons to
Nepo Babies on parade
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/25/mercurial/
Collaborative #shahai by Stephanie Zepherelli (IG: @bellaboopalombo - #poem ), and Carol Rudall ( #photo ). A California native and a former dance professor, Stephanie Zepherelli has been living on Oahu the past 40 years. She has a drawer full of mismatched spoons, and a tribe of Madagascar geckos. #oahu #haiku
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In this collaborative #shahai by Stephanie Zepherelli @bellaboopalombo ( #poem ), and Carol Rudall ( #photo ), boot prints are seen in beach sand, the imprint of what is likely a cane, accompanying. The prints proceed in one direction (from the bottom of the frame toward the top) and then seem to turn and head back the other way. The accompanying #haiku reads, turning heel too many footnotes on a love letter A California native and a former dance professor, Stephanie Zepherelli has been living on Oahu the past 40 years. She has a drawer full of mismatched spoons, and a tribe of Madagascar geckos. #oahu
#senryu by Vidya Premkumar (IG: @i_sing_peace ). Vidya is a visual artist and poet from Wayanad, Kerala, India. Her work is infused with the socio-political realities and the nature around her. #poetry #haiku #gender #india
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Against a plain, white background, this #senryu by Vidya Premkumar (IG: @i_sing_peace ), reads, raincloud gender— my shadow tries on other shapes Vidya is a visual artist and poet from Wayanad, Kerala, India. Her work is infused with the socio-political realities and the nature around her. #poetry #haiku #gender #india
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo of figures draped in striking veils under dramatic monochrome red lighting from Pexels.com
Text:
public service mores
haunted generation needs
this ghostly virtue
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/24/mores/
#haiku by Ash Evan Lippert. Ash is an emerging queer writer from South Carolina. Their work has appeared here before, as well as in many other fine publications. Their debut chapbook, “god of the body”, is available through Yavanika Press. Find them on Bluesky (@wanderstruck.blog) and IG: (@wanderstruck_haiku). #poetry #summer #southcarolina
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Against a dark background, presenting a murky image of the cloud-hidden lightning of an oncoming storm, in a moonless sky, this #haiku by Ash Evan Lippert reads, field mice flee before the tractor summer storm Ash Evan Lippert is an emerging queer writer from South Carolina. Their work has appeared here before, as well as in many other fine publications. Their debut chapbook, “god of the body”, is available through Yavanika Press. Find them on Bluesky (@wanderstruck.blog) and IG: (@wanderstruck_haiku). #poetry #summer #southcarolina
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo close detail of a marble statue of three classic figures from mythology from Pexels.com
Text:
The time when my muse
Hides it's whimsical nature
When it's not amused
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/23/amused/
#haiku / #senryu by new contributor, Adele Gallogly (IG:@AdeleGallogly). Adele is a new writer of haiku and its related forms. Her work has appeared in several other fine publications. #poetry #bypass #blueheron
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Against a white background, this #haiku / #senryu by new contributor, Adele Gallogly (IG:@AdeleGallogly), reads, wingspan after his final bypass a blue heron Adele is a new writer of haiku and its related forms. Her work has appeared in several other fine publications. #poetry #bypass #blueheron
#haiga with #drawing by Josiah and #haiku by Nitu Yumnam. Nitu is from #India and lives in the UAE. She is a Japanese poetry enthusiast and finds that #poetry makes her more attentive to life’s small wonders.
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In a collaborative #haiga with #drawing by Josiah and #haiku by Nitu Yumnam, an outline shows a negative image of a mound of some kind. It could be a hairy person or a haystack. Around the outline, layered hashmarks indicate a darkening sky or at least a darker background. Double vertical lines on each side border suggest, perhaps, parted drapes at a window. The whole image is presented here, on a background of faded orange. The accompanying haiku reads, winter dusk his blanket tilts towards his son Nitu is from #India and lives in the UAE. She is a Japanese poetry enthusiast and finds that #poetry makes her more attentive to life’s small wonders.
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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A.I. image generated from haiku text of mashed potatoes topped with thick brown gravy
Text:
the gravity of
grandma's extra thick gravy
cratered mounded mash
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/22/gravy/
Their eggs used for bait
Proves these bottom feeders are
Catfish cannibals
#dailyhaikuprompt Catfish Eggs
#haiku #poetrycommunity #poetry
Scorch the catfish eggs?
Trick is to crack them in a
Pan with a #razor
#dailyhaikuprompt Catfish Eggs
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetry #poetrycommunity
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Text:
shaved ice in the shade
will still liquidate itself
prescience puddle
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/21/prescience/
Help fund my habit
Huffing #kettle of fish mist
Gets real smelly
Scales fall off of my eyes
As I swim upstream while high
#dailyhaikuprompt Mist High
#haiku #tanka #TankaThursday
#vss365 #haikufeels #poetry
#poetrycommunity
summer heat eases,
as does my resolve for change,
'til too late next year
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateInaction #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateUrgency
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #tanka #TankaThursday #senryu #artifact
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A.I. image created from tanka text of a glowing spinning earth surrounded by cosmic rings and text including with tumbling leading headlines
Text:
Persuade in a way
With a possible win win
Once we had a say
Seems to no longer hold sway
In a world of endless spin
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/20/persuade/
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A.I. butt camera
Identifies by moon print
You've been warned my friend
#dailyhaikuprompt Moon Friend
#haiku #poetrycommunity #poetry
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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A.I. image generated from haiku text of an angry man shouting and gesturing inside a warmly lit bar
Text:
things are bad when I
unify my unibrow
in furrowed fury
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/19/unify/
#lispyGopherClimate every Tuesday-night-in-the-Americas weekly #lisp #tech #podcast since 2022! Going live in five (0UTC Wednesday)
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@kentpitman #climateCrisis #haiku and also presence returns!
@ramin_hal9001 cohosting too.
This week let's (re)create a new #lisp #AI #lab in #lambdaMOO #VR #live !
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Lispy gopher climate banner in pencil with someodd.zip gopher's flying saucer hovering above.
RE: https://universeodon.com/@HollyCo26588808/117118934543733728
Climate storms our gates.
We could mount a real response,
but let's close the blinds.
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial
For more contextual info, see my comment attached to https://climatejustice.social/@HollyCo26588808@universeodon.com/117118934574693534
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#POLL Results:
44 people are in deep denial about their existential dread, and should consult a counselor and read #Kierkegaard immediately 😁
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188 people have started down the path towards enlightment
354 people are cool_kids
92 people are very_cool_kids
55 people laugh at your inadequate security model
27 people can run a server on a bit of bailing wire and a microcontroller from 1987 — fear them.
26 people are keeping Gassée's dream alive, and are plenny cool in my book
4 people are totally cool, and totally in a class by themselves
and 21 people kinda scare me, but I'd like to know more. 🤣
#humor #humour #houmor #houmour
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P.S., wherever you find yourself, you're awesome. This is all for fun.
Killdeer and Piping
Planned a dusk trip to Dover
Called roving Plovers
#dailyhaikuprompt Killdeer Dusk
#haiku #poetrycommunity
#poetry
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo image shows United States dollar bills resting on top of an American flag.from Pexelx.com
Text:
Candidates practice
Prehensile pickpocketing
Funding their campaigns
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/18/prehensile/
Administration
Makes bank money laundering
Whorefrost hot tub soak
#dailyhaikuprompt Soak Frost
#haiku #poetrycommunity #poetry
Paranoia soak
Frost of his fears on the boil
Stashed in a #matchbox
#dailyhaikuprompt Soak Frost
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetry #poetrycommunity
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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A.I. image generated from haiku text of a miniature stone amphitheater with dancers, audience, and desert landscape backdrop
Text:
atop my mesa
working the crowd in my head
theatre in the round
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/17/crowd/
#haiku by Adele Evershed (IG: @ad_libby ).
Adele is a Welsh writer who now lives on America’s East Coast. Adele has 2 #poetry collections: “Turbulence in Small Spaces” (Finishing Line Press) & “The Brink of Silence” (Bottlecap Press). Her 3rd collection, In the “Belly of the Wail” is upcoming with Querencia Press. She has published 2 novellas in flash, “Wannabe” & “Schooled” (Alien Buddha Press), & has an upcoming novella, “A History of Hand Thrown Walls,” with Unsolicited Press. #mammogram
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Against a night-black background, this #haiku by Adele Evershed (IG: @ad_libby ), reads, raspberry moon a red ripple on the mammogram Adele is a Welsh writer who now lives on America’s East Coast. Adele has 2 #poetry collections: “Turbulence in Small Spaces” (Finishing Line Press) & “The Brink of Silence” (Bottlecap Press). Her 3rd collection, In the “Belly of the Wail” is upcoming with Querencia Press. She has published 2 novellas in flash, “Wannabe” & “Schooled” (Alien Buddha Press), & has an upcoming novella, “A History of Hand Thrown Walls,” with Unsolicited Press. #mammogram
#haiku by returning contributor, Gordon Gearhart of Cape May, New Jersey. Gordon was first published on FreshOut in the late spring/early summer of 2025. His work may now be found on the following social media:
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/share/1AHjNKRfA5/
Bluesky: @rustwolf.bsky.social
Instagram: @gordongearhartpoetry
#poetry #fog #snowyowl #capemay
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Against a fog-white background, this #haiku by returning contributor, Gordon Gearhart of Cape May, New Jersey, reads sea fog in the dune grass a snowy owl hides Gordon was first published on FreshOut in the late spring/early summer of 2025. His work may now be found on the following social media: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/share/1AHjNKRfA5/ Bluesky: @rustwolf.bsky.social Instagram: @gordongearhartpoetry #poetry #fog #snowyowl #capemay
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo featuring illuminated amusement rides and a large crowd gathered on the midway from Pexels.com
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It's a fare for all
Not fair for anybody
Kind of worldwide dare
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/16/fare/
It was barely spring
Chilly while still divining
Joy by dashboard lights
#dailyhaikuprompt Joy Barely Spring
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity
barely #ashamed of
the platitudes I deploy
just spring them with Joy
#dailyhaikuprompt Joy Barely Spring
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetry #poetrycommunity
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Stock B&W photo of a person sitting in a cluttered workshop from Pexels.com
Text:
cascading failures
my patience is in the shop
parts are on order
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/15/patience/
Remember being
Boisterous on fallen leaves
Splendor in the grass
#dailyhaikuprompt Boisterous Fallen Leaves
#haiku #poetrycommunity #poetry
#Shrewd leaves on a tree
Lower themselves when fallen
Boisterous rebound
#dailyhaikuprompt Boisterous Fallen Leaves
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels #poetry
#poetrycommunity
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo or a hand reaching up to adjust a large shower head with streams of water from Pexels.com
Text:
stepped in the shower
my flash of snarky brilliance
got washed down the drain
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/14/brilliance/
Alert Daikon Rump
#Cling to rose garden trellis
Great white doom spiral
#dailyhaikuprompt Spiral Daikon
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #poetry
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #tanka #TankaThursday #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo of post nuclear war camouflage hoodie fashion with respirator accessory from Pexels.com
Text:
nuclear winter
will get histories blood spray
over sweatshop made
fashionable attitude
thermal winter coat and mask
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/13/thermal/
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo of Noorderhoofd Lighthouse, a cast-iron coastal light tower located in Westkapelle, Zeeland, the Netherlands at the end of a rainbow seeming to emit from its top from Pexels.com.
Text:
divided colors
suffused within light is a
rainbow recipe
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/12/rainbow/
the last snow drift melts
from cold rain wash and then rinse
evaporate spin
#dailyhaikuprompt Cold Rain Last Snow
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity
When the evil flow
Runs in reverse from winter
to fall goes on live
Where cold rain starts as last snow
Backassward spelling live rules
#dailyhaikuprompt Cold Rain Last Snow
#haiku #tanka #TankaTuesday
#vss365 #haikufeels #poetry
#poetrycommunity #senryu
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #tanka #TankaTuesday #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo of metallic steel handcuffs hanging open from a person's wrist against a blurred prison bar background from Pexels.com
Text:
When common ethos
Loudly proclaims "Greed is good!"
Gets US where we are
Sold to us in the Eighties
Consequences cascade on
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/11/cascade/
Unbearable heat!
Yet lesser heat sustains us
and our denial.
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #denial #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
#tanka by long-time 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. #father #dewdrop
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This #tanka by long-time contributor, Nicholas D. Klascanzky @klacsanzky of Seattle, Washington reads, dew rolls the field down the veins of a maple leaf ... my face shaping up to be my father's Nicholas has several #poetry collections published and has won many awards for his #haiku and other work. #father #dewdrop
A shrewdness of apes
Must endure the company
Of a pack of wolves
#dailyhaikuprompt Pack Endure
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity
Double double fare
Endure the #toil and trouble
Require newt pack
#dailyhaikuprompt Pack Endure
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetry #poetrycommunity
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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A.I. image generated from haiku text of a dark cave with glowing green roots, gold coins, and skulls scattered on rocky ground
Text:
Evil is the root
Of all money as seen on
MAGA grift TV
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/10/root/
#haiku by Pegah Rahmati Nezhad (@rahmati_pegah on X). Pegah is a pioneering & award winning poet; the only Iranian poet who has published English-language senryu, monoku, tanka, & cherita internationally. #poetry #birds #aurora_borealis #iran
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Against a black background, this #haiku by Pegah Rahmati Nezhad (@rahmati_pegah on X), reads, bits of aurora borealis — violet bellied hummingbirds Pegah is a pioneering & award winning poet; the only Iranian poet who has published English-language senryu, monoku, tanka, & cherita internationally. #poetry #birds #aurora_borealis #iran
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo of a graceful woman dancing in a sunlit field while holding a billowing sheer yellow shawl from Pexelx.com
Text:
dance with Demeter
seasonal agrarian
ritual plow play
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/09/agrarian/
#haiku / #senryu by Debarati Sen (IG: @debarati_poetry ) of India.
#poetry #candlelight #india
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This #haiku / #senryu by Debarati Sen (IG: @debarati_poetry ) of India, reads votive candle — childhood flickering in the evening wind Visually, the poem is shown on a midnight-blue background, in text that ranges in color from white to yellow to gold, giving a slight impression of candlelight. #poetry #candlelight #india
Hot tea will never
Fill my morning void quite like
Fresh perked black coffee
#Sprout leaves the hot tea
At the door of dignity
Swallows the Kool-Aid
#dailyhaikuprompt Leaves Hot Tea
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels #poetry
#poetrycommunity
#haiku by Timothy Daly
( X/Twitter: philalz ). Dr. Timothy Daly was born in the British Isles & reborn in Paris, where he no longer lives. He now lives in #Italy. He juggles life as an Alzheimer’s disease researcher, a teacher of language & philosophy, and a writer of short-form #poetry & prose. #pregnancy
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This #haiku by Timothy Daly ( X/Twitter: philalz ), reads the fine line between hope and despair pregnancy test Dr. Timothy Daly was born in the British Isles & reborn in Paris, where he no longer lives. He now lives in Italy. He juggles life as an Alzheimer’s disease researcher, a teacher of language & philosophy, and a writer of short-form #poetry & prose. #pregnancy
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo of two mixed martial art athletes engaged in a ground grappling exchange inside a chain-link cage from Pexel.com
Text:
brief let down of guard
led to a life narrative
not going as hoped
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/08/narrative/
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#Haiga #haiku #zen #digitalart #summer
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Haiga/haiku: image shows shallow, glistening turquoise water edging onto a sandy beach, fringed by frothy waves. An outsized sea star the same color as the damp sand lies on the beach, three arms and center body just beyond the reach of foam. Haiku reads: “cast away / by careless waves / brittle sea star”
Valerian root
Makes my mouth feel of dried leaves
A crinkly swallow
#dailyhaikuprompt Valerian Dried Leaves
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity
may #divine motion
inform every dear caress
leaves us both breathless
#dailyhaikuprompt Leaves
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetry #poetrycommunity
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo of green Little Trees Royal Pine hanging paper air freshener suspended from a vehicle's rear view mirror. from Pexels.com
Text:
gentle spring breeze wafts
past rearview mirror dangle
the scent of faux pine
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/07/dangle/
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo of a vibrant, colorful sunset with dramatic purple and pink clouds over a rural field from Pexels.com
Text:
First came the corn sweat
Now wildfire violet sunsets
Air of disaster
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/06/wildfire/
Soaked in its own juice
Heat up leftover #chaos
Longer troubled days
#dailyhaikuprompt Soaked Longer Days
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels #senryu
#poetrycommunity #poetry
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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A.I. image generated from haiku text of three dark purple dragons with glowing eyes flying near a luminous black hole in outer space
Text:
chaos ensues when
void dragons eat the foam round
edges of black holes
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/05/foam/
#haiku by returning contributor, thomas david (IG: @thomas.david575 ). Thomas is from West Sussex in the United Kingdom. His haiku and senryū have appeared here before and in many other fine publications. #poetry #hospice #leaves #England
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Against a black background, this #haiku by returning contributor, thomas david (IG: @thomas.david575 ) reads, hospice garden the last leaf hanging on Visually, the third line is indented so that it begins at the same point as “leaf,” the last word of the second line, as if to illustrate “hanging on.” Thomas is from West Sussex in the United Kingdom. His haiku and senryū have appeared here before and in many other fine publications. #poetry #hospice #leaves #England
Press "Refresh" once more
Hail the website page again
Wait for the reload
#dailyhaikuprompt Refresh Hail
#haiku #senryu #poetry
#poetrycommunity
Time to say, "All Hail
the fruit of the poisoned tree."
Say "Thank you" or else
#dailyhaikuprompt Hail
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#DOJ #poetrycommunity
#poetry #senryu
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #tanka #TankaTuesday #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo from Pexels.com depicting a natural hole in the ice.Shows green water contrasting with white snow and ice.
Text:
I'm radiating
Notice of things I have done
Dissipate a wave
Rake out the pent up vapors
From phantom of tomorrow
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/04/dissipate/
#shahai by Arvinder Kaur @arvinderk8, of #India #poetry #photography #haiku
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In this #shahai by Arvinder Kaur @arvinderk8, of #India, a sepia-toned photograph shows overhanging branches of the queen’s wreath tree in bloom, against a hazy, moon-lit sky. In the lower left, in white italicized text, the accompanying haiku reads, Father’s Day the distant moon a little closer #poetry #photography #haiku
#haiku by new contributor, M. R. Pelletier.
M. R. Pelletier lives in Kansas, but his haiku #poetry travels the world. #poetrylovers #skatepark #kansas #twilight
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This #haiku by new contributor, M. R. Pelletier, reads, twilight skatepark shadows drop into the bowl M. R. Pelletier lives in Kansas, but his haiku #poetry travels the world. #poetrylovers #skatepark #kansas #twilight
Product brainstorming
Sardine flavored McFlurry
Went a fish too far
#dailyhaikuprompt Sardines Flurry
#haiku #poetrycommunity #senryu
#poetry
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo shows "Exposure," a 26-meter-tall steel sculpture by Antony Gormley located on a dam in Lelystad, Netherlands. Nicknamed "The Crouching Man" because it represents a giant human figure crouching and gazing out at the water from Pexels.com
Text:
if it wasn't for
misperception we'd have no
perception at all
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/03/misperception/
Sail a green sea
Swing ax and chainsaw rizzing
Yuletide Evergreens
#dailyhaikuprompt Sail Evergreens
#haiku #poetrycommunity
#senryu #poetry
Sail to the edge
Destruction as #creation
Outer limit breached
#dailyhaikuprompt Sail
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #poetry
#HaikuADay #HaikuJournal #journal #haiku #senryu #artifact
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Stock photo silhouette of a person wearing headphones against a bright pink background with dynamic light streaks from Pexels.com
Text:
On sonic surfboard
Rake atop the aural wave
Into cozy cove
https://haikudread.net/2026/08/02/sonic/
Crops quietly fail.
No Climate red line, I see.
On to famine then.
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #heat #crops #FoodSecurity #FoodInsecurity
#denial #ClimateDenial #collapse #extinction
vivid and cherished
recollections of you were
played out in the cloud
#dailyhaikuprompt Cloud
#haiku #senryu #poetrycommunity
#poetry #writingcommunity