#haiku by new contributor, Joanna Ashwell. Joanna is a short-form #poetry writer from the UK. Published widely in many print & online journals, she has been shortlisted for the Touchstone Award, & serves on the selection team for the Canadian tanka journal GUSTS. Her poetry collections River Lanterns, Moonset Song, Love’s Scriptures and Every Star are available on Amazon. #poetry #autumn #poetrycommunity #snow #poetrylovers #micropoetry #night

We must
Tend our
Fire, and
Keep it.
It will
Guide us
Home to
Each other.

#poetry

8,582 days,
Halcyon
And hell,
And nowhere
Near enough.

#poetry

#haiku by returning contributor, Melissa Dennison of the UK. @melissa.dennison.54 #poetry #wave #haiku #senryu #islands #poetrylovers #autumn #poetrycommunity #shore #UK

November 16, 2025

Sunday. Church. Game day. Read and rest. Practice piano. Had a good gig last night at Stage Too. I read Dr. Bill Stroud's poems and played The Arkansawyer songs with his lyrics at Word Play Cafe after the show. Two of the writers know Bill Stroud.

https://archive.org/details/the-arkansawyers

#journal #discord #hairylarryland #jazz #writing #poetry #lyrics

Galaxies behind
Your eyes, and
You still wonder
If you are worthy.
My darling,
You are the
Whole night
Sky.

#poetry

We leave
Some of our
Light inside
Everyone we touch.
Luminous beings
In the breach
Between dreams.

#poetry

“Ancient Fire” from Threnody, my second volume of #poetry. One lonely copy needs a home! Get it now at https://www.nihtgengapress.com/product/threnody-new-poems

#Poem #Books #Indie

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Ancient Fire Here the Sun wept Ancient fire, The light of One hundred Thousand Years Eulogized On your skin.

#digital #haiga by new contributor, Stephanie Zepherelli, a California native and former dance professor. Stephanie has been living on #Oahu the past forty years. She has a drawer full of mismatched spoons, and a tribe of Madagascar geckos #poetry #poetrylovers #haiku #politics #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #penny #hawaii #cancelled

Your skin an
Accusation
Against the
Hard world,
Without mercy,
We make such
Soft violence

#poetry

Island in the Storm

This rain brings floods, passed
with greater ease than my lake
of dead emotion.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

Blood-cold

The wind from the sea
rises, and sings on mountains
of restless winter;
it carries ice in its voice,
and I long to feel its cold.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

#monoku by Barbara Anna Gaiardoni. Barbara is an Italian pedagogist & author. Drawing, swimming in the sea, & walking in nature are her passions. ”I can, I must, I want” is her motto. Find more: http://barbaragaiardoni.altervista.org/blog/haikuco-2/ #poetry #poetrycommunity #sky #poetrylovers #micropoetry #haiku

There is light,
And no matter
How dark,
It will find you.

#poetry

Falling feels
Like flying,
After all,
Until you
Hit the
Ground.

#poetry

when I breathe in the scent
of the mandarin orange blossoms
that await the fifth month,
I recall the fragrance of the sleeves
of one I loved long ago
五月待つ 花橘 香をかげば
昔の人の 袖の香ぞする

-Anonymous. Kokin Wakashū (古今集), Summer 139.
#Japan #tachibana #poetry #Kyoto

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Delicate white tachibana flower.

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Tachibana tree outside the imperial palace's Shishin-den.

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Tachibana fruit ready for picking.

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Delicate white tachibana flowers.

The beating of
Your heart,
The warmth of
Your blood,
The gold in
Your bones,
The artifacts of
An explosion.

#poetry

You are a
Multitude
Of embers
Smoldering
In the pitch
Dark, and
I am a
Moth.

#poetry

#haiku by new contributor, Doug Belleville @_flippoetry Doug writes both short (haiku) & long-form #poetry, with work published in a variety of journals. Based in #Ohio, he is a mental health professional, married with three adult children, & enjoys traveling, reading, hiking, & playing chess. #saxophone #poetrylovers #moon #harvestmoon #micropoetry #poetrycommunity

You are
Not without
Hope:
You are
Strong
Enough to
Carry your
Heart.

#poetry

There are
A billion
Points of
Light and
You and I
Found the
Ones in
Each other’s
Eyes.

#poetry

The stars will
Gaze upon you
And know what
They made is
Good.

#poetry

Those within
True darkness
Are most able
To see the stars

#poetry

My life
In a handful
Of poems,
My blood
In a gush
Of words.

#poetry

Autumn has arrived. 🍂 Listen to a reading of Robert Frost’s "Gathering Leaves" — a quiet meditation on raking, repetition, and the season’s small joys.

🍁 For more, hear New Hampshire, Frost’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, read in full by LibriVox volunteers.
🎧 https://archive.org/details/newhampshire_1902_librivox

#poetry #autumn

#haiku / #senryu by long-time contributor, Alvin B. Cruz (IG: @ alvinbcruz) #poetry #poetrylovers #clouds #poetrycommunity #lonely #micropoetry #phillipines

Nothing is
Real except
The ruin of
My desires

#poetry

Electromagnetic,
The fields
Between atoms,
Conjuring
Touch out of
Nothing.

#poetry

You hold
My breath
For ransom,
Every kiss a
Payment in
Full.

#poetry

May the
Darkness
In you
Lament
The inevitable
Sunrise.

#poetry

Let my deeds
Be roses
In a world
Filled with
Thorns

#poetry

Did Odysseus Really Travel All Around the Mediterranean?

"The traditional view of the Odyssey is that Odysseus traveled all over the Mediterranean. Is that really what Homer described?"

https://www.thecollector.com/odysseus-travels-mediterranean/

The Odyssey at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1727

#books #literature #poetry

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" ODYSSEUS LOOKED DOWN AT THE WOODS AND THE SEA." - picryl.com

#haiku / #senryu by new contributor, Ernesto P. Santiago. Ernesto lives in Greece. He enjoys souvlaki, with red pepper. #poem #writersblock #poetry #neutronstars #poetrylovers #greece #space #art #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #autumn

I will
Bloom wild
From the
Decay of
My former
Self, and
Rise again.

#poetry

More than
Nothing,
Non zero
Probability,
Electron clouds
Of quantum
Possibility,
The feel of
Your hand
In mine.

#poetry

Within
The black
And the red
That greets
Closed eyes
Is the very
Universe
Itself.

#poetry

Within these
Unsane veins
Run rivers
That you
Could not forge,
And I let you
Drown, gladly.

#poetry

We’ve got
Flesh made
Of deranged
Constellations,
We touch flame
To flame.

#poetry

It was then
My heart
Called upon
All the dead
To show me
What it’s like
To sleep.

#poetry

That carnage
Brought you so
Recklessly out
Of the æther,
Crashing against
The shores of
Oblivion.
A beginning
Made of endings.

#poetry

Where slept
The fire in you
When you thought
It had gone out?
It rages back again
Here in the stillness.
Hand on heart, you
Bloom in flames.

#poetry

“Evergreen” from Threnody, my second volume of #poetry. Thank you for your support! Only 1 copy left at https://www.nihtgengapress.com/product/threnody-new-poems

#indie #Books #poem

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Evergreen You are Evergreen Burgeoning With feral Offerings Of incandescently Laughing Light.

I have eaten
the text
that was on
the internet

and which
you had published
without
granting license

Forgive me
I'm an LLM
I steal
to make lies

#LLMs #ThisIsJustToSay #WilliamCarlosWilliams #PlumsInTheIceBox #Poetry

#haiku by new contributor, M. R. Pelletier. M. R. Pelletier lives in Kansas, but his haiku #poetry travels the world. #poetrylovers #marmots #poetrycommunity #kansas #micropoetry

There is freedom
In entropy,
In the disorder
Of coming undone.
Set fire. Set fire.
Begin again.

#poetry

“Fables” from Threnody, my second volume of #poetry now available at https://www.nihtgengapress.com/product/threnody-new-poems

Books ship tomorrow 🖤

Thank you for supporting an independent poet!

#Books #poem #indie

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Fables What fables The stars Speak, The make Believe that Light and Warmth Are endless.