spray my calendar
with frisky frivolity
scheduled naughty time

#dailyhaikuprompt Spray Calendar
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

The highlight of #dawn
Spray X on the calendar
Another day done

#dailyhaikuprompt Spray Calendar
#haiku #seryu #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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#lispyGopherClimate #live weekly #technology #podcast every 0UTC Wednesday (Tuesday night in the Americas) since 2022.

https://toobnix.org/w/tFN3aeiUunJrU99yzWhHjq

#archive #RSS https://toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?accountId=580185

#climateCrisis #haiku by @kentpitman

I want to tie the climatecrisis to an Alexandrian view of the crisis of, I guess, the hugely popular failure of modern industrial architecture.

The meteoric (good) impact Kents notes on my #NicCLIM #software https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/nicclim and #CLIM #GUI useage. #commonLisp #McCLIM

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A WIP picture of the evolution of my NicCLIM part-way through trying out some of Kent's notes about it and lisp community expectations about what the presentations and gestures would mean. Believe me, this is already a drastic improvement.

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Lispy Gopher climate unix_surrealism banner. Thinking of Maude you forget everything else

Twas a deep dark night
Saliva coated pillow
Telling good night tales

#dailyhaikuprompt Salvia Dark Night
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

Chin salvia drips
In luxury box seating
On a cheap blue suit
Sawing #deadfall lumber snored
Comped tickets I can't afford

#dailyhaikuprompt Salvia
#haiku #tanka #TankaTuesday
#senryu #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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end of a hot day
we pause to rest overnight
though climate change won't

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #relentless #ClimateDenial #ClimateUrgency

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

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#haiku / #senryu by regular contributor, Jerome Berglund ( @Berglundjeromehaiku ), currently hailing from New Orleans, LA, USA. #poetry #NOLA #seagulls

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Against a white background, a #haiku / #senryu by regular contributor, Jerome Berglund ( @Berglundjeromehaiku ), currently hailing from New Orleans, LA, USA, reads, seagull coasting – church bells . . . no, a train #poetry #NOLA #seagulls

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

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A.I. image generated from haiku text of flaming projectiles striking a medieval stone castle under siege with catapults and soldiers while children huddle in a side building / chapel. Text: excursions into the keep dropping hell on the last orphans of siege https://haikudread.net/2026/06/07/excursions/

#monoku by Katherine E. Winnick (background image provided by FreshOutAI). Katherine is an award winning Japanese short-form poet, published in 18 countries with some works translated into Japanese, Hindi, German, French and Romanian. She is the founding editor of the Shadow Pond Journal and part of the editorial team at The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press. #haiku #poetry #dawn

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In this #monoku by Katherine E. Winnick (background image provided by FreshOutAI), a black background is cut in half by a horizon line. Above the line, the first hints of a coming sunrise are visible — no more than a faint glow on the horizon. Visible in the glow is the black streak of a missile’s smoke trail across the sky. Just under the horizon line, in white text, is the single line poem “dawn missiles dim the baby’s cry”. Katherine is an award winning Japanese short-form poet, published in 18 countries with some works translated into Japanese, Hindi, German, French and Romanian. She is the founding editor of the Shadow Pond Journal and part of the editorial team at The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press. #haiku #poetry #dawn

A mountain of pests
Like a Congress full of creeps
Scurry from daylight

#dailyhaikuprompt Pests Mountain
#haiku #seryu #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

Up on a mountain
Lying bare in a #cradle
Deity pests plot

#dailyhaikuprompt Pests Mountain
#haiku #seryu #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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#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. #mother #woods

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This #tanka by long-time contributor, Nicholas D. Klascanzky @klacsanzky of Seattle, Washington reads, from the derelict porch pine trees far away take shape in the night— the faintest whispers of my first mother Nicholas has several #poetry collections published and has won many awards for his #haiku and other work. #mother #woods

Matsuo Bashō wrote only 2 haiku about hydrangea. We opened this thread with the first, this is the second...

hydrangeas adorn
the little woodland garden-
a splendid parlor!
紫陽花や藪を小庭の別座敷
-Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉 1644–94).

#Kyoto #hydrangea #Japan #松尾芭蕉 #haiku

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

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A.I. image generated from haiku text of a smartphone showing incoming call from 'Scam Likely' telemarketer with options to decline, accept, message, or remind #Text The incoming joy Of a call from Scam Likely Forewarned is forearmed https://haikudread.net/2026/06/05/scam/

Full view from the start
Tangible tangerine tint
Denied the oranges
Many coats of paint later
Subterfuge still seeps on through

#dailyhaikuprompt Paint Tangerine
#haiku #tanka #TankaThursday
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

Elevate my plain
Paint all my dreams tangerine
While #falling awake

#dailyhaikuprompt Paint Tangerine
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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Short day #victory
Will harbor a waterfall
Of plunging long grief

#dailyhaikuprompt Waterfall Short Day
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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A.I. image generated from haiku text of a Medieval stone castle lit by yellow magical lights at night under crescent moon and stars Text: fireflies over the battlements uplifted on insectile wings https://haikudread.net/2026/06/03/battlements/

The warming weather
Swallow snow drifts from winter
Recycled again

#dailyhaikuprompt Swallow Snow Drift
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

every day they launch
muck to wallow and swallow
#gamble not to drown
in the misanthropic spin
dirt from snow drift by the door

#dailyhaikuprompt Swallow Snow Drift
#haiku #tanka #TankaTuesday
#haikufeels #vss365 #smallpoems
#poetrycommunity

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

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Stock photo of the front end of an old manual crank ignition engine automobile from Pexels.com Text: Give my brain a crank Fire up Tin Lizzie mind Spark grind and sputter Power into the haiku With tanka for a new day https://haikudread.net/2026/06/02/crank/

Hot flash duvet tossed
Helter skelter swelter felt
Sleet between the sheets

#dailyhaikuprompt Swelter Sleet
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

May 2026

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

https://haikudread.net/2026/05/

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#haiku by new contributor, Meagan Bussert.
Meagan’s #poetry has been featured in many fine publications, worldwide. She draws inspiration from her frequent hikes and the unique weather of her home states, Oklahoma and Indiana. IG: @bloomingtwighaiku #snow #light #indiana

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In this presentation of a #haiku by new contributor, Meagan Bussert, a black background is faintly lit by a yellow light coming from an upper corner, shining down upon the following haiku: deep snow prints holding the light for each other Meagan’s #poetry has been featured in many fine publications, worldwide. She draws inspiration from her frequent hikes and the unique weather of her home states, Oklahoma and Indiana. IG: @bloomingtwighaiku #snow #light #indiana

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

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Against a plain white background, a #haiku / #senryu by Anne Fox (IG: @annefox333 ) of Broomes Island, Maryland, USA, reads: crumpled notes the rippled surface of a pond fills my pockets #poetry #pond #maryland

#Primitive elves hawk
Insubstantial cereal
Snap Crackle and Pop

#dailyhaikuprompt Hawk
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

I#shahai perfect for #spring from Steliana Voicu, @steliana_voicu #photo #haiku #poetry

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In this #shahai ( perfect for #spring ) from Steliana Voicu, A photo shows acacia blooms against the trunk of a tree. The accompanying verse reads, pink acacia in bloom a girl puts in her wicker basket the dawn light @steliana_voicu #photo #haiku #poetry

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

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A.I. image generated from haiku text of a view through textured cave opening to colorful mountain and wildflower meadow under sky Text: Viscous dark passage Back when paradise was young Enticing entry https://haikudread.net/2026/05/31/passage/

Kama Sutra quote
#Wonderous when shared right on time
Would make her toes curl

#dailyhaikuprompt Curl
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

Forest goings-on
Harmed coniferous flora
Made pine needles curl

#dailyhaikuprompt Curl Pine Needles
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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Stock photo of a small model town with a large intrusive entity stalking Main Street from Pexels.com Text: small worlds fill quickly when big lies come barging through doors uninvited https://haikudread.net/2026/05/30/barging/

My neighbor tells me
my love for you defies sense.
Yet I'm still happy.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #love #norms #CulturalNorms #UnconditionalLove #freedom #philosophy #tolerance #PersonalChoice

news of excess heat
after a long winter break
—from reports, that is

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateReporting #ClimateDenial #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

cast off paint #remnant
found in second hand pool shop
one more coat needed

#dailyhaikuprompt Pool Coat
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

Wearing a fur coat
While cocktailing by the pool
Maladjusted chic

#dailyhaikuprompt Pool Coat
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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Stock footage of face to face edit suite screens from Pexels.com Text: when I close my eyes I dream of weeks spent on mere seconds of screen time https://haikudread.net/2026/05/29/screen/

There can be no bridge
As wide as the sea between
Your heart and your mind.

#poetry #haiku

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Stock photo of a person looking over the edge standing on a rocky ledge with a long drop ahead from Pexels.com Text: on the precipice of a gulch there was a glitch stopped me with a gulp https://haikudread.net/2026/05/28/glitch/

shaved ice in the shade
will still liquidate itself
prescience puddle

#dailyhaikuprompt Shade Ice
#haiku #senryu
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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Stock photo of a single small human figure climbing a massive set of stairs outside a mountainous edifice from Pexels.com Text: One more example Etch a deadly quest for show Distraction d'état https://haikudread.net/2026/05/27/distraction/

#haiku by Lucas Weissenborn (IG: @luque_mit_q ). Lucas is a researcher, musician, & poet based in #Norway. His haiku & senryū have appeared in many journals, including Science. He was also once unintentionally appointed an expert on squirrels by a university in Russia. #hospital #poetry #spring

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Against a sterile-white background, this #haiku by Lucas Weissenborn @luque_mit_q | reads, hospital creek— it’s quiet murmur toward the sea Lucas is a researcher, musician, & poet based in #Norway. His haiku & senryū have appeared in many journals, including Science. He was also once unintentionally appointed an expert on squirrels by a university in Russia. #hospital #poetry #spring

walk back from climate?
it's not like cartoon physics--
closing eyes won't help

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial

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

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#haibun by returning contributor, Vaishnavi Ramaswamy of Chennai, India.
( Instagram: @haiku_vaishnavir )

#haiku #poetry #prose #india

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This #haibun by returning contributor, Vaishnavi Ramaswamy of Chennai, India. ( Instagram: @haiku_vaishnavir ), reads Inheritance The keyhole beam catches the dust – sixty-degree motes suspended in the air. Mom’s pink muslin saree billows as the fan stutters into silence. Auburn curls. Fingers glowing bright red against the muted light. At eight months, that square jaw, heavy eyebrows. I reach for the old leather binding. photo album — the shadow of a dimple curving #haiku #poetry #prose #india

Collaborative #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, a tall slender pine is shown, bending to one side. Is it bending in the wind? Or is the tiny stick figure clinging to the trunk half way up, somehow pulling it down? Or is that a spider?” The accompanying haiku reads, loneliness even the gentle breeze feels heavy 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.

#haiku by new contributor, Thomas L. Vaultonburg. Thomas is a poet from Rockford, Illinois. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in many online and print venues. He is co-founder of Wolf Twin Books, where he collaborates with his partner, Tre. #poetry #fog #deer #illinois

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Against a fog-white background, a #haiku by new contributor, Thomas L. Vaultonburg reads, ghost cover — three deer inside the fog Thomas is a poet from Rockford, Illinois. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in many online and print venues. He is co-founder of Wolf Twin Books, where he collaborates with his partner, Tre. #poetry #fog #deer #illinois

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

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Permeate myself
A symphony of symptoms
Hot tea melody

#dailyhaikuprompt Melody Hot Tea
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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Stock photo of a youngster sitting on a shore reading from Pexels.com Text: Joy of memories Conjured up out of nowhere A quiet time friend https://haikudread.net/2026/05/23/conjured/

#Immerse yourself once
Then polish your glasses twice
Always wear mittens

#dailyhaikuprompt Mittens
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels #senryu
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

Crystal vibration
Chimes that uphold the #tether
Snowflakes survival

#dailyhaikuprompt Chimes Snowflakes
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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

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Stock photo of a wilted flower laid on a black slab with the names of the fallen etched into it from Pexels.com Text: to earn some respect so as to earn affection first pay both forward https://haikudread.net/2026/05/22/respect/

#duostich by returning contributor, Oana Maria Cercel @oana_maria_

Oana lives in Italy where she writes and co-edits Cold Moon Journal. #poetry #betrayal #haiku #italy

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Against a plain black background, a #duostich by returning contributor, Oana Maria Cercel @oana_maria_ reads, sitting on ash his betrayal Oana lives in Italy where she writes and co-edits Cold Moon Journal. #poetry #betrayal #haiku #italy

just scorpions we.
atop a blue marble frog
oil finds its purchase

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #collapse #extinction #anthropogenic #oil #FossilFuels #LateStageCapitalism

more linger time less
time spent to take measure of
airing out grievance

#dailyhaikuprompt Airing Out
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems
#senryu

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

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Stock photo of a bombed out landscape of a once inhabitable area of civilization from Pexels.com Text: such things cannot be sufficiently despised is the correct response to corrupt actions taken by despotic land grabbers https://haikudread.net/2026/05/21/sufficiency/

'Rain's falling!'
in trees they cheer...
frogs
ふるや雨なくやはやしの蛙哉
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1794.
Trans. David Lanoue.

praising Buddha
mouths gaping wide...
frogs
なむなむと口を明たる蛙かな
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1816.
Trans. David G. Lanoue.

#Kyoto #京都 #Japan #frog #蛙 #haiku #Issa #小林一茶 #Eikando #永観堂 #木魚蛙

#monoku by regular contributor, John Pappas.
John is a touchstone-winning poet, literature professor & punk-rock drummer. He does all that in Boston, MA, USA. #poetry #spring #blooms #haiku

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On a white background, a #monoku by regular contributor, John Pappas, reads, first blooms everything an o can hold John is a touchstone-winning poet, literature professor & punk-rock drummer. He does all that in Boston, MA, USA. #poetry #spring #blooms #haiku

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

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#shahai by new contributor, Maria Tosti of Italy.
Maria is an established poet and lyricist who has been widely recognized, published and anthologized internationally. Her 2014 publication “Voci ai confini dell’anima” – “Voices to the Bounderies of the Soul” was published by Thoth Editions/Mario Vallone in paper and eBook format. The book includes poems in Italian, English, French and Spanish. #poetry #haiku #photography #haiga

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In a #shahai by new contributor, Maria Tosti of Italy, a bumblebee is seen at rest deep within a pink blossom. Whether she is sleeping as the accompanying poem states or not, who can say? In the foreground, a cirku reads, looking for a home a sleeping bumblebee among peony petals Maria is an established poet and lyricist who has been widely recognized, published and anthologized internationally. Her 2014 publication “Voci ai confini dell’anima” – “Voices to the Bounderies of the Soul” was published by Thoth Editions/Mario Vallone in paper and eBook format. The book includes poems in Italian, English, French and Spanish. #poetry #haiku #photography #haiga

@oantolin @chiply alright, it is that time!

https://toobnix.org/w/752ix2RNx5BijosuYtSGCv New extended cut archive !

#Live #interview with Omar about #emacs #embark + #lisp ..

#RSS subscribe to the recent #archive https://toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?accountId=580185 #peertube ! (I am told "use the peertube app").

#climateCrisis #haiku from @kentpitman and slak of #lambdaMOO . #chat in https://lambda.moo.mud.org/ as always using your favourite #mud client !

#lispGames #springLispGameJam @mdhughes

@nosrednayduj is busy squaredancing tonight.

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unix_surrealism lispy gopher show. The gopher peers forward with one eye in front of a field of green filled with beautiful lisp alien eyes.

#monoku by Pegah Rahmati Nezhad ( @rahmati_pegah )
Pegah is a physician, scientist, artist, & poet from Tehran, Iran. She loves #micropoetry & lyrical prose, & believes in the power of words. #haiku #iran #poetry

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Against a stark white background, a simple three-word #monoku by Pegah Rahmati Nezhad ( @rahmati_pegah ), uses that tiny space to communicate an entire library’s-worth of meaning when it reads, worries wounds wars Pegah is a physician, scientist, artist, & poet from Tehran, Iran. She loves #micropoetry & lyrical prose, & believes in the power of words. #haiku #iran #poetry

YouTube self help tip
Yellowing of the sclera
A flashing red light

#dailyhaikuprompts yellowing
#haiku #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems

Behind dark glasses
My eyes scan with bad #intent
Ambrosial frames

#dailyhaikuprompts ambrosial
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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Stock photo of sparks flying off a grinding wheel as it hones a piece of metal from Pexels.com Text: Minute by minute I ripen in my dotage Decrepitude honed Put off to another day Evergreen avoidance ways https://haikudread.net/2026/05/19/dotage/

#senryu by Ash Evan Lippert

Ash is an emerging queer writer from South Carolina. Their #poetry has appeared 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 #stars #haiku

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Against a back background, a #senryu by Ash Evan Lippert reads, stars over the fairgrounds I guess the number of jellybeans Ash is an emerging queer writer from South Carolina. Their #poetry has appeared 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 #stars #haiku

#senryu by 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

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Against a plain white background, a #senryu by thomas david reads, your name over and over again rose garden 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

Quantum prism quash
How could a rainbow endure
A colorless world

#dailyhaikuprompt Rainbow Endure
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

Rubbing up on me
Endure the Cat persistence
All out #feral way
In an effort to persuade
Unlike sanguine Rainbow Cat

#dailyhaikuprompt Rainbow Endure
#haiku #tanka #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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Stock photo of a statue of a bearded man huddled while seated on a slab taking cover from the elements Pexel.com Text: Diogenes tub Filled with regrets of others Perverse consciousness https://haikudread.net/2026/05/18/tub/

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

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Stock photo of a video game controller reduced to its parts on a workbench from Pexels.com Text: When cravings of youth Disassemble to beset Torments of the old https://haikudread.net/2026/05/17/disassemble/

So hot we might die?
Relax. If it was THAT bad,
Someone would warn us.

#haiku #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #heat #RecordHeat #collapse #extinction #Cassandra #ClimateWarning #ClimateReporting #ClimateLogic

Fishies Unify
#Barren the Barracuda
Will tickle your koi

#dailyhaikuprompt Tickle Koi
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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Mark no permission
Whipping up my thunder stew
Ask for #forgiveness

#dailyhaikuprompt Thunder Stew
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365 #senryu
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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my analog nest
#unalloyed digital fray
was always a fright

#dailyhaikuprompt Nest Fright
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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Stock B&W photo of a cat looking back at a person walking away from Pexels.com Text: 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 https://haikudread.net/2026/05/14/matata/

Pulled out her blond hair
To reveal her dark black roots
Every full moon rise

#dailyhaikuprompt Roots Moon Rise
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

#Diligence noted
The angle of the moon rise
Reveal roots route

#dailyhaikuprompt Roots Moon Rise
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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#haiku by Randy Brooks (IG: @brooksbookshaiku ). Dr. Randy Brooks is Professor of English Emeritus at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, where he teaches courses on haiku, tanka, and Japanese poetics. He and his wife, Shirley Brooks, are publishers of Brooks Books and co-editors of Mayfly haiku magazine. His most recent publication is HAIKU DECK: A collection of playing cards. #poetry #river #illinois

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Against a white background, a #haiku by Randy Brooks ( @brooksbookshaiku ), reads, “river out of its banks the restlessness of pigeons under a bridge” Dr. Randy Brooks is Professor of English Emeritus at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, where he teaches courses on haiku, tanka, and Japanese poetics. He and his wife, Shirley Brooks, are publishers of Brooks Books and co-editors of Mayfly haiku magazine. His most recent publication is HAIKU DECK: A collection of playing cards. #poetry #river #illinois

We dare the climate,
armed in shrouds of dense logic.
It speaks just physics.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #ClimateAction #ClimateInaction #ClimatePhysics #physics #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Both @kentpitman and Charlie have provided #haiku for this episode ! Kent Pitman will also join.

Kent's #climateCrisis one: https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/116564040039873948

And Charlie's #lisp topical one (iirc).

By the way, I tooted the announcement differently to normal, so I retooted already - if someone else could retoot when the show starts, that would be great.

@jackdaniel @chiply @yantar92

With compass in hand
No need for a weatherman
To tell the south wind
From a blustery north wind
Or which way the wind will blow

#dailyhaikuprompt South Wind North Wind
#haiku #tanka #TankaTuesday #senryu
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

morning north wind blow
enter the room to cool til
#evenfall south wind

#dailyhaikuprompt South Wind North Wind
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems

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

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Stock photo of deep sea diver kicking up an obscuring cloud of silt walking on sea bottom from Pexels.com Text: current regime wants to drown the public in dark aphotic news zone where no light sheds on their path to enrich their shellfish selves https://haikudread.net/2026/05/12/aphotic/

#senryu by new contributor, Katherine E Winnick. Katherine is an award winning Japanese short-form poet, published in 18 countries with some works translated into Japanese, Hindi, German, French and Romanian. She is the founding editor of the Shadow Pond Journal and part of the editorial team at The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press. #haiku #poetry #moonlight #shadow

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Against a black background, a #senryu by new contributor, Katherine E Winnick, reads, “a fragment of moonlight across the shoulders shadow” Katherine is an award winning Japanese short-form poet, published in 18 countries with some works translated into Japanese, Hindi, German, French and Romanian. She is the founding editor of the Shadow Pond Journal and part of the editorial team at The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press. #haiku #poetry #moonlight #shadow

running messages, wagtail
for the shrine's god?
irises
鶺鴒は神の使かかきつばた
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1810.
Trans. David G. Lanoue.

the long skinny snake's
Shinto shrine...
irises
細長い蛇の社や杜若
-1818.

#Kyoto #irises #Japan #京都 #菖蒲 #haiku

#haiku by Vishal Prabhu (IG: wilderness.es.poet ) from the Greater Himalayas, Indi. #poetry #india #apple

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Against a plain white background, a #haiku by Vishal Prabhu (IG: wilderness.es.poet ) from the Greater Himalayas, India, reads, “wooden window curving into an apple laden sunlight” #poetry #india #apple

A #fleeting moment
The freshly painted porch stayed
Free of dripped pine sap

#dailyhaikuprompt Porch Pine Sap
#haiku #vss365 #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems

Perched on a front porch
Adolescent birds of prey
Street fauna stewards

#dailyhaikuprompt Porch #haiku
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

the porch faces south;
(don't mind the ghosts, they're friendly)
sit, get some sunshine

#haiku #dailyhaikuprompt 'porch'

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

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The USB says
We're at better than 50
%, but then what?

#Haiku

Rust covered wreckage
#Haunted former crossing guard
Balmy storm miscue

#dailyhaikuprompt Balmy Rust
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrytcommunity #smallpoems

redhead aerobics
leaves her hair like balmy rust
intoxicating

#dailyhaikuprompt Balmy Rust
#haiku #poetrytcommunity #smallpoems

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

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I caught so much grief
From strutting raven raptor
Shunned forevermore

#dailyhaikuprompt Grief Raven
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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Biscuit the raven figurine over a backdrop of various tree top perched carrion birds

#Misfit admin has
Rent a dull forever moan
From the Grief Raven

#dailyhaikuprompt Grief Raven
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels #prompt
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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A.I. image generated from haiku text of chickens and eggs in a rundown barnyard Text: chickens and the cost of empire come home to roost in the wreckage https://haikudread.net/2026/05/09/roost/

#senryu / #haiku by long time contributor, Mona Bedi @drmonabedi Mona is a physician/educator in #india. A past FreshOut Featured Artist, her #poetry has many times, been featured here & elsewhere & has won numerous awards. #homecoming

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Against a plain black background, a #senryu / #haiku by long time contributor, Mona Bedi @drmonabedi, reads, “moving home only the stars stay with me” Mona is a physician/educator in #india. A past FreshOut Featured Artist, her #poetry has many times, been featured here & elsewhere & has won numerous awards. #homecoming

Various #FOSS OS communities' reactions to joining them:

#Linux: "Hey, welcome to the fam! Here's a stack of CDs I burned, see which one boots for you."
#FreeBSD: "Hey, we're glad you're here! Here's an amazing handbook to get you started, holler if you need a hand!"
#NetBSD: "Of course it runs NetBSD! Welcome! :D"
#OpenBSD: "Don't expect a lot of hand-holding, but we're all having fun with it, and hopefully you will enjoy the process, too."
#9front: "Are... you... sure you want to do this?"

😆

(For the record, I love them all. I only regret I haven't had much of a chance to play with #Haiku, or interact with that community, yet!)

Tossed

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

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Stock photo of an expansive garbage dump with machinery in the background for trash moving from Pexels.com Text: Refuse to give in To the refuse of things past Discarded just cause https://haikudread.net/2026/05/08/refuse/

#haiku by new contributor, Mark Heathcote.
Mark’s poems are widely published & anthologized, both online & in print. Residing in the UK from Manchester, he is the author of “In Perpetuity” & “Back on Earth,” two books of poems published by Creative Talents Unleashed. #UK #poetry #poisonous

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Against a plain white background, a #haiku by new contributor, Mark Heathcote reads, “some poisonous things more acceptable than others lily of the valley” Mark’s poems are widely published and anthologized, both online and in print. Residing in the UK from Manchester, he is the author of “In Perpetuity” & “Back on Earth,” two books of poems published by Creative Talents Unleashed. #UK #poetry #poisonous

nuclear winter
will get histories blood spray
over sweatshop made
fashionable attitude
thermal winter coat and scarf

#dailyhaikuprompt Spray Winter Coat
#tanka #TankaThursday #haiku
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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Stock photo of a hand holding up a turnip in front of a field from Pexel.com Text: no external woo omen or token of self required for health unless a talisman should turnip under a pebble https://haikudread.net/2026/05/07/turnip/

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

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A.I. image generated from haiku text of rusty compressed gas tanks and scattered cans on cracked ground in a deserted industrial area with dilapidated buildings and oil pumpjacks in the background Text: Resources soiled Bottled water and canned food Air will be sold soon https://haikudread.net/2026/05/06/soiled/

#shahai by 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. #haiku #photo #free

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A black and white photo shows an object partially entering the frame from the upper left of the frame. Against the plain black background, is it a seed pod of some kind or the underside of a canoe or other watercraft? Beneath this and slightly to the right, a tanka by Reid Hepworth reads, “staying sane in an insane world starts with a cabin in a verdant forest what I’d give up to feel free” #shahai by 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. #haiku #photo #free

a gentle spring breeze
wafts past rearview mirror dangle
the scent of faux pine

#dailyhaikuprompt Breeze Pine
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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Stock photo of a statue with Atlas holding the world on his shoulders from Pexels.com Text: I got a boulder On my shoulder trying to crush Me as I moulder It's what I can do As I try to mitigate Sorrows of the world https://haikudread.net/2026/05/05/shrug/

#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. #hare #poetry #silence #spring

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Against plain white background, a #haiku by regular contributor, John Pappas reads, “morning mist the hare’s silence dipped in silver” John is a touchstone-winning poet, literature professor & punk-rock drummer. He does all that in Boston, MA, USA. #hare #poetry #silence #spring

On sonic surfboard
Rake atop the aural wave
Into cozy cove

#dailyhaikuprompt Wave Rake
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

I'm radiating
Notice of things I have done
Dissipate a wave
Rake out the pent up vapors
From #phantom of tomorrow

#dailyhaikuprompt Wave Rake
#haiku #tanka #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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Stock photo of two hands reaching out to touch index fingers over white stucco background from Pexels.com Text: unwise blood stirred up feel the fervor murmur from a single touch https://haikudread.net/2026/05/04/unwise/

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

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

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

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In white text, against a black background, a #monoku by Anne Fox (IG: @annefox333 ) of Broomes Island, Maryland, USA, reads: “almost to the finish line human race” #poetry #haiku #maryland #human

April 2026

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

https://haikudread.net/2026/04/

Standing on the porch
A moth the size of a crow
Bashes into me
I was so freaked out I swear
The X-File theme music played

#dailyhaikuprompt Moth Crow
#haiku #tanka #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems

As crow told the moth
#Name your emotional lag
Reflect towards the light

#dailyhaikuprompt Moth Crow
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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A.I. image generated from tanka text of a man sitting at a table with spilled red wine on a white tablecloth, holding a cup surrounded by many pairs of eyes reflected in glass surroundings. Text: feel obligated to oblige other feelings but only so far many considerations easy to make a faux pas https://haikudread.net/2026/05/01/oblige/

#micropoetry by Biswajit Mishra

Biswajit Mishra is a bilingual poet writing mostly in English and occasionally in Odia. His poems have been widely published internationally. Born in India and having spent a few years in Kenya, Biswajit and his wife Bharati currently live in Calgary, Canada.
#haiku #poetry #canada #home

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Two #micropoems by Biswajit Mishra, fixed in parallel against a white background read, 1. in the safety of a home helium carries on until ceiling is the ceiling 2. a poem flies out of a heart into a cage in a balcony Biswajit Mishra is a bilingual poet writing mostly in English and occasionally in Odia. His poems have been widely published internationally. Born in India and having spent a few years in Kenya, Biswajit and his wife Bharati currently live in Calgary, Canada. #haiku #poetry #canada #home #micropoetry

lingering effects
of afternoon #lion zest
led to a night chill

#dailyhaikuprompt Lingering Night Chill
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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Stock photo of a statue of a fragmented human face holding their forefinger up to their lips in a frozen shhh from Pexels.com Text: I wish someone could dapple my cynicism with a bit of hope https://haikudread.net/2026/04/30/dapple/

Mana from above
A spring rain of golden grain
Sprinkles down for all

#dailyhaikuprompt Spring Rain Grain
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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dark and stormy times
and that's just our politics
where's time for climate?

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #politics #oligarchy #fascism #LateStageCapitalism #collapse #extinction

Every 0UTC Wednesday!
there will of course be the Tuesday-evening-in-the-Americas #lispyGopherClimate #live on
#archive
https://toobnix.org/w/eCCvKBZvuwkXj244ojjzTU
!

- show starts with @kentpitman #haiku and a discussion of the #climateCrisis

Kent and Ramin will join today for a discussion of #lisp #IDE s.
Kent scanned his historical c. 1980 #TECO #emacs cheatsheet: https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/116484262128356625
Ramin's #schemacs https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks/schemacs/
viz Smith's new mine #staticTyping #coalton ide.

+ the emacs/ide ecosystem.

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A grayscale unix_surrealism of the gopher looking up to a screen on the sisde of a dystopic building should the lisp alien's many beautiful eyes in color looking down back at him. Lispy Gopher Show Anonradio.net

Phase on fuzzy spoon
Blur reflection endeavor
Of last hazy moon

#dailyhaikuprompt Hazy Moon Endeavor
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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A.I. image generated from tanka text of an unusual character in Sherlock Holmes hunting cap in a telephone booth while wearing a trench coat making a phone call. craiyon.com Text: this is what happens when the oddball makes the call misery for most ruination of a nation for the profit of a few https://haikudread.net/2026/04/28/oddball/

#senryū / #haiku by Lucas Weissenborn (IG: @luque_mit_q ). Lucas is a researcher, musician, & poet based in #Norway. His haiku & senryū have appeared in many journals, including Science. He was also once unintentionally appointed an expert on squirrels by a university in Russia. #redhead #poetry #spring

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In black text, on a plain white background, a #senryū / #haiku by Lucas Weissenborn ( IG: @luque_mit_q ) reads, “forest fire among the ferns her red hair” Lucas is a researcher, musician, & poet based in #Norway. His haiku & senryū have appeared in many journals, including Science. He was also once unintentionally appointed an expert on squirrels by a university in Russia. #redhead #poetry #spring

Saucy roof gander
Self declared king of the geese
Looks down from above

#dailyhaikuprompt Down Geese
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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#senryu by 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 #fairgrounds( @wanderstruck_haiku ). #haiku #poetry #stars

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Against a black background, a #senryu by Ash Evan Lippert reads, “stars over the fairgrounds I guess the number of jellybeans” 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 #fairgrounds( @wanderstruck_haiku ). #haiku #poetry #stars

#haiku / #senryu by regular contributor, Jerome Berglund ( @Berglundjeromehaiku ), currently hailing from New Orleans, LA, USA. #poetry #NOLA #insect

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Against a white background, a #haiku / #senryu by regular contributor, Jerome Berglund ( @Berglundjeromehaiku ), currently hailing from New Orleans, LA, USA, reads, “leaf insect the lone observer implied” #poetry #NOLA #insect

Old ghost leaves a trace
For the new leaves to fill in
With fresh green of spring

#dailyhaikuprompt New Leaves Ghost
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

so when the ghost leaves
hope will be our first ask in
new #lunar cycle

#dailyhaikuprompt New Leaves Ghost
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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A.I. image generated from haiku text of sphere with trailing stalagmites fashioned from abstract aspic material rising from a large body of water Text: An abstraction wrapped In absolutist aspic Ablution required https://haikudread.net/2026/04/26/abstraction/

when scions became
a cultures #psychopomp lamps
snuffing out reason
puts a pin in epoch churn
leaves turn yellow in the dark

#dailyhaikuprompt Evening Yellow Leaves
#tanka #haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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Stock photo of a gold circle framed in fire around a lone figure standing in a hallway with graffiti painted walls from Pexels.com Text: no faux gold halo can deflect the cold steel hail of consequences https://haikudread.net/2026/04/25/hail/

subtle wolfsbane weed
lupine whisper, "Prowl lil' wolf"
sends me off to hunt

#dailyhaikuprompt Lupine Whisper
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoem

Save the Ship of State
From whisper of the whims of
#Cat nap Cap'n Crump

#dailyhaikuprompt Whisper
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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Stock photo of a statue of an archaic human striking a prayerfully pose from Pexels.com Text: You can know something You can pray about something Can you do something? https://haikudread.net/2026/04/24/pray/

Served up for slaughter
First in line for gold altar
Calf of decency

#dailyhaikuprompt Calf Gold
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

chase the calf of gold
I don't want to marry it
rather go #fishing

#dailyhaikuprompt Calf Gold
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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Stock photo of a spinning fidget widget spinning between a humans thumb and forefinger from Pexels.com Text: a heartfelt fidget with my happy time widget turn to the next page eggplant emoji of rage imprinted with persistence https://haikudread.net/2026/04/23/fidget/

Watching their serf feast
#Wolves peer down from the mountain
Stem their bloody howls

#dailyhaikuprompt Mountain Stem
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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Stock photo of parchment scroll spread out on a table from Pexels.com Text: keep the scroll going befuddled and mystified that's how they like em https://haikudread.net/2026/04/22/mystified/

#haiga with #drawing by Josiah, #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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Against a plain background, a #haiga with #drawing by Josiah. The pen and ink drawing shows an image open to many interpretations. Is it a tree, in full flower of summer on the left and stripped bare as winter on the right? Is it curtains pulled aside before a large window? Beside this, a #haiku by Nitu Yumnam, reads, “the quiet ache of parting — receding tide” 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.

Saw Infomercial
For handy dandy windmill
Orange slicer dicer

#dailyhaikuprompt Windmill Orange
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

orange spray tan covers
old man sickly #jade pallor
in the public frame

#dailyhaikuprompt Orange
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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Stock photo of oxidized bronze statue of a person holding a child from Pexels.com Text: Like the Late Bronze Age Civilization collapse Another will rise Something new will then happen Bringing something different https://haikudread.net/2026/04/21/collapse/

Once gas prices fall
we can get back to asking
how to slow gas use

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateCrisis #gas #gasoline #GasPrices #sustainability #irony #paradox #hypocrisy

#haiku by returning contributor, Oana Maria Cercel @oana_maria_
Oana lives in Italy where she writes and co-edits Cold Moon Journal. #poetry #footprint #shore #italy

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Against a plain white background, a #haiku by returning contributor, Oana Maria Cercel @oana_maria_ reads, “waveless shore the footprints I leave behind” Oana lives in Italy where she writes and co-edits Cold Moon Journal. #poetry #footprint #shore #italy

lonely hearts stay calm
as time gyrations spool out
for playful rewind

#dailyhaikuprompt Calm Lonely
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

Fraudulent facade
Bamboozle blur broadcast bunk
Calm lonely bleating
Deadly #undersea missiles
Teeter on a madman's whim

#dailyhaikuprompt Calm Lonely
#haiku #tanka #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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Stock photo of gold text on black background reading "BLAH BLAH BLAH" from Pexels.com Text: indivisible seemed to be unmissable when push came to shove 'til owned narrators gave us unreliable feedback https://haikudread.net/2026/04/20/unmissable/

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

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Against a black background, a #haiku by longtime contributor, John Hawkhead @haikuhawk of Bradford-on-Avon, UK reads, “talking a man down from the edge of the world pasts we wish for” #poetry #roof #mentalhealth #UnitedKingdom

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@icecolbeveridge/116419579850657121

I humbly offer a variation:

HAICAT

meow meow me
ow meow meow meow
meow meow ME

#haiku
#poetry
#cats
#CatsOfMastodon

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

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A.I. image generated from haiku text of a knight in blue armor striking a fiery shadow creature with glowing swords inside a crystal cave Text: Sir Valerian Somnambulant champion Vanquishing awake https://haikudread.net/2026/04/19/vanquish/

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

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#haiku by new contributor, Pegah Rahmati Nezhad ( @rahmati_pegah ). Pegah is a physician, scientist, artist, & poet from Tehran, Iran. She loves #micropoetry & lyrical prose, & believes in the power of words. #hummingbird #iran #poetry

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Against a plain white background, a #haiku by new contributor, Pegah Rahmati Nezhad ( @rahmati_pegah ) reads, hovering around fuchsia hanging baskets anna’s hummingbirds Pegah is a physician, scientist, artist, & poet from Tehran, Iran. She loves #micropoetry & lyrical prose, & believes in the power of words. #hummingbird #iran #poetry

monkey weasel chase
around the mulberry bush
a way to enrich
working up a refreshing
lather of salty seafoam

#dailyhaikuprompt Mulberry Refreshing
#haiku #tanka #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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Stock photo of the view from the bottom of a well from Pexels.com Text: humanity well Big Kahuna's lacuna empathy abyss https://haikudread.net/2026/04/17/lacuna/

Yes yes yes yes yes
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
Yes yes yes yes yes

• yes, a haiku

#haiku #poetry #poem #imapoet #andididntevenknowit

#Shahai by Stephanie Zepherelli, returning contributor, with #photograph by Carol Rudall

#haiku #poetry

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In a #Shahai by Stephanie Zepherelli, returning contributor, with #photograph by Carol Rudall, the moon hangs low over a midnight lake, seen through the gnarled branches of trees on its near shore. In the lower left corner of the frame, a #senryu reads, “one night stand asking the moon to stay for breakfast” #haiku #poetry

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

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Against a plain white background, a #monoku /#senryu by Anne Fox (IG: @annefox333 ) of Broomes Island, Maryland, USA, reads: shoreline going on without me #poetry #haiku #maryland

#Hammer from the clouds
Bright lightning death from above
Misery inflates

#dailyhaikuprompt Clouds Bright Lightning
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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

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Stock photo of a group of sparrows squatting in an evergreen bush from Pexels.com Text: Outcast birdie flaps Aloft 'oer frosty meadow Called by chirping bush A host of sparrows huddled Ubiquity hunkered down https://haikudread.net/2026/04/16/hunkered/

Remain for the #word
Worldly business goes plum wrong
Plenty of raisins

#dailyhaikuprompt Plum Plenty
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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Stock photo of a digital blood pressure monitor with a reading of 178 over 111 with a heart rate of 103 on a table with printouts, pills, syringes, pads, and bottles from Pexels Text: Made a misty list Many vivid wrongs to right There will be pressure https://haikudread.net/2026/04/15/vivid/

Enwrapped in purple
Whisper sweet Wisteria
Nothings in my ear

#dailyhaikuprompt Wisteria
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoem

Just another day
Open #loop pretzel logic
Wisteria spills
Yellow journalism branch
Into the balderdash mix

#dailyhaikuprompt Wisteria Yellow
#haiku #tanka #TankaTuesday
#vss365 #haikufeels #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems

#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 and one was turned into a choral piece. Jennifer has 10 books of poetry. #deep #colorado #water #poetry

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Against a black background, in white text, a haiku Jennifer Gurney reads: oh the hidden depths of shallow water 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. #deep #colorado #water #poetry

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

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Stock photo of a human profile with upraised hand revealing a green glow through fingers from Pexels.com Text: Linear timelines A spirit of fierce aspect Lurks in the middle Of a made up beginning To imaginary end https://haikudread.net/2026/04/14/imaginary/

make yourself comfy
slip out of that flour sack
my little biscuit
mean Mr. Mustard is on
King Biscuit Flower Hour

#dailyhaikuprompt Flour
#haiku #tanka #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems

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

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Abstract smears of color hinting at a face from Pexels.com Text: is there enough bleach to remove this stain from our collective psyche https://haikudread.net/2026/04/13/bleach/

#monoku by new contributor, Katherine E Winnick. Katherine is an award winning Japanese short-form poet, published internationally in 18 countries with some works translated into Japanese, Hindi, German, French and Romanian. She is the founding editor of the Shadow Pond Journal and part of the editorial team at The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press. #haiku #poetry #perfume #spring

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Against a plain white background, a #monoku by new contributor, Katherine E Winnick, reads: a dash of perfume cherry blossom notes Katherine is an award winning Japanese short-form poet, published internationally in 18 countries with some works translated into Japanese, Hindi, German, French and Romanian. She is the founding editor of the Shadow Pond Journal and part of the editorial team at The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press. #haiku #poetry #perfume #spring

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

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A.I. image generated from haiku text of a cloaked person sitting at an old stone window sill, surrounded by lit candles, books, a skull, and an hourglass, gazing out at a crescent moon above distant mountains and a castle. Text: Spouting platitudes While showing no gratitude In my solitude https://haikudread.net/2026/04/12/platitudes/

As the sun comes up
foggy blossoms #sing aloud
worldly roots deepen

#dailyhaikuprompt Blossoms Foggy
#haiku #vss365 #haikufeels
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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Stock photo of two people in classic Bohemian neo punk garb. One dragging another down a lane on a bare mattress in front of distressed city brick wall from Pexels.com Text: My bad attitude Led me to ineptitude Grasping rectitude https://haikudread.net/2026/04/11/rectitude/

#haiga by returning contributor, Teji Sethi (IG @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. #poetry #haiku #ink #india

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A #haiga by returning contributor, Teji Sethi @tejisethi13 features a design of two eyes staring straight at the viewer, against a background of muted tones of rosy creams and browns, arranged in vertical strips and curves. An optical illusion of shading causes the eye on the viewer’s right to appear larger or closer but they are the same size. A single line verse reads, “ink blot we see what we wish to see”. 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. #poetry #haiku #ink #india

#haiku by long time contributor, Marilyn Ward of Lincolnshire, UK. Find more of Marilyn’s work on Blue Sky @haikupoet.bsky.social #poetry #blue #UK #spring

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A #haiku by long time contributor, Marilyn Ward of Lincolnshire, UK, reads: balmy breeze skimming over the rushes blue damselfly wings Find more of Marilyn’s work on Blue Sky @haikupoet.bsky.social #poetry #blue #UK #spring

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

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Against a black background, a #haiku by returning contributor, dl mattila reads, “the curlew’s cry mere seconds to midnight on the horizon” d l mattila is an American poet and writer who takes pleasure in brevity. #micropoetry #poetry #midnight

#monoku by long-time contributor, Alvin B. Cruz (IG: @alvinbcruz)

#poetry #haiku #crocus #spring

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Against a side pink background, a #monoku by long-time contributor, Alvin B. Cruz (IG: @alvinbcruz) reads, in lilac-blue/purple text : where her bruise was first crocus #poetry #haiku #crocus #spring

#haiku by returning contributor, Tony Williams (IG: @famwill2019 ).
Tony Williams has been reading, writing and publishing haiku and senryu since 2020. Every day is a haiku day! #butterfly #poetrylovers #spring #poetry

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A #haiku by returning contributor, Tony Williams (IG: @famwill2019 ), reads: between me and the cliff’s steep edge a dizzy butterfly Tony Williams has been reading, writing and publishing haiku and senryu since 2020. Every day is a haiku day! #butterfly #poetrylovers #spring #poetry

#haiku by Deborah A. Bennett (IG @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 #spring

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A #haiku by Deborah A. Bennett @d.a._bennett reads: after the peace march lying in the clover field looking at the moon 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 #spring

New #blog #post: I Loved Computers Before the Internet was a Thing

https://rldane.space/i-loved-computers-before-the-internet-was-a-thing.html

611 words

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn @ay

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #computing #privacy #autonomy #DigitalAgency #Linux #BSD #Haiku #RetroComputing

Stuff and smoke my grass
In a home carved apple pipe
Mr. Natural

#dailyhaikuprompt Grass Apple
#haiku #poetrycommunity #smallpoems

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what if you found out
Climate was cheating on you,
no shared future plans

 Dude. Shocked surprise don't fly here.
 We. Used. Her. She gwon ghost us.

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateCrisis #metaphor #cheating #infidelity #betrayal #ClimateBetrayal #TippingPoint #TippingPoints #ClimateTippingPoints #hindsight #AcceleratedHindsight #collapse #extinction

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what if you found out
Climate was cheating on you,
no shared future plans

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateCrisis #metaphor #cheating #infidelity #betrayal #ClimateBetrayal #TippingPoint #TippingPoints #ClimateTippingPoints #hindsight #AcceleratedHindsight #collapse #extinction

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