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Bureaucratalyst A squarical error causestwo sides tounparallel themselvesanew, now a newlycrescent dragonwagon:premitless & geometrically confused. — Greyson Meyer

A new verse from returning contributor Greyson Meyer:

𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘂𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝘁

A squarical error causes
two sides to
unparallel themselves
anew, now a newly
crescent dragonwagon:
premitless & geometrically confused.

— Greyson Meyer

… lying on his backafloat in tender water    with all due respect    he adds nothing    to this pond — John Grey

A new verse from returning contributor John Grey:

lying on his back
afloat in tender water
with all due respect
he adds nothing
to this pond

— John Grey

A text based image of a poem. The poem reads: ceasefire all roads leading to rubble

I’m truly honored to have this #senryu poem included in issue #17 of the Turning Japanese column of Suspect Device Zine among such phenomenal poems/poets. Thanks so much to Editor Tim Gardiner for including mine. Click on the link below to read them all.

suspectdevicehq.blogspot.com/p/columns.ht...

Two haiku of mine in Turning Japanese #17 – On the road of Suspect Device. Thanks Tim Gardiner for the honour!

suspectdevicehq.blogspot.com/p/columns.html

#haiku #micropoetry #writingcommunity #poetry

Out at Suspect Device edited by Tim Gardiner - two eco #haiku

crossing the lines
on the road
to extinction

on the verge windhovers

(always good to write about kestrels)

Link: suspectdevicehq.blogspot.com/p/columns.ht...

Very well done.

light rain all night
in the glass of a storefront
the homeless man
sees his reflection
stops to finger-comb his hair

Published in: Ribbons
Tanka Society of America
Fall/Winter 2025: Volume 21, Number 2

#Tanka #TankaPoem #Micropoetry

A great honour to contribute to the latest Suspect Device zine Turning Japanese column with a Kerouacian #senryu #haiku, many thanks to editor Tim Gardiner - do check out Tim's 10-verse sequence and the other On The Road-inspired content from the Talent
suspectdevicehq.blogspot.com/p/columns.html

Happy Halloween everyone 🎃

ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis moonless night a black cat closes his eyes and disappears--Mario Massimo Zontini (Parma, Italy)

Many thanks to Professor Mcmurray once again for publishing my ku.

www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic...

flickering candles
slicing into
pumpkin pie

not diamonds
in the sky, but
witches!

#haiku

3 ~#monoku at latest Five Fleas Itchy Poetry. fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/10/afte...

'Crackle' inspired by this video (you can hear it at ~0:04). Sinéad O'Connor channelling Veronica Lake while singing a Cole Porter tune. Her voice barely louder than the crackle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK9d...

If anyone needs a Halloween costume idea and struggles with a fear or anxiety, dress up as your biggest fear.

Yesterday at Five Fleas Itchy Poetry. I love Roberta for giving us a chance to write these kinds of tweet-like poems.

Thank you Thomas!

Halloween moon—
showing us only
the dark side

— Mark Gilbert

It’s Wednesday - The #HaikuFoundation’s #HaikuDialogue day and glad to see my #haiku featured in the long list. This week’s theme was: Music Around the World
.Grateful to Deborah Karl-Brandt Guest Editor
#vss365
#inkMine #haiku #haikusaturday #poetrycommunity
#poetry #senryu

Probably inspired by this, one of the very best examples of #powerballad imho. It's actually a duet but I sang both parts ho hum.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wxy...

Very pleased to be part of the latest Haiku Dialogue, theme: Music Around the World – Loving you with all of my tunes or let’s talk about feelings, thanks to editor Deborah Karl-Brandt. Congrats to all feature. A fantastic selection of musical haiku. thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...

late October...
my window runs red
with ladybirds

— Melissa Dennison

Pleased to have a minimalist poem at SMOLS, thanks to editor Roberta Jacobson. Here's a graphical version. smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com

3 insectoku's made from scratch publish3d in today's FiveFleas, with gratitude to the Supreme Fleakeeper Robin Jacobson.
#senryu #haiku

drenched
wet spray from car tires
tossed coffee cup
ache of old bones
grey hair of a day

Bright Stars 1
An Organic Tanka Anthology
M. Kei, Editor
Published in 2014
#TankaPoem #Tanka
#micropoetry

Kamala Harris 'concerned' she did not ask Biden to quit race The former vice-president tells the BBC she is not sure whether it was “grace or recklessness” that stopped her speaking up.

This is hysterical. Kamala had a "concern about his [Biden's] ability, with the level of endurance, energy, that it requires". Her "concern, especially on reflection is, should I have actually raised it." "Perhaps" she should have raised it with him.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

they’re only ghosts
so it doesn’t count —
that’s what the government says . . .

#senryu #SenryuSunday

southward flight
starlings rise in unison...
autumn echoes

Fatma Zohra Habis
#haiku #haikusaturday #haikuchallenge #haikupoetry
#senryu #senryusunday #vss365 #unison #inkMine #poetrycommunity #poetry

Just in the last 20 minutes it looks like AI has reached another level. Already it is reaching out and grabbing you to get you to do what it wants. Or maybe I dreamt that part.

holiday friend
the child swims
with the invisible dolphin

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry
#fantaiku #scifaiku #sff
#senryusunday #blueskyrelay
#inkmine #swim #style
#vssmagic no #fish #dolphin
#dailyhaikuprompt #water
#haikuchallenge #ocean
#holiday #vssdaily #child
#2wordprompt #invisible #friend

third times
the charm — an incantation
at the burial
#SenryuSunday #spookysenryu #senryu

Another sample from the latest Fireflies' Light, this time a #kyoka. Many thanks to editors John J. Han & Mason Arledge. #chess #tanka #TankaThursday Check the issue out here www.mobap.edu/about.../pub...

I am immensely pleased to share my work, in haikuKATHA, Issue 48, October 2025. I thank Kala Ramesh and the editors of the magazine 🌺 ❤️🙏

Link:

trivenihaikai.in/post/haikukath…
#tanka #TankaThursday #tankapoem #haiku #HaikuSaturday #vss365 #inkMine #poetrycommunity #poetry