MarkgZero

Very well done!

Couldn’t be more chuffed to receive my contributor’s copy of @poetrywales.bsky.social
and see my name under ‘new Welsh poets’

#poetry #welshmythology

old friends, old paths -
our steps and souls
entangled

#senryusunday
#haiku
#poetry

Oooh, this minimalistic one-line #senryu, also known as a #monoku, has appeared in Robin Jacobson's smols journal for brief poetry. Many thanks to the editor! I'm quite pleased with it.
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com

I came across this early #whoku which I wrote back in August 2009.

Peter Mandelson.
He has no horns but I’m sure
he is the devil.

He is a British politician, a friend and associate of Jeffrey Epstein. He’s probably the most famous from the UK after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club Files reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services

‘The Epstein files reveal a patriarchy in action. This is a world where the men are rich and powerful, and the women are not’. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

zen koan
the nothingness
begins to rain

#dailyhaikuprompt
#senryu #haiku
#micropoetry

Thank you!

I'm proud to have a distinctive minimalist haiku with a juxtaposition in the latest @waleshaiku.bsky.social, congrats to all those who contribute and thanks to editors Joe Woodhouse & @loverpoetic.bsky.social. A beautiful issue into which to immerse. Check it at www.waleshaikujournal.com/winter2025.

After 'Free Solo:' A Whoku Sequence at Spillwords.com Spillwords.com presents: After 'Free Solo:' A Whoku Sequence by Mark Gilbert, a member of the British Haiku Society, and has recently ...

After Alex Honnold's scaling of Taipei 101 live & unaided on Netflix, you say I should write a 48 verse poem about his life of climbing? I ALREADY HAVE! 'After Free Solo' @spillwordspress.bsky.social was written about the gripping 2018 documentary which won an Oscar.
spillwords.com/after-free-s...

A text based image of two horror poems. The first one reads: trailing behind the bone collector our missing teeth The second one reads: last rites escaping with a whoosh my held breath

I’m excited to have these two horror senryu featured in Horror Senryu Journal today. Thanks so much to Editor Thomas Tilton.

#senryu #horror

horrorkujournal.blogspot.com?m=1

wi-fi down
throughout the house
volume up

#haiku #senryu #SenryuSunday

Many thanks to Robin for publishing my poem at smols. How cool is that? Yay! 😁

#haiku
#microcontroller

smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com?m=1

Happy to be part of the January 2026 Sonic Boom, another great selection of poetry and artistry from Shloka Shankar.
sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom

#Winter has fully arrived at FreshOut’s headquarters. To celebrate, here’s a playful #verse by Jenni Wyn Hyatt. @siffrwd (Of note: it’s the first iambic pentameter submitted to FreshOut in quite a few years! More please?) Jenni was born in Wales, but now lives in #Derbyshire. #poetry #poetrylovers

Trump's threat to Greenland must be a wake-up call for Britain For too long our politicians have toadied to a dangerous president

Green Party leader ⁦Zack Polanski says “we need to disentangle our security apparatus from the USA so that we are genuinely independent”.

A “first step” is to “review how we can remove US bases from British soil while maintaining our own security”.

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Another from the latest issue of Take 5ive, edited by Steve Wilkinson. This one is a #kyoka, a humorous or satirical variant on a #tanka. Today there is very little of Sherwood Forest left.
take5ive.weebly.com/current-issu...

Sherwood Forest
trudging
from tree to tree
providing content
for free

from where
did you come
winter fruit fly

#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku

ignoring
the rules of chess — they play
monopoly
#SenryuSunday #senryu

Take 5ive Take 5ive is a new journal from the Bamboo Hut featuring only 5 line tanka, gogyohka and gogyoshi. If you have been reading/writing these verse forms you will already be acquainted with their format.....

I'm very pleased to have 5 poems in the latest Jan-26 issue of Take 5ive, the on-line journal for 5-line poetry. This of mine is a #tanka, I think, and a personal favourite.
take5ive.weebly.com/current-issu...

sharing a sofa
and a bottle of rosé
binge watching
while northern lights
shine outside

I'm very pleased to contribute to the latest Folk Ku Journal from King River Press, curated by Jodie Hawthorne and featuring #haiku from 25 countries on a theme of Trees. The PDF is free to download at kingriverpress.com/folk-ku-jour....

Thanks to Jodie at King River Press for hosting my ku at Folk Ku Journal Issue 6 which is available to download as a pdf: kingriverpress.com/folk-ku-jour...

Clearly I hate adverbs. — Bob Carlton

A new verse from returning contributor @bobcarlton3.bsky.social:

𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆

I hate adverbs.

— Bob Carlton

Afternoon of January 17, 2026

Huge thanks once again to Robin at five fleas

fivefleas.blogspot.com/2026/01/afte...

a shimmer
of wings
deep inside
the worm's lair

fathoms deep
the dead eye
looking back at me

#haiku

… immigrants have choice — LeRoy Gorman

A new verse from returning contributor LeRoy Gorman:

̶i̶m̶m̶i̶g̶r̶a̶n̶t̶s̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶c̶h̶o̶ice

— LeRoy Gorman

Delighted to be back itching and a scratching in Five Fleas. Thank you to flea keeper, Robin Jacobson for publishing my ku #haiku #poetryasprotest

Caravan… a trail of haiku by Melissa Dennison By Mark Gilbert A chapbook which is a pleasure to possess, hold and read. Melissa Dennison’s Caravan… a trail of haiku is a short collection of engaging snail-related poems from Nun Pro…

It was fun to write a review of @meldenn73.bsky.social's delightful chapbook 'Caravan... a trail of haiku' for the literary journal North of Oxford. This short collection is available at cost from amazon.co.uk/Caravan-trai... or via your country's site.
northofoxford.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/c...

#tanka / #kyoka & #photo by returning contributor Melissa Dennison @melissa.dennison.54 , a writer of haiku & other short form #poetry from the United Kingdom. #womenshistorymonth #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #micropoetry #women #haiku #womensrights #unitedkingdom

5haikuSpoken:
issue 18

Poets
@poetsheikha.bsky.social
Melissa Dennison
Tracy Davidson
Jerome Berglund
Tony Williams

#5haikuSpoken #haiku #micropoetry #poetrytok #poetry

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