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In the latest Password edited by Melissa Allen:

cave spider the darkness opens her legs

#haiku #senryu #micropoetry
#darkness

02.03.2026 09:32 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

billions on arms
raising the tattered banner
of bloodshed and tears

#completethehaiga #haiku #haiga #senryu

02.03.2026 22:52 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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In the latest Password edited by Melissa Allen:

cave spider the darkness opens her legs

#haiku #senryu #micropoetry
#darkness

02.03.2026 09:32 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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#senryu by longtime contributor, John Hawkhead @haikuhawk of Bradford-on-Avon, UK #poetry #haiku #ice #UnitedKingdom

28.02.2026 05:17 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Haiku Month Highlights In celebration of NaHaiWriMo (National Haiku Writing Month), we present Spring Highlights featuring the latest work from our Wolf Pack on the Wolf Twin Review.

For our adieu to #NaHaiWriMo, we curl into a tender moment from the incomparable John Hawkhead (@haikuhawk.bsky.social):

cat howls
we wake in moonlight
still entwined

Happy #Haiku Month, everyone! View all our #WolfPack Spring Highlights by clicking below.

Owwwoooooo!

#PoetryCommunity #poetry ✍️

26.02.2026 14:44 — 👍 62    🔁 20    💬 4    📌 0
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Redaction

#haiku #epsteinadministration #Basho

26.02.2026 16:49 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0

No, DOJ

28.02.2026 09:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Small Language Model the thing isthen we arrived atwhere is the — John Hawkhead

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

𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹

the thing is
then we arrived at
where is the

— John Hawkhead

27.02.2026 16:40 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Others might!

26.02.2026 21:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yeah, but he got back out again!

26.02.2026 16:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That’s classified 🤣

26.02.2026 16:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Redaction

#haiku #epsteinadministration #Basho

26.02.2026 16:49 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0

Thanks for publishing @wolftwin.com - this one is dedicated to @patricia-hawkhead.bsky.social and lovers everywhere!!!

26.02.2026 16:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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seasons turn
a spent firework
goes off again

#haiku #fireworks

26.01.2026 11:11 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Shurrley not!

19.02.2026 23:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

HeadMotor

19.02.2026 23:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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From a walk on Appledore beach:

obituary
a ragged ribbon of tide
returns to the sea

#haiku #obituary #tides

18.02.2026 09:53 — 👍 38    🔁 14    💬 4    📌 1
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And garage to go with it…

18.02.2026 16:38 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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From a walk on Appledore beach:

obituary
a ragged ribbon of tide
returns to the sea

#haiku #obituary #tides

18.02.2026 09:53 — 👍 38    🔁 14    💬 4    📌 1
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John Hawkhead’s apple tree in the apple tree a nest full of snow the wind’s soft whistle — John Hawkhead (UK)(Presence magazine, issue 70) I appreciate how this haiku depicts the cycles of life, and also hints at life after …

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18.02.2026 09:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Submit We invite you to contribute/submit to the next issue of tinywords, 26.1. Please send your best, preferably unpublished work. We’re looking for haiku, tanka and other tiny poems, brief tanka p…

Dear readers and writers, tinywords is accepting submissions for issue 26.2 at this page: tinywords.com/submit/

We look forward to reading your tiny poems!

Deadline: February 28

01.02.2026 16:37 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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under a slate sky
we come to understand
the hand of the sea

Photo: Instow beach, Devon
#haiku

15.02.2026 13:07 — 👍 33    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Out today at ‘smols’ edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen:

online scrolling dead seas

More here: smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com?m=1

#micropoetry #haiku #deadseascrolls

15.02.2026 23:44 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

itinerant wind
a lifetime seeking
a place of refuge

in the lower chamber
of her heart

16.02.2026 11:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

white man’s burden
everywhere I go
I find my thumbprints

hate being responsible
hate being responsible

16.02.2026 11:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

stag party
a clearing echoes
with gunfire

#senryslam

16.02.2026 11:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

distant drums
the warning signs
in a heartbeat

#senryuslam

16.02.2026 11:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Some bird #haiga for the theme

16.02.2026 11:21 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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mildewed kitchen
the moth in the corner
adapting

#haiku

16.02.2026 11:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Out today at ‘smols’ edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen:

online scrolling dead seas

More here: smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com?m=1

#micropoetry #haiku #deadseascrolls

15.02.2026 23:44 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0