Jonathan Roman

the bush warbler's cry
my boat is green

--Shioto Takei

ほうほけきょ私の舟はミドリ色　竹井紫乙

ほうほけきょ: "hoo-hokekyo"; the onomatopoeia for the sound a Japanese bush warbler makes, so:

hoo-hokekyo
my boat
is green

#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

Lovely to be back in @freshoutmag.bsky.social
#haiku #senryu #poetry

Art piece of a drawing of a black panther emerging from behind fern like plants. The animal is created against a black background by small white dots creating its shape. It has long white whiskers and yellow eyes and looks fierce.

Today's theme for #JanuArty is shadow...

I enjoyed trying to create this mysterious person emerging from the shadows with a minimum of dots. #art

just past dusk
the mountain swallows
the moon

Fireflies' Light, Missouri Baptist University
#mpy #haiku #poetry

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black butterfly—
all the possible words
in the inkwell

—Pippa Phillips
#Poetry #Haiku #Senryu #NYC #Metronorth

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sudden rain—
I open an umbrella
inside me

—Pippa Phillips @pippaesque.bsky.social
#Poetry #Haiku #Senryu #GrandCentralStation #NYC

#Poetry #Senryu #NYC @pippaesque.bsky.social

Tanka Society of America Welcome to the Tanka Society of America website. Here you can learn more about the society, its activities, and membership benefits. You can also learn more about our journal, Ribbons, our annual tank...

tanka weekly challenge

December 5, 2024

this week’s prompt:

lightning

write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem

#tanka resources to develop your practice:

www.tankasocietyofamerica.org

Art drawing of a large blue owl with orange eyes perched on a skinny gray branch next to a gray tree trunk. the sky is a deep purple and large white fluffy snowflakes are falling

Hi everyone! I've had some large emergency medical bills, both animal and human, lately so if you've ever thought about buying one of my books or some of my art, now would be a fantastic time to do so!

Here's a little thread of what's on offer...

Art prints at www.inprnt.com/gallery/whis...

sunshine on sleet
in this crystal silence
a tree breaks

#WalesHaikuJournal #sleet
I spent about 15 minutes turning this around in my head while attempting to meditate this morning . . . time well spent.
Wrote it down, looked again, and changed "landscape" to "silence."

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mycelium our wordless conversation

—Akitsu Quarterly, Spring 2022

#vss365
#Haiku or #Senryu
#OneLine

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morning air
I slowly inhale
the valley

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#haiku #senryu #micropoetry

Good morning & happy weekend. ⛅️ We have company arriving tomorrow. So busy day.

Shadow Pond Journal is open for subs of themed haiku through Dec 10. I may try there. Will see. I think subs are via Duotrope. Where are you submitting?

Make it a great day for yourself & others! 🫶💝🦋 ☮️

#SaturdayVibes

Love this, Ellie.

candlelight—
a quieter way
to burn

#haiku #haikusaturday

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trekking
into the forest
falling leaves
cover the footsteps
that lead to another world

#TankaThursday
#Poetry
#Berserk
#Manga

Tanka Society of America Welcome to the Tanka Society of America website. Here you can learn more about the society, its activities, and membership benefits. You can also learn more about our journal, Ribbons, our annual tank...

tanka weekly challenge:

November 21, 2024

this week’s prompt:

footsteps

write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem

#tanka resources to develop your practice:

Tanka Society of America:

www.tankasocietyofamerica.org

from the leaf litter,
the rasp of a mating song—
katydid

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

A poem by Langston Hughes titled "Tired". It reads as the following: "I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two -- And see what worms are eating At the rind."

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever.

#books #reading #booksky #poetry

I can feel the anticipation . . .

anticipation
crumbling leaves between
my fingers

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Haiku

dark morning...
dried leaves sparkle
with frost

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#micropoetry
#poetry
#haiku

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proof, they say,
of dragons . . .
dried leaves burned black

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Poetry

Love this, Kat. So dreamy.

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morning sea
I shake the night
from my wings

Kingfisher 5 (2022)
A New Resonance, Red Moon Press (2023)
#haiku

this is what the world
is made of
birds building nests
and wind

What are Haiku, Senryu and Tanka? What are Haiku, Senryu and Tanka?   To help you get started, here is a short introduction to Japanese poetry styles.   What are Haiku?   Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of 17 morae…

Hello Blue Sky writers, you're invited to join me every Sunday for #SenryuSunday. There are no prompt words, just post your original Senryu poem to the hashtag, & visit the hashtag to enjoy everyone else's work. Here's a link with more information on the Senryu form
akitahaiku.com/what-are-hai...

My first book of #haiku & #tanka, The Call of Wildflowers, was published by Title IX Press (now Moth Orchid Press) in 2020 & contains poems about parenting & motherhood. You can read it for #free here:

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#poetry #poets

Today was my late father's birthday. I miss him so much...
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his birthday without him blackbirds break blue
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#haiku #senryu #onelinepoem

Thank you.