C.X.Turner (Luci)

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None of them had labels

a cupboard of jars
clouded with years

#bass drifts faint
from another decade

I move the glass
as if it might open

but the lids hold fast . . .

roots through the floorboards
remain unseen

#vss365 #FromOneLine #poem

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Thank you to the wonderful Thomas Tilton, editor, for including these horror senryu 🖤

night river
a bone white hand
rowing itself

— C.X. Turner

graveyard fog
the jawbone grins
without lips

— C.X. Turner

Many thanks to @jeromeberglund.bsky.social for selecting my verse for Heterodox Haiku: Contrarians, haiku that goes against the grain. An excellent collection. The essays by @loverpoetic.bsky.social and @shortpoemz.bsky.social are also must-reads.

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aftertaste when the walls drink my moan nails click like teeth the joists smell of wing-dust I lean in whispering torn silkmorning chillhis breathof moths — C.X. Turner

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

𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲

when the walls drink my moan nails click like teeth the joists smell of wing-dust I lean in whispering torn silk

morning chill
his breath
of moths

— C.X. Turner

sleep wouldn’t come
the night
sat #grumpy in the corner

crickets sawed
through the heat
like rusted blades

moonlight pooling
in hollows
where dreams should be

#FromOneLine #vss365

your #laugh
spilled gold
across the meadow

heat shimmer
blurred the edges
of everything we knew

somewhere
in the brushstroke sky
you are still moving

#vss365 #poem

From the latest @waleshaiku.bsky.social

two young crows
harrying a hawk
the hill’s steep climb

Thanks to editors Joe Woodhouse and @loverpoetic.bsky.social for the selection!

#haiku #crows

#brownie of a sky . . .
dense, sweet,
crumbling at the edges

his voice
still stuck in my teeth
from something he said
while reaching

I chew it again
as dusk melts
into the cooling tin

#vss365 #poem

Thank you so much 💞

#haiku

his low voice—
a #charm I set adrift
on the tide

#vss365

Very much enjoyed reading @WalesHaiku summer issue. Grateful to editors, @loverpoetic.bsky.social
and @joewoodhouse.bsky.social for including these two #haiku

Honoured to have a couple of #haiku* in the beautiful Summer 2025 issue of @waleshaiku.bsky.social. Thanks to editors Joe Woodhouse & @loverpoetic.bsky.social. Congrats to all who appear. Available to view free at www.waleshaikujournal.com
* Great to have a Welsh poem in there! 1/2

☀️ It's here!

The Summer 2025 Edition of Wales #Haiku Journal is live, filled with global voices and unique evocations of Summer. Like this one by Bryan Rickert.

Join us, and celebrate summer in every line…

www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2025

#HaikuCommunity #poetrycommunity #newissue

morning feathers
still damp from dreaming
we lift together

innocence beneath us
the sky begins to
listen

#vss365 #innocence #poem

#senryu

taffeta lining
the scent of her wrist
still in the folds

#vss365 #taffeta

Thank you! 🌼💛

Thank you so much, Biswajit😊

Thanks so much. I didn’t expect it at all!

Grateful to have placed first in the Haiku Foundation kukai! Thank you to everyone who read and voted. I'm honoured💖 #haiku #monoku #kukai

There are just a few days left to #submit to our Summer Edition, but if that’s a bit of a squeeze, there’s still a solid six weeks left to enter our inaugural Summer #haiku #competition ☀️.

To discover more details, head to waleshaikujournal.com

Thank you! ...and for the follow

Happy Friday haiku poets, new and experienced!

This week’s #prompt: poppy / poppies

Tag #WalesHaikuJournal and please read/share others that participate💖

We’re ready to follow wherever your creativity goes.
#haiku #senryu

#haiku

among poppies
a cracked bowl catching
the last rain

#waleshaikujournal

Our community has now grown to over 5,000 across our social media. We’d like to thank you all for your support, your words, your time, your care for our #journal and this wonderful form. Thanks to Kevin Valentine for this #haiku which encapsulates our feeling on the journey…

I just introduced my 17 yo daughter to this much-loved poem.
If you beat yourself up mentally though you don’t hurt others, if your brain is different so your thoughts are loud and tangled, if you’re conscientious but still very strict with yourself, then it’s also for you: