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Nicholas Klacsanzky

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An editor at the Haiku Commentary blog and Frogpond journal. Author of "Beyond Emptiness," “Transported," and “Zen and Son.” See my poetry at https://nicholasklacsanzkyspoetry.wordpress.com/poetry/

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allium blossom . . .
the milky way tilts
in my wife’s eyes

Haiku Canada Review, February issue, 2025

#haiku #poetry #poem

04.12.2025 18:46 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

chrysanthemums: tired of this 'adulting' thing #senryu

04.12.2025 04:50 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

trail map
notes from my father
no longer legible

Modern Haiku, issue 56:1, 2025

#haiku #poetry #poem

03.12.2025 21:26 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Christmas . . .
wrapping myself
in father’s shawl



Winner, My Haiku Pond 10th Year Celebration Haiku and Senryu Contest, 2025

#haiku #senryu #poetry

03.12.2025 03:35 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

dusk . . .
the salmon leaps over
a past life

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Published in Wales Haiku Journal, winter issue, 2025

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02.12.2025 19:18 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

evening orchard —
apples
almost stars
#haiku #poetry

02.12.2025 15:28 — 👍 121    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 0

lightning . . .
I push the whale vertebrae
back on its wings



Wales Haiku Journal, winter issue, 2025

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01.12.2025 15:35 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

30.10.2025 16:04 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

lupine buds . . .
rising to a chakra
yet to be named



Fresh Out, January 8, 2025

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29.11.2025 18:45 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Beyond Emptiness is a collaborative mystiku (mystical haiku) collection by Hifsa Ashraf, Jacob D. Salzer, and Nicholas Klacsanzky.

Please get your copy from Lulu.

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#haiku #micropoetry #mysticism #writerslife #writerscommunity #meditation #peace

25.10.2025 09:29 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

You’re very welcome 😊

27.11.2025 16:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thrilled to have two Haiku in #FemkuMag Autumn/Winter issue. It is a stunning collection and it’s an honor to be alongside some of my favorite women poets. My thanks to Editors Rowan Beckett Minor and Kelly Sargent #haiku #womenpoets

24.11.2025 17:24 — 👍 129    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 2
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Haiku by Elliot Diamond, Hifsa Ashraf, and R.C. Thomas oil spill fish blowing bazooka bubbles — Elliot DiamondFailed Haiku, issue 98.1, 2024 Commentary from Jacob D. Salzer: I appreciate this one-line haiku for revealing one of the severe consequences …

Featured on Haiku Commentary

oil spill fish blowing bazooka bubbles

— Elliot Diamond

old snow
unfolding mom’s
bridal gown

— Hifsa Ashraf

hard-boiled summer
a busboy’s smile
begins to crack

— R.C. Thomas

Commentary at: haikucommentary.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/d...

#haiku #poetry #commentary

25.11.2025 19:26 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

with each wave
the hush of pebbles . . .
father’s ashes

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Cold Moon Journal, January 1, 2025

#haiku #poetry #poem #micropoetry

24.11.2025 22:24 — 👍 20    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

quiet street
a leaf and I
cross together
#haiku #poetry #writing

23.11.2025 16:06 — 👍 202    🔁 33    💬 4    📌 0

Thank you for the support 🙏

23.11.2025 08:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

three-quarter moon
a monk tells us
he’s enlightened



Published in Failed Haiku, issue #106, 2025

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22.11.2025 23:09 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

grass pillow
a dog also in the cold rain
on a night of voices

#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho between 1684-1688
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry

21.11.2025 15:49 — 👍 17    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

strolling
through an art gallery
my fart on display



Published in Failed Haiku, issue #106, 2025

#haiku #senryu #poetry

20.11.2025 16:48 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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My poem featured at the haiku dialogue this Wednesday. Thanks 🤩 to the editor 🌹

19.11.2025 15:05 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

trail map
the legend’s lack
of bear scat

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Published in Failed Haiku, issue #106, 2025

#senryu #haiku #poetry

18.11.2025 21:22 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#dailyhaikuprompt #kite

broken string
the boy's kite flies into
a passing cloud

31.10.2025 08:25 — 👍 39    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 2

somewhere in snow . . .
dinosaur mist



smols, October 10, 2025

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16.11.2025 17:25 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

#haiku
a feather
rushes into
the elevator

14.11.2025 03:07 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

blue butterfly . . .
my wife and I conjure
a new language



tsuri-dōrō, issue #30, 2025

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14.11.2025 16:00 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I must start writing more #tanka and tanka-bun this year!

23.02.2025 12:21 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

waterfall vapor . . .
the eagle reaches
a second sky



tsuri-dōrō, issue #30, 2025

#haiku #poetry #poem

12.11.2025 18:52 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

sunlit fence~
each nail head
a tiny sun

#haiku

10.11.2025 07:14 — 👍 66    🔁 18    💬 3    📌 1

Yule stroll . . .
each stone on the walkway
lit by a dead star



Modern Haiku, issue 56:3, 2025

#haiku #poetry #poem

10.11.2025 21:18 — 👍 21    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

walking room to room
the no one around the corner
says nothing

#wss366 #room

09.11.2025 17:04 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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