allium blossom . . .
the milky way tilts
in my wife’s eyes
Haiku Canada Review, February issue, 2025
#haiku #poetry #poem
@haikuforlife.bsky.social
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/
allium blossom . . .
the milky way tilts
in my wife’s eyes
Haiku Canada Review, February issue, 2025
#haiku #poetry #poem
chrysanthemums: tired of this 'adulting' thing #senryu
04.12.2025 04:50 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0trail map
notes from my father
no longer legible
Modern Haiku, issue 56:1, 2025
#haiku #poetry #poem
Christmas . . .
wrapping myself
in father’s shawl
—
Winner, My Haiku Pond 10th Year Celebration Haiku and Senryu Contest, 2025
#haiku #senryu #poetry
dusk . . .
the salmon leaps over
a past life
---
Published in Wales Haiku Journal, winter issue, 2025
#haiku #poetry #poem
evening orchard —
apples
almost stars
#haiku #poetry
lightning . . .
I push the whale vertebrae
back on its wings
—
Wales Haiku Journal, winter issue, 2025
#haiku #poetry #poem
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...
lupine buds . . .
rising to a chakra
yet to be named
—
Fresh Out, January 8, 2025
#haiku #poetry #poem
Beyond Emptiness is a collaborative mystiku (mystical haiku) collection by Hifsa Ashraf, Jacob D. Salzer, and Nicholas Klacsanzky.
Please get your copy from Lulu.
lulu.com/shop/nicholas-…
#haiku #micropoetry #mysticism #writerslife #writerscommunity #meditation #peace
You’re very welcome 😊
27.11.2025 16:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thrilled 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 📌 2Featured 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
with each wave
the hush of pebbles . . .
father’s ashes
---
Cold Moon Journal, January 1, 2025
#haiku #poetry #poem #micropoetry
quiet street
a leaf and I
cross together
#haiku #poetry #writing
Thank you for the support 🙏
23.11.2025 08:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0three-quarter moon
a monk tells us
he’s enlightened
—
Published in Failed Haiku, issue #106, 2025
#haiku #poetry #poem
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
strolling
through an art gallery
my fart on display
—
Published in Failed Haiku, issue #106, 2025
#haiku #senryu #poetry
My poem featured at the haiku dialogue this Wednesday. Thanks 🤩 to the editor 🌹
19.11.2025 15:05 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0trail map
the legend’s lack
of bear scat
---
Published in Failed Haiku, issue #106, 2025
#senryu #haiku #poetry
#dailyhaikuprompt #kite
broken string
the boy's kite flies into
a passing cloud
somewhere in snow . . .
dinosaur mist
—
smols, October 10, 2025
#haiku #poetry #micropoetry
#haiku
a feather
rushes into
the elevator
blue butterfly . . .
my wife and I conjure
a new language
—
tsuri-dōrō, issue #30, 2025
#haiku #poetry #poem
I must start writing more #tanka and tanka-bun this year!
23.02.2025 12:21 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0waterfall vapor . . .
the eagle reaches
a second sky
—
tsuri-dōrō, issue #30, 2025
#haiku #poetry #poem
sunlit fence~
each nail head
a tiny sun
#haiku
Yule stroll . . .
each stone on the walkway
lit by a dead star
—
Modern Haiku, issue 56:3, 2025
#haiku #poetry #poem
walking room to room
the no one around the corner
says nothing
#wss366 #room