Haiku Seed Journal

start your #haiku engines... these journals reopen for submissions at the start of the new year:

- #FemkuMag
- Acorn
- contemporary haibun online
- dadakuku
- first frost
- Haiku Zoo
- Poetry Pea
- The Haibun Journal
- Triya
- tsuri-dōrō
- whiptail

Feel free to download the image and write #haiku or #senryu on it and tag me me or @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social.

There are other bird photos I've been posting in @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social account that have enough white space for putting haiku, so feel free to use any 🙂

on the fence—
waiting for the gods
to call my name

#senryu

Delightful haiku, Alan! And a wonderful painting from your mother-in-law 🙂

Merry Winter Greetings!

Alan
Call of the Page
#haiku #snow #fox #painting

かれ朶に烏のとまりけり秋の暮 [芭蕉] on a dead branch the crow has perched, autumn dusk (Bashō)

かれ朶に烏のとまりけり秋の暮 [芭蕉] crows alight on a withered branch, autumn sunset (Bashō)

#俳句 #haiku #poet:Bashō #school:Teimon #school:Danrin #school:Shōmon #era:1600s #kigo:autumn #kigo:autumn-dusk ❖ Source: #WGAston (1899) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haikai, or use the topics of 'autumn' and/or 'dusk' as a #dailyhaikuprompt! 🖤

🏞️ 𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐡ō 𝐀𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐚 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫🪴

exciting
but sad when it is over
cormorant boats

Matsuo Bashō
Translation by Jane Reichhold

~

#haiku #MatsuoBasho #JaneReichhold #HSJ_FromTheMasters

Most of all, please repost things if you like :) It's difficult getting the engagement without that support from the haikai community. Appreciate it! 🙂

In terms of timelines, the first submission window may be in March 2025, but I want to do something new for the website, so let's see.

I used to prepare images with pretty designs to share the prompts weekly & announce the picks in the following week. I'll do something different here, in terms of the frequency as I plan to take submissions quarterly instead of weekly as it was overwhelming, curating a year's worth of selections.

What I used to post on Twitter & haikuseed.com:

⛩️ 'From the Masters' column: Sharing haiku by Bashō & Issa

📝'Editor's Garden' column: Some thoughts on specific haiku I read or write.

🌟'Last Week's #HaikuSeed Blossoms - Feature' column: Selected #haiku response to the prompt with commentary

🐌 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐚'𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 🌌

the cricket also
moves in with me...
winter seclusion

Kobayashi Issa
Translation by David G. Lanoue

#haiku #KobayashiIssa #DavidGLanoue #HSJ_FromTheMasters

🏞️ Seeking Bashō Along Sumida River 🍃

how touching
to exist after the storm
chrysanthemum

Matsuo Bashō
Translation by Jane Reichhold

#haiku #MatsuoBasho #JaneReichhold #HSJ_FromTheMasters

📣Announcement: The website is back up with proper links to 'Issue #0 - First Blossoms'

URL: haikuseed.com/issue-0-firs...

So, now you can go back and read the old posts over at haikuseed.com. Some links may not work yet.

The plan is to get the site backup fresh & new for 2025. Let's see.

A minimal sketch artwork that is mainly in black and white with a red sun. A silhouette with an umbrella out on his shoulder is walking in a puddle of water, ripples showing the falling rain. The rain is falling in a slant, left to the right, so the silhouetted person is resting their umbrella on the shoulder. A frog is in mid-leap off the umbrella onto the path of the silhouetted person and the frog is backlit by a red sun which is the only color in this artwork besides black and white. The rain is shown to be only falling in a relatively narrow column, so there is some unrealistic nature to the scene. The frog jumping off of the umbrella of a walking person too is unrealistic. But it's monsoon! Boots and frogs croaking along the waterlogged roads.

A random #HaikuSeed prompt - this artwork. The journal is still in hiatus, so no curation from my side. But I will read and repost the #haiku I like:)

Please use #HaikuSeed in your posts that are written for the prompt so readers and fellow poets can find them easily.

- @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social

traffic crawl
a bug on the windscreen
changes lanes

#haiku #senryu #SenryuSunday

#haikuseed

feeling patriotic--
Kaeru leaps into
the rising sun

jumping for joy...
the frog refreshed
in the rain
~Nancy Brady, 2024
#offthecuffhaiku #HaikuSeed

If you want a bit of a close-up of the frog, here you go. It is low-res and creepy. Which came first, no one knows. *wink wink* But not creepier than some of the frog-based Japanese artworks I've seen.

A minimal sketch artwork that is mainly in black and white with a red sun. A silhouette with an umbrella out on his shoulder is walking in a puddle of water, ripples showing the falling rain. The rain is falling in a slant, left to the right, so the silhouetted person is resting their umbrella on the shoulder. A frog is in mid-leap off the umbrella onto the path of the silhouetted person and the frog is backlit by a red sun which is the only color in this artwork besides black and white. The rain is shown to be only falling in a relatively narrow column, so there is some unrealistic nature to the scene. The frog jumping off of the umbrella of a walking person too is unrealistic. But it's monsoon! Boots and frogs croaking along the waterlogged roads.

A random #HaikuSeed prompt - this artwork. The journal is still in hiatus, so no curation from my side. But I will read and repost the #haiku I like:)

Please use #HaikuSeed in your posts that are written for the prompt so readers and fellow poets can find them easily.

- @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social

Dear haijin, these wonderful frog artworks make me want to read some frog #haiku.

.薄緑やどさり居て鳴く蛙
usumidori ya dosari suwatte naku kawazu

pale green
sitting down with a thump...
croaking frog

Kobayashi Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

#HaikuSeedPrompt (not curating, just to engage poets)

I keep thinking about what we were able to do in 2022, with the inaugural issue & the contributions & the lead up to the issue through weekly prompts in 2021.

The journal is still on hiatus, I'm unable to find time & energy to resume it. But I follow the wonderful community of haikai poets :)

I'm putting together a starter pack with journals, publications and resources that are related to haikai forms. Hopefully more journals join BlueSky as time passes.

go.bsky.app/7krEkBJ

#haiku #senryu #haiga #poetry