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morning light
a small Buddha
fills the room

Jon Hare

Modern Haiku, Volume 56:3, Autumn 2025

Photo: Small bronze Buddha by Mikō

Today's Find (25 Oct. 2025) at MyHaikuPond.com

charred earth
a dragon-shaped cloud
breathes smoke

Barbara Sabol

Under the Bashō, May 17, 2022. Reprinted on The NeverEndingStory Blog, October 24, 2025.

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firefly trail
chasing a second
childhood

Jahnavi Gogoi

Fevers of the Mind, Poetry Showcase, September 15, 2024... AND...
Triveni Spotlight, October 19, 2025.

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settling into
a winter night
star after star

Joanna Ashwell

Akitsu Quarterly Winter 2022

Image: 'Shinobazu Pond at a quiet winter's night' by Kawase Hasui

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New Year’s Day—
giving the etch-a-sketch
a good shake

Mary Stevens (USA)

The Heron’s Nest, 23.3, 2021 & Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: Daily Haiku Special, Oct. 8, 2025.

Image: "Sunrise on New Year's Day at Susaki", Utagawa Hiroshige (1853)

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after the sermon
the silent grace
of falling snow

Steve Hodge

Hedgerow, Issue #122, Winter 2017.

& The Midwest Haiku Traveling Rock Garden

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beach umbrella
my shadow beneath
is digging a hole

Boryana Boteva

Issue 110 (July 2025) of Failed Haiku – a journal of English Senryu. Edited by Kelly Moyer.

Image: Seven-Mile Beach in Sagami Province, by Utagawa Hiroshige (1858)

Today's Feature:

school vacation
the sound of a horse race
down the stairs

Lakshmi Iyer, India

Failed haiku, Issue 98, Feb 2024

Image: "Meiji Emperor at Horse Race", by unknown (1885)

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the heaviness
of an empty hand
fishing day

Ravi Kiran

Commended haiku, NZPS 2024 Contest.

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river walk
the frogs and katydids silent
at our presence

Anthony Lusardi

Akitsu Quarterly, Fall/Winter 2025

Image: "Ono no Tofu Standing on the Bank of a Stream and Watching a Frog Leap to Catch a Willow Branch", Totoya Hokkei (1825)

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pesticide spray
a black moth clings
to my hand

Hifsa Ashraf

THF Per Diem: Haiku of the Day, Sept. 22, 2025

Author's Note: “I often feel the most satisfying moments of creative expression are when I move aside and allow the cosmos to come through as its own expression of creativity.”

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funeral day
between raindrops
falling darkness

Ron C. Moss

Triveni Spotlight, 21st September 2025

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family dinner—
everyone chewing
on the unsaid

Neena Singh

Haikuniverse, September 18th. 2025.

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mother's wake
her special occasion dress
finally worn

Joseph P. Wechselberger, USA

Prune Juice, Nov. 2019, Issue #29

Image: “Hair Combing”, Torii Kotondo (1932)

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snowy pavements—
shop window mannequins
in bikinis

Caroline Ridley-Duff, UK

Haiku Foundation Dialogue, July 2023

Image: "Lovers Walking in the Snow (Crow and Heron)", Suzuki Harunobu (Edo Period)

Today's Feature:

a farmer sets
the curve of his cap
prairie skyline

Chad Lee Robinson

The Deep End of the Sky (2015)

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surface ripples
the plucked chord
of a bullfrog's call

Jay Friedenberg

Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2025

Image: "Two Mallard Ducks", Watanabe Seitei (Ca.1900)

Russia’s Hybrid Book Censorship and Propagandistic Agenda Publisher Vladimir Kharitonov looks at rising book censorship in Russia, describing the tools used to get rid of “bad” books and explaining how current practices differ from Soviet times.

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funeral pyre
they're banning books again
at the Kremlin

Mikō (Michael Smeer), 31 Aug. 2025

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wind shift
a koala perched
in the moon

Ron C. Moss, 2025.

Author's Note: Original sumi-e art and haiku (haiga) by Ron C. Moss. Contains my red seal thumbprint, one of the traditional ways of signing an artwork.

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wetting my brush . . .
the blue fish scatters
ink-drop stars

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Ron C. Moss, Tasmania

Kokako #43, September 2025

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night frost—
still searching
for my father's hand

Giuliana Ravaglia, Italy

The Mainichi, 11 February 2025

Image: "Mother and Daughter", Toshimine (ca. 1901)

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an ash cloud
in the river...
letting go of papa

Neena Singh

LEAF, August 2024, and Triveni Spotlight, June 17, 2025.

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Today's Feature:

meteor shower . . .
a gentle wave
wets our sandals

Michael Dylan Welch

First Prize: 2000 Haiku Society of America H. G. Henderson Haiku Contest & Frogpond XXIV:1, April 2001.

Image: Meteor over Izu Oshima island & Mt. Fuji by Itou (@orecola)

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lovingly placed
by the open window
caged birds

Marco Fraticelli (Canada)

In My Life: Happy Birthday, Volume 1. -&- Daily Haiku Special, June 30, 2025, at Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog.

Image: "Two ladies with Birdcage", Toyohara Chikanobu (1838-1912)

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rain, rain ...

we let her unborn twin

return to loam

Mark Haris

burl, Red Moon Press March 21, 2020, .AND. triveni spotlight, June 2025.

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floating
in red twilight
the seagull and the sea

Djurdja Vukelić-Rožić

Azami, 38, Japan 1996, .AND. NeverEnding Story: Butterfly Dream, June 6, 2025.

Image: "High Mountain and Red Sunset", Yamaguchi Susumu, (Ca. 1950s)

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underneath
the same moon
the ant and I

Rowan Beckett Minor (USA)

Frogpond, Vol. 42, No. 2, Winter 2019 .AND. The Daily Haiku Special: June 14, 2025 at Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog.

Image: Moon-viewing party by Toyohara Chikanobu (ca.1889)

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chestnut street
cutting corners
to the bazaar

Govind Joshi (Dehradun, India)

THF: HAIKU DIALOGUE – All the World's a Stage – Break a Leg – Long List, January 29, 2025