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"She wanted to be planted near the river and grow leaves darker than algae so she could seriously challenge the water of the pool." — Shahrnush Parsipur

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Self tanner applied
a soft golden brown achieved
now, let spring begin.

#micropoetry #haiku #senryu #poetry

10.03.2026 18:42 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Soft Burial by Fang Fang, My Sister's Red Shirt by Tie Ning, The Lucky Ride by Yasushi Kitagawa, Kleine Wunder um Mitternacht von Keigo Higashino

Soft Burial by Fang Fang, My Sister's Red Shirt by Tie Ning, The Lucky Ride by Yasushi Kitagawa, Kleine Wunder um Mitternacht von Keigo Higashino

Recent reads. I highly recommend Soft Burial by Fang Fang. 📚
#booksky

10.03.2026 15:41 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you. ✨️

10.03.2026 10:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

.
petits soleils
éclatant de jaune
le jasmin d'hiver sous la pluie
.
little suns
shining brightly yellow
winter jasmine in the rain
.
Hana K.
.
#俳句 #haiku #poetry
#poésie #nature
#DailyHaikuPrompt yellow

25.02.2026 21:17 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

drunk in December
・ pen
・ ink
・ checkbook

--Hanmonsen Kimura

師走の酔ッ払ひ・ペン・インク・小切手帳 / 木村半文銭

#senryu #translation

09.03.2026 09:12 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

silver needles
pulling threads of stars
across the midnight sky

#haiku

10.03.2026 08:06 👍 33 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1

Under the rotting linoleum, she finds poets.

09.03.2026 18:06 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The oldest ghost. The mistress of the house. The housekeeper. They have a plan for her.

09.03.2026 15:05 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Still from Princess Kaguya anime: An old bamboo cutter in a bamboo forest, kneeling in front of a small glowing bamboo stalk from which a tiny girl appears.

Still from Princess Kaguya anime: An old bamboo cutter in a bamboo forest, kneeling in front of a small glowing bamboo stalk from which a tiny girl appears.

the old man
sets down his axe—
from the bamboo stalk
a tiny girl blinks
at the morning

#5lines
#FairyTales

10.03.2026 07:18 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
The following haiku is presented on faded yellow background and illustrated with a sumi-e painting of a crow etched on the rim of a wheelie bin


garbage truck 
a crow
on the empty bin

The following haiku is presented on faded yellow background and illustrated with a sumi-e painting of a crow etched on the rim of a wheelie bin garbage truck a crow on the empty bin

garbage truck
a crow
on the empty bin

Find more haiku and haibun here: kasasagi.blog

09.03.2026 11:27 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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broken glass worries not the gods the world is but a china cabinet its glass windows like curved domes barely protecting a susceptible client boasting beauty and fragility stones and bulls whiz and whirl inside the place directed b…

jdubqca.com/2015/03/20/broken-glass-worries-not-the-gods/

BROKEN GLASS WORRIES NOT THE GODS

#poetry

<Mar-2015>

08.03.2026 18:54 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

river bend—
a floating leaf
changes countries
#haiku #poetry

08.03.2026 17:51 👍 148 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 0

snow shrinks, puckers,
wide puddles leap on walkers;
heard any geese yet?

#SundaySenryu #senryu # haiku #March

08.03.2026 14:01 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

fiddleheads
I sit for a spell
unfurling

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu #SenryuSunday #poetry

08.03.2026 20:49 👍 36 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
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The slow drip, of my bank account; far from empty, but no longer filling.

The soon-to-be, gap in my resume; not even born yet, but growing soon.

I notice, more gray hairs these days; when will I be, employed again?

#sijo

04.03.2026 00:58 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

moon walk —
the lightness I feel
for a change

#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (moon)

09.03.2026 08:00 👍 63 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0

white gold —
a spider’s web
touching the moon

#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #moon

09.03.2026 16:29 👍 25 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Early morning
a hummingbird not disturbing
a branch

#haiku #senryu #poetry

09.03.2026 00:05 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Iridescence Leaf 320 – Art Inspired   Hasegawa Senzan - Iris and Dragon Fly This poem was in part inspired by Hasegawa Senzan’s painting, ‘Iris and ...

Iridescence
alighting
on a blue iris.

#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

09.03.2026 03:06 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

the rain
and the tree
writing a life story

09.03.2026 01:43 👍 22 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

all down the dark road
soft-cheeked little indoor moons
shine through the curtains

09.03.2026 21:32 👍 32 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0

spring morn
sitting in a room
with cold feet without socks

#haiku

09.03.2026 08:20 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

night...
the moon's light
sleeps on the awning

#DailyHaikuPrompt #moon
#vssdaily #awning
#Haiku #micropoetry #micropoem

09.03.2026 14:27 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

on some afternoon excursion
passing by
a thrift store
an old world brooch
on a faded cushion

#tanka

10.03.2026 06:27 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
haiku eye as eyes seize it

spring yes spring
the transience of perfection
be held in my hand

oyoguhito
#haiku
haikueye.blogspot.com

09.03.2026 10:18 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

💖✨️

10.03.2026 06:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

a narrow path
through tall ferns~
somewhere ahead
a small bell
ringing

#tanka

10.03.2026 06:29 👍 25 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

❤️🤗

10.03.2026 06:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The princess
in the tower finds
a spiral staircase
and walks down and down
into bird-song spring

Today's #tanka for #UnknownFairyTales is especially for @joypops.bsky.social

09.03.2026 20:13 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Love this so much! 💖 I love the progression from the dark, quiet (winter) tower into the bright, bird-song spring. Bird-song spring is a tiny poem all on its own. Thank you so much, Kris.💖✨️

no crown now
only morning light
in her loose hair;
the whole meadow ringing
with bird-song spring

10.03.2026 05:45 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0