Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne

fragrance of lilies—a handful of popcorn #shinkeiku #senryu

Hi! Do you still need a cover art? I'm playing with an idea :)

farewell snow
falling straight
#haiku

#haiku
the wood table
still cool from
last night

もっと悪い年が来そうだ

it feels like
an even worse year
is coming

— Inoue Kenkabō (1870–1934)

tart taste
of orange juice
remembering
Sanford Goldstein
and his tanka

#tanka

#haiku
your friend
says we’re all
just teeth

🤣🤣😅 yeah, foremost when I'm too eager to reply quickly that happens a lot!!

I guess I NEED a whole essay. This is excitingggggg

red butterflies dance
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ——
(Caesarian section)

--Hanmonsen Kimura

紅い蝶々舞踏1.2.3.4.5.6.7. ―― (帝王切開)　　　/　木村半文銭

#senryu #gendaisenryu #translation

😍 Orrin, this is delightful. I would love to see several examples added, including why they fit this and also why it may fall short to call them haiku or senryū (?)!

And I would really like to edit my grammar mistakes in this, haha

Strange

Sound by sound
a blackbird singing
slits me open,
close to reaching
our spring.

—Makoto

#tanka #poem #blackbird #spring

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Book review: Modō by Alan Summers Alan Summers is widely known as a teacher, editor, and advocate for haiku in English.

Book Review: Modō by Alan Summers

#haiku #monoku

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Jetzt weinst du

A first
mild night
and I regret
my muzzled teeth,
cold skin.

—Makoto

#tanka #poem

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Sankara @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social writes wonderfully sensitive haiku, and draws incredible illustrations. Check out his blog and follow!

coffeeandhaiku.in/the-fog-that...

There is joy and liveliness in the uniqueness of our poetry, and it doesn't need to be read or acknowledged by anybody to have this for us, the poets who writes it. Who puts their heart to paper. Who struggles with finding the words. (2/2)

Rereading your reply this evening, and it made me think. Sankara, only you can write your haiku. What I mean is: no one else writes like you writes, and this is good. (1/2)

新月の
闇に飛び込む
狐の子

ShiNgetsu no
Yami ni tobikomu
Kitsuné no ko

Jumping into the darkness
Of the new moon
The baby fox

#Haiku #Poetry #俳句 #詩 #winter #冬
#haikuhorrorprompt : Jump
#DailyHaikuPrompt : New Moon

I mostly write on my phone, but I reserve time for writing in thin notebooks, eg when I sit in the kitchen, or when I'm on holidays. Like a writing celebration :). Keep writing digitally, if it's the best way for you, but putting your haiku on display here and there can be really empowering :)

You got that. Write your beautiful haiku on a card and put in in a spot that catches your eye daily? ❤️

Curtains

first fly
the curtain says
no

—Makoto

#poem #senryu

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The Haiku “Aha”: What Neuroscience Reveals About the Cut Why does a good haiku feel like a small flash of illumination?

The neuroscience of Haiku and its implications for craft.

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#haiku
your gaze averted
the cherry blossoms
pop

blackbird
the rain
cannot hold
back a song
for the heart

#shortpoem #poem #blackbird #heart #rain

inside my body
the moon makes a sound
Gin & tonic

--Yukie Noma

体内に月の音するJINトニック　　野間幸恵

#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

Minute after minute,
a water drop lands on
the scuffed steel kitchen sink . . .
I've just got
too much time.

—Makoto

#completethehaiga 139 #prompt #haiga #tanka

Alvvays - Dreams Tonite [Official Video] YouTube video by Alvvays

🎶 It's Wednesday🎶

Time for a Prune Juice Music prompt. We invite you to write senryu inspired by this song:

youtu.be/ZXu6q-6JKjA?...

Submit your poems in the comments with the hashtag: #PJMusic

#WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #senryu #poetry #Alvvays

clay
oozing out between
my fingers

(Makoto)

hate being responsible
hate being responsible

(Orrin)

.........

clay
oozing out between
my fingers

(Makoto)

in the lower chamber
of her heart

(Pippa)

Black text on white background reading: You had to make your own sunshine, but now the sky is opalite.