Haiku Commentary

Honored to have a haiku on The Touchstone Awards Individual Haiku Long List. It has a really interesting selection-well worth a read. Huge thanks to @WalesHaiku for nominating this poem and to the judges #haiku

Thankyou Lakshmi Iyer 🙏 for including my ku in the Haiku Dialogue longlist this week

negotiations another day of snow -LeRoy Gorman tinywords.com/2025/03/28/428…

#Old #Haiku #personal #favorites releasing a sparrow — its heartbeat lingers in my palm John Wisdom At about 12, a friend and I hit a tiny sparrow, that clung onto life like a dying soldier. I never forgot it.

crowded shelter layer within layer of hushed silence tinyurl.com/58aucrbb #CeaseFireNow #haiku #poem #poetry #micropoetry #GazaGenocide #GazaStarving #NetanyahuWarCriminal #IsraeliWarCrimes Selected #Poems on 50,000 DEATHS in #GAZA tinyurl.com/4fta8c6z #poetry #writing

#Haiku #personal #favorites #pine #trees wind-whipped pine each needle glistening in the torrid rain John Wisdom … after writing this haiku, it tended to vary from the haiku norms. Hence, my reason for Tanka.

Glad to have my haiku published in failed haiku, volume 10, Issue 108. Thanks Kelly and Mike. :) failedhaiku.com #micropoetry #haiku #poetrycommunity #WritingCommmunity

Commentary post: tinyurl.com/zpj3jtph night ferry pitching its way through starlight  — Maire Morrissey Cummins grandfather’s trembling feet searching for the slippers in this cold night — Lanka Siriwardana and a haiga by Bonnie J Scherer:

Thrilled to have these two #haiku in the Fall/Winter 2024 issue of Akitsu Quarterly.

leaf skeleton-- the memory of who I used to be 📷 gettyimages

5haikuSpoken: issue 17 Tony Williams Deborah A. Bennet Tracy Davidson @tracydavidson27 Kala Ramesh Jeremey Haworth #micropoety #micropoem #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #5haikuspoken #poetrycommunity

Spring rain falls gently, A fishmonger’s lantern glows Through the misty dusk. Yosa Buson | Kōhō Shōda #haiku #spring #Japan

The sixth of our Winter Series: an evocative and memorable #haiku from Jay Friedenberg, selected from our #Winter Journal. You can find this and many others @ the link in bio… #haiku #haikupoetry #micropoetry

Glad to have a haiku published in #femkumag issue 38, Spring 2025. Thanks to Rowan Beckett Minor and Vandana Parashar. femkumag.wixsite.com/home/issues #micropoetry #haiku

Delighted to have my #haiku in Mamba – Journal of Africa Haiku Network -Issue 17, February 2025. Many thanks to the Editor Emmanuel Kalusian and the Guest Editor Ayeyemi Taofeek for the publication. The link to the fantastic issue is here- africahaikunetwork.wordpress.com/contact/

#shahai by long-time contributor, Reid Hepworth @reidhepworth. #photography #lake #poetry #shore #poetrycommunity #moon #monoku #trees #pic #poetrylovers #night #micropoetry #haiku #photo #winter

remaining in the records as a flightless bird --reiko nakahara 記録には飛べない鳥として残る　なかはられいこ #senryu #gendaisenryu #translation

@HaikuCommentary @matte_kishor @HaikuCrazee I follow the trickle of this childhood creek Earth Day bit.ly/3EJT15Z #poetry #micropoetry #poem #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #Climate #ClimateAction #ClimateActionNow

two or three brooms that should be sweeping summer's fallen leaves --Soha Hatano (1923-1991) 夏落葉掃くべき箒二三本　波多野爽波 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

soft orange leaves— how weightless she feels in my arms — Anthony Lusardi call to prayers the vastness of domed desert — Douglas J. Lanzo frosty dawn — the metallic taste of her lipstick — Minh-Triêt Pham Commentary: haikucommentary.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/hai… #haiku #poetry #poem