Acorn Haiku

Have finally moved over to Blue Sky! Let's connect at acornhaiku@bsky.social Acorn #54 will go in the mail next week. Sample poems coming soon!

Acorn: TY @AcornHaiku 💐 chorus frogs a boy's fingernail strums his comb weathered oars we fold our worries into the river prairie heatwave a kestrel's wing fans the grass a camouflaged burrow the creature within me season's end a loon stirs sunset into the lake #haiku

This #haiku begins the our Autumn Edition, released today... You can continue the journey here... waleshaikujournal.com

so important not to half-ass your poems. you gotta full-ass whole-butt that poetry

"How can you be gone when I still love you?" — Declan Ryan

I love to read in bed in the middle of the day

New (old) editors and new Submission Guides!!! failedhaiku.com/2024/09/09/new… via @SenryuJournal

"I am, I am, and you are, you are, we wrote, until the paper seemed a tree again." A tender, shimmering moment from Deborah Landau's unparalled 'Soft Targets'

"traveling geese -- the human heart, too wanders" Issa Kobayashi (images: Koson Ohara / Shoen Uemura)

“To be influenced by somebody is not to write like him or her; rather, someone’s work suddenly opens up new possibilities that you never thought of before.” From a lecture given by Fredric Jameson. buff.ly/3MGZDYN

I've fallen in love with Alex Dimitrov's conception of love

A favorite:

there's a kind of writerly trap in thinking "be specific" = "be elaborately detailed" when often it means to sharpen/deepen. more detail won't help if it's superfluous. one revealing detail can say it all. further descriptiveness won't help if what's needed is insight or truth

How're people doing with today's Wordle? Just wondering...

HNA is now on YouTube! Our channel is brand-new, but if you subscribe now, you'll be the first to know when we post our first video! youtube.com/channel/UCeHjA…

@laughingyeti Acorn will open for submissions (haiku only!!) on July 1. Submission guidelines at acornhaiku.com

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'Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by someone I do not know.' John Keats, in a letter to his sister