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Published writer and poet in English, Dutch and French. *Author of 'Cherchez la femme. Travestie als fenomeen' (Vassallucci, 1996) *Former music journalist #haiku #writing #books #poetry #cats #nature #art 🚫NFT 🚫Begging 🚫love, religion, 'Hello' DM's
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The Haiku Shack Magazine is looking for poetry and microfiction for its third issue. Theme: What brings you joy? Complete guidelines at creativeramblings.co... #poetry #fiction #microfiction #writing #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers

A haiku inspired by James Valentine's photo "Untitled" creativeramblings.co... #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poetrywriting #photography #writing #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets

#haiku by Laurence Stacey. Laurence teaches English & Lit. courses at Kennesaw State University. He is also the recent coauthor of “Before the Earth: Haiku and Haikai.” #poetry #departures #cats #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #micropoetry #movingon #ksu

#haiku by new contributor, Dara Royal @egret_essence . Dara is a math tutor who enjoys playing ukulele, composing haiku/senryu, walking the beach, and watching egrets. #poetry #egrets #poetrylovers #seasons #migrantslivesmatter #summer #solstice #micropoetry #migration

#haiku #collage by long-time contributor Debbie Strange (X @Debbie_Strange & IG @debbiemstrange). Her newest collection of haiku received the 2020 Snapshot Press Book Award & is now available for purchase from the press. #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #art #artist #artlovers

#senryu by long-time contributor, Alvin B. Cruz @alvinbcruz #poetry #poetrylovers #clouds #friends #beginningsandendings #endings #drift #micropoetry #haiku #phillipines

#haiku by Laila Brahmbhatt @laila_brahmbhatt #summer #cotton #poetry #moon #breeze #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #moonlight #micropoetry #nyc

Two kinds of submissions! Today I have two different sites to tell you about. Firstly, I'd like to remind you that Pure Haiku contributor, Susi Bocks, will be opening submissions for The Short of It on 1st July 2025! The guidelines have been updated, so please read the entire page before even…

Today's issue of the Solitary takes a haiku journey into the beautiful Kasugai Gardens in Kelowna! #haiku #haikujournal #kelowna #kasugai

bad year for cherries forbidden pesticides allowed again Neonics are allowed again. This is terrible news for the #bees 🐝 🐝🐝 #dailyhaikuprompt - cherries #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity #pesticides

ghost of a heron ruffling the riverclouds only this faint breeze

#haiku by new contributor by Sheikha A. Sheikha is from Pakistan & U.A.E. Her works appear widely & some of her #poetry has been translated into 9 languages so far. More: sheikha82.wordpress.com #blacknwhite #shadow #chiroscuro #poetrycommunity #eclipse #poetrylovers #micropoetry #pakistan #uae

Scotland's Wild Heart Canvas Print- www.pictorem.com/2394267/scot... Canvas Print- catriona-roberts.pixels.com/featured/sco... Canvas Print- www.artpal.com/catrionarobe... #art #homedecor #wallart #prints #Scotland #nature #photography #flowers #summer #ArtShop #ArtStore #wild

Winter Pine Silhouettes - Catriona Roberts Photography and Designs www.artpal.com/catrionarobe...

Alan Summers: #haiku #poetry mingle with #prose genres, #unrequited love, impossible #romance, #loss; the scent of #pastries in the morning hours. #haibun is its own #genre playing with both #poet and #reader all the way through to the end… rattle.com/the-moon-is-... @rattlepoetry.bsky.social

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hours before sunset carefully grating beetroot into this blue bowl

A new verse from new contributor Iain Grinbergs: 𝗘𝗠𝗗𝗥 speaking in captcha blake’s tyger owns dots stuffed possum — Iain Grinbergs

Send your haiku inspired by this photo taken by Michele at Kasugai Gardens by June 25th at midnight PST! Details here: thesolitarydaisy.ca/submission-g...

Inspired!! Submit to us! #haiku #poetry #amwriting ✍️

Don't miss the fantastic haibun in this issue of the Solitary Daisy! #haibun #haiku #haikujournal

Watercolor Saturday (25) creativeramblings.co... #art #painting #watercolor #artist

The new Weekly Prompt is up on my blog. I can't wait to read you! creativeramblings.co... #poetry #poetrywriting #fiction #micropoetry #microfiction #writing #writingcommunity #ekphrasticpoetry #poem #haiku #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets

A haiku inspired by Carleton E. Watkins's photo "Passage of the Dalles, Oregon" creativeramblings.co... #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #photography #poetrywriting #writing #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets

A haiku inspired by Francis Frith's photo "Chamonix, Mer de Glace d'Aignuille du Dru" creativeramblings.co... #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poetrywriting #photography #writing #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets

#haiku by B. L. Bruce @b_l_bruce. B. L. Bruce is an award-winning #poet & two-time #Pushcart nominee. Her newest collection: “Blue California Sky,” @ Finishing Line Press. She’s also chief editor of Humana Obscura, a nature-centric lit. mag.. #spring #poetry #poetrylovers #micropoetry #California

#haiku by Kelly Sargent ( @kelsargent36 ), a poet, artist, and editor planted in Williston, Vermont. #moon #poetry #strawberry #micropoetry #tea #poems #summer #poetrylovers #twilight #poetrycommunity #vermont

#shahai by returning contributor, Marianne Paul @ms.haiku #loveletters #love #looking #cardinal #birdwatching #Poetry #micropoetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #haiku

summer solstice a perfect day for a garden picknick #dailyhaikuprompt - solstice, picknick, garden #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity #solstice #summer #garden

#senryu by returning contributor, Ron Scully, of Burien, Washington, USA. #creepingmyrtle #haiku #poetry #border #poem #micropoetry #night #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #imigration #washington

#haiku by Laurence Stacey. Laurence teaches English and literature courses at Kennesaw State University. He is also the recent coauthor of “Before the Earth: Haiku and Haikai.” #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #micropoetry #breakups #ksu

#collaborative #shahai by Arvinder Kaur @arvinderk8 ( #monoku ) and Pratham S. S. Jolly ( #photo ). #hope #poetry #photography #micropoetry #blackandwhite #sepia #poetrylovers #photographylovers #haiku #India #milkyway

long days and yet and yet much work left undone #dailyhaikuprompt - long days #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #poetrycommunity #summer

wind chimes dangling in sync with the fireflies #dailyhaikuprompt - wind chimes, fireflies #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity #fireflies

There's no #free lunch, but there is a Free Fast Fair, an initiative by Martje Bergsma, brand: Modelijn (Insta: @modelijn). Until 22nd June from 09.30-18.00 she GIVES away 700 fast #fashion items in the pop-up store, Arnhem Central Station. I already shopped my 5 items. www.gld.nl/nieuws/83246...

#Haibun is a fascinating writing method, combining prose with #haiku #poems, often in a startling and almost uncomfortable manner. The Moon is in my Torch by Alan Summers AUDIO: rattle.com/the-moon-is-... #WritingCommunity #flashfiction #CNF @rattlepoetry.bsky.social

I love how you turn your head which turns my head which turns your head. —Alan Summers

What happened to the winds that could undress us of our cares? —Prartho Sereno

A new verse from returning contributor @chadpoetforhire.bsky.social: 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 When Hell has no more room the dead will get to vote. — Chad Parenteau

#HaikuSaturday #haiku 5/7/5: a small fiddlehead slowly starts to unfold-- listen-- nature sings short form: nature's music-- a fiddlehead unfurling Please add a version if you feel like it.

I'm going to name my first child Oxford Comma.

#LookAndSee #MusicChallenge (Day 131) youtu.be/VAtGOESO7W8?...

blackbird song at dusk grassflowers outlined in light this moment always

In the heat of surging crises I care about every day. #tanka #poem #crises

waning moon a Father's Day card from the dog

resting upon my husband’s shoulders our ghost children #SenryuSunday #senryu #fathersday