Melissa Dennison

[Frank Scozzari @ScozzariFrank]

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
—Richard Bach—

[Daily Dutch Masters 🇳🇱 🎨 @Goudriaan2]

Flowers in a Glass Vase
Dirck de Bray, 1671

[Nancy Brady Smith @NancySm93536930]

Love the ku although I really hate dog-eared books.

[Amazing Nature @AmazingNature00]

🍁Some of nature's most beautiful masterpieces take decades to grow and only weeks to change color. ❤️

[𝘑𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯 @JustAskJillian]

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

~W.B. Yeats

[Jim Beattie @JimBeattie18]

Good Morning ☀️
~
Be good to others.
You will find the world
better and beautiful always...
~
Blue Hydrangea
Cressida Campbell (Australian)

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.”

― Georgia O'Keefe

[colinmyles @colinmyles]

on the old church hill
rooks in military formation;
forward peck forward #haiku #HaikuSaturday

[Melissa Dennison @MelissaDen53380]

@HaikuCrush Thankyou! 🥳

[Haiku Crush @HaikuCrush]

#Haiku's alive!

The judges @HaikuCrush have chosen *memories of you* by Melissa Dennison @MelissaDen53380 of #England to be in The Best Haiku 2026 #book.

" ...My favorite poet is Issa as he noticed the little creatures.

#poet #poetry #haikusaturday #poetrybooks #senryu #rain

[Melissa Dennison @MelissaDen53380]

@JoHackl @AndrewsSusanM Glad you think so. 😁💖

[Melissa Dennison @MelissaDen53380]

@JoHackl @tutuduttawriter @DianeDevine18 @ellin_anderson Thanks, you too 😊

[Jo Hackl @JoHackl]

Celebrating #haikuSaturday:

conference cycad
silently absorbing all
keeping every word

#poetry #haiku

[Melissa Dennison @MelissaDen53380]

Many thanks to the team at poeyry pea for selecting my haiku for the podcast this week. Means a lot.

wave after wave
longing for the sea
to carry me away

https://t.co/88sLAP9WYs

#haiku

[Paul Callus @CallusPaul]

With thanks to editor David McMurray for including my haiku in today's issue of the Asahi Haikuist Network.
https://t.co/8rRY7KZQcM

[Melissa Dennison @MelissaDen53380]

@SeschipperSusan Thats so spooky. 👀👻😁

[Susan @SeschipperSusan]

#HaikuSaturday
5/7/5
color reversed eye
moon aligns with windows arch
red rock formation

Short Form
eye
moon
rock

Monoku
Color reversed eye...moon aligns with red rock formation

[Melissa Dennison @MelissaDen53380]

This week's re:Virals has a great verse to discuss by Andre Surridge

second-hand bookshop
red wine stains
on the Rubaiyat

from his book 'one hundred petals'

Why not join the conversation at:

https://t.co/9adCNd5yGg

#haiku

[Melissa Dennison @MelissaDen53380]

@AndrewsSusanM Have a lovely time!