Haiku Commentary

Haiku, related forms, and commentary on it. Digging deeper into the smaller things.

[Ad-Libby @AdLibby1]

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

[Katherine E Winnick @WinnickE56828]

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

[haikueveryday @haikueveryday]

negotiations
another day
of snow

-LeRoy Gorman
https://t.co/1KGcQFJC7h

[John Wisdom @wisdom_joh57536]

#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.

[NeverEnding Story Editor and Poet, Chen-ou Liu @ericcoliu]

crowded shelter
layer within layer
of hushed silence

https://t.co/QTtqMzQOBQ #CeaseFireNow #haiku #poem #poetry #micropoetry #GazaGenocide #GazaStarving #NetanyahuWarCriminal #IsraeliWarCrimes

Selected #Poems on 50,000 DEATHS in #GAZA https://t.co/ZbHacsV44u #poetry #writing

[John Wisdom @wisdom_joh57536]

#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.

[Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays]

Glad to have my haiku published in failed haiku, volume 10, Issue 108.

Thanks Kelly and Mike. :)

https://t.co/YR7cpO26vI

#micropoetry #haiku #poetrycommunity #WritingCommmunity

[Haiku Commentary @HaikuCommentary]

Commentary post: https://t.co/52FlJtyl7P

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:

[Ben Gaa @gobengaa]

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

[𝙻𝚊𝚏𝚌𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 💙 @lafcadiopoetry]

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

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[5haikuSpoken @fivehaikuspoken]

5haikuSpoken:
issue 17

Tony Williams
Deborah A. Bennet
Tracy Davidson @tracydavidson27
Kala Ramesh
Jeremey Haworth

#micropoety #micropoem #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #5haikuspoken #poetrycommunity

[Haiku @white_haiku]

Spring rain falls gently,
A fishmonger’s lantern glows
Through the misty dusk.

Yosa Buson | Kōhō Shōda
#haiku #spring #Japan

[Wales Haiku Journal @WalesHaiku]

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

[Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays]

Glad to have a haiku published in #femkumag issue 38, Spring 2025.

Thanks to Rowan Beckett Minor and Vandana Parashar.

https://t.co/4P2VtQ13gi

#micropoetry #haiku

[Rashmi VeSa @RashmiVeSa]

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- https://t.co/WhnTyloBTU

[FreshOutMag @FreshoutMag]

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

[Asura's Haiku @AsurasHaiku]

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

[NeverEnding Story Editor and Poet, Chen-ou Liu @ericcoliu]

@HaikuCommentary @matte_kishor @HaikuCrazee I follow the trickle
of this childhood creek
Earth Day

https://t.co/YPxHkaNK48 #poetry #micropoetry #poem #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #Climate #ClimateAction #ClimateActionNow

[Asura's Haiku @AsurasHaiku]

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

[Haiku Commentary @HaikuCommentary]

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: https://t.co/gBK42ScNgS
#haiku #poetry #poem