by Helen Ivory | Jul 4, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
lightning flashes everyone stands still * doves balance on telephone wires girls play jump rope * wall of windows carved out of red brick see no evil Diane Webster’s haiku/senryu have appeared in failed haiku, Kokako, Enchanted...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 17, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
end-of-day catch our wicker basket full of salmon sunset * hospice garden the wishing fountain fills with fallen leaves * breezy sunshine my blind date and I slow-dance to subway’s sway * churchyard shadows a bent woman speaking in tongues *...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 5, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
The Peace of Winter With every book I sell, with every piece of clothing I give away, with every one of my old toys I bury deep into the trash bin, I feel a bone deep tiredness creeping into my soul. I know, I know, I have to let go. But please...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 26, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
[Haiku] how do I begin? the song of a robin is lost in the telling Clare Bryden is a writer, artist and consultant based in Exeter. Her interests are wide-ranging, but primarily the place of human beings within the natural...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 1, 2025 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
midnight sun Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and haiga artist whose work has been widely published internationally. Her haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks (Snapshot Press 2024), received 3rd Place in the Haiku Society of America’s 2025...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 5, 2024 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
The Universe Dreamed I: 16th September 2023 The Universe dreamed I’d come to its restaurant. I needed to pass the time before my train home. The restaurant bustled with galaxies intending to dine together. It felt only fair then that I give...
