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Herb Tate

@herbtate5.bsky.social

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Writer of #haiku, #senryu, and #haibun. 💻 herbtate.com 📚’No Longer’ (2024); ‘Way Longer’ (2026)

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Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 17h

field of haystacks… change the thing that doesn’t change #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (haystack)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

woodland mushrooms I find what I came for… and leave #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (mushrooms)

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Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shinobazu Pond 俳句 : Bluesky Quarterly Review (2026) #3 #haiku #senryu

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Bluesky Quarterly Review (2026) #3

July-September 2026 A compendium of poems posted on Bluesky in the third quarter of 2026: Dod Procter - Sleeping Girl (1927) ...

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

chilly day wind chimes turn into a goat (I couldn’t work out where the sound was coming from…until I saw a goat in the field with a bell round its neck!) #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (chilly)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

thinking about the while…the while between walnuts #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (walnut)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

dragonfly tattoo in the autumn rain still spring #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (dragonfly)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

dusty old books — read into that what you will #haiku #senryu #SenryuSunday

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

under the radar scuppered by a sunbeam #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (sunbeam)

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Sean Wright 🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️♿ @sbwrightpoet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This week’s Fallen Petals post on Bluesky Haiku and Senryu. Featuring poets: @opjtx.bsky.social @cinnatus.bsky.social @hegelincanada.bsky.social @shinobazupond.bsky.social @herbtate5.bsky.social Blue light and faded caftans thesehaiku.substack.com/p/blue-light...

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Blue light and faded caftans

A Fallen Petals Post

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

all the sky trails don’t go anywhere near home #haiku #HaikuSaturday

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

shrinking the world to fit the facts morning fog #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (fog)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

looks like crimson water falling: start of rainbow trail #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (crimson)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the harvestman stops to remember a harvest #haiku #DailyHsikuPrompt (harvest) Partly inspired listening to @imcmillan.bluesky.social ‘s haiku chat with Robert Crawford on R4 The Verb this week, and folk having fun with haiku (listen to the end!). www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Verb - Poems to help us brave the elements - BBC Sounds

Ian McMillan with elemental haiku, poetry that moves mountains, and the best new writing.

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

chrysanthemums hints of shadows on petals #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (chrysanthemums)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

day of the equinox forward thinking flashback #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (equinox)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

wind storm half-awake feeling all of a flutter #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (wind storm)

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The Solitary Daisy 🌼 @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Good morning friends! Here is issue 81, full of lovely rain haiku! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2026/09/issu... #haiku

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Issue 81 – Rain Haiku - The Solitary Daisy

Thank you so much to those of you who have submitted haiku for the winter advent calendar! We are enjoying them so much. There is still time to submit as the deadline is October 31st

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

father’s back the hill he was prepared to die on #haiku #senryu #SenryuSunday

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

quill more graceful on the pen so type #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (quill)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

suburban twilight: city lustre worn and faded #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (twilight)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

what I think of what I thought autumn leaves late summer #haiku #HaikuSaturday

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

leaky memory… the name of our sailboat drifting away #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (leaky)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

forest walk dappled light floors me #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (dappled)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

deer park in late afternoon… a sunrise #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (deer)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

first storm… every end must have a beginning #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (first storm)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

cascades the silver brumby revisits #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (cascade)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

wings’ beats silent orientation of the flock #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (wings)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

harvest festival giving thanks, a mouse at the altar #haiku #senryu #SenryuSunday

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

autumn sun high tide almost in or out #haiku #HaikuSaturday

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

pampas grass an odyssey in my hallway #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (pampas grass)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

waning moon readying myself for ricorso #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (waning moon)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

morning cloud slowly, the horizon receding #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (morning)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

little sparrow for all the same reasons think of me #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (sparrow)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

happening upon some willow leaves autumn breeze #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (willow leaves)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

towards the end of the annuals… autumn dusk #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (dusk)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

patch of sky comfort blankets above and below #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (patch)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

all the rage… clearing out clothes from the bottom drawer #haiku #senryu #SenryuSunday

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

oh, orchids I wish I knew the secret too #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (orchids)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

autumn again one step forward one step back #haiku #HaikuSaturday

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

reckoning how long still before the tide #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (reckoning)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

splendid day… no hour…no minute… no now #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (splendid)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

clear water a moonfish eclipses the beyond #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (clear water)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

spice market acquiring a taste for adventure #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (spice)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

bowl of grapes — the composition not to my taste #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (grapes)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

potato print the art of being a parent #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (potato)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

obituary notice discovering one thing leads to another #haiku #senryu #SenryuSunday

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

old bones autumn starts to feel like winter #haiku #HaikuSaturday

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

sturgeon moon… a change in the buzz #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (buzz)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

under the full moon still time to brighten the day #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (full moon)

Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

red leaves… sunrise at the dog- end of summer #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (red leaves)