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Wales Haiku Journal @waleshaiku.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Autumn ’26 issue of Wales Haiku Journal is now live. We’re delighted to share this new issue, featuring #haiku, #senryu, #tanka, #haibun, #tankaprose and #haiga from talented poets and artists across the world. A huge thank you. You can read the issue here: www.waleshaikujournal.com

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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Delighted to have these in the Autumn issue of @waleshaiku.bsky.social Thank you to editors @joewoodhouse.bsky.social and @loverpoetic.bsky.social Read the issue here: www.waleshaikujournal.com/autumn2026

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dadakuku @dadakuku.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A new verse from returning contributor @loverpoetic.bsky.social : 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 the woman inside the telephone has been dead for several winters but still asks me to hold the receiver between my knees and begin stringing rhubarb upstairs a pigeon carries a cable tie — C.X. Turner

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emergency contact

the woman inside the telephone has been dead for several winters but still asks me to hold the receiver between my knees and begin stringing rhubarbupstairsa pigeon carriesa cable tie — C.X. Turner…

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dadakuku @dadakuku.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A new verse from returning contributor @loverpoetic.bsky.social : 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘂𝘀 wrinkled fingertips the wallpaper dreaming of seaweed before dawn inside the walls high tide beneath floorboards — C.X. Turner

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bird census

wrinkled fingertips the wallpaper dreaming of seaweed before dawn inside the wallshigh tidebeneathfloorboards — C.X. Turner

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Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Massive thanks to Joe and Luci @loverpoetic.bsky.social for choosing this one of mine for the latest edition of Wales Haiku Journal @waleshaiku.bsky.social - 210 great works from poets round the world. #haiku #WalesHaikuJournal www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2026

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Mike Fainzilber @mfainzilber.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

sudden breeze a whisper of green persimmons 🙏 to Joe Woodhouse and Luci Turner @loverpoetic.bsky.social for featuring this one in the Summer 2026 issue of @waleshaiku.bsky.social www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2026

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SUMMER 2026 | home

The Spring Edition of the Wales Haiku Journal. Featuring an array of haiku, monoku, haibun, haiga and commentary.

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Wales Haiku Journal @waleshaiku.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Some poems make us stop. Some make us smile. Occasionally, they do both. Here's one of those from the Wales Haiku Journal Summer Competition 2025 - one of last year's highly commended poems. how did I get here? a blueberry rolls down the bus aisle - D W Brydon #haiku #poetry

Cream-coloured textured background with the haiku:

"how did I get here?

a blueberry rolls down

the bus aisle"

— D W Brydon

The poem was highly commended in the Wales Haiku Journal Summer Competition 2025.

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Wales Haiku Journal @waleshaiku.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

☀️ The Wales Haiku Journal Summer Competition 2026 is now open. Whether your summer arrives with cicadas, sea mist, monsoon rains, wildflowers, thunderstorms, or long evenings of light, we look forward to reading the many ways the season finds its voice in your work.

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John Hawkhead @haikuhawk.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

New from Wales Haiku Journal: city gulls circling the square Thanks to @loverpoetic.bsky.social and Joe Woodhouse for taking this! See the whole issue here: www.waleshaikujournal.com/spring26 #haiku #monoku #impossible #waleshaikujournal

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C. Jean Downer @cjeandowner.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Thank you to editors @loverpoetic.bsky.social and @jwjwoodhouse for including my ku in this resplendent issue of Wales Haiku Journal. Congratulations to all the poets included. I’ve enjoyed reading your poems this week. What a delight! www.waleshaikujournal.com/.../f225a3... #haiku #senryu

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John Hawkhead @haikuhawk.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Another from @waleshaiku.bsky.social edited by @loverpoetic.bsky.social and Joe Woodhouse: rolling through borders the grey armoured progress of woodlice #haiku #metaphor #nature #micropoetry

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dadakuku @dadakuku.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A new verse from returning contributor @loverpoetic.bsky.social: 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗹 a cup left to the night milk holding a pale moon moth-bright wings brushing the rim my mouth tastes tin candle smoke undoing my fingerprints — C.X. Turner

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salt on the windowsill

a cup left to the night milk holding a pale moon moth-bright wings brushing the rim my mouth tastes tincandle smokeundoingmy fingerprints — C.X. Turner

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MarkgZero @markgzero.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I'm proud to have a distinctive minimalist haiku with a juxtaposition in the latest @waleshaiku.bsky.social, congrats to all those who contribute and thanks to editors Joe Woodhouse & @loverpoetic.bsky.social. A beautiful issue into which to immerse. Check it at www.waleshaikujournal.com/winter2025.

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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

An #advent of #haiku Day 3 Published in Haiku Girl Summer. With thanks to editor @teatimehaiku.bsky.social W and guest editor @loverpoetic.bsky.social

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dadakuku @dadakuku.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

A new verse from returning contributor C. X. Turner: 𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵 for the forest leans closer every time I pass the fallen mushroom white half-moon bright as milk teeth cupped in my palm distant bell the silhouettes lean closer — C.X. Turner

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ash path

for the forest leans closer every time I pass the fallen mushroom white half-moon bright as milk teeth cupped in my palmdistant bellthe silhouetteslean closer — C.X. Turner

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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Delighted to have 2 haiku in the Autumn Issue of @waleshaiku.bsky.social Many thanks to editors Joe Woodhouse and @loverpoetic.bsky.social #haiku #poetryasprotest

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Wales Haiku Journal @waleshaiku.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

We’re thrilled to share our Autumn 2025 Edition 🍂 - With 334 voices from 38 countries, this collection captures autumn’s glow, hush, and turning light. Take a moment, #read, and connect. #haiku #newpoetry waleshaikujournal.com/autumn2025

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AUTUMN 2025 | home

The Summer '25 Edition of the Wales Haiku Journal

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C.X.Turner (Luci) @loverpoetic.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

None of them had labels a cupboard of jars clouded with years #bass drifts faint from another decade I move the glass as if it might open but the lids hold fast . . . roots through the floorboards remain unseen #vss365 #FromOneLine #poem

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petro c. k. @petrock.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Many thanks to @jeromeberglund.bsky.social for selecting my verse for Heterodox Haiku: Contrarians, haiku that goes against the grain. An excellent collection. The essays by @loverpoetic.bsky.social and @shortpoemz.bsky.social are also must-reads. 👇 archive.org/details/hete...

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dadakuku @dadakuku.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

A new verse from returning contributor @loverpoetic.bsky.social: 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲 when the walls drink my moan nails click like teeth the joists smell of wing-dust I lean in whispering torn silk morning chill his breath of moths — C.X. Turner

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aftertaste

when the walls drink my moan nails click like teeth the joists smell of wing-dust I lean in whispering torn silkmorning chillhis breathof moths — C.X. Turner

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C.X.Turner (Luci) @loverpoetic.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

sleep wouldn’t come the night sat #grumpy in the corner crickets sawed through the heat like rusted blades moonlight pooling in hollows where dreams should be #FromOneLine #vss365

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C.X.Turner (Luci) @loverpoetic.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

your #laugh spilled gold across the meadow heat shimmer blurred the edges of everything we knew somewhere in the brushstroke sky you are still moving #vss365 #poem

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John Hawkhead @haikuhawk.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

From the latest @waleshaiku.bsky.social two young crows harrying a hawk the hill’s steep climb Thanks to editors Joe Woodhouse and @loverpoetic.bsky.social for the selection! #haiku #crows

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C.X.Turner (Luci) @loverpoetic.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

#brownie of a sky . . . dense, sweet, crumbling at the edges his voice still stuck in my teeth from something he said while reaching I chew it again as dusk melts into the cooling tin #vss365 #poem

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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Very much enjoyed reading @WalesHaiku summer issue. Grateful to editors, @loverpoetic.bsky.social and @joewoodhouse.bsky.social for including these two #haiku

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MarkgZero @markgzero.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Honoured to have a couple of #haiku* in the beautiful Summer 2025 issue of @waleshaiku.bsky.social. Thanks to editors Joe Woodhouse & @loverpoetic.bsky.social. Congrats to all who appear. Available to view free at www.waleshaikujournal.com * Great to have a Welsh poem in there! 1/2

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Wales Haiku Journal @waleshaiku.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

☀️ It's here!  The Summer 2025 Edition of Wales #Haiku Journal is live, filled with global voices and unique evocations of Summer. Like this one by Bryan Rickert. Join us, and celebrate summer in every line… www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2025 #HaikuCommunity #poetrycommunity #newissue

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C.X.Turner (Luci) @loverpoetic.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

morning feathers still damp from dreaming we lift together innocence beneath us the sky begins to listen #vss365 #innocence #poem

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C.X.Turner (Luci) @loverpoetic.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

#senryu taffeta lining the scent of her wrist still in the folds #vss365 #taffeta

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C.X.Turner (Luci) @loverpoetic.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Grateful to have placed first in the Haiku Foundation kukai! Thank you to everyone who read and voted. I'm honoured💖 #haiku #monoku #kukai

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Wales Haiku Journal @waleshaiku.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

There are just a few days left to #submit to our Summer Edition, but if that’s a bit of a squeeze, there’s still a solid six weeks left to enter our inaugural Summer #haiku #competition ☀️. To discover more details, head to waleshaikujournal.com

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Wales Haiku Journal @waleshaiku.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Happy Friday haiku poets, new and experienced! This week’s #prompt: poppy / poppies Tag #WalesHaikuJournal and please read/share others that participate💖 We’re ready to follow wherever your creativity goes. #haiku #senryu

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C.X.Turner (Luci) @loverpoetic.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

#haiku among poppies a cracked bowl catching the last rain #waleshaikujournal

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Wales Haiku Journal @waleshaiku.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Our community has now grown to over 5,000 across our social media. We’d like to thank you all for your support, your words, your time, your care for our #journal and this wonderful form. Thanks to Kevin Valentine for this #haiku which encapsulates our feeling on the journey…

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I just introduced my 17 yo daughter to this much-loved poem. If you beat yourself up mentally though you don’t hurt others, if your brain is different so your thoughts are loud and tangled, if you’re conscientious but still very strict with yourself, then it’s also for you:

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Summer’s #realm reminds us of our losing two brilliant Souls @DawnHosmer7 & @Poetryin13 (Scott Christopher Beebe) who were & will always be #progenitors of #vss365. Like you, they were some of my closest friends & inspirations. #RIPDawn🕯️ #RIPScott🕯️ We love and miss you…

@DawnHosmer7 on Twitter (X)~an image~saying “Rest In Peace Dawn”

Scott Christopher Beebe @Poetryin13 on Twitter(X) saying “Rest in Peace, Scott”

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C.X.Turner (Luci) @loverpoetic.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

#poem my bag is full of pockets each one holding a small sky: a breaking moth's wing, a stone rubbed thin by river breath. the weight shifts as i walk but never lightens. #FromOneLine

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C.X.Turner (Luci) @loverpoetic.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

#haiku morning rain a lost guru’s footprints fill with tadpoles #vss365 #guru

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