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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Waka Society of America has just published the results to the Ama Pearls International Waka Contest (2026)! 😀 Many thanks to Anya (Contest Judge) and Marilyn Humbert (Coordinator). 🙏 Congratulations to all the winners! 👏🐸 www.wakasocietyofamerica.com#s-414a4c15-d...

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Dear haikai friends, The AMA Pearls Waka Contest closes on 31st August. See the link: www.wakasocietyofamerica.com

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John Hawkhead @haikuhawk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Pakistan Japan Cultural Association (PJCA) has just published: SAKURA FUBUKI (桜吹雪). Edited by @HifsaAshraf this newAnthology contains #haiku on the theme of ‘blossom’ in English, Urdu and Japanese. delicate blossom a nurseryman cradles his newborn’s head #blossom #newborn #pakistan #japan

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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

white spray the wave bows to itself To study the self is to forget the self. — Dōgen Zenji mount fuji waiting without waiting #AugustAnarchy #puentehaiku #poetry #haiku @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

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freginold @freginold.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

current #haiku (& related forms) contests: - 7/24: Issa Village Haiku Competition - 7/31: Basho Memorial English Haiku Contest - 7/31: Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards - 8/30: Porad Haiku Award - 8/31: Ama Pearls Waka Contest - 8/31: International "Kusamakura" Haiku Competition (1/3)

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Alan Summers @thehaikutec.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Thanks! Yes, one joint collection and one solo collection on crows! The Comfort of Crows velvetduskpublishing.weebly.com/uploads/3/7/... cover design by @hifsays.bsky.social #haiku #crows

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Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It was a privilege to serve as judge for the Betty Drevniok Award 2026, organized by Haiku Canada. Congratulations to all the winners and honourable mentions. My sincere thanks to Pearl Pirie and Haiku Canada for this honour. www.haikucanada.org/contests/dre... #haiku #micropoetry

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Today's Feature: new moon a garter snake escapes its skin Mikō🐸, Jan 31st 2025 Image: "snake", Kono Bairei (ca.1890)

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Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

road trip the dog wears Ray-Bans #TheDailyHaiku

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Today's Feature (Esoteriku): tonight's new moon the bullfrog's one note samba Randy Brooks "Circle of Salt" blog, edited by Kelly Sauvage Moyer, July 14th 2026 Video: "Bullfrog Battle Royale | The Mating Game | BBC Earth" youtu.be/rA4nIRKZ1m8?...

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Today's Profile Feature: pond circles — the aftersplash of Bashō's frog Mikō 🐸, July 15th 2026 Image: "Frogs in a Pond", Watanabe Seitei

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Hello friends. It's time again for the WSA AMA Pearl waka contest. 😀 Submissions open on 15th July and close 31st August. Check out the submission guidelines at the link below. Many thanks Marilyn & an'ya 💕😊 www.wakasocietyofamerica.com

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Today's Feature: wild boar trail the sudden rumpa dum-bum in my chest Michael Smeer THF Dialogue - A Sense of Place - Hiking Trail - hearing - 31 Oct. 2018 Image: "Wild Boar", Ohara Koson

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Today's Feature: strawberry moon . . . putting whipped cream on my dessert Mikō 🐸, July 1st 2026 Image: "Strawberry Moon" by Radovan Zierik from Pixabay

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Today's Feature: aha-moment the persistent neighbor's car horn Mikō 🐸 Poetry Pea Journal, Spring (April) 2021 Image: "Ford F150 Pickup" by Pascal Beckmann from Pixabay

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Today's Profile Feature: cherry blossoms — these brief moments of compassion Mikō 🐸 Wild Plum 2:1 Spring-Summer 2016 Image: "Cherry Blossom Viewing" Toyohara Chikanobu (1894)

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Today's Top Profile Poem: nervous colon . . . gas and more gas rises from the koi pond Mikō 🐸, June 19th 2026 Video: "Bubbling Koi Pond" by citra_pic from Pixabay

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Today's Feature (haiga): great-grandmother the albatross lays one more egg Mikō 🐸 (haiku) & Ron C. Moss (image) Inspired by this article, dated December 2024: www.bbc.com/news/article... .

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Todays Top Profile Poem: speeding downhill — the two tiny horns of a snail Mikö 🐸 Image: "Snail", by unknown artist, from Ronin Gallery (ca. 1920)

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Today's Feature: sunbathing in grandmother's garden . . . lilac streamers Mikō 🐸, May 1st 2026 Image: "Wisteria" by wal_172619 from Pixabay

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

"Love Flames", the second (free) waka ebook by an'ya is now out and can be found here: heyzine.com/flip-book/49...

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Today's Feature: polyphemus moth in the light of the prison a torn spider's web Mikō 🐸, April 23rd 2026 Image: "Polyphemus Moth" by Jason from Pixabay www.wikiwand.com/nl/Antheraea...

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Today's Top Profile Feature: even here in Buddha’s silence I long for silence Michael Smeer 🐸 Buddhist Poetry Magazine, July 2017 Photo: "Home Buddha" by Mikō

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Today's Feature: pink petals bamboo leaves sway with butterflies Mikō 🐸, May 3rd 2026 Video: Sumi-e by Barbara Kowalczyk animated by Janusz Cieślak. Many thanks! 🙏🐸

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The free Petals Waka Journal 2026 annual ebook' is published and can be found on WSA website. www.wakasocietyofamerica.com or (direct link): www.wakasocietyofamerica.com#s-e15cbde3-f...

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Today's Feature: a brisk morning breeze bends the reeds . . . parting geese Mikō 🐸, May 5th 2026 Image: "Reeds and Wild Geese" by Alexey Bogdanov

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Today's Top Profile Feature: forest bathing petrichor follows me along each trail Mikō 🐸, May 22nd. 2026 Image: Monkey Bridge in Kai Province by Utagawa Hiroshige (1853) www.roningallery.com/blog/shinrin...

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Today's Feature: restless stream driftwood carries the sound of ducklings Mikō 🐸, May 23nd. 2026 Image: "Wood Duck" by simardfrancois from Pixabay

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Bridget @8rid6et.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Beaver Valley they built a damn nuclear power plant #haiku #senryu #haiga

Aerial view of a fertile PA river valley, power plant cooling towers present in the river, mist hangs low in the blue valley and the sunrise casts an orange hue to the sky

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Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

mid-century modern a faded plastic ambrosia mold #DailyHaikuPrompt

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Today's Profile Feature: old koi pond . . . lily pads and flowers make way for fluffy clouds Mikō 🐸, May 19th. 2026 Image: "Water lily, Lily Pads, with Dragonfly" by Couleur from Pixabay

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Today's Feature: a fiery red in the raging bull's eyes — matador flag Mikō 🐸, April 30th 2026 Image: "Angry Bull" by Guus Ong (Sumi-e group) www.facebook.com/groups/sumie...

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freshoutmag.bsky.social @freshoutmag.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

#senryu by thomas david thomas is from West Sussex in the United Kingdom. His #haiku and senryū have appeared in Failed Haiku, tsuri-dōrō, Wales Haiku Journal, Cattails, Cold Moon Journal, The Heron’s Nest and now, FreshOut. #poetry #poetrylovers #uk

Against a plain white background, a #senryu by thomas david reads,

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thomas is from West Sussex in the United Kingdom. His #haiku and senryū have appeared in Failed Haiku, tsuri-dōrō, Wales Haiku Journal, Cattails, Cold Moon Journal, The Heron’s Nest and now, FreshOut. #poetry #poetrylovers #uk

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Today's Feature: reef aquarium . . . the filament light of jelly lanterns Mikō 🐸, May 5th 2026 Video: Jellyfish Aquarium (4K) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTvo... Image: "Jellyfish" by Alexey Bogdanov from Sumi-e group

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Today's Feature: gendai haijin — the AI replaces inspiration Mikō 🐸, May 3rd 2026 A revised version from my senryu posted in the HAIKU...IN BREVE NARRO FB-group, May 2nd 2026. Image: "Artificial Intelligence, Singularity" by Kohji Asakawa from pixabay

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Today's Profile Feature: at one with the afternoon lull . . . a wood frog Mikō 🐸, May 13th. 2026 Video 1: Wood Frog Calling: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ah_... Video 2: Wood Frog - Frozen but still alive: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPe...

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John Hawkhead @haikuhawk.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Mayflies dancing in Bradford on Avon… leaving as if little mattered mayflies #haiku originally in @waleshaiku.bsky.social #nature #micropoetry

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Today's Feature: golden hour the cherry blossom sky deepens Mikō 🐸, May 2026 Espacio Luna Alfanje, May 2026 Image: Cover of the Luna Alfanje, May Issue 2026 www.facebook.com/luna.alfanje (May 11th 2026)

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Today's Timeline Feature: pesticide honey . . . another bee colony buys the farm Mikō 🐸, May 10th. 2026 Image: Bumble Bee on Flower" by Kev from Pixabay

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Today's Feature: lush green bamboo a grasshopper hides its gluttony Mikō 🐸, May 10th. 2026 Image: "Grasshopper and Bamboo" by Barbara Kowalczyk

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Today's Feature is a wonderful hokku by Chiyo-ni from the Per Diem - Haiku of the Day collection at The Haiku Foundation (May 9, 2026) You're invited to add your comments, and enjoy the informative comments added by Keith Evetts and myself. 🐸 thehaikufoundation.org/chiyo-ni-tr-...

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Today's Top Profile Feature: grinding between the anteater's teeth a harmattan Mikō 🐸 The Haiku Shack Magazine Issue 7, May '26 ! The harmattan is a dry, dusty, cool-to-cold north-easterly trade wind that blows from the Sahara into the Gulf of Guinea. www.wikiwand.com/en/Giant_ant...

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The Haiku Shack Magazine @haikushackmag.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The Haiku Shack Magazine: Issue 7 is out! Featuring the works of @myhaikupond.bsky.social @moritherapy.bsky.social @tanjamaltija.bsky.social, @haikuforlife.bsky.social, and more. Another beautiful issue! For more info about the issue, click here: creativeramblings.com/latest-news/...

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Issue 7 is out!

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Today's Feature: seated in meditation... I channel a shasei haiku Mikō 🐸, May 6th. 2026 Image: Mikō, my avatar from @MyHaikuPond on BlueSky

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Marilyn Ward @haikupoet.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

#dailyhaikuprompt #orchid warzone balanced on a broken sill a pink orchid

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Today's Feature: May fifth flags — the streets of Holland flood with orange cheer Mikō 🐸, May 3rd 2026 Info: dutchreview.com/culture/soci...

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My Haiku Pond @myhaikupond.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Today's Feature (for May 4th): Remembrance Day — a wee girl plucks a lily from the wreath Mikō 🐸, May 2nd 2026 Image: "Lilies", Katsushika Hokusai (1833-34)

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

space exploration they invent new excuses for ignoring Earth #SciFaikuSaturday

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