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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

#HaikuTip Stop! Before you add to your nature word snapshot a line that summarizes, personifies, or names a feeling, try reading your poem without the addition. Some haiku in my feed this morning would be stronger, more haikulike, minus their last lines. (Impact outweighs syllable count.) #haiku

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TDKlein @tdklein.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

garage sale - entrusting strangers with childhood memories #senryusunday #haiku #poetry you just can't keep everything - having an attic and a basement is dangerous enough - yet...

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Bridget @8rid6et.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🐶🐕 Second dog the neighborhood crows have opinions 🐦‍⬛ #haiku #senryu #pets #dogs

A cute tricolor puppy at close up in a grassy yard, looking at the camera, panting. Behind him, yellow dog smiles like a proud big sister

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

(2 of 2) #HaikuTip Fun Challenge: Write an Answer Poem. Sample: snow melting— the village brimming over with children! (by Issa) sudden rain flooding the marsh with frogsong (by Rick Tarquinio) (p. 92, Lanoue’s Write Like Issa) #haiku

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

#HaikuTip Fun Challenge: Write an answer haiku. Pick a well known haiku. While echoing some elements of that poem, take it in a new (often humorous) direction. The original and your answer can appear together for wider appeal, or yours alone as an inside joke for savvy readers. (1 of 2) #haiku

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

#HaikuTip Try juxtaposing different sensory images in your haiku to enrich the moment you’re conveying, as Issa did here (scenic shoreline, tiny mouse, vast river) spring peace— a mouse licking up Sumida River (p. 83, Lanoue’s Write Like Issa) Seek combinations that evoke deeper meaning. #haiku

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Sarah Hina @sarahhina.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

unexpected rain I tilt my chin to the sky

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

#HaikuTip Issa often asked questions of small creatures in his haiku, like: evening lark— which pine island’s good for sleeping? Try writing a haiku that incorporates an asked question, or an implied one like in this poem by Liz Fulton: winter walk half a robin egg at my feet #haiku

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ant ant ant ant ant @antfive.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

#haiku daffodil where the crocus came and left

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haveahaiku.bsky.social @haveahaiku.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

old Valentines shopping for a new bed #haiku

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Good example of photo in a haiga not acting as an exact illustration, but related and addititive, evocative. 👍

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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

notebook closed the story safe inside #haiku

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

#HaikuTip How much do you trust your readers? Have you dared to try to trigger in them an Aha Moment you’ve experienced? Have you pointed to it, but left the epiphany of that moment undefined, trusting readers create their own custom enlightenment out of their reflections and imaginations? #haiku

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

#HaikuTip Have you thought of being poor as a topic for haiku? autumn colors— the scarecrow’s shirt nicer than mine (Stanford M. Forrester) Issa often wrote about being poor & the real treasures in life: hole in the wall— my harvest moon comes in (p. 69 of Lanoue’s book Write Like Issa) #haiku

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

This observation by Issa is being widely quoted, well by me, anyway: another year I managed not to die #haiku

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

#HaikuTip Look for deeper meaning in your everyday life; there may be a haiku hiding there. For instance, this simple act happened today. Only as I put it into words did I see that what they were planting was significant. planting seeds with Pop-Pop— forget me nots #haiku

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

#HaikuTip Issa’s haiku weren’t just imaginary but grounded in real experience, like an actual bronze statue he’d seen. 1813 in the great bronze Buddha’s nose chirping . . . sparrow babies 1818 from the great bronze Buddha’s nose . . . soot-sweeping (Lanoue’s Write Like Issa, pp. 77-78) #haiku

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Elena Again @elenaagain.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

#EastCoastKin #ColorADay #OrangeSun #loveofbsky #stunday #scape #hike #ImageAndVerse #haiku Leaves hang on longer Snow blankets quieting all Dawn breaks horizon - Love must triumph

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elly from earth -- Elly Nobbs @pleides.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

red oak branches spiral -- perfect ladder for climbing but I haven't ...yet #thingstowriteabout (ladder) #haiku #senryu

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

#HaikuTip Writing to a prompt can be fun, but —writing haiku about what you’re doing can help keep you centered & present (or a senryu may emerge that improves your perspective), —and writing about what’s going on in the natural world can enhance awareness. ❤️ You can enrich your life with #haiku

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

#HaikuTip #haiku Haiku can capture special moments in your life to share and savor later, again and again. Here’s one of my special memories:

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

#HaikuTip Haiku are very short, so it’s easy to overdo poetic devices like alliteration, rhyme, & repetition. Reading your haiku aloud will reveal overcrowding. Sometimes, though, separated words that begin with the same letter or that share an internal rhyme tie a haiku together. #haiku

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

sort to share the old or write new ones? I vacillate #haiku

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I aim to post to my website www.haiku-insight.org my haiku that first appeared on Bluesky. Starting with the earliest and working forward, I now am up to those written through February 2025. Warning: a haiku a day adds up to a LOT! However, writing gets easier as days go by. Take a look? #haiku

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

her side of the conversation largely ellipses . . . #haiku

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

#HaikuTip It’s valid to call haiku about being human either senryu or haiku. Ironically, our most personal, revealing haiku may be the most appealing. Centuries ago Issa wrote: when will it become a cricket’s nest? my white hair (p. 66, Lanoue’s Write Like Issa) I can still relate today. #haiku

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haveahaiku.bsky.social @haveahaiku.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

insofar as it depends on you— walk in joy today #haiku

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haveahaiku.bsky.social @haveahaiku.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

protesters—bubbles, inflatable unicorn, real baby in stroller #haiku

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haveahaiku.bsky.social @haveahaiku.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

drag queen at march, her high heel repaired with duct tape #haiku

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

costumed children dancing in defiant bubbles #haiku

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marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

#AutumnShowers “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops” -Langston Hughes Umbrellas appeared today like mushrooms pop up on the forest floor after the rain #BloomScrolling #Nature

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

#UpForAChallenge ? Yes, I did post a haiku using the word “autumn” yesterday. Did you? autumn view sliced up by slats in the blind Today can we write like the haiku masters, clearly suggesting the season without naming it? outside my window— on one branch, yellow leaves glow in the sun #haiku

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

shale crumbles- the mountain erases my last step #haiku #poetry

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

#HaikuTip Listening to Ezra Klein/Brian Eno podcast: creating Art is adult play, discovering & exploring our feelings. For me, haiku is Art. I am sometimes transported, enlightened, enriched reading haiku & often uncover new meanings as I write haiku of my own, putting feelings into words. #haiku

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

strolling through Bluesky garden—thank you for your service #bloomscrolling posters #haiku

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

“to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are nothing, forever” (Excerpt, Mary Oliver’s poem “Peonies”) #haiku #HaikuTip Every haiku is an opportunity.

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

time again to choose when to pull fading blooms, replace with pansies #haiku

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Looking for inspiration or advice on how to get started writing haiku? Two new Writing Prompts have been added on the www.haiku-insight.org One is to trigger early autumn observations; the other is step by step instructions on how to write a haiku. Added more My Haiku also. #haiku #HaikuTip

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haveahaiku.bsky.social @haveahaiku.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

rage and hurt abound— haiku can be a haven if we let it #haiku

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

#HaikuTip Some writers of haiku determinedly keep themselves out of haiku moments they share; not Issa. Others find his many introspective haiku very relatable even today. The day his father was cremated he wrote: splashing me the survivor . . . grassy dew (p. 64, Lanoue’s Write Like Issa) #haiku

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

#HaikuTip A haiku may seem silly on the surface & yet have an undercurrent of sabi (loneliness, melancholy, appreciation for the old & faded), inviting reflection, like this one by Greg Longenecker: abandoned farm the dandelions make their own wishes (p. 58, Lanoue’s Write Like Issa) #haiku

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

#DailyHaikuPrompt (dew) #Haiku even on the yellow leaf— morning dew

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Shannon Haiku Insight @shannhaikuinsight.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

#HaikuTip Issa poked fun at pomposity, sometimes with potty humor. A mild example: pointing at the fart bug . . . laughing Buddha (p. 51 of Lanoue’s Write Like Issa) We need not take ourselves or others too seriously, regardless of station. A haiku can be both funny & food for thought. #haiku

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