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Friday, January 9, 2026

An Esoteriku by Kelly Sargent

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  patronus spell my name ending with an i instead of a why ~ Kelly Sargent is a poet, editor, and devoted tea drinker residing in Vermont. T...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

An Esoteriku by Anne Fox

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  returning swans this endless wait for new wings ~ Anne Fox, considered a witch-child from birth, is an off-planet soul doing psychopomp wo...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

A Haiga by Aishwarya Vedula

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  ~ Aishwarya is a research scholar, poet, and visual artist from India. Her work engages cinema and culture through close observation and e...
Tuesday, January 6, 2026

An Esoteriku by Laila Brahmbhatt

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  two black apples eyes behind a white veil caught by a priest ~ Laila Brahmbhatt is a devoted workaholic who can be found either working wh...
Monday, January 5, 2026

An Esoteriku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

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  feeling it in the marrow wolf moon ~ Sarah Mahina Calvello lives in San Francisco and writes mostly haiku. She loves nature and is addicte...
Sunday, January 4, 2026

An Esoteriku by Chad Lee Robinson

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  in my cough three crows at dawn ~ Chad Lee Robinson has been writing haiku and related poetry for more than twenty years. He is the author...
Saturday, January 3, 2026

An Esoteriku by Jerome Berglund

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  trumpet solo I'm more experienced at working with demons ~ Jerome Berglund has had a lifelong interest in angels, demons, hoodoo, vood...
Friday, January 2, 2026

A Senryu by Kelly Sargent

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  lotus in my palm opening up to my divinity ~ Kelly Sargent is a poet, editor, and devoted tea drinker residing in Vermont. Though she writ...
Thursday, January 1, 2026

A Haiga by Shloka Shankar

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  ~ Shloka Shankar is a disabled poet, editor, and visual artist from Bangalore, India. A Best of the Net nominee and widely published haiku...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

A Haiga by Robin Smith

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Tuesday, December 30, 2025

A Haiku by Sandip Chauhan

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  courtyard tulsi someone's forgotten mantra in every leaf ~ Sandip Chauhan, PhD, is a poet based in Northern Virginia, USA, where she w...
Monday, December 29, 2025

"North Star" by Colleen M. Farrelly

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  North Star yule log my wandering paths through a year The smoldering log glows as twilight fades to a chorus of howls under the stars. Gra...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

"The 11 Dazzling Verses" by Pawel Markiewicz

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  ~ Pawel Markiewicz was born in 1983 in Siemiatycze in Poland. He is a poet who lives in Bielsk Podlaski and writes tender poems, haiku and...
Saturday, December 27, 2025

An Esoteriku by Charles Trumbull

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  waking from a dream without a center misty crescent moon ~ Dr. Charles Trumbull is retired from research, writing, editorial, and publishi...
Friday, December 26, 2025

A Haiga by Shloka Shankar

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  ~ Shloka Shankar is a disabled poet, editor, and visual artist from Bangalore, India. A Best of the Net nominee and widely published haiku...
Thursday, December 25, 2025

A Senryu by Chad Lee Robinson

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  Yuletide carols from door to door: hoof prints ~ Chad Lee Robinson has been writing haiku and related poetry for more than twenty years. H...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

A Senryu by Randy Brooks

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  almost Christmas a beady-eyed clown stitched up by nuns ~ Randy Brooks is Professor of English Emeritus at Milliken University, where he t...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

"Twilight" by Colleen M. Farrelly

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Twilight Grandpa balances the platters and fends off hungry nephews pecking at the roast. Ale flows while uncles gamble at Gluckhaus . The l...
Monday, December 22, 2025

"Two Persephones" by Mariya Gusev

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  Two Persephones I have a statue of Persephone that a friend had gifted me She is a Black Madonna really, and sits in her little box Cushio...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

A Monoku by Vandana Parashar

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  in hours leading up to their release winter stars ~ Vandana Parashar is an associate editor of haikuKATHA and one of the editors of Poetr...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

A Haiga by Shloka Shankar

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  ~ Shloka Shankar is a disabled poet, editor, and visual artist from Bangalore, India. She is the Founding Editor of Sonic Boom and its im...
Friday, December 19, 2025

A Senryu by Randy Brooks

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  faculty Christmas party whose baby is she carrying now? ~ Randy Brooks is Professor of English Emeritus at Millikin University, where he t...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

A Monoku by Vijay Prasad

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  a mask argues with the face beneath ~ Vijay Prasad is a poet from Patna, India. By profession he is an MCA. J. Krishnamurti is his spiritu...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

"breakthrough" by Thomas Zimmerman

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  breakthrough the stars alive invisible disasters in the sun     on nights like these i feel a gnostic agency     //     strange angel whis...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

"Ethereal" by Loralee Clark

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  Ethereal Winter's crack shatters empty mouthfuls; lips cleave chest, damp, cold light sewn yesterday placing constellations, charting ...
Monday, December 15, 2025

A Senryu by Randy Brooks

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  guests gone home now for some pillow talk with the dead ~ Randy Brooks is Professor of English Emeritus at Millikin University, where he t...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

"Eyes" by Nolcha Fox

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  Eyes If eyes are the window to the soul, my soul is filled with autumn. ~ A best-selling author, Nolcha's poetry books are available o...
Saturday, December 13, 2025

A Tanka by Jackie Chou

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  be good tonight the moon is watching from on high both a slice of light and a mother ~ Jackie Chou is a writer from Southern California wh...
Friday, December 12, 2025

A Senryu by Julie Bloss Kelsey

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  finally pain-free . . . her first time in dragon form ~ Julie Bloss Kelsey is the author of three poetry collections (mainly haiku and tan...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

An Esoteriku by Kala Ramesh

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  L'Orangerie light lilypads swirl around my dream space ~ Kala Ramesh, a renowned pioneer of haikai literature in India, was shortliste...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

A Cut-Up/Remix Cherita Haiga by Shloka Shankar

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  Sources:  "The Angel of the Odd—An Extravaganza" and "The Assignation" by Edgar Allan Poe and Death of a Salesman by ...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

A Haiku-Inspired Quatrain by Chad Lee Robinson

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  rising moon broken buckles ~ Chad Lee Robinson has been writing haiku and related poetry for more than twenty years. He is the author of f...
Monday, December 8, 2025

"As If" by Jack Hernon

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  ~ Jack Hernon was born on a farm in Southern Wisconsin. He had a pony that he once got to ride to school.
Sunday, December 7, 2025

A Senryu by Sarah Mahina Calvello

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  no olive branch . . . I have just hemlock to give before the candle flames out ~ Sarah Mahina Calvello lives in San Francisco and writes m...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

"A Little Ditty" by Anne Fox

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  A Little Ditty sometimes . . . at night I slip out the window into my view of the moon and ride a feathered taxi until morning ~ Anne Fox,...
Friday, December 5, 2025

"The Nightbirds" by Rose Mary Boehm

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  The Nightbirds The nightbirds in the black-inked park, tucked into pockets offered by the rain-heavy, leafy hands of the horse chestnuts, ...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

A Haiku by Neena Singh

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  willow at dusk its shadow sways the moon ~ Neena Singh is a Touchstone-shortlisted haiku poet from Chandigarh, India and an editor for The...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

A Monoku by Jerome Berglund

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  next to godliness oh well ~ Jerome Berglund has had a lifelong interest in angels, demons, hoodoo, voodoo, saints, sinners, spiritual ritu...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

A Monoku by Hifsa Ashraf

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  in plumes of jasmine incense a wandering dervish ~ Fueled by a healthy dose of caffeine, Hifsa Ashraf from Rawalpindi, Pakistan has been w...
Monday, December 1, 2025

A Senryu by Martina Matijević

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who I'm meant to be but not                    birth chart ~ Martina Matijević is a poet from Croatia whose work has appeared in Tsuri-d...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

"Theory of Night" by Mark Meyer

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  ~ Mark is a retired scientist and educator and has been a visual artist almost forever. He lives upstairs in his head in the middle of Lak...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

An Esoteriku by Joanna Ashwell

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  stag prints an elder branch spotted in the snow ~ Joanna Ashwell is a poet and spiritual healer. Her recent collections of poetry publishe...
Friday, November 28, 2025

A Tanka by Kelly Sargent

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  retracing the steps of the shadow self . . . calculating the distance she will go to escape this darkness ~ Kelly Sargent is a poet, edito...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

"Where the Drum Lingers" by Lisa Brodsky

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  Where the Drum Lingers Zekher tzaddik livrakha—May the memory of the righteous be a blessing. Gidinaanigaanizimin endaaso-bimaadiziwin—We ...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

A Haiku by Rashmi Mohapatra

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  crossroads— the crow flies both ways
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

"phantom angst" by Thomas Zimmerman

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  phantom angst i'm basking in a pool of light    a torrid self exposure immolation of the spirit    fire to wipe the planet clean of bl...
Monday, November 24, 2025

A Haiga by John Hawkhead

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  ~ John Hawkhead has been writing short-form poetry for over 30 years, publishing three books of haiku & senryu in that time. He lives ...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

A Monoku by Vijay Prasad

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  Dasein chews on the word until it dissolves ~ Vijay Prasad is a poet from Patna, India. By profession, he is an MCA. J. Krishnamurti is hi...
Saturday, November 22, 2025

A Senryu by Charles Trumbull

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  so hard these days to avoid immanentizing the eschaton ~ Dr. Charles Trumbull is retired from research, writing, editorial, and publishing...
Friday, November 21, 2025

"Monocarpic" by Colleen M. Farrelly

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  Monocarpic He shares little in group but talks a bit over burnt eggs and strong coffee. Mirages are real. Metal burns in the desert sun. S...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

A Monoku by Alan Summers

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  vinyl albums sprawling ivy rotate to deeper pasts ~ Alan Summers is related to the first ever American best-selling/block-buster author! P...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

A Monoku by Michael Nickels-Wisdom

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  the smidgens' pointy shoes scuffling the ceiling and floor of the Planck length ~ Michael Nickels-Wisdom has written haiku since 1990 ...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

An Esoteriku by Randy Brooks

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  magpie tidings seven for a secret never told ~ Randy Brooks is Professor of English Emeritus at Millikin University, where he teaches a ha...
Monday, November 17, 2025

"The Party" by Anne Fox

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  The Party Sometimes I smell brimstone Great grandmother's violets Lilies over rotting flesh They come for me All the mothers and fathe...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

An Esoteriku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

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  lifting the curse ~ the soft rustle of angelica leaves ~ Sarah Mahina Calvello lives in San Francisco and writes mostly haiku. She loves n...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

"My Names" by Rose Mary Boehm

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  My Names My secret names are known by those who love me. My secret names are darkness, giver, envy, happiness, laughter, pain, goodness, m...
Friday, November 14, 2025

An Esoteriku by Sharon Ferrante

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  guarding the gate . . . sweet the dryad for golden apples ~ Sharon Ferrante is a Scottish Witch, who practices magick daily. She's als...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

"Edge Relativity" by Jack Hernon

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  ~ Jack Hernon was born on a farm in Southern Wisconsin. He had a pony that he once got to ride to school.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

A Monoku by Patrick Sweeney

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  drawing Nazca lines in the backseat with my granddaughter
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

A Concrete Poem by Roberta Beach Jacobson

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  please answer yes . . . pendulum ~ Roberta Beach Jacobson is an American writer in love with words—flash fiction, poetry, song lyrics, puz...
Monday, November 10, 2025

"Mandala" by Scott Wiggerman

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  ~ Scott Wiggerman, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, is primarily known as a poet, instructor, and editor, though he has been in...
Sunday, November 9, 2025

"Distinctions" by Loralee Clark

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Distinctions Maybe when you're young you think flames of the fire are where the warmth lay. But the flames rise high, straying from the ...
Saturday, November 8, 2025

A Senryu by Anne Fox

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  wake of vultures the ceremonial white of widows ~ Anne Fox, considered a witch-child from birth, is an off-planet soul doing psychopomp wo...
Friday, November 7, 2025

"diaphanous dimension" by Debbie Strange

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  *Found gogyoshi culled from "Cullen in the Afterlife" by P.K. Page ~ Debbie Strange (Canada) is a short-form poet, artist, music...
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Thursday, November 6, 2025

A Monoku by Scott Wiggerman

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  rusted fence how we bleed without knowing ~ Scott Wiggerman, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, is primarily known as a poet, ins...
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

A Haiga by Shloka Shankar

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  ~ Shloka Shankar is a disabled poet, editor, and visual artist from Bangalore, India. She is the Founding Editor of Sonic Boom and its im...
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

A Shahai by Stephanie Zepherelli

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  ~ Stephanie Zepherelli, a former dance professor, is a long time student and teacher of Iyengar yoga, ballet, and contemporary dance; a st...
Monday, November 3, 2025

A Ta Da by Shloka Shankar

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  when you think about it life is a pyramid scheme ~ Shloka Shankar is a disabled poet, editor, and visual artist from Bangalore, India. She...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

"Incantation for Release or Confinement" by Michael Nickels-Wisdom

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  Incantation for Release or Confinement inside the mind outside the mind inside the body outside the body inside the room outside the room ...
Saturday, November 1, 2025

A Senryu by Sarah Mahina Calvello

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  sit a spell fellow phantom all are welcome here ~ Sarah Mahina Calvello lives in San Francisco and writes mostly haiku. She loves nature a...

"Deep Sleep" by gaia & vana

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  ~ Barbara Anna Gaiardoni and Andrea Vanacore, known as gaia & vana, are finalists in the "Writings Leith" competition in Edi...

A Senryu by Randy Brooks

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  cleaning house for other-worldly guests new ofrenda candles ~ Randy Brooks is Professor of English Emeritus at Millikin University, where ...
Friday, October 31, 2025

A Senryu by Jackie Chou

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looking for you in every masked face Halloween night ~ Jackie Chou is a writer from Southern California who has two collections of poetry, T...

A Haiga by John Hawkhead

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  ~ John Hawkhead has been writing short-form poetry for over 30 years, publishing three books of haiku & senryu in that time. He lives ...

An Esoteriku by Isabella Mori

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  samhain— a thin veil draped over the waxing moon ~ Isabella Mori writes pretty much everything that's not nailed down: Fiction (a 15th...

A Haiga by Terri L. French

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  ~ Terri L. French lives on a little mountain in Huntsville, Alabama with her husband, Ray, her dog, Chaka, and cat, Salem. It's the pe...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

A Senryu by Isabella Mori

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  between life and death the last leaves on the maple tree ~ Isabella Mori writes pretty much everything that's not nailed down: Fiction...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

A Senryu by Chad Lee Robinson

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  bound in the form of a black cat autumn loneliness ~ Chad Lee Robinson has been writing haiku and related poetry for more than twenty year...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

An Esoteriku by Rowan Beckett Minor

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  called out by today's tarot spread the wind settles ~ Rowan Beckett Minor (they/them) is a disabled Melungeon poet and hoodoo practiti...
Monday, October 27, 2025

"The Graeae, in Dust and Teeth" by Betty Stanton

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  The Graeae, in Dust and Teeth Three shadows lean into the mirror—One eye rolling, wet, dropped, caught, dropped again, pressed into socket...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

A Senryu by Vishal Prabhu

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  diary pages the phases of the moon all marked out ~ Educated as a chemical engineer, partly at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Vishal Prabhu has si...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

"angel smolder" by Thomas Zimmerman

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angel smolder my wife with friends the devil took her north well hexed by now    so doggo baches it with me    gas fire    woodswalks    lau...
Friday, October 24, 2025

A Monoku by Shloka Shankar

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  a sinter of words before the word ~ Shloka Shankar is a disabled poet, editor, and visual artist from Bangalore, India. She is the Foundin...
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Thursday, October 23, 2025

A Haiga by John Hawkhead

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  ~ John Hawkhead has been writing short-form poetry for over 30 years, publishing three books of haiku & senryu in that time. He lives ...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

A Senryu by Kelly Sargent

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  wiping the steam from the mirror— this longing to be enough ~ Kelly Sargent is a poet, editor, and devoted tea drinker residing in Vermont...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

A Senryu by Sarah Mahina Calvello

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penning a letter the pomegranate tree blooms as persephone dreams ~ Sarah Mahina Calvello lives in San Francisco and writes mostly haiku. Sh...
Monday, October 20, 2025

Three Diwali Ku by Arvinder Kaur

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  the statuesqueness of an evening star amavasya - your initials in marigold petals rangoli diyas - it is complicated trying to untangle the...

A Diwali Ku by Shloka Shankar

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  earthen lamps . . .               the afterglow of motichoor laddoos ~ Shloka Shankar is a disabled poet, editor, and visual artist from B...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

An Esoteriku by Alan Summers

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  timing the shadows we sidestep into the forest to mingle with gods ~ Alan Summers is related to the first ever American best-selling/block...
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Saturday, October 18, 2025

"Gay Gene (pink)" by Scott Wiggerman

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  Many of Scott Wiggerman's art endeavors include gay themes and/or male nudity. No nudity in "Gay Gene (pink)"; however, the ...
Friday, October 17, 2025

An Esoteriku by Rowan Beckett Minor

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  crisp oak leaves in the old mason jar a collection of teeth ~ Rowan Beckett Minor (they/them) is a disabled Melungeon poet and hoodoo prac...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

"The Memory of Wholeness" by Michael Nickels-Wisdom

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  The Memory of Wholeness A soul is a singing bowl. No one alive can tell you that. Just a touch from your lifelong partner rounds it with s...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

A Haiga by Anne Fox

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  ~ Anne Fox, considered a witch-child from birth, is an off-planet soul doing psychopomp work behind the scenes for our dying civilization.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

A Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

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  purple lilies in a stone white circle new morning ~ Sarah Mahina Calvello lives in San Francisco. She writes haiku, enjoys nature and is a...
Monday, October 13, 2025

"East 12th & Rockwell" by Ken Tomaro

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  East 12th & Rockwell It was a thousand black holes coursing through my veins. A bullfrog trying to hypnotize me with its stare. All th...
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Sunday, October 12, 2025

A Monoku by Chad Lee Robinson

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  hymn of seven crows my soul to take ~ Chad Lee Robinson has been writing haiku and related poetry for more than twenty years. He is the au...
Saturday, October 11, 2025

A Monoku by Robert Moyer

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  undercompensated the blind oracle on the curb ~ Robert Moyer, known by those close to him as Curly, lives in Winston Salem, where he dotes...
Friday, October 10, 2025

An Esoteriku by Roberta Beach Jacobson

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  enriching the crone's herbal garden transformation ~ Roberta Beach Jacobson is an American author/editor/poet who is in love with word...