No matter what's happening in my own heart, my own little life, the work that needs us all continues:

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Today's Special Feature: cold moon ... a crow shifts into its shadow Brendon Kent (1 Feb. 1958 - 24 Feb. 2024) Image: "Crows on Plum Branch", Kawanabe Kyosai (ca. 1885) This is the 26th Special Feature poem by and dedicated to Brendon Kent.

some dogs a brew, some knitting a view, I'd need eyes in my head should I need to see you #art #artist #Sunday lovely painting

Truly honored that my haiku won The Haiku Foundation Monthly Kukai for the month of August. Thank you to all who voted for this deeply personal entry. #haiku

THF Monthly Kukai — September 2024 dlvr.it/TCfjG1

CHOICES sitting in the library trying to keep warm. all day riding buses is surely not the norm. dreaming of warm houses dreaming of warm feet the bugger is I have to choose to keep warm, or to eat to heat, or eat THAT is the question. Still - my MP's warm 🔥 The Labour Party #heat

"Autumn evening - there's joy also in loneliness" Buson Yosa (image: Koitsu Tsuchiya)

this was my reply to college friend IRL Played along with them… #senryu #Haiku #HaikuChallenge #meditation #selfcare well, it’s dinner time it has been a wierd day here it’s almost as if- #TalkinHaiku

early september a gold leaf amidst the green #haiku

drifting shadows slip through the fading light the journeys we take #haiku

many thanks to @poetrypea for selecting my haiku for inclusion in their journal 4.24 #haiku

Heterodox Haiku- new prompts for next issue daily! Not to get reductive either, they don't all look like sentence/phrases, sure distinction would make better sense in native language, but skimming collection of 6 kasen is a great place to get a better sense of important formal element of #hokku vs #hiraku! thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/sh…

Next edition seeks (making me recall memory of dear friend Adjei Agyei-Baah, author of Scaring Crow+Tales of Kite for which Prof. McMurray wrote brilliant foreword!) verses on subjects of #scarecrows or #harvestmoon. #Submit your best #haikai poetry now! asahi.com/ajw/articles/1…

Thanks to the Asahi shimbun for selecting my haiku this week. 🙏😁 asahi.com/sp/ajw/article… #haiku

she weaves her web the bees unaware drink up the last of summer #haiku

whiptail is open Oct 1-7 for your single-line poems of any variety, orientation, or shape! We particularly love honest, nature-communing, and boundary-pushing works. No haibun for this issue, please. Check Issue 9 to read a Poems issue. Guidelines: whiptailjournal.com/submissions

I am so grateful to Bryan Rickert for selecting my work during his editorship of Failed Haiku. I have learned so much from his choices and his own poems. Thank you, Bryan!

"don't cry, geese! your inn is wherever the autumn moon shines" Issa Kobayashi (image: Bairei Kono)

Get your senryu ready for Failed Haiku. Open for submissions September 10-25 – Target publication date: the first day of November. failedhaiku.com/submissions-gu…