Waves in profusion
hurling white surf
and salt spray.
Chatter of pebbles
rolling and receding
- a desolate beach.
#dailyhaikuprompt
profuse desolate
#haiku #linkedverse
hurling white surf
and salt spray.
Chatter of pebbles
rolling and receding
- a desolate beach.
#dailyhaikuprompt
profuse desolate
#haiku #linkedverse
June 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Waves in profusion
hurling white surf
and salt spray.
Chatter of pebbles
rolling and receding
- a desolate beach.
#dailyhaikuprompt
profuse desolate
#haiku #linkedverse
hurling white surf
and salt spray.
Chatter of pebbles
rolling and receding
- a desolate beach.
#dailyhaikuprompt
profuse desolate
#haiku #linkedverse
Overthinking -
Escher-like ideas
spiraling inwards.
Spiraling inwards -
ideas Escher-like
overthinking.
[repeat]
#haikufeels prompt: idea 💡
#haiku #senryu #linkedverse
Escher-like ideas
spiraling inwards.
Spiraling inwards -
ideas Escher-like
overthinking.
[repeat]
#haikufeels prompt: idea 💡
#haiku #senryu #linkedverse
January 2, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Overthinking -
Escher-like ideas
spiraling inwards.
Spiraling inwards -
ideas Escher-like
overthinking.
[repeat]
#haikufeels prompt: idea 💡
#haiku #senryu #linkedverse
Escher-like ideas
spiraling inwards.
Spiraling inwards -
ideas Escher-like
overthinking.
[repeat]
#haikufeels prompt: idea 💡
#haiku #senryu #linkedverse
Anent the solstice -
winter yet
darkening deeper still.
***
Hesitating
before turning back -
the longest night.
***
Weeping pent wax -
the candle’s light
starts to lengthen.
#dailyhaikuprompt solstice
#haiku 🌞🌛 #linkedverse
winter yet
darkening deeper still.
***
Hesitating
before turning back -
the longest night.
***
Weeping pent wax -
the candle’s light
starts to lengthen.
#dailyhaikuprompt solstice
#haiku 🌞🌛 #linkedverse
December 21, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Anent the solstice -
winter yet
darkening deeper still.
***
Hesitating
before turning back -
the longest night.
***
Weeping pent wax -
the candle’s light
starts to lengthen.
#dailyhaikuprompt solstice
#haiku 🌞🌛 #linkedverse
winter yet
darkening deeper still.
***
Hesitating
before turning back -
the longest night.
***
Weeping pent wax -
the candle’s light
starts to lengthen.
#dailyhaikuprompt solstice
#haiku 🌞🌛 #linkedverse
Three poems on 'Autumn Leaves.' Featuring a collaboration with Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social
#haiku #tanka #gembun #renku #linkedverse #blueskypoets
#haiku #tanka #gembun #renku #linkedverse #blueskypoets
Autumn Leaves
Leaf 221 – Reflections Fukuda Heihachiro - Autumn Leaves (1943) Autumn seems to be a season with its own animus/anima. Leave...
shinobazupond.blogspot.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Three poems on 'Autumn Leaves.' Featuring a collaboration with Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social
#haiku #tanka #gembun #renku #linkedverse #blueskypoets
#haiku #tanka #gembun #renku #linkedverse #blueskypoets
Amid beechen green,
summer sings o'er
the Vale of Health.
Long gone,
but echoing still -
light-winged song.
Dreams passing on,
soft incense drifts
through the boughs.
#dailyhaikuprompt nightingale
#haiku #linkedverse 🪶 #johnkeats
summer sings o'er
the Vale of Health.
Long gone,
but echoing still -
light-winged song.
Dreams passing on,
soft incense drifts
through the boughs.
#dailyhaikuprompt nightingale
#haiku #linkedverse 🪶 #johnkeats
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Amid beechen green,
summer sings o'er
the Vale of Health.
Long gone,
but echoing still -
light-winged song.
Dreams passing on,
soft incense drifts
through the boughs.
#dailyhaikuprompt nightingale
#haiku #linkedverse 🪶 #johnkeats
summer sings o'er
the Vale of Health.
Long gone,
but echoing still -
light-winged song.
Dreams passing on,
soft incense drifts
through the boughs.
#dailyhaikuprompt nightingale
#haiku #linkedverse 🪶 #johnkeats
Leap-frogging lily pads,
leafy stepping stones
– painted and real.
#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku
#短歌 #短歌inEnglish #English短歌 #tanka
first in a sequence of #linkedverse
leafy stepping stones
– painted and real.
#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku
#短歌 #短歌inEnglish #English短歌 #tanka
first in a sequence of #linkedverse
Still Waters
Leaf 152 – Art Inspired Claude Monet - Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies (1899) The Met There is perhaps a little-known connection be...
shinobazupond.blogspot.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Leap-frogging lily pads,
leafy stepping stones
– painted and real.
#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku
#短歌 #短歌inEnglish #English短歌 #tanka
first in a sequence of #linkedverse
leafy stepping stones
– painted and real.
#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku
#短歌 #短歌inEnglish #English短歌 #tanka
first in a sequence of #linkedverse
Summer’s heat
glows within -
Autumn’s embers.
Finding burnt
ochre in the
Neander Valley.
The rocks remember
all that’s been
and gone.
#artinspired #haiku
#linkedverse ☀️
glows within -
Autumn’s embers.
Finding burnt
ochre in the
Neander Valley.
The rocks remember
all that’s been
and gone.
#artinspired #haiku
#linkedverse ☀️
Trees in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital - October 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/3109377
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/3109377
September 15, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Summer’s heat
glows within -
Autumn’s embers.
Finding burnt
ochre in the
Neander Valley.
The rocks remember
all that’s been
and gone.
#artinspired #haiku
#linkedverse ☀️
glows within -
Autumn’s embers.
Finding burnt
ochre in the
Neander Valley.
The rocks remember
all that’s been
and gone.
#artinspired #haiku
#linkedverse ☀️
Automated moonlight
dapples the dark sea,
beneath its white beam.
A brush of light,
sweeping across
the windowpane.
Retired lighthouse keeper
- counting the pips,
after 'Sailing By.'
#blueskyrelay prompt: lighthouse
#linkedverse #haiku #shippingforcast #mantovani
dapples the dark sea,
beneath its white beam.
A brush of light,
sweeping across
the windowpane.
Retired lighthouse keeper
- counting the pips,
after 'Sailing By.'
#blueskyrelay prompt: lighthouse
#linkedverse #haiku #shippingforcast #mantovani
June 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Automated moonlight
dapples the dark sea,
beneath its white beam.
A brush of light,
sweeping across
the windowpane.
Retired lighthouse keeper
- counting the pips,
after 'Sailing By.'
#blueskyrelay prompt: lighthouse
#linkedverse #haiku #shippingforcast #mantovani
dapples the dark sea,
beneath its white beam.
A brush of light,
sweeping across
the windowpane.
Retired lighthouse keeper
- counting the pips,
after 'Sailing By.'
#blueskyrelay prompt: lighthouse
#linkedverse #haiku #shippingforcast #mantovani
While Bluesky will remain the crucible in which it is forged, 'Once Upon A Time ...', an epic renku written by @moritherapy.bsky.social and me, is now being archived (once every week or so) here:
#haiku #senryu #renku #renga #micropoetry #linkedverse #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets 📜🪶
#haiku #senryu #renku #renga #micropoetry #linkedverse #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets 📜🪶
Renku
Once Upon A Time ... *** a renku – written by Tim Chamberlain & Isabella Mori (2026) Nihonga painting by Kazuyuki Sutoh th...
shinobazupond.blogspot.com
June 9, 2026 at 2:32 AM
While Bluesky will remain the crucible in which it is forged, 'Once Upon A Time ...', an epic renku written by @moritherapy.bsky.social and me, is now being archived (once every week or so) here:
#haiku #senryu #renku #renga #micropoetry #linkedverse #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets 📜🪶
#haiku #senryu #renku #renga #micropoetry #linkedverse #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets 📜🪶
Low hum –
electric heater,
slowly
turning and
returning.
#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku
#短歌 #短歌inEnglish #English短歌 #tanka
second in a sequence of #linkedverse
electric heater,
slowly
turning and
returning.
#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku
#短歌 #短歌inEnglish #English短歌 #tanka
second in a sequence of #linkedverse
Together
Leaf 212 – Reflections Dmitry Levin - Winter River (2015) A series of linked verse, marking the slow passage of time. TOGETH...
shinobazupond.blogspot.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Low hum –
electric heater,
slowly
turning and
returning.
#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku
#短歌 #短歌inEnglish #English短歌 #tanka
second in a sequence of #linkedverse
electric heater,
slowly
turning and
returning.
#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku
#短歌 #短歌inEnglish #English短歌 #tanka
second in a sequence of #linkedverse
WELTSCHMERZ
Waiting, waiting for this tide
to turn; so our ailing ship
can right its keel again.
...
#haiku #haikai #linkedverse #poetry
(first in a series of linked short verses)
Waiting, waiting for this tide
to turn; so our ailing ship
can right its keel again.
...
#haiku #haikai #linkedverse #poetry
(first in a series of linked short verses)
Weltschmerz
Leaf 127 – Reflection John William Waterhouse - Miranda, The Tempest (1916) Weltschmerz (German, noun), literal meaning: ‘world-pain’...
shinobazupond.blogspot.com
August 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
WELTSCHMERZ
Waiting, waiting for this tide
to turn; so our ailing ship
can right its keel again.
...
#haiku #haikai #linkedverse #poetry
(first in a series of linked short verses)
Waiting, waiting for this tide
to turn; so our ailing ship
can right its keel again.
...
#haiku #haikai #linkedverse #poetry
(first in a series of linked short verses)
This time last year,
together ascending
the Tama River.
Maple leaves aglow -
woodsmoke and
rushing water.
Russet, yellow, brown
and green leaves -
burnishing the mountains.
#haiku #artinspired
#linkedverse 🍁
together ascending
the Tama River.
Maple leaves aglow -
woodsmoke and
rushing water.
Russet, yellow, brown
and green leaves -
burnishing the mountains.
#haiku #artinspired
#linkedverse 🍁
November 8, 2025 at 6:22 AM
This time last year,
together ascending
the Tama River.
Maple leaves aglow -
woodsmoke and
rushing water.
Russet, yellow, brown
and green leaves -
burnishing the mountains.
#haiku #artinspired
#linkedverse 🍁
together ascending
the Tama River.
Maple leaves aglow -
woodsmoke and
rushing water.
Russet, yellow, brown
and green leaves -
burnishing the mountains.
#haiku #artinspired
#linkedverse 🍁
Mercury rapidly soaring -
asphalt regressing into
lava-like liquefaction.
Urban flyovers rising
high overhead, roasting
concrete shade below.
Glass walls so arid and smooth,
sun climbing by degrees
- a city sweltering.
#haikufeels prompt: soar
(NB poems 2 & 3 inc. anagrams of ‘soar’)
#linkedverse
asphalt regressing into
lava-like liquefaction.
Urban flyovers rising
high overhead, roasting
concrete shade below.
Glass walls so arid and smooth,
sun climbing by degrees
- a city sweltering.
#haikufeels prompt: soar
(NB poems 2 & 3 inc. anagrams of ‘soar’)
#linkedverse
June 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Mercury rapidly soaring -
asphalt regressing into
lava-like liquefaction.
Urban flyovers rising
high overhead, roasting
concrete shade below.
Glass walls so arid and smooth,
sun climbing by degrees
- a city sweltering.
#haikufeels prompt: soar
(NB poems 2 & 3 inc. anagrams of ‘soar’)
#linkedverse
asphalt regressing into
lava-like liquefaction.
Urban flyovers rising
high overhead, roasting
concrete shade below.
Glass walls so arid and smooth,
sun climbing by degrees
- a city sweltering.
#haikufeels prompt: soar
(NB poems 2 & 3 inc. anagrams of ‘soar’)
#linkedverse
Waves in profusion
hurling white surf
and salt spray.
Chatter of pebbles
rolling and receding
– a desolate beach.
#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku
#linkedverse 🌊
hurling white surf
and salt spray.
Chatter of pebbles
rolling and receding
– a desolate beach.
#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku
#linkedverse 🌊
Chatter of Pebbles
Leaf 213 – Reflections The sound of the sea is an enchantment, akin to the sound of the breeze filtering through trees. Wave...
shinobazupond.blogspot.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Waves in profusion
hurling white surf
and salt spray.
Chatter of pebbles
rolling and receding
– a desolate beach.
#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku
#linkedverse 🌊
hurling white surf
and salt spray.
Chatter of pebbles
rolling and receding
– a desolate beach.
#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku
#linkedverse 🌊
On a timeless appeal ...
Dial a deadly number,
to connect –
direct to the heart.
#SenryuSunday #senryu #haiku #linkedverse
the first in a sequence of linked verse:
Dial a deadly number,
to connect –
direct to the heart.
#SenryuSunday #senryu #haiku #linkedverse
the first in a sequence of linked verse:
Mrs Emma Peel
(Leaf 71) – Senryu (or, witty tom-foolery) Modern Mrs Emma Peel and John Steed, the traditional English Gent ’ . Mary Quant and Pierr...
shinobazupond.blogspot.com
June 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
On a timeless appeal ...
Dial a deadly number,
to connect –
direct to the heart.
#SenryuSunday #senryu #haiku #linkedverse
the first in a sequence of linked verse:
Dial a deadly number,
to connect –
direct to the heart.
#SenryuSunday #senryu #haiku #linkedverse
the first in a sequence of linked verse:
Grateful to have a rengay (linked-verse) with my good friend Jacob Salzer in the newest issue of Raining Rengay. You can read the issue here:
rainingrengay.wordpress.com/rr-issue6/
#rengay #linkedverse #poetry
rainingrengay.wordpress.com/rr-issue6/
#rengay #linkedverse #poetry
RR-Issue 6
RAINING RENGAY – ISSUE SIX, October 2025 Guest Edited / Foreword by John Thompson (USA) FOREWORD Thank you, Sherry and Zoe, for inviting me to help you edit this issue of Raining Rengay. …
rainingrengay.wordpress.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Grateful to have a rengay (linked-verse) with my good friend Jacob Salzer in the newest issue of Raining Rengay. You can read the issue here:
rainingrengay.wordpress.com/rr-issue6/
#rengay #linkedverse #poetry
rainingrengay.wordpress.com/rr-issue6/
#rengay #linkedverse #poetry
ウニのLinkedVERSEほんと見てて面白かった
追加された新曲も、最後の大会常連勢の協力も
ほぼやらなくなっちゃったけど、やっぱ音ゲー好きだ！ 見るだけ聴くだけでも満足出来るの、かなりコスパ良い
追加された新曲も、最後の大会常連勢の協力も
ほぼやらなくなっちゃったけど、やっぱ音ゲー好きだ！ 見るだけ聴くだけでも満足出来るの、かなりコスパ良い
April 28, 2026 at 12:40 PM
ウニのLinkedVERSEほんと見てて面白かった
追加された新曲も、最後の大会常連勢の協力も
ほぼやらなくなっちゃったけど、やっぱ音ゲー好きだ！ 見るだけ聴くだけでも満足出来るの、かなりコスパ良い
追加された新曲も、最後の大会常連勢の協力も
ほぼやらなくなっちゃったけど、やっぱ音ゲー好きだ！ 見るだけ聴くだけでも満足出来るの、かなりコスパ良い
Melting pot #2
A 12-link rengay-style, linked-verse poem.
#rengay #haiku #renga #LinkedVerse #CollaborativePoetry #poetry #MeltingPot #InvasiveSpecies #PoetryOnTheFly #WakaPoetry #Tanaka #PoetryCommunity
Authors:
@markbrigham.bsky.social @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social
@naramoore.bsky.social
A 12-link rengay-style, linked-verse poem.
#rengay #haiku #renga #LinkedVerse #CollaborativePoetry #poetry #MeltingPot #InvasiveSpecies #PoetryOnTheFly #WakaPoetry #Tanaka #PoetryCommunity
Authors:
@markbrigham.bsky.social @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social
@naramoore.bsky.social
May 13, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Melting pot #2
A 12-link rengay-style, linked-verse poem.
#rengay #haiku #renga #LinkedVerse #CollaborativePoetry #poetry #MeltingPot #InvasiveSpecies #PoetryOnTheFly #WakaPoetry #Tanaka #PoetryCommunity
Authors:
@markbrigham.bsky.social @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social
@naramoore.bsky.social
A 12-link rengay-style, linked-verse poem.
#rengay #haiku #renga #LinkedVerse #CollaborativePoetry #poetry #MeltingPot #InvasiveSpecies #PoetryOnTheFly #WakaPoetry #Tanaka #PoetryCommunity
Authors:
@markbrigham.bsky.social @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social
@naramoore.bsky.social
Melting pot #1
A 12-link rengay-style, linked-verse poem.
#rengay #haiku #renga #LinkedVerse #CollaborativePoetry #poetry #MeltingPot #InvasiveSpecies #PoetryOnTheFly #WakaPoetry #Tanaka #PoetryCommunity
Authors: @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social
@markbrigham.bsky.social
@naramoore.bsky.social
A 12-link rengay-style, linked-verse poem.
#rengay #haiku #renga #LinkedVerse #CollaborativePoetry #poetry #MeltingPot #InvasiveSpecies #PoetryOnTheFly #WakaPoetry #Tanaka #PoetryCommunity
Authors: @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social
@markbrigham.bsky.social
@naramoore.bsky.social
May 13, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Melting pot #1
A 12-link rengay-style, linked-verse poem.
#rengay #haiku #renga #LinkedVerse #CollaborativePoetry #poetry #MeltingPot #InvasiveSpecies #PoetryOnTheFly #WakaPoetry #Tanaka #PoetryCommunity
Authors: @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social
@markbrigham.bsky.social
@naramoore.bsky.social
A 12-link rengay-style, linked-verse poem.
#rengay #haiku #renga #LinkedVerse #CollaborativePoetry #poetry #MeltingPot #InvasiveSpecies #PoetryOnTheFly #WakaPoetry #Tanaka #PoetryCommunity
Authors: @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social
@markbrigham.bsky.social
@naramoore.bsky.social
Automated moonlight
dapples the dark sea,
beneath its white beam.
A brush of light,
sweeping across
the windowpane.
Retired lighthouse keeper
– counting the pips,
after ‘Sailing By.’
#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku #linkedverse
dapples the dark sea,
beneath its white beam.
A brush of light,
sweeping across
the windowpane.
Retired lighthouse keeper
– counting the pips,
after ‘Sailing By.’
#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku #linkedverse
Empty Lighthouses
(Leaf 138) – Art Inspired These three haiku can either be read independently, or as a triptych of linked verse. Loosely inspired by Vi...
shinobazupond.blogspot.com
September 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Automated moonlight
dapples the dark sea,
beneath its white beam.
A brush of light,
sweeping across
the windowpane.
Retired lighthouse keeper
– counting the pips,
after ‘Sailing By.’
#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku #linkedverse
dapples the dark sea,
beneath its white beam.
A brush of light,
sweeping across
the windowpane.
Retired lighthouse keeper
– counting the pips,
after ‘Sailing By.’
#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku #linkedverse
This developed into a six-verse rengay poem. #rengay #haiku #linkedverse
https://sakurajima.moe/@NaraMoore/117061545331986654
https://sakurajima.moe/@NaraMoore/117061545331986654
NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi (@NaraMoore@sakurajima.moe)
Attached: 1 image # Endangered 6-Link #Rengay ©️ Mark Brigham @MarkBrigham@universeodon.com, NaraMoore @NaraMoore, & Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter@indieauthors.social Image ©️ Mark Brigham #Poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #Conservation #Monkey #Haiga #俳画 #Photography #マストドン写真部 #写真
sakurajima.moe
August 8, 2026 at 7:35 PM
This developed into a six-verse rengay poem. #rengay #haiku #linkedverse
https://sakurajima.moe/@NaraMoore/117061545331986654
https://sakurajima.moe/@NaraMoore/117061545331986654
太鼓のどんチャレイベ酷すぎるさすがに カレスコlinkedverse見てたから余計に
May 21, 2026 at 8:46 AM
太鼓のどんチャレイベ酷すぎるさすがに カレスコlinkedverse見てたから余計に
今日maimaiではサークルプラスが始まりやることがおおし。チュウニズムでは新しいLinkedVERSEとイベントが始まりやることおおし。大忙し
March 19, 2026 at 3:21 AM
今日maimaiではサークルプラスが始まりやることがおおし。チュウニズムでは新しいLinkedVERSEとイベントが始まりやることおおし。大忙し