#haikuchallenge — Public Fediverse posts

“It’s too dark in this place,” said the gent.
“Did this restaurant NOT pay its rent?
Your damn, flickering light
On the menu’s a blight.
I give up. You have lamb? I’m lamb bent.”
#HaikuChallenge #Lambent #LimerickSunday #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2026/04/12/unenlightened-dining-limerick/

A bootlicking fellow named Ross
Worked in footwear and fawned on his boss.
Many co-workers mocked him.
One gal even socked him.
He's boss now ... and she's on the sauce.

#HaikuChallenge #Fawn #Workplace #Jobs #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Verse #Poems

Sanguinity Challenges (Limerick)
http://www.madkane.com/madness/2025/11/30/sanguinity-challenges-limerick/

#HaikuChallenge #Sanguine #Poetry #Limericks #WordPlay #LimerickSunday #Humor #Humour #MicroPoetry #Trump #USPOL #USPolitics #Politics #Writing

✨️🩷☀️🤍 📖 🤍☀️🩷✨️ scent of warmth sun's saga flips through p e o n y #BlueSkyArtShow #Warmth #EastCoastKin #haikuchallenge Saga #haiku #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Macro #Bloomscrolling #Wolftwin

✨️🌳🐈‍⬛🕳🐈‍⬛🌳✨️ bright nexus warm cat tree presents a Pye hole #BlueSkyArtShow #Bright #EastCoastKin #haikuchallenge Nexus #haiku #俳句 #senryu #FreeVerse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Caturday #catsofbluesky #Photography

Dear Muse (Limerick)
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2025/10/29/dear-muse-limerick/

#HaikuChallenge #Ideal #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Verse #Poems #PoetryCommunity #Writing

✨️🧡🪟🐈🪟🧡✨️ Love Gift of love Window purrs open In my soul #BlueSkyArtShow #Inside #EastCoastKin #haikuchallenge Gift #haiku #俳句 #Poetry #Micropoetry #Caturday #Photography

✨️🌺🌷🛕🌷🌺✨️ Eden Purple stigma Tepals guard temple’s Orange stain #BlueSkyArtShow #Vertical #EastCoastKin #haikuchallenge Eden #Macro #Photography #Haiku #俳句 #Poetry #Micropoetry #Bloomscrolling #Wolftwin

✨️🌬🌲🌳🌲🌬✨️ Relax Zoetic dawn Fog of a thousand breaths Unwinds daybreak #BlueSkyArtShow #Relax #EastCoastKin #haikuchallenge #Zoetic #haiku #俳句 #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Forest #Wolftwin #Fall #Landscape

Kitchen Duties (Limerick)
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2025/05/24/kitchen-duties-limerick/

#HaikuChallenge #Hone #Food #Cuisine #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Poems

#Trump gives me the blues.
Re our future, can't #enthuse.
So please pass the booze!

#BlueskyRelay #Enthusiasm #HaikuChallenge #Haiku #News #Senryu #Poetry #News #MicroPoetry #Resist #USPolitics #MAGA #USPOL #Politics

The Naïf (Limerick)
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2025/05/14/the-naif-limerick/

#BlueskyRelay #Trusting #HaikuChallenge #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse

This Is NO Spin (Limerick)
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2025/05/06/ballet-limerick/

#HaikuChallenge #Ballet #Dance #Étoile #Prime #Streaming #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #AmyShermanPalladino

#BlueskyRelay #Electric #HaikuSaturday #HaikuChallenge #Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #MicroPoetry #Humor #Humour #LightVerse

#HaikuChallenge #Celerity #Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #Humor #LightVerse #MicroPoetry #Poems #Food #PoetryCommunity

#HaikuChallenge #Abound #HaikuSaturday #Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #News #MicroPoetry #Poems #Trump #USPOL #USPolitics #Politics #Poets #PoetryCommunity

Here's yet another of my extremely non-uplifting haiku. (Sorry to be so depressing... Sigh.)

#HaikuChallenge #Ablaze #Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #News #MicroPoetry #Poems #Trump #USPOL #USPolitics #Politics #Poets #PoetryCommunity

I have a new poem out in Maryland Writer's Association's lit mag, Pen In Hand! This one was inspired by graffiti under the highway, and it made it into the Top 5 of the MWA's Haiku Challenge!

Read it here (on p. 60 of the January 2024 issue): https://marylandwriters.org/Pen_in_Hand_

#poetry #poem #haiku #writing #publishing #mwa #graffiti #haikuchallenge

Vivid
Kneeling on the floor
Making love to porcelain
Eject vivid dream

Alter
A few simple steps
Photoshop makes me perfect
Alter everything

https://elameadows.wordpress.com/2023/10/13/weekly-haiku-october-7-13

#poem #poetry #poemoftheday #photography #cwh #writing #spookyseason #spooky #halloween #spookymonth #writingcommunity #october #autumn #fall #photoshop #photoshopmanipulation #alter #berries #ripe #stem #cozy #avoid #vivid #WeeklyHaiku #haikuchallenge #haikuoftheday #haikupoetry #haiku
@dailyhaikuprompt

#haiku

by waterfall's edge
hangs a scarlet strawberry
savor the chance fruit

(After a Zen koan)

#575Prompt (@aethelshane): strawberry
#HaikuChallenge: waterfall; HaikuQuest theme: waterways
#15WordsPrompt: scarlet
#MicroPoetry #SmallPoems #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #deepity

#haiku

a pebble washed on shore
rounded by tides, sunbathes, dreams
of immovable might

— § —

scoring the paddock
daffodils blare xanthic fanfares
to passing bees

— § —

hidden in undergrowth
limbs a-quiver, a dormouse
follows the hawk's sweep

#MicroPoetry #SmallPoems #poems #poetry
#TheDailyHaiku: pebble;
#PenYourTen: daffodils; #HaikuChallenge: xanthic (yellow);
#575Prompt: quiver (host: @aethelshane)

Equinox balance
Caress the wild within you
Always cedes valence

#DailyHaikuPrompt - equinox
#Haiku
#FreeHaiku
#Poem
#SmallPoems
#MicroPoetry
#HaikuChallenge Wild
#vss365 caress
#PenYourTen always
#craiyon

My touch
A jaded tangent
To your radiant heart

#vss365 #haiku #haikufeels #jaded #haikuchallenge #radiant

#senryū

one final piece
completes the jigsaw puzzle—
where is it?

— § —

cry wolf? no good
your histrionics bore me
sharp teeth sink in

— § —

what insolent cheek
to mock my Parnassian
tours de tommyrot!

#haiku #senryū #deskku #MicroPoetry #SmallPoems #poems #poetry
#PenYourTen: puzzle
#DailyHaikuPrompt: wolf
#StoryIn12: cheek
#MastoPrompt: mock
#HaikuChallenge: Parnassian

Zes februari
Eeuwige trouwbelofte
Zevenendertig

#haiku #haikuchallenge #trouwdag #hetbestaatnog

oxen struggling
under their cruel master's #yoke
workers must unite

#haikuchallenge

Moans, #wren-ched free from your
throat, in your futile attempts
To shake off the #yoke

#vss365 #haikuchallenge #haiku

#yearn for better times
more peaceful, profitable...
No: the time is now!

#haikuchallenge
#senryu

I just got a whiff
of a fabulous idea--
What was it again?

#HaikuChallenge #Whiff

#Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt #Poem #AmWriting #micropoetry

she #shakes herself dry
rain and river spatters me
baptism of love

#haikuchallenge

💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋

#sycophant kisses

taint #robust #spirit of worth

#resigned servitude

💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋

#atreyasverse
#vss365
#haikuchallenge
#haikufeels

#sycophant kisses
taints #robust #spirit of worth
#resigned servitude

#atreyasverse
#vss365
#haikuchallenge
#haikufeels

Saturdays are for #scifaiku

#scifaikusaturday #quantum
#haikuchallenge #open

Quantum key opens
Tiny fissures in reactor
Core explodes in 3...