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Biannual print journal dedicated to publishing the best of contemporary English-language haiku. acornhaiku.com

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“I’ll take you to her
said the mortician when I returned to collect you
& he gestured toward a pedestal,
lit by a spotlight, guarded
by a velvet rope.” —excerpt from “You’d Be Thirty Today” by Lo Naylor

03.09.2025 21:39 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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#booksky

05.07.2025 23:55 👍 21679 🔁 6222 💬 470 📌 371
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2024 Touchstone Award Winner for Individual Haibun - Roberta Beary - The Haiku Foundation

Grateful 🙏 💕🥳
@sfreligh.bsky.social
@claremacqueen.bsky.social
@haikufound.bsky.social
#haibun *Grief: The Uncut Version*
#TouchstoneAward

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20.04.2025 13:31 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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nuclear clouds
in the next world
i am childless

Roberta Beary

🙏 Acorn #Haiku 53 fall 2024
editor @susanantolin.bsky.social

24.11.2024 21:31 👍 25 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sonny Rollins

#jazz

07.05.2025 17:51 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Reading from The San Francisco Haiku Anthology, Volume Two, yesterday in Mill Valley, CA at the gorgeous O'Hanlon Center for the Arts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FXv...

05.05.2025 23:57 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Winner – Meera Rehm (England)

spring arrives
for my blind sister too
white-eye’s song

Winner – Elliott Simons (USA)

cracked bricks
laced with moss
kintsugi

THE BRITISH HAIKU SOCIETY AWARDS 2024 – RESULTS
The David Cobb #Haiku Award
Judges – Ikuyo Yoshimura and Maeve O’Sullivan #poetry

18.04.2025 13:43 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Happy #HaikuDay !

Celebration suggestion: check out free course materials, tips, prompts, recommended reading, & haiku at
www. haiku-insight.org

#haiku

17.04.2025 14:27 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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tinywords dreamworker the dog at the door of childhood

dreamworker
the dog at the door
of childhood

-Beverly Acuff Momoi
tinywords.com/2025/04/16/4...

16.04.2025 16:46 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Happy Haiku day

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Sample Poems | Acorn Haiku A selection of quality haiku from the pages of Acorn.

The spring issue of Acorn will go in the mail next week. Here's a sneak peek at a few of the poems included in the issue. Enjoy!

www.acornhaiku.com/sample-poems

04.04.2025 18:17 👍 47 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 1

Have finally moved to Blue Sky! Looking forward to connecting with poets here!

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