a thousand tiny
colored lights reflected
in your maple hair

#DailyHaikuPrompt - maple
#haiku #senryu

@extraspecialbitter
:D

pick a morning
bouquet from this bright
garden of pills

#DailyHaikuPrompt - garden
#haiku #senryu #old

years sewn together --
mother's blue glass vision,
your green silk tie

#DailyHaikuPrompt - quilt /vibrant
#haiku #senryu

it sits on the couch
he’s long since grown and left home
my son’s baby quilt

#DailyHaikuPrompt - 12/23/25 - #quilt

crochet a coat
in the colors of coastal
Maine, blue & rain

#DailyHaikuPrompt - overcoat
#haiku #senryu

little light
to reach this raw
redacted day

#DailyHaikuPrompt - solstice
#haiku #senryu

@DogButlerPoet
Christmas cactus
Santa smells
of tequila

#senryu

"The trouble is we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

—Ursula K. Le Guin

#quote #quotes #classwar #ausgov #politas

Christmas cholla
is confused and blooms
in winter

#DailyHaikuPrompt - blooming
#haiku #senryu #desertlife

feeble rain clouds
drive into town
with the snowbirds

#DailyHaikuPrompt - winter
#poetry #haiku #senryu

no night rain --
twisted tissue, nightgown
inside out

#DailyHaikuPrompt - long night
#poetry #haiku #senryu

night scrolling --
carpet moth beats
on the screen

#DailyHaikuPrompt - moth
#haiku #senryu

Since I’m being nostalgic, I have to share Nostalgia by Emily Barker. It was the Wallender theme song,

https://youtu.be/p2cKnGZC9iI

song of spruce
her dulcimer sound holes
shaped like swallows

#DailyHaikuPrompt - swallow
#poetry #haiku #senryu

Reading 2025 fiction? Try the novelette "The Millay Illusion" by Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker!

You can read it here!

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-millay-illusion/

feed a rising song
from this iron cauldron
lampblack & hollow

#DailyHaikuPrompt - stew
#poetry #haiku #senryu

one bronze tube fell
now chords ring unfinished
on the wind

#DailyHaikuPrompt - chimes
#poetry #haiku #senryu

the wave metaphor
is weak -- the whole hurt sky
must affirm its blue

#DailyHaikuPrompt - dark cloud
#poetry #haiku #senryu

in the desert
snow is theology
each lace illusion

#DailyHaikuPrompt - snowflake
#poetry #haiku #senryu #desertlife