spring water
hauled to the cabin
prepped for the dipping cup

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - spring water

mosquito coil burns
its rings spiralling
protective incense

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - mosquito

@loriemerson Congratulations on this tremendous academic accomplishment. Brava!

nodding seed heads
mark puppy's pounce
in tall grass

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - tall grass

Bemused, don't know how Brian Glavey gets to cross-pollination ... happy he does

"striking image at the heart of the Coke poem: the ecstasy of two lovers cross-pollinating “like a tree breathing through its spectacles.”"

Having a Coke with You Is Even More Fun Than Ideology Critique (PMLA 2019)

iridescent cloud
buzzing over
roadkill

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - flies

Back in 2013, Bernardine Evaristo gave a reading in a south London bookshop from her novel Mr Loverman. Only six people showed up, a couple of them were dozing and she realised they were homeless people who had come to find somewhere comfortable to sleep.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/08/im-here-to-open-doors-bernardine-evaristo-on-success-controversy-and-why-she-plans-to-donate-her-100k-award

a dome
drizzled with raspberry syrup
spoonful and spoonful of icy splendour

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - shaved ice

bedclothes tossed aside
stretching out to the ceiling fan breeze
hot summer nights

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - hot night

at the lily's throat
a smudge of pollen
excess

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - pollen

cascades, rapids, waterfalls
the river continues over the land
shape shifting

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - waterfall

@robmclennan Valuing the small place as a place to begin: "It wasn't until I started reading novels by local author Ralph Connor, from a century earlier, did I start to understand that it was possible to write, even if one was from such a rural corner, far away from contemporary literature."

Your eyes aren't eyes. They're bees.
I can find no cure for their sting.

Anonymous
trans. Eliza Griswold
I Am The Beggar of The World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan

porch
light
flutter

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - moth

High John The Conqueror Root
talisman overcoming
obstacles

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - roots

decoration background
spray of baby's breath
enhancing bouquet of roses

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - spray

Beginning Pride Month with a viewing of We Were Here. A documentary of collective and individual responses to the AIDS crisis...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Were_Here_%28film%29

tomato
very berry

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - berry

An ostrich does not bury its head in the sand; it lays its neck flat to the ground so as to appear from a distance like a mound of earth. That facts are innumerable is not the problem. That we tend to look elsewhere is.

Noah Eli Gordon
Is That the Sound of a Piano Coming from Several Houses Down?

blue hydrangea
sign of acidic soil
white, neutral

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - hydrangea