2009-10-26/27/28

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@HaikuDelight: just after midnight / in for a heavenly flight / fasten your seat belts #haiku

@Alismcg: #haiku: winters pale face press'd / 'gainst souls window panes her kiss /piercin' sticks like frost // #poetry #micropoetry

@makeit2double: With one hand fill your / zoo of shadows with rabbits / then with both hands, birds #haiku #twaiku #poetry

@NatureSpirits: Mirrored silver bay / reflecting swooping swallows / calm water moving. #haiku

@dragonheartsong: A #haiku for survivors: // I feel uneasy... // lengthening shadows grow near, // yet my strength remains. _/|\_ Namasté

@lippy73: What will she recall / my child, when in the future / she's thinking of me? #senryu

@dengary: a tramp in my field / gazes at migrating geese— / so homeless and free | #haiku #fraglit #micropoetry #poetry

@HaikuSocial: divine radiance - impetuously blinding - heavenly deluge #haiku #poetry

@Christwitery: Milk bottles waiting / frozen soldiers in the snow / lost their little hats /// #haiku

@monkeywillow: this strange desire / to dance in the light / of the moon / and vanish / without trace // (MET V3 N3) #tanka #micropoetry #fraglit

@Jemfyr: Tear into darkness / break through sun, touch me like this / where you will find me //

@morganabag: old house/ rattles its bones / all night in the rain #haiku #senryu

@Christwitery: I carry my mask / on a skinny little stick / but you wouldn't know /// #haiku #haikuchallenge

@ashalynd: take one card out / and watch how the Universe / starts falling apart --- #sad #haiku

@JDProuty: He will tell no lies ~ so be careful what you ask ~ the man with no mask #haiku #haikuchallenge #mask #senryu

@wk247: Squirrel scampers thru leaves/Suddenly climbing a tree;/Stops to view the world. #haiku #quote

@haikubee: Christmas, coming home - / cold, cruel, redecorated / memories of youth. #haiku #micropoetry

@haikubee: My teenage child docks / a distant ocean away - / a storm blowing in. #senryu #micropoetry

@Alismcg: #haiku: wise poets build large / corrals let friskin' colts roam / words gallop thru night #poetry #micropoetry

@exmosis: A chrysalis mask - change gathers like melting snow, wriggling in the air. #haiku #haikuchallenge

@mattmchugh: ** Twitter #haiku ** The Governator / drops an acrostic F-bomb / on Sacramento

@lippy73: I removed my mask / and found I didn’t know the / person underneath #haikuchallenge #senryu

@JDProuty: Some masks play a part ~ some masks only speak their heart ~ in this masquerade #haiku #haikuchallenge #mask #senryu http://blip.fm/~e82y9

@KOOLFOOLTATTOO: Now I talk,/ pause like Will Shatner./ Darn #haiku

@baffled: persistent sadness / the man in the iron mask / doesn't get out much #haikuchallenge #haiku #senryu

@omewan: unfeeling technology / circuits, switches, and metals / brings hearts closer together #haiku #fauxku

@daskaea: Snow sleeps peacefully / Sparkling in the sunlight, a / Blanket of diamonds #haiku

@daskaea: White snowy layer / Caked on thin green twigs, amidst / Sits black bird – contrast #haiku

@FrancescaArt: the skies are azure/clouds hugging each other tight/a dream coming true . . . #haiku

@morganabag: sparrow wing / glowing scarlet / reflecting dawn #haiku

@oshum: At the mask~ed ball // incognito dancing wild // inhibitions gone. #haiku #mask

@tchaos: The school called today/ Police charged our youngest with/ Resisting a rest #haiku

@monkeybrigade: Sun-withered lizard / Finds the cooling shadow cast / By hungry house cat. #haiku

@eyefollow1: 1 thousand miles / breeze carries her like perfume / distance disappears /// #eyeku #haiku

@alexandrious: a flower bursts forth / magnificent eruption / and a slow decay #haiku

@Jemfyr: Mad masquerade ball / lurking lunacy seeks mask / anonymity /// #haiku #haikuchallenge

@tchaos: A careless butcher/ backed into a meat grinder/ got behind in work #haiku

@tchaos: Trying to think of/German philosopher puns/However, I Kant #haiku

@poetisk: silently it screams / with its last whispering breath - / the wind is dying #haiku

@marshaikus: fog's passion lays damp/ on the doorstep of morning/ - a world of shadows #haiku

@marshaikus: with crooked hopes/ drawn and quartered, my flesh crawls/ with doubt and tension #haiku

@taosdawn: snoring, napping dog / her fur hot from the woodstove / puddle of black ink — #newmexico artist #haiku

@Rehfan: When bad things happen // at night, the morning sun seems // like God's great flashlight. #haiku #poetry

@jeanbertho: and this spirit was / shadow of your fantasies / escaped from your eyes _•_ #haiku dedicated to @Etsujin_Haiku

@DavidRoe01: ~ grey cloud masks the sun ~ frog wears a waterproof coat ~ Basho sits and laughs ~ #haiku

@rascality: blue dogs have their day / robust public option dead / satan writes fat check #haiku #politics

@Etsujin_Haiku: I saw a spirit / wandering through the dark night / looking for lost dreams #haiku

@haikunut: Moonlight on pillow ~ tending to my open wounds ~ How God talks to me #senryu #prayer

@haikunut: Fetal position ~ under flannel sheets, weeping ~ How I talk to God #senryu #prayer

@carltonhalpert: People of Gotham // saw through the mask on day one // but let Bruce play on. #haiku #haikuchallenge #batman

@Yojinbo: What good is a mask / when there's no one to hide from / Except for yourself. #haiku #haikuchallenge 'mask'

@BruceStewart: Bodily in pain / mind as cloudy as the sky / spirit unbroken #haiku

@DavidLeeK: morning tea/ the sound of birdsong/ gentle rain/ ordinary things/ ordinary joys #tanka

@lippy73: Take off your glasses / see the world in soft focus / just don't try to drive #haiku #senryu

@Tobuno: This duality/ a blessing in disguise ~ yet/ the source of all pain. :) #Zen Buddhism #haiku

@symphonist: mask the left side please/ look at yourself disappear/ change side, continue #haiku #haikuchallenge #mask

@KOOLFOOLTATTOO: "Feed me is/ your life's top mission."/ Cat insists. #haiku

@saintends: I feel restlessness / This kinetic impatience / Pulling at the seams. #haiku

@saintends: The weight of the world / Sitting on top of my bones / I'm dust beneath it. #haiku

@saintends: Though we may lose sight / Never forget life is a / Beautiful struggle. #haiku #hope

@Tobuno: If it won't leap out/ of your chest, onto the page/ don't try writing it. #haiku #senryu

@rasplemjelly: bright specs in sunlight/ shake free and tumble to ground/ like angels falling #haiku Time to fine tune my #fridayflash and drink tea.

@SirWumpus: red wine / like tinted sunglasses / colours the world #haiku

@tailwag: In hospital three people die / On floor above / Four babies born. #haiku #senyru

@Dr_MiaRose: Like rock and water / Leaf and stone ~ face each other / Together alone. /// #haiku

@shadfromdc: Helps you clean your room, / And improves your tennis skills / Meth- Helluva Drug!! #haiku #poetry #agassi

@Christwitery: My spider princess / eat my heart and spit it out / I'll be back for more /// #haiku

@Christwitery: Mountain birds singing / in sweet raptuous voices / of distant sea shores /// #haiku #I_cant_count

@Christwitery: I'm almost homeless / a few millimeters more / the gutter beckons /// #haiku http://bit.ly/KOhg

@wqueens7: coffee rings 091029 0452am. Paper crop circles/ Product of jittery hands/ And strong black coffee/ #haiku (pic) http://znl.me/2CS3K

@monkeywillow: through a hole / in evening sky / a butterfly leads the way // #haiku #senryu #fraglit #micropoetry

@wqueens7: Somewhere in The Bronx/ #Yankees matriculate (at/ Cliff Lee's Charter School)/ #haiku http://bit.ly/23BtaU (expand)

@yearning4d_sky: sitting still staring//still silent surface// meditating Rock #haiku

@yearning4d_sky: Simply brand me not/ in a single colour for // I am Multihued #haiku #haikuchallenge

@yearning4d_sky: A brand new makeover // the tree sprouting a new leaf// autumn ends in hope #haiku #haikuchallenge

@yearning4d_sky: Do not brand me// unfaithful ~ it sears my heart// still beats to your song #haiku #haikuchallenge

@Lawrencejiko: - into the fire / - ! // - — #haiku

@franscud: Amid tangled roots / topped with broken stems, he plucks / her name, flowering ~ http://bit.ly/2VNCXj (expand) #haiku

@Kate_TW: burned into black earth~ a scaffold remains~ framing the white winter sky #haiku

@tsk2001: flock of untreed leaves / whirls vortexed bird swirled gray rain / day sings on wet wings #haiku #poetry

@Tobuno: Going and gone/ being and been/ all shall pass, but this! #Zen Buddhism #haiku

@Lawrencejiko: - in the cave / - Bodhidharma / - —sitting // - #zen #haiku

@lifeinoleg: Siren lights reflected / in the car across the street -- / Laying down the law...of physics. #senryu

@ArtSneeze: - starting a new painting - nothing - like a blank canvas // - — #haiku

@doyouhaiku: all at once, trees blushed. / linked branches and said "and...go!" / all falling for fall. #haiku

@mplardie: Fired up the furnace / but my son still wearing shorts. / Yay, California. #haiku

@Christwitery: Mountain birds sing / in sweet raptuous voices / of distant sea shores /// #haiku

@CDominiqueG: we build high walls...in efforts to hide ourselves... from the world outside #haiku #cdominiquegibson #poetry

@ZenPhilosopher: A river floats forth/ A leaf lands on the water/ A river floats forth #haiku

@ZenPhilosopher: Are we that alone/ That we search for life elsewhere?/ Earth, teeming with life! #haiku

@CDominiqueG: as i take my leave.../ I watch the moon kiss your brow.../ sweetest dreams, sweet sleep #haiku #goodnight #cdominiquegibson

@cjoyen: Through the flapping wings / standing on the bare branches / Jay birds talk out loud #haiku

@Yojinbo: From the sea I came / A friend of Charlie Tuna / To the sea I go.. #haiku #fryku #thatwasntwhereIwasgoingwiththatbut..

@lippy73: Husband wonders why / my computer makes me laugh / better he not know #haiku #senryu

@gardenbuddha: Tiny flowers // bees hovering // smell of honey #haiku

@Christwitery: Dragonflies take flight / from fearful ferocious frogs / over raging stream /// #haiku

@Tetsubishi: bed full of moonlight - / of all the choices I've made / the hardest to bear #haiku but also #senryu

@carltonhalpert: Dragonflies are all // regular Onflies who are // dressed in womens' clothes. #haiku #worstofDFC

@carltonhalpert: @NotOneNotTwo - Haikus are easy // But sometimes they don't make sense // William Perry. #haiku #worstofDFC

@Yojinbo: When we ride the waves / We don't know where we're going / Only that we'll go... #haiku #surfordie #surfANDdie

@franscud: Long employed to serve / others' wickedness, he quits / to master his own ~ #haiku #poetwist

@senryunectar: Refrigerator ~ snazzy with it's magnets bright ~ trips from far away #haiku #testingyourpatience (had to sorry!)

@Adamfyre: The toiletpaper ~ was missing. It was in the ~ refrigerator. #haiku #testingyourpatience

@Rehfan: My face reflected in // the squirrel's eye, shows bright and // eager face, smiling. #haiku #poetry

@ianbran: stand back everyone!....i'm not sure if this will work.....oh crap!, it didn't!...#haiku

@ianbran: don't you bother me...i smell like a basketball?!...and i might be french!.....#haiku

@Christwitery: Pigeons prowl pecking / pretty chests puffed and preening / lunchtime in the mall /// #haiku

@senryunectar: The daffodil stretched ~ towards the warm springtime sun ~ shaking off the snow #haiku (wishful thinking)

@karixa: waves upon the shore, salted air purifies me, waiting for the sun. #haiku

@Naumadd: Naumaddku: "These rusting leaves ... yes, I could have - loved them more." - #haiku #senryu #poetry

@Miridunn: The beauty of it / a meteor sparks to life then swallowed// by the dark it lights// #haiku

@urbancrafter: Sparsely placed houses :: cast an ominous orange glow :: here in the darkness. #haiku

@tsimigo: blue & green, sky, sea/ beautiful repetition/ of impermanence. #haiku

@myersgene: Sunlight; / the hill / turns quietly / into sky #poem #haiku

@urbancrafter: Long shadows, stretching ::: clinging to the day, wanting ::: nothing more than life. #haiku

@Christwitery: My spider princess / eat my heart spit it out / I'll be back for more /// #haiku

@remst8: Pretty falling leaves / Crap; now I have to rake them / Stupid effing leaves. #haiku

@senryunectar: An upturned high heel ~ marooned by the bed, as they ~ unloosed their desire #senryu

@moonflowernco: snow makes its own time / ticking softly as it lands / on scarlet maple leaves #haiku

@carol_red: ink-laden brush / the master's hand / young again #haiku #micropoetry

@Bill312: east to west / east to west, / one crow follows another | #haiku

@DavidRoe01: ~ drifting into sleep ~ darkness rushes past the window ~ the sound of the wind ~ #haiku

@Yojinbo: When I left prison / I thought I would be free, but... / The prison IS me... #haiku

@Alismcg: #haiku in oven ~ black olives flirts! wink / at tomatoes melt cheese pinch/ onions scream pizza! // #poetry #micropoetry

@poeticmindset: moonlight drips through clouds / beauty in light and shadow / the ocean wanders #haiku #poetry

@alotus_poetry: caught in traffic / the radio static blocks out / other people's thoughts #senryu

@alotus_poetry: afternoon mail / a Monarch rests / on my name #haiku #senryu

@Christwitery: Foolish moon / take my heart / I'm yours /// #haiku

@carol_red: afternoon tea -- / the cat curls into / a square of sun #haiku #micropoetry

@haiku_andy: Daily Haiku - \\ dark morning \ nothing moves \ even the house sleeps \\ #haiku

@haiQ: / The descending sun / tells me to un-lose myself / and head back homeward. / - #autumn #bikeride #haiku

@makeit2double: That brown dress you wore / and the way you float down a / staircase still haunt me #haiku #twaiku #poetry

@alotus_poetry: apostrophe-- / the crescent moon hanging / by the owl's right ear #haiku

@Christwitery: It's too late for you / too late to catch me now / I was a dreamer /// #haiku #swiftwhitehorse

@Etsujin_Haiku: Troubled times ahead? / Just grab the strength from your soul / and unleash the light. #haiku

@Christwitery: With your long blond hair / and your eyes of deepest blue / sorrow sorrow you /// #haiku

@alotus_poetry: ellipses-- / baby swans hesitating / on the riverbank / the water too cold / for water fights #tanka

@gennepher: Stag and hinds watch me. / Turn in synchrony, riding long / legs off into forest. #haiku

@dengary: sapphire butterfly / your tattered wings / the snap of prayer flags in the wind | #haiku #fraglit #micropoetry

@gennepher: Hot air shimmering. / Tree ring old gnarled dark beeches. / Doorway to another world. #haiku

@gennepher: Beautiful white horse / Delicate as gossamer / Shimmers through the night. #haiku

@alotus_poetry: stepping out of my car / at Walmart / a decomposing banana / greets my feet #micropoetry

@mamasanta: The vultures / on a dead tree top / they know, they know #haiku #fraglit

@mamasanta: again a little boy / in red curduroy / climbs the haystack #haiku

@Tobuno: My heart wears a smile/ too subtle for naked eyes/ lovers alone, see. #haiku #senryu @NakedNow

@Alismcg: #haiku: softest whispers shhhh! /tease! your lips barely movin' / trace trees smile neathe leaves #poetry #micropoetry

@Alismcg: #haiku: sun risin' climbin' / despairs maw waitin' wide drools / her hearts eye twinklin' #poetry #micropoetry

@lisamarie20010: Cat lies like the Sphinx/ On the back of the sofa/ - He riddles in miniature #haiku #micropoetry

@jbridgman: packed morning bus // I mixed myself into // the human meatloaf #haiku

@HikiMadwoman: over green water / an ancient dragonfly hums / sap glistens on trees #haiku

@alotus_poetry: kissing him / goodbye / over the phone / the only sound returned was / static noise #tanka

@alotus_poetry: pulling out / of my driveway / I compose haiku / with road signs / through the fog #tanka

@PesciTriD: "I feel your pain" is / NOT the same reality / as "I share your pain" #haiku #haikuchallenge

@HikiMadwoman: coin dropped carelessly / rings rolls wobbles falls to stop / unnoticed by her #haiku

@HikiMadwoman: cat alive cat dead / both at once neither at all / come and get your food #haiku

@thaleia: I'm lost in this world / a tear falls upon your grave / never forgotten #haiku

@thaleia: Let me hold your hand / I'll be your guardian angel / and watch over you #haiku

@JDProuty: On Twitter we share ~ our unique perspectives of ~ this thing we call life #haiku #haikuchallenge #share

@KrisLindbeck: Before autumn dawn / that flutter in my headlights / leaf or moth? | #haiku

@CDominiqueG: sleeps with everyone.../dramaqueen when in trouble.../ she's such a trampsel #haiku #makeupaword #cdominiquegibson

@taosdawn: october snow / i leave my obligations / to make snow angels — #newmexico artist #haiku

@monkeywillow: full of stillness - / the shape a butterfly / left behind // #haiku #micropoetry #poerty #fraglit

@WeaselWhisperer: // live for all you're worth ☼ slumber with eternity ☼ rise like you're the sun // #haiku for the morning

@Tobuno: Her heart unfolds like/ symphony ~ with him as/ captive audience. #haiku #sunryu

@yearning4d_sky: Do not brand me// unfaithful ~ it sears my heart// still beats to your song #haiku #haikuchallenge #simplypoet

@urbancrafter: Silently, I share ~~ my heart and soul, in being ~~ and in my doing. #haiku #haikuchallenge

@Pookandgrace: Impatient bugger / don't scold the hand that feeds you / chick a dee dee dee #haiku

@jannagae: #haikutherapy #haiku Not another day ~ will fall trees remain the same ~ each day different

@jannagae: #haiikutherapy #haiku Puffy cotton balls ~ dotting turquoise sky for miles ~ sun flowing behind

@ChainOfWords: Exploited crickets/angry frogs and vengeful crows/just want you to stop #haiku (On behalf the IUFCC)

@Adamfyre: Climactic paper ~ Intricately folded, it's ~ Orgasmgami. #haiku #makeupaword

@Tetsubishi: arrow of grey geese / velvet blanket of grey clouds / rustle of grey squirrels #haiku

@ruinedXfinery: I once haiku-d about gregorian frogs masturbating and morning glories screaming rape by bees. it offended #haiku NOT

@ChainOfWords: There are thousands of other insects, amphibians and birds who crave your poetic attentions. Please diversify your #haiku. Sincerely IUFCC.

@ChainOfWords: On behalf of the Intl Union of Frogs, Crickets, and Crows we are filing an injunction to stop our exploitation in #haiku.

@urbancrafter: Leap of faith from edge ~~ I sprouted glorious wings ~~ and now, I'm soaring. #haiku #senryu

@ruinedXfinery: is it really haiku if you don't mention a cricket or a frog plopping or a bird or ......... #haiku NOT

@LivenbothWorlds: Laughing Crows Pick Grain// Sparkly Trinkets Line Their Nests// Celebrating Their Feast// #haiku #haikutherapy

@gennepher: Field of red poppies / Crimson butterflies fluttering / Blood spilt rose again. #haiku #haikutherapy #poppy

@Etsujin_Haiku: Always look for peace / and avoid hurting others / God asks this of us. #haiku

@Yojinbo: The teacher’s footsteps— Eight steps to Awakening— Echo within me… —In memory of John Daido Loori Roshi, Thank you, sensei. #haiku #memoriam

@Etsujin_Haiku: People of the world / must join hands with each other / and unite as one. #haiku

@carltonhalpert: Climb into the box // we ascend to heaven in // the Cultivator. #haiku #cult #heaven

@Etsujin_Haiku: The world wants to know / why we idly sit around / and watch her perish #haiku

@lippy73: The book of today / pages watermarked with mist / fog covered morning #haiku #haikutherapy

@haikubee: Quiet / on the couch / my wife sleeps / alone / in our bed. #tanka #micropoetry

@AshiAkira: Blue sky after rain/ Inhalation of cool air/ Deep satisfaction #haiku #Zen

@yearning4d_sky: simply brand me not/ in a single colour for // I am Multihued #haiku #haikuchallenge #simplypoet

@KrisLindbeck: North windows, white-violet / East windows, pale gold / in the same dawn | #micropoetry

@Yojinbo: Share your pain with me / And I'll share my joy with you: / We'll both benefit. #haiku #haikuchallenge 'share'

@Christwitery: Strangers on buses / they always avoid my eyes / but share my hunger /// #haiku #zombiehaiku #haikuchallenge

@Christwitery: Just woke from cat nap / dreamt I was sharing my bed / feline company /// #haiku #haikuchallenge #I_cant_count

@Christwitery: The beauty of love / sharing its radiant forms / in triplicate please /// #haiku #haikuchallenge

@wqueens7: @gladGINA http://twitpic.com/n94av - High swirling clouds are/ Striations on perfect days/ That matter below/ #haiku

@wqueens7: http://twitpic.com/n93wc - In rainy alleys/ Where the dogs all go to shit/ There is still beauty/ #haiku

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2009-10-24/25

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Adamfyre: Can I crawl inside ~ the sound of your voice and kiss ~ your beautiful mind? #senryu

to you

@0355user: Poor little scrub jay / Placed in a large coat pocket / Before a gray cat #haiku

milafaraon: In deference to / the World's creatures great and small / Let the ant live on. #haiku

@simonscotland: Time for me to dream / and if I wake tomorrow / I'll make them come true #haiku

@shyvi: barefoot guitar girl/ weaves poetry sings & plays/ beer spills on the floor #twaiku #haiku

@storylet: Music to My Ears: a shell pressed to ear / sound bursts forth from emptiness / nature’s magic spell ... #haiku - http://tinyurl.com/ygu2c6y

@DigitalSalon: unseen in the leaves / busy squirrels bury nuts / sudden flash of fur #haikuchallenge #haiku

@noveldoctor: Cold mountain sunset / blue-grey clouds fold into pink / the slow dance of hope #haiku

@DigitalSalon: as the fall sun sets / fiery slashes cross the sky / sunshine tomorrow #haiku

@mamasanta paul sang / I'll do it My Way... / a Lonely Boy, he loved Diana / she called it just Puppy Love #tanka

@wqueens7: 7 days. The glass neon tubes:/ Say "Seven Days" about opening/ But it makes one week/ #haiku (pic) http://znl.me/9IQMY

@senryunectar: fingertips to lips ~ pondering her thoughts, she knows ~ beauty comes with peace #senryu

@senryunectar: paw prints on his back ~ symbolize his journey thru ~ a life of wonder #senryu

@Tobuno: Eyes, claws, whiskers, teeth/ royalty and grace, even/ found in cat-a-combs. #meowmonday #haiku

@NotOneNotTwo // the echoing drip ~ from a hidden waterfall ~ the cavern's music // #haiku #haikuwordgame

@lippy73: Raindrops fall to earth / and find others in the stream / to rush to the falls #haiku

@Tobuno: Inevitably/ Invariably, the change/ and the changeless meet. #haiku

@ldwilkinson: Gone-- / my computer mouse / and the cat. #senryu #meowmonday

@WeaselWhisperer: // At the top of night ~ stalking his very last bird ~ whiskers brush the moon // #haiku #haiga ~ http://twitpic.com/n2n1v

@gennepher: When I can't see kindness / I close my eyes, look within / There I find comfort. #haiku

@monkeywillow: there's more of me / with every slice I take away - / chocolate cake // #senryu #haiku

@mamasanta This piece of chocolate cake / adding another layer / to my self #senryu #haiku

@morganabag: morning star / followed me to work / then vanished #haiku

@morganabag: driving through / ginko tree tunnel / at sunset / inside a yellow / submarine #tanka

@gennepher: As much as you wish / You can only be yourself / At this point in time. #haiku

@SirWumpus: touched / held close to heart / lost #haiku

@gennepher: Cotton wool blanket / creeps across deep dark night sky / smothers moon and stars. #haiku

@Etsujin_Haiku: Sleepy sun / casts vivid colors / across the sky #haiku

CDominiqueG: ive lost tears for you/ I've lost sleep over you...then/ new day and NO MORE #haiku #cdominiquegibson #senryu #poetry

@Etsujin_Haiku: Bitter field / tired leaves fall / on frigid earth #haiku

@simonscotland: If I had nothing / My life would still be joyful / Because I have you #haiku #gratitude

@monkeywillow: taking the view / from just above the water - / mist at dawn // #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

@tsimigo: yuwiya flutesongs/ each purifying note like/ soaring, swooping birds. #haiku #cherokee

@NotOneNotTwo // the dark clouds lighten ~ after dropping their troubles ~ on the backs of trees // #haiku #newideas

@carltonhalpert: Behind the clown's smile // is a frown. Then skin, teeth, skull... // How close should we look? #haiku #Halloween #clowns

@WeaselWhisperer: // lying on my chest ~ warming my soul while he sleeps ~ God's purring machine // #haiku #meowmonday

@Tobuno: Awaken to love/ soft solace of surrender/ open hearts ~ they bloom. #haiku #senryu

@haikubee: Dank autumn darkness - / the last of the wasps hovers / around my coke can. #haiku #poetry #micropoetry

@haikubee: The thistle shivers / in the cold easterly wind - / left behind / her wedding ring / on the bedside table. #tanka #poetry #micropoetry

@NotOneNotTwo // from street-lit caverns, ~ gutters dripping waterfalls... ~ night rains of music // #haiku #haikuwordgame

@omewan: sometimes you need to listen / stop talking and explaining / and finally hear the words #haiku #latenightphilosophy

@nappypoet: i'm not a victim/ and you are not my master/ so give me back "me." #haiku

@HikiMadwoman: #haiku #halloween leaves like cinnamon / my mother's hand callused cool / faces behind masks

@HikiMadwoman: #haiku #physics gravity wave trough / waiting for the crest to rise / pele's secret smile

@Tetsubishi: so-tiny spider, / what has your tiny web caught? / dust mites? atoms? ...me. #haiku

@haikubee: Dead wood / in the fire / angels. #haiku #poetry #micropoetry

@makeit2double: Facing north my pen / moves from east to west across / the page of the sky #haiku #twaiku #poetry

@haikubee: My vanity / observed / in the night bus window. #senryu #poetry #micropoetry

@Alismcg: #haiku: skip! five thousand stones /'cross ripplin' hearts would aye! -/pebbles of haiku #poetry #micropoetry (5 thousandth tweet)

@Jemfyr: Souls, ditch digging flesh / pine, pitchfork each other's hearts / bury two, one grave /// #haiku #haikuchallenge

@morganabag: lost / in red woods / wounded trees / chant the end / of october #tanka

@KarenCalifornia: Cold and hungry ~ watching the world go by ~ lonely feral cat #haiku #MeowMonday #cats

@apemanb: praise /showers upwards/ wait for rain #haiku

@Alismcg: #haiku bowing graciously / stars twinkle smiles through darkness/my haiku greets yours #poetry #micropoetry

@Grenhilda: Bury my pain so deep / and in the depth of my heart / I'll bury yours too #haiku #haikuchallenge

@apemanb: stopped heart/ wilfully held beat/ pear falls from tree #haiku

@apemanb: crossing the iced pond/ no-one sees me dance/ glassy fish stare #haiku

@HikiMadwoman: #haiku spun sugar warm day / exhale on cotton candy / it melts like spring snow

@EmApocalyptic I'm the voice in your/ Head.. You type too slow So I/ Got my own account.. #haiku #paranoia

@yearning4d_sky: moved to tears// the rainbow lingered// to bury the sunset #haikuchallenge #haiku

@Christwitery: I am immortal / bury me and I'll rise to / haunt you forever /// #haiku #haikuchallenge

Christwitery: Bury me deepest / so I can just roll over / and fall straight to hell /// #haiku #haikuchallenge

@JDProuty: Do not bury me. ~ Leave me lie high and dry so ~ my spirit can fly. #haiku #haikuchallenge #bury

@soylentblue: Today's 'ku: I can see for miles; and miles and miles and...; whoops! missed the airport #haiku

@Pookandgrace: * For Jake * Beneath the lilac / buried but not forgotten / her memory blooms #haikutherapy #haikuchallenge #haiku

@SeaTurtle36: Worry is only / worry if I worry about / it and I won't. #haiku

@Adamfyre: I miss that pixie ~ She used to dance in my hand ~ singing songs to me. #senryu #pixie

@apemanb: the Sun does not rise/ the Sun does not set, but we / chained to our Earth do #HAIKU

@LadyParadis: The deep orange glow / of the late summer sunsets/ bring thoughts of hot tea #haiku

@yearning4d_sky: moved to tears// the rainbow lingered// to bury the sunset #haikuchallenge #haiku

@nappypoet: when i teach, i rise/ like the sun before the day/ and it feels like love #haiku #teaching

@apemanb: my known world implodes/ emerging from the black hole/ unknown supernova #haiku

@mamasanta: Thank God it was / a dream / I don't think / I could have finished / that glass of bug juice #kyoka #fraglit #tanka

@Tobuno: He then untied the/ string that kept her heart captive/ and set the kite free. #haiku #senryu

@Christwitery: Peeling back the night / reveals cogs and worn out tracks / mechanical skies /// #haiku pic: http://twitpic.com/gkgui

@Geniusmax04: "The Sun Arises. I observe its brilliance. I go back to sleep." #haiku

@taosdawn: piercing night silence / yipping shrieks and calls / moonlit coyotes — #newmexico artist #haiku

@Yojinbo: Don't carry the dead / Nor bury yourself with them: / Life is for living. #haiku #haikuchallenge 'bury'

@poetspirit: buried in books, I / read the nearest thing, knowing / the world is larger // #haiku

@Juliasnz: To bury my love / The ocean drowns my sorrow / Waves wash over me #haikuchallenge "bury" #haiku

@urbancrafter: He worships her and // builds a poetry alter // where she rests her heart. #haiku #love @eyefollow1

@AshiAkira: Cold rain all day long/ Lucky - didn’t have to go out/ Tea, music, reading… #haiku

@KrisLindbeck: Last leaves / on the shadow of this sapling / fluttering | #haiku

@wqueens7: http://twitpic.com/n09pn - Behind the drivers/ Not moving on B.Q.E./ Another day starts/ #haiku

@Grenhilda: I'm somehow stranded / in this misty twilight world / not unwillingly #haiku

@tailwag: Coming out of restaurant / See old man with cane / Searching through garbage. #haiku #senyru

@apemanb: i am sharp, bitter/ but we are of the same tree/ my lemonflower #haiku

@AndrewBWatt: On dog's early walk // whorl of thousand stars still burns // and the East dreams dark. #poetry #haiku #poem #twiku

@KaliKamaria: Almost but so not Got no sweet tunes, got no soul I miss you ipod :( #haiku

@allnitewatchman: Don't ever bitchslap me/She said/As I took a sip from my coffee #haiku

@allnitewatchman: You lie with the lambs/I'll go with the dogs/And see how this life unfolds #haiku

@KOOLFOOLTATTOO: so many thoughts fly/ the hidden dragon rise high/ fear yet the tiger #haiku

@omewan: sometimes you need to listen / stop talking and explaining / and finally hear the words #haiku #latenightphilosophy

@Grenhilda: Insecurities / suck you in the undertow / tidal ebb and flow #haiku

@Lou__is: As a pandora box ~ My heart is empty ~ Thousand leaves #haiku #twaiku

@gennepher: I wake up slowly ~ Remember dreams, gather thoughts ~ Clothe mind for the day. #haiku #haikutherapy

@Grenhilda: Indecisively / I type and delete and type / and delete again #haiku

@monkeywillow: today, like me / this crow is heading / who knows where // #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry

@saintends: Conforming nightly / Each one a sheep counting sheep / I alone rebel. #haiku #insomnia

@saintends: Insomniac dreams / Are never interrupted / By beeping alarms. #haiku #insomnia

@tsk2001: beautiful night on / Broadway only three people / asked me for money #haiku #poetry

@Adamfyre: I am no poet ~ Don't mistake me for my muse ~ I'm just listening.. #senryu #muse

@TryinOnANewLife: don't really know you / have known you forever / your words saved my life #senryu - dedicated to the lovely twitter poets...

@TryinOnANewLife: looking out into / the darkest desert night / hearing the tide roll #haiku

@TryinOnANewLife: desert winds whipping / through mesquite leaves and palm trees / sounds like ocean waves... #haiku

@Jemfyr: Kiss the wind too long / ghostly arms bind and embrace / lie two in the grave /// #haiku

@Christwitery: In frantic moments / I take a really deep breath / and never exhale /// #haiku

@michelleshy: I dream endless roads //Yellow dashes become blurred // I fly in my sleep // #senryu

@AshiAkira: Drizzling persistent/ Makes the quiet quieter/ It’s a noiseless sound #Zen #haiku

@Adamfyre: I'm happy for you ~ in a pissy, childish ~ jealous kind of way.. #senryu

@senryunectar: sinking into bed ~ another day reflected ~ through the eyes of God #senryu

@sevenlives: share some nuts / on this cold morning / you little squirrel...#haiku

@Alismcg: #haiku: crows pickin' garbage / one good turn deserves 'nother /no news is good news #poetry #micropoetry

@Adamfyre: Passed out in the night ~ old friends forget they're married ~ lay there holding hands.. #haiku #marriage

@CDominiqueG: horse led to water/ creek below the factory/ ... won't drink, can't blame him #haiku #senryu #cdominiquegibson

@senryunectar: The silky dress was ~ piled in a heap, it had done ~ it's job perfectly #senryu

@Adamfyre: My muse telephoned.. ~ She wouldn't say anything ~ just breathed heavily... #haiku #muse

@jennface: I wish you were here. / I don't know who you are, but / I want you with me. #haiku

@taosdawn: through silver night clouds / glides the waxing moon in and / out and in and out — #newmexico artist #haiku

@Bill312: kid at the mall: / he steps on / only the square tiles | #haiku #senryu

@Alismcg: #haiku: her persistent cries /signal'd crisis i jump up/ steals chair one pleas'd cat // #poetry #micropoetry

@Bill312: low battery -- / trying to silence / the wrong smoke alarm | #haikuchallenge (alarm) #haiku #senryu

@cjoyen: Behind the cold wall / an ocean of love overcame / the lonely heart #haiku

@lippy73: Empty cavern heart / filled drip by drip with your love's / waterfall music #haikuwordgame #haiku

@Christwitery: Dragons roar above / swooping over oceans blue / steaming words of fire /// #haiku

@moritherapy: unhinging the door / of my cave - strong wind blows through - / my heart flutters, free #haikutherapy #senryu

@carltonhalpert: We turned out the stars // unclosed our eyes, and stepped out // into the new dark. #haiku #senryu

@Miridunn: Love dressed me// Soon I will be disrobed again. Naked// like a newborn #haiku

@Miridunn: Each day// I slowly shed you, one layer at a time// A dance of veils. #haiku

@AshiAkira: Drizzling continues/ Warmth from inside meets the cold/ in meditation #haiku #Zen

@catwaldron: I arrive at work / Naked; everyone stares, laughs / Then the alarm rings. #haiku #haikuchallenge (alarm)

@catwaldron: Deep within a dream / Field of flowers, a caress / Then the alarm rings #haiku #haikuchallenge (alarm)

@dengary: space for a boulder / just filled by this boulder— / trailing orchids | #haiku #fraglit

@CliveM: A herder of cats? / No - I can't believe that / Collector of hearts #haiku

@forgottenworks: bearing the weight / of the wind - all the forest's / slender pines #micropoetry #fraglit

@JustGer: I can't even begin to write a haiku for the Bears vs Bengals train wreck. #bearsinhaiku #chicagobears #haiku

@NotOneNotTwo: // I'm watching her dream ~ from thousands of miles away ~ laying next to me // #haiku

@Tobuno: step out of your shells/ step into naked being/ you've slept for so long. #haiku #senryu

@wqueens7: http://twitpic.com/mxuua - Circles of rusting/ Public infrastructure for/ Regular people/ #haiku

@Martiword: cool lush moss shivers/stirring sunrise into pond/ripple in the sky #Haiku

@saintends: Do not ask the Sun / To light your path in the darkness / Embrace the nightfall. #haiku

@Tobuno: Just like the poetry/ section of a library/ It's lonely, without you. #haiku #senryu

@morganabag: playing / kick-ball with my dog /black birds fly up / squirrells pelt us / with acorns #tanka

@carltonhalpert: Am I fictional? // Is this life I live a dream? // My Author says not. #haiku #senryu

@CliveM: A herder of cats? / No - I can't believe that / Collector of hearts #haiku

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@wqueens7: swirling clouds. High swirling clouds are/ Striations on perfect days/ That matter below/ #haiku (pic) http://znl.me/6XRAQ

@monkeywillow: autumn rain - / the old oak dripping / with moonlight // #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

@NotOneNotTwo: // cold, crisp morning light ~ shining bright on my worries ~ making them sleepy // #haiku #newideas

@Tobuno: The pathway to love/ transgresses all emotions/ being human, this, this! #haiku #senryu

@carol_red: in the back / of a dresser drawer / a photograph / when mother was very young / who was the man beside her? #tanka

@carol_red: the blue dress / mother wore to my wedding ... / I donate the clothes / that still carry her scent / a strand of hair #tanka #fraglit

@morganabag: each leaf / falling will never / fall again #haiku

@HaikuDelight: sitting on the fence / a pale waxing crescent moon / not setting for long #haiku

@carol_red: . house renovation - / the magic mushrooms / he hid 25 years ago #senryu #fraglit

@tedsimkins: winter closer / each morning / darkens my coffee #haiku #micropoetry

@PesciTriD: the silent alarm / I can hear it in my head / but my heart is deaf #haiku #haikuchallenge

@monkeywillow: missing you / I spend my day / wandering through clouds // #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry

@dengary: family cemetery / raked perfectly clean— / not a leaf in sight | #haiku #micropoetry #fraglit #poetry

@dengary: a small wave / takes back the driftwood . . . / on the dock, your smile | #haiku #micropoetry #fraglit

@dengary: older than language/heard over both land and sea/simple eloquence/when written-word's forgotten,/even then, the cries of gulls ... #tanka

@dengary: more than folk wisdom: /‘every bride is beautiful'/ah! her rolling curves/arrayed in snowy blossoms-/these fragrant apple orchards #tanka

@NotOneNotTwo The bad dogs of words ~ never coming when you call ~ knowing the way home // #haiku #newideas

@dengary: I and mine / struggle on this peak / together / we are tiring—won't someone / please throw five lines down | #tanka #micropoetry #fraglit

@Grenhilda: Into that green world / I will surrender myself / again and again #haiku

@NotOneNotTwo: // they all chose the blue ~ but inside his quiet heart ~ he held a green stone // #haiku

@cagacinski: Heart and soul agree / That age is just a number / Body says "Hold on!" #haiku

@djolder: Me: only half there / You: scattered across the stars / What’s the fucking point? #haiku

@Jemfyr: Should the sky fall down, / black rain shred our skin to bones / hold me, loving you /// #haiku

@TryinOnANewLife: stone wall around house / resembles the one around / my heart. why so scared? #senryu

@JimGramze: Gods play billiards./ How long will we amuse them?/ Earth, corner pocket. #twiku #haiku http://tr.im/twiku

@Jemfyr: Church bells ringing nine / knelt in moist, mossy green, my / bare soul in due time /// #haiku

@monkeywillow: drumming workshop - / the child who won't listen / is me // #senryu #haiku #micropoetry

@KarenHAustin: tap-dancing pigeons ~ practised routine on my roof: ~ no cause for alarm.... #haikuchallenge #haiku #truestory

@Christwitery: Cold early morning / it might be warmer in bed / where my demons live /// #haiku

@haiQ: / A beautiful day / sneaks beneath my eyelashes / and awakens me! / - #haiku

@HappiForever: At today's zazen -- / Ten thousand poems but no pen, / Hands folded and still. #haiku #senryu

@apemanb: Earths five senséd cape/ and Love of my own making/ I am cloaked in Life #haiku

@morganabag: old house / enveloped / in yellow trees #haiku

@wqueens7: 63rd & Laurel Hill BLVD. Hard Upon Highways/ All over America/ Cars drive us apart

@Etsujin_Haiku: An old wooden bridge / over a dried up river / thirsty for the rain #haiku

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@Etsujin_Haiku: The new sun rising / gentle rays come through the leaves / searching for my face #haiku

@wqueens7: Gothamist Pic. The rat's last supper/ On New York's Upper West Side/ Was photoshopped in/ #haiku (pic) http://znl.me/KXYIL

@Miridunn: Blowing rain //tries to wash color from autumn's leaves/ heavy with passing time #haiku

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