often thinking when i will die— brewing coffee #senryu

Farm workers: there's a heat advisory across much of CA. Please be careful. Your life comes first. If your worksite is not offering WATER, SHADE, and REST - call the farm worker heat safety hotline at 1-877-881-8281. Reporting heat safety violations saves workers' lives.

This image was captured by photographer Teruhide Tomori outside the historic Shoyeido (松栄堂) incense shop in Kyoto’s Higashiyama district

after the swim the sweetest peach of the summer

forbidden fruit flies floating in a shallow dish of soap and vinegar #vss365

禅宗は座禅がすむと蛋をとり After zazen meditation, a Zen monk reaches for an egg — Ko-senryu #senryu

百姓が笑う仏壇屋の表 A farmer laughs in front of the Buddhist altar shop - akira ishibe #senryu

#senryu lunch : my yogurt is a philosopher

dotted with cherry blossoms . . . a man sleeping on the street — Pakistan Japan Cultural Association 1st International Haiku Anthology pjca-isb.org/wp-content/u... #haiku #poetry #poem

dragonflies escort her to the river

long and leggy black eyed Susan fell face first on the patio #haiku #senryu #haipun

solitaire — just a gateway drug to Sudoku #wss366

in love with myself I crunch shards of ice --Shinko Tokizane 自己愛の中氷片を噛み砕く　時実新子 Notes: more literally "within self-love, crunching ice shards"; could also be translated as something like "in my narcissism, I crunch on ice chips" #senryu #translation

#senryu the dog— ever hopeful damn her soul

At 2:30 pm Bakersfield CA temps had reached 101°F. That didn't stop the farm workers who are hard at work harvesting table grapes. This demanding work requires constant bending, lifting the full boxes and carefully harvesting the fruit. #WeFeedYou

#SenryuSunday i write poetry and ppl don’t like it mostly

the sound of a rose petal falling-- evening breeze #haiku #roses #flowers

a Northern Flicker's twilight tweet repeats repeats repeats... #haiku #birdwatching

today's headline a clown car in the reflecting pool #thingstowriteabout

This rare cotton palanquin-bearer hanten showcases a large family crest, stripes, and rain-dragon motifs using the tsutsugaki technique. Late Edo (1825-1868), Japan. During the Edo period, this type of jacket, associated with a 'norimono', was used to carry territorial lords or 'daimyo'.

Created in 1918 during the Taishō era, Village in Shūgakuin (Shūgakuin-mura) by Hayami Gyoshū (速水御舟, 1894–1935) is an extraordinary Nihonga masterpiece that exemplifies the artist’s early fusion of meticulous realism, classical Northern Song landscape perspective, and mystical atmospheric tone.

a monkey washing potatoes after the book burning --Daisuke Kawai 焚書のつづきに芋をあらう猿　川合大祐 #senryu #gendaisenryu #translation

I made a site where you send your poem to a stranger and get real feedback back. No followers, no likes, no algorithm. Just your poem and someone who actually read it. penpalpoets.com #poetry #poetsofbluesky #amwriting

pointing north five or six wild geese nesting in my breast --Shinko Tokizane 北を指す雁が五六羽巣くう胸　時実新子 #senryu #translation

golden age — another solicitation from AARP #inkMine

My newest poem

© Shirô Kasamatsu. 'Rice Harvesting,'1953. Japanese woodblock print. 41 × 27 cm.

distant thunder swallows swooping low over dry fields #haiku

#Haiku / #Senryu #193: I've got a theory That it's a dancing demon What if it's bunnies? #buffy