Really pleased that my haiku was one of the 12 Highly Commended, many thanks to the judges and congratulations to everyone featured ☀️🎉

Wales Haiku Journal@waleshaiku.bsky.social · last mo.

☀️ Our Summer Competition 2026 results are here! We’re delighted to share our special Summer Competition mini-edition, featuring the 3 prize-winning #haiku with Judges' Commentaries alongside 12 Highly Commended Poems. We hope you enjoy the collection. ☀️ www.waleshaikujournal.com/summercompet...

Final day to submit! #haiku #tanka #senryu #haiga #haibun

Wales Haiku Journal@waleshaiku.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Autumn submissions are now open. Please refer to the website for full details. The google submission form is here: forms.gle/W8qRQtRjBcX4... We can't wait to read your poetry 😍. #micropoetry #haiku #haibun #haiga #tanka

☀️ Our Summer Competition 2026 results are here! We’re delighted to share our special Summer Competition mini-edition, featuring the 3 prize-winning #haiku with Judges' Commentaries alongside 12 Highly Commended Poems. We hope you enjoy the collection. ☀️ www.waleshaikujournal.com/summercompet...

Autumn submissions are now open. Please refer to the website for full details. The google submission form is here: forms.gle/W8qRQtRjBcX4... We can't wait to read your poetry 😍. #micropoetry #haiku #haibun #haiga #tanka

Wales Haiku Journal (Autumn '26)

Thank you for your interest in submitting to the Wales Haiku Journal. Please review the full guidelines before submitting: https://www.waleshaikujournal.com Submissions of poetry are open 1–15 August ...

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Every season, thousands of haiku arrive in the inbox of the Wales Haiku Journal. Choosing ten favourites would be impossible. There's simply too much beauty. So instead, here are ten that made me stop in my tracks. 🌼 #haiku #poetry thecuriouswordemporium.substack.com/p/10-haiku-t...

10 Haiku to Carry You Through the Summer

Ten tiny worlds, gathered from this season's Wales Haiku Journal.

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setting sun
shines through a dandelion
grandma's smile - Aleksandra Rybczyńska From the Summer '26 edition of the Wales Haiku Journal. Read the full issue: 
www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2026 Competition closes 31 July. www.waleshaikujournal.com/summercompet... #haiku

Thankful to have this piece selected for the Summer 2026 issue of @waleshaiku.bsky.social #haiku #poem #poetry

Some names stay on the tongue... a blackberry collapses in my mouth the taste of your name - Vandana Parashar From the Summer '26 edition of the Wales Haiku Journal. Read the full issue here: www.waleshaikujournal.com #haiku #senryu #summer

Our Summer Competition ‘26 remains open until 31 July, and we’ve already been delighted by the powerful, poignant and playful poems arriving from around the world. We’re looking forward to seeing where the rest of the season leads. www.waleshaikujournal.com/summercompet... #haiku

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The Summer Competition 2026 of the Wales Haiku Journal

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Three of these wonderful journals have BlueSky accounts: @waleshaiku.bsky.social @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social

night sky
over our village home
my Universe Ashoka Weerakkody From the Summer '26 edition of the Wales Haiku Journal. www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2026

Massive thanks to Joe and Luci @loverpoetic.bsky.social for choosing this one of mine for the latest edition of Wales Haiku Journal @waleshaiku.bsky.social - 210 great works from poets round the world. #haiku #WalesHaikuJournal www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2026

Many thanks to the editors of Wales Haiku Journal for including my poems in the summer '26 issue. Means a lot. www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2026 curling back on itself... dead spider #haiku @waleshaiku.bsky.social

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The Spring Edition of the Wales Haiku Journal. Featuring an array of haiku, monoku, haibun, haiga and commentary.

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So honored to have 1 #haiku and 1 #haibun in @waleshaiku.bsky.social Summer '26 issue among so many other wonderful writers

Delighted to have these haiku in @waleshaiku.bsky.social summer issue Thank you to editors, CX Turner & Joe Woodhouse #haiku #summer #Cymru

A Sunday moment from the Summer '26 edition of the Wales Haiku Journal. family reunion
ripping the husks
off the corn - Tom Bierovic #haiku #poetry Read the full edition:
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Always a pleasure to read and be published in @waleshaiku.bsky.social Many thanks Joe and Luci 💚☀️🌱 #haiku #micropoetry #poem

A little lavender for a warm July afternoon. lavender field—
her purple crayon
worn to a nub - thomas david From the Summer '26 edition of the Wales Haiku Journal. www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2026 #haiku #Summer

cocoon opening—
first-graders
motionless - Patricia Haddock The opening poem from our Summer '26 edition. One small moment that opens the door to all that follows. www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2026 #haiku

☀️ The Summer '26 edition of the Wales Haiku Journal is here! We genuinely believe this is our strongest edition to date. 📖 Read the Summer '26 edition: www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2026 🏆 Also, our Summer Haiku Competition also remains open until 31 July. We'd love to read your work.

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The Spring Edition of the Wales Haiku Journal. Featuring an array of haiku, monoku, haibun, haiga and commentary.

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sudden breeze a whisper of green persimmons 🙏 to Joe Woodhouse and Luci Turner @loverpoetic.bsky.social for featuring this one in the Summer 2026 issue of @waleshaiku.bsky.social www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2026

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The Spring Edition of the Wales Haiku Journal. Featuring an array of haiku, monoku, haibun, haiga and commentary.

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Here's a poem that drifts lightly across the surface, then settles somewhere deeper. Second Place in our 2025 Summer Competition: sunlit hospice a seagull tilts into the blue - D W Brydon Our Summer Competition 2026 remains open until 31 July. www.waleshaikujournal.com/summercompet... #haiku

As we continue to read entries for this year's Summer Competition, we're revisiting some of the poems recognised in last year's awards. firefly glow – another memory I can't hold onto - Nada Mutlaq Our Summer Competition 2026 remains open until 31 July: www.waleshaikujournal.com/summercompet...

Some poems make us stop. Some make us smile. Occasionally, they do both. Here's one of those from the Wales Haiku Journal Summer Competition 2025 - one of last year's highly commended poems. how did I get here? a blueberry rolls down the bus aisle - D W Brydon #haiku #poetry

☀️ The Wales Haiku Journal Summer Competition 2026 is now open. Whether your summer arrives with cicadas, sea mist, monsoon rains, wildflowers, thunderstorms, or long evenings of light, we look forward to reading the many ways the season finds its voice in your work.

A handful of syllables that continue unfolding inside the mind. Today’s Word Emporium piece looks at ten lines - from Heraclitus to Rilke - that keep speaking long after the page is closed. open.substack.com/pub/thecurio...

Ten Sentences That Keep Unfolding in the Mind

On the peculiar power of compressed language, and why certain lines unspool over time.

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As our Summer submissions draw to a close, here’s a little linguistic diversion from our sister publication, The Word Emporium. A clock ticks. Rain begins against the window. A glass meets another in celebration. The sounds are the same everywhere. Language teaches us to hear them differently.

The Word Emporium@thewordemporium.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The world makes the same noises everywhere. Language teaches us to hear them differently. Today at the Word Emporium: When a Sound Crosses a Border A clock. A frog. A sneeze. Ten everyday sounds, heard through different languages. #words #language #vocabulary open.substack.com/pub/thecurio...

Today, our companion space, The Word Emporium, shares three words for late spring. Lucent. Verdurous. Mellifluous. Three words paired with three photographs: a quiet exploration of settled light, deepening green, and the soft hum of life in motion. open.substack.com/pub/thecurio...

Three Words, Three Photos: Late Spring

Lucent, verdurous, mellifluous - a seasonal collaboration of words and images.

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A haiku from our Spring Edition that encapsulates the positivity, and possibility, of the season. Many thanks to @farahauthor.bsky.social for these words. www.waleshaikujournal.com/spring26