Haiku

✨500 Reads Haiku Challenge: Winners Announced!✨
When I launched this little haiku challenge in June, I had no idea how deeply your poems would resonate. From grief and nostalgia to love, trees, and millipedes—your words reminded me why poetry matters. Thank you to everyone who participated, shared, read, or simply paused to appreciate 17 syllables of beauty.
By Carolina Borgesabout a year ago in Poets
Mondays
Mondays allow for opportunities to grow now and later depending on the allowances that you give yourself to succeed and
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Poets
Afternoon
With your borrowed torch, Will you shine for me later? I'll be awaiting here. + + + It need not be yours, as long as you shine it bright
By Colleen Waltersabout a year ago in Poets
Til' Death Did Me Dirty
I wed for wealth, not love or flames, His touch—a curse I could not tame. His breath was meat. His skin was rot. I smiled wide and planned my plot.
By Nia Knoxabout a year ago in Poets
Whirling
A spark of Rumi Facing in all directions He finds the faceless
By Jonathan Lawrenceabout a year ago in Poets
Enlightenment
The search for love's source The eye never sees itself It glimpses your eye
By Jonathan Lawrenceabout a year ago in Poets
Today's Bird- the Hyacinth Macaw
~~🐦🐦‍⬛🦉 🪶 “The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.” — John Burroughs
By Lightning Bolt ⚡about a year ago in Poets
Ashes of the Silent
Not the boy who painted stars on the wall of his broken school. Not the girl who dreamed of singing loud enough to drown the bombs.
By Shafi Ullah Darweshabout a year ago in Poets
Light breaks Water
Light breaks water blinding and reflective do dreams come true, please.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Poets
Seventeen syllables
I write tiny poems Thousands of them every day They’re all about you
By Imola Tóthabout a year ago in Poets
Political Twenty-One
Fluff of July? Ah... You are coming of age, folks... Canada still waits. Including a friendship across a border... * Thank you for reading!
By Kendall Defoe about a year ago in Poets
The Interrupt
It's July! It's Ju... There are preparing; they work! Firing off works! Thank you for reading! Which part of the poem resonates with you? Share your thoughts. Please leave a comment. Copyright 2025 K.A. Smith
By K.A. Smithabout a year ago in Poets