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.
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On the peculiar power of compressed language, and why certain lines unspool over time.
• First Prize: £150 + publication + a 12-month pass to the Word Emporium Mezzanine
• Twelve commended poets will also be featured in a special Summer Competition Edition
• Traditional, experimental, monoku, and senryu all welcome
• Deadline: 31st July 2026
The Summer Competition 2026 of the Wales Haiku Journal
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...
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 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.
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
Wherever summer finds you, we'd love to read your work.
Full details and entry information:
www.waleshaikujournal.com/summercompet...
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.
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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
Wales Haiku Journal
Wales Haiku Journal
The Summer Competition 2026 of the Wales Haiku Journal
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
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The Word Emporium
The world makes the same noises everywhere. Language teaches us to hear them differently.
