poet and co-editor WHJ @waleshaiku.bsky.social
2025
New Resonance 14 from cxturner.etsy.com
2024
evergreen from cxturner.etsy.com or Alba Publishing
2023
Building Sandcastles from https://a.co/d/7psrCFA
anemones from Yavanika Press
she/her/they/them🏳️🌈
C.X.Turner (Luci)
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Long evenings, summer stars, ocean wind, and the feeling of not quite wanting the day to end.
Today's issue is here:
www.haikugirlsummer.com/holding-patt...
#Haiku #HaikuGirlSummer
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
Thank you to editors @loverpoetic.bsky.social and @jwjwoodhouse for including my ku in this resplendent issue of Wales Haiku Journal. Congratulations to all the poets included. I’ve enjoyed reading your poems this week. What a delight!
www.waleshaikujournal.com/.../f225a3...
#haiku #senryu
C.X.Turner (Luci)
A new verse from returning contributor @loverpoetic.bsky.social:
𝘀𝗮𝗹𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗹
a cup left to the night milk holding a pale moon moth-bright wings brushing the rim my mouth tastes tin
candle smoke
undoing
my fingerprints
— C.X. Turner
New from Wales Haiku Journal:
city gulls circling the square
Thanks to @loverpoetic.bsky.social and Joe Woodhouse for taking this!
See the whole issue here: www.waleshaikujournal.com/spring26
#haiku #monoku #impossible #waleshaikujournal
#haiku #haikugirlsummer
Marshmallows, watermelon seeds, roadside fudge, and pea pods in a pocket.
Today's issue is all about the small pleasures of summer.
www.haikugirlsummer.com/the-taste-of...
#haiku #poetrycommunity #haikugirlsummer
Today's Haiku Girl Summer issue follows water through ponds, lakes, streams, and memory.
Come and have a read:
www.haikugirlsummer.com/the-water-tr...
#Haiku #HaikuGirlSummer
A handful of poems about heat, touch, summer days, and the things that don't quite fit into words.
www.haikugirlsummer.com/the-untransl...
Another from @waleshaiku.bsky.social edited by @loverpoetic.bsky.social and Joe Woodhouse:
rolling through borders
the grey armoured progress
of woodlice
#haiku #metaphor #nature #micropoetry
☀️ 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.
Wales Haiku Journal
Haiku by Richa Sharma, Kelly Sargent, Agnes Eva Savich, and Meagan Bussert
loosening my braid the untranslatable poem
Richa Sharma
India
beach romance
cheeks burning
between the pages
Kelly Sarg...
Haiku by Vandana Parashar, Debbie Strange, Hifsa Ashraf, Sandra Simpson, and Lisa Billa
holding down
the edges of a large map
summer stars
Vandana Parashar
Panchkula, Haryana, India
seaworn stone...
Haiku by Neena Singh, Millicent Bee, Adele Evershed, Louise Hopewell, and Hifsa Ashraf
sunlit pond
a kingfisher's dive
ripples light
Neena Singh
Chandigarh, Union Territory, India
still canoe
the...
www.haikugirlsummer.com
Haiku by Millicent Bee, Julie Bloss Kelsey, Kimberly Kuchar, Kathryn P. Haydon, and Cynthia Anderson
campfire
I give my marshmallow
a half turn
Millicent Bee
Richmond, Virginia, USA
roadside sou...
a cup left to the night milk holding a pale moon moth-bright wings brushing the rim my mouth tastes tincandle smokeundoingmy fingerprints — C.X. Turner
