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Mike Rehling

@MikeRehling

A quiet vegan haiku poet living in Michigan. #haiku #senryu Founder and Managing Editor of Failed Haiku: @SenryuJournal. NO POLITICS PLEASE!

 Presque Isle, Michigan
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Joined April 2009
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Hifsa Ashraf@hifsays24 May 2025
My ten haiku along with Japanese translation got published in Haiku Beyond Earth - Akita International Haiku Network. Thanks Hidenori for the honour! #haiku #micropoetry akitahaiku.com/2025/05/22/ha…
Haiku beyond Earth「天上俳句会」Haiku by Hifsa Ashraf in Pakistan

Haiku beyond Earth「天上俳句会」Haiku by Hifsa Ashraf in Pakistan

atonement— the shades of green in an autumn leaf Published in Frogpond 47:3, Autumn 2024 　 償いや緑の陰影秋の葉に tsugunai ya  midori no inei  aki no ha ni —— war debris— the cold wind r…

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Ben Gaa@gobengaa24 May 2025
Hi Everyone! Episode 123 of #HaikuTalk is now up for your literary consumption. In this episode we take a look at Karen Robbie’s looping one line #haiku “painting” from the latest issue of Hedgerow, #148. Enjoy!! ~ @hedgerowpoems youtu.be/l1ULiC6sxEQ?si=787l…
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Gratitude and Issue #109 failedhaiku.com/2025/04/30/g… via @SenryuJournal
Gratitude and Issue #109

Gratitude and Issue #109

Once again, you all have touched my heart and I can’t help but to express my thanks. For what, you ask? For entrusting me with not only your work but the truest parts of yourselves. Each issue, you…

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lingerie shop small sign above the bras we fix flats Carol Raisfeld This poem, and many other great senryu, appear in the latest issue of Failed Haiku. Thanks to Kelly Moyer for another memorable and poetic issue! failedhaiku.com/2025/04/30/g…
Gratitude and Issue #109

Gratitude and Issue #109

Once again, you all have touched my heart and I can’t help but to express my thanks. For what, you ask? For entrusting me with not only your work but the truest parts of yourselves. Each issue, you…

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Issue 105- And Holiday Greetings - mailchi.mp/54799b8ca0bf/issu…
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John Hawkhead

John Hawkhead

John Hawkhead recently discovered that writing haiku was the cause of his baldness and there is no cure. This revelation has come more than 25 years too late. ~ another fightshe sets her ringtoneto…

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Vandana Parashar

Vandana Parashar

Vandana enjoys little things in life—a quiet and unrushed morning, warmth of a cup of tea in her hands, sound of rain, mountain streams, solitary walks and books. As Capricorn as they come, she fir…

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dan smith

dan smith, the poet, was born at the Deep Cleveland Poetry Hour in 2003. He enjoys finding out about things like Ray Wylie Hubbard, Gertrude Abercrombie, Maud Lewis and Tinariwen on the internet an…

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Reid Hepworth

Reid Hepworth

Reid Hepworth enjoys lollygagging in moss, staring at stars beneath giant cedars and conversing with all manners of wildlife while eating bon bons and writing short form poetry. She is an associate…

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Ernesto P. Santiago

Ernesto P. Santiago

Ernesto P. Santiago for a long time had believed that poetry is his flowing (es)cape to a higher understanding of the wor(l)d. He spends all his free time between here and there, trying to learn so…

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Robin Smith

Robin Smith

Robin Smith is human by birth and cyborg honey badger by trade. They look forward to being reincarnated as a better species. ~ the golden hour we watch giraffes float by in lifeboats the high lones…

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Pamela A. Babusci

Pamela is an internationally award-winning haiku/tanka & haiga artist. She loves to sumi-e paint, write Japanese calligraphy, abstract paint, make jewelry, sculpt, and assemble collages. Some o…

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Julie Bloss Kelsey

Julie Bloss Kelsey

Julie Bloss Kelsey likes to drink iced decaf lattes with her dog sitting on her lap. When she gets past feeling shy, she loves to meet new people. a summer-warm bench . . .paddle boats driftingwith…

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Vidya Premkumar

Vidya Premkumar is a poet, teacher, and content creator who finds inspiration in the everyday moments of life, drawing from nature, relationships, and introspection on the dynamics of politics in s…

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Happy New Year & Issue #106

Happy New Year & Issue #106

Well, what do you know? It’s 2025. Looking at it on paper, I feel as though we must have been transported into some futuristic dime store paperback–and, well, maybe so. All I know is that not all t…

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Mike Rehling

Mike Rehling lives quietly in the north woods of Michigan with his cat and his memories . . . basho paid no taxes in the wanderings that took him to the north country basho held no real job. he sta…

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Shloka Shankar

Shloka Shankar is a poet, editor, and self-taught visual artist from Bangalore, India. A Best of the Net nominee and award-winning haiku poet, Shloka is the Founding Editor of Sonic Boom and its im…

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Michael Dylan Welch

Michael Dylan Welch

Michael is a hopeful but sometimes impatient person who loves to write and is proud of his two young-adult kids. Some folks ask him if he ever sleeps, but yes, quite a bit. When he needs a bit of m…

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Agnes Eva Savich

Agnes Eva Savich

Agnes is getting sick of Texas, even though she loves working at the university and playing oboe in local orchestras and a quintet; she will probably abscond abroad with her beloved partner, once h…

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