Here is your weekly round-up of themes, prompts and blog posts on THE DAILY HAIKU. Write new haiku, share with a friend not on social media and share your favourite haiku. I am thrilled by the rich diversity and inspiration of THE DAILY HAIKU Reading List – that’s my year or three or twenty sorted. Do keep adding your suggestions … Read More

introduction I am a very unlikely candidate for a writer let alone a poet. I’m an Engineer by qualification (Batch of 1989 in Electronics & Communication) and have been in Sales & Marketing in the early part of my career before delving into Human Resources and turning Entrepreneur. For the last 5 years I have been working for a Global … Read More

1 On World Book Day 4th March 2021 I posted an announcement asking for your favourite books and book related stories. From the responses received the combined favourites are collated here into a diverse reading list of epic proportions. The top sixteen are collated from the most popular suggestions. 2 When asked off the cuff for our favourite books I … Read More

1 My name is Carolyn Crossley and I run a poetry blog on WordPress The Vixen Of Verse which I started in April 2020. I am a published and performance poet.  My first novel is awaiting editing and my second novel is half-written.  I have also written plays and monologues which I have had performed at Oldham Coliseum Studio Theatre … Read More

It was WORLD BOOK DAY this week on the 4th March. I am filled with memories of dressing my children as various characters from Alice in Wonderland to Winnie the Pooh to celebrate this important day. Sadly this year many celebrations, like much else in life, will be online. It reminds me that many children and young adults here in … Read More

1 I was born and brought up in Ireland, the land of poets and painters. Then, while a student at Chelsea College of Art, got married and had two babies. 2 I am now eighty two, and am still, and will always be grieving for our son who died of cancer (I refuse to give it a capital letter) after … Read More

1 “We Write in order to Celebrate and Make Sense of our World” Writer David Almond My incentive to set up  THE DAILY HAIKU, building on my experience working as a Creative Practitioner in community, education, healthcare and corporate settings, continues to be to offer a format that encourages more people to ‘write’. My focus is to increase accessibility, engagement … Read More

1 I am a French pharmacist living in Ireland. Since I was young, I have been attracted to literature, history, philosophy, music and photography even though I switched my focus to science later on. In secondary school I had a very influential teacher who once gave me the task to write a sonnet, which triggered the need to start to … Read More

This week was marked by multiple themes being voted on each day at THE DAILY HAIKU offering up a plethora of diverse options. Enjoy writing new haiku or revisiting your favourites from the week by showcasing them here. Also do share with those friends who are not on social media too. Add your suggestions to the wonderful Collective Terms for … Read More

“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. It is in” our hearts “that the life of nature’s spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.” Jean Jacques Rousseau During Covid19 there has been somewhat of a renaissance back towards nature. People are appreciating nature, understanding and wanting to preserve nature, needing to get out into it, … Read More