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Writer. Variations on the Planets, a short sci-fi poetry chapbook co-written with Eavonka Ettinger, is available at www.amazon.com/Variations-Planets-Eavonka-Ettinger/dp/B0DW9HBDGR or your own country's site.

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@markgzero.bsky.socialOct 19, 2026, 5:22 PM

Is it just me or is it incredibly dangerous to have individuals with so much power and wealth apparently totally unregulated in our society?

@wolftwinthomas.bsky.socialOct 17, 2026, 4:17 PMReposted by @markgzero.bsky.social

So much gratitude to be seeing submissions from the best haiku poets from around the world at Zombie Logic Review. Today we have @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social C. Oulens.

#haiku #poetry

@dadakuku.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 6:41 PMReposted by @markgzero.bsky.social

A new verse from returning contributor Alexander Limarev: The fifth density smells of burnt wiring and wet fur of a predator. — Alexander Limarev

@markgzero.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 8:44 PM

Thank you! Possibly #scifaiku.

@markgzero.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 8:41 PM

It was quite topical a few weeks ago.

@dadakuku.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 6:59 PMReposted by @markgzero.bsky.social

A new verse from returning contributor @markgzero.bsky.social:

𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

All humans
to have a kill switch
too.

— Mark Gilbert

@markgzero.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 9:48 PM

I love this!

@freshoutmag.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 9:27 PMReposted by @markgzero.bsky.social

#haiku by Lucas Weissenborn.
Lucas is a researcher, musician & poet based in Norway. His haiku & senryū have appeared in various journals, including Science. He was also once unintentionally appointed an expert on squirrels by a university in Russia.
LucasWeissenborn1 on FB
@luque_mit_q on IG

Against a white background, this #haiku by Lucas Weissenborn reads,

calm sea
a moored boat
humming jazz

Lucas Weissenborn is a researcher, musician, and poet based in Norway. His haiku and senryū have appeared in various journals, including Science. He was also once unintentionally appointed an expert on squirrels by a university in Russia.

LucasWeissenborn1 on Facebook 
@luque_mit_q on Instagram
@jennfel.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 2:03 PMReposted by @markgzero.bsky.social

The CEOs of the AI companies are now yelling “fire” in a crowded theater multiple times per week, and still the majority of the population’s reaction is “meh” and then going back to creating a new cartoon image of themselves from one of their photos.

@wolftwinthomas.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 3:45 PMReposted by @markgzero.bsky.social

Wow! What a start to the newly remodeled Zombie Logic Review. Tré, Alan Summers, and now Martina Matijević. I really want to give each haiku poet their own space at ZLR.

#haiku #poetry

@krislindbeck.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 10:06 PMReposted by @markgzero.bsky.social

Excited to say I am published in Issue 37 of Drifting Sands: Haibun and Tanka Prose. Thank you, guest editor Neena Singh drifting-sands-haibun.org.
Thanks also to @thepeternewton.bsky.social, for great revision advice.

The picture is the full text of the haibun below: 

Fledging

The hospice nurse came on shift at 6:00 AM, made sure the patient's diaper was dry, checked her pulse, listened to her breathing. Her husband stood and stretched slowly, waiting for the nurse to advise him to get some sleep, or to tell him what he was half expecting to hear. 

She said it softly: "It won't be long now." 
"I, uh, know it's not your job... but could you get me some coffee? Jar's on the counter?"
The nurse smiled, "Just a little milk, right? I'll make a cup for myself too." 

He sat down again, taking his wife's left hand in his right, covering his eyes with his left. It's so stupid, he thought, that I'm still embarrassed to have someone watch me cry.

The woman on the bed could not feel her hand in his.

. . .  she is trying to remember something, a dream she had when she was small . . . 
ah . . . the woman with blue feathers . . . she sits then stands easily, raises her arms
to take flight, smiling fondly at his bald head far below

leaf-dappled 
dawnlight on the wall . . . 
the shape of wings
@markgzero.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 11:59 AM

Thanks Eric for publishing this solo split sequence - more #senryu than #haiku.

@freshoutmag.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 10:36 PMReposted by @markgzero.bsky.social

#haiku #splitsequence by Mark Gilbert. Mark is based in the UK & enjoys writing short prose & #poetry. His work regularly appears in on-line & in print journals & anthologies. His collaboration with Eavonka Ettinger, “Variations on the Planets,” is available at Nun Prophet Press#library

Against a white background, this #haiku #splitsequence by Mark Gilbert reads,

Library
 
 
time for sustenance
 
slurps of soup
above the silence
umami
 
in the mirror
 
through glass
the movement
of cherry blossom
 
they queue for heroes
 
books about symmetry
tears
in both knees


Mark Gilbert is based in the UK and enjoys writing short prose & #poetry (including hybrid forms). His work regularly appears in on-line & print journals & anthologies. He recently collaborated with Eavonka Ettinger on “Variations on the Planets,” an astronomical poetry chapbook (Nun Prophet Press). #library
@wolftwinthomas.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 7:41 PMReposted by @markgzero.bsky.social

I'm reviving Zombie Logic Review. More on that later. For now enjoy ten haiku by Tré.

#haiku #poetry

@wolftwinthomas.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 3:39 PMReposted by @markgzero.bsky.social

I'm honored to have my haiku included in Acorn: A Journal of Contemporary Haiku, Issue No. 57, Fall 2026, edited by Susan Antolin.

#haiku #poetry

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@tregallery.comOct 11, 2026, 5:26 PMReposted by @markgzero.bsky.social

Oh, my life as a test subject. 😆 But, making a nurse laugh is one of my favorite things. ✨

Thank you so much to Roberta Beach Jacobson for including me in Five Fleas Itchy Poetry.

#SenryuSunday #PaintbyWords #ECK

In the upper-left, the Five Itchy Fleas Poetry logo is in the corner, and consists of the title scattered and positioned in different directions. In the lower-right is my featured senryū in a magenta serif font:

lab tests
I identify 
as a pincushion
@haikuhawk.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 7:25 AMReposted by @markgzero.bsky.social

A couple of #monoku up at ‘five fleas (itchy poetry)’ edited by Robin Beach Jacobsen:

breath shortening the path to eternity

neutron bomb not taking a side

Read and submit here: fivefleas.blogspot.com?m=1

#haiku #senryu #age

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@jennygaitskell.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 7:48 AMReposted by @markgzero.bsky.social

cops search me
for banned ideas
I think of happier times

where we don't belong
old robot watching me weep
in the ruined library

habitat shift
silvery saplings grow
from burnt pages

🤖

#ScifaikuSaturday
#inkMine
#ThingsToWriteAbout

@meldenn73.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 2:48 PMReposted by @markgzero.bsky.social

between
earth and sky...
only birdsong

Grateful to the fabulous team over at poetrypea for including my poems in this week's podcast. That is wonderful. 😁

m.youtube.com/c/PoetryPea

#haiku
@thepoetrypea.bsky.social

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@evecastle.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 3:04 PMReposted by @markgzero.bsky.social

tanka weekly #poetry challenge*

10/8/26 — trust
10/15 — heal
10/22 — VOTE
10/29 — monster
11/5 — magic

write a tanka using prompt & hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry

*away a lot = prompts for next 5 weeks

#tanka resources:

Tanka Society of America:
www.tankasocietyofamerica.org

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