In this special Poetry Pea episode, we celebrate impending close of our haibun submissions period with a curated selection of haibun readings. New to haibun? Don’t worry — helpful links in the show notes will guide you through this beautifully blended form of prose and haiku.

All the pieces in this episode share something in common… but will you spot what it is?

Answers in the shownotes.

We also thank Johnny Moran for editing March’s video prompt and welcome Lakshmi Iyer, our guest editor for April. Be sure to submit your poems in the comments under the latest Poetry Pea YouTube video so they can be considered.

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Pop in your earbuds and enjoy a thoughtful feast of haibun poetry.

Poets included:

If Wishes Were Horses

Reid Hepworth, DSH issue 29 September 2024

The Wailers

Bisshie, Cattails 2025

A loneliness business, and yet . . .

Chen-ou Li, Contemporary Haibun Online April 2026

Invisible Web

Simon Wilson, Cattails, October 2025

Memento

Neena Singh, Cattails, October 2025

Multiverse

Melissa Dennison, Drifting Sands Haibun, Issue 34, Dec 25

The Far Shore

Sandip Chauhan, haikuKATHA, Issue 43, May 2025

Grandpa Carr’s Kohlrabi

Nicky Gutierrez, Tendrils Haibun Journal, 2024

Mauerspechte

Bisshie, Wales Haiku Journal,Winter 25/26

Rain

Robert Witmer Tokyo, Japan, Drifiting Sands Haibun, issue 34, Dec 2025

Iterations

David J Kelly, Tendrils Haibun Journal, 2024

The Soles of my Feet

Gerry Jacobson, Kokako, Issue 42, March 23, 2025

Tides

Jill Muhrer, Tendrils Haibun Journal, 2025