What happens when alphorns echo through the streets of Zürich? They inspire short form poetry from around the world — and this week’s episode features some of the best!
These original haiku and senryū were written in response to June’s Video Prompt — a monthly moment of creativity on our YouTube channel. ✍️✨
Featuring voices like:
🖋️ Daniela Misso
🖋️ Lakshmi Iyer
🖋️ Rupa Anand
🖋️ Sara Winteridge
🖋️ Amy Watson
- more from Switzerland’s own haiku poets!
🎧 Listen now to discover the power of poetic echoes — and how alphorns brought the mountains to the city streets.
👉 Don’t forget: July’s prompt is live! Write your response and leave it in the comments to be considered for the podcast and journal.
Every month, except December, there is a short video on the Poetry Pea YouTube channel and you are invited to leave your poems, as many as you want, in the comments section under the video. The poems that are chosen by our editor Linda Ludwig, are featured in podcasts and of course in the Poetry Pea Journal.
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