Pulse Haiku 2025

The following 26 haiku and senryu appeared on Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine, which reaches more than 10,000 readers through its weekly email and website. The following are all the poems I selected for publication every other week throughout 2025, plus nineteen bonus images shared on the Pulse Facebook page. I also include “Textures,” my video featuring all the poems published in 2025, plus selected comments by contributors. You can also see the video on the Pulse website, with additional comments. Learn how to submit your own healthcare-related haiku (in October each year).  See also “Pulse Haiku 2024.”

Selected comments by Pulse haiku contributors:

• “Pulse is one of those publications that transcends the individual pieces of writing within it; it's been a joy to read the comments on the website every fortnight and see the sense of community that it fosters.” —Laura Webb, Brighton, United Kingdom

• “I’ve always enjoyed submitting to Pulse . . . and reading posts from other authors. We all share so many of the same emotions, like frustration tempered by hope.” —R. Lynn Barnett, Alpharetta, Georgia

• “I’m honored and grateful to have my haiku accepted for Pulse. I appreciate the care and generosity you bring to the reading and curation of the poems.” —David Anson Lee, Houston, Texas

• “I really do love the Pulse publication . . . and I became a recent subscriber when I first heard about it not that long ago.” —Nan Bagwell Payne, Meridian, Mississippi

• “I just want to say what a great job you do selecting haiku for Pulse. I recommend it to all of my students, especially pre-med and nursing students.” —Randy Brooks, Taylorville, Illinois

This page features haiku and senryu by Roberta Beary, Randy Brooks, Michael J. Galko, LeRoy Gorman, Sari Grandstaff, Ruth Holzer, Roberta Beach Jacobson, Barbara Kaufmann, Colette Kern, Taylor Kovach, Michael Leach, Barrie Levine, Chen-ou Liu, Paul David Mena, Ben Oliver, John Pappas, Jimmy Pappas, Marilyn Powell, Kala Ramesh, Tracie Renee, Suraja Menon Roychowdhury, Ron Scully, C. X. Turner, Tuyet Van Do, Finch Vogelsang, and Nitu Yumnam.