A pleasant surprise to see my two #urban #haiku #senryu published in Cafe Haiku’s special feature “Cityscapes” today.
Grateful to Dr Brijesh, and #CafeHaiku Editorial Team for the honour. 🙏

A pleasant surprise to see my two #urban #haiku #senryu published in Cafe Haiku’s special feature “Cityscapes” today.
Grateful to Dr Brijesh, and #CafeHaiku Editorial Team for the honour. 🙏

The Bamboo Hut Issue February, 2025 is online. The beautiful issue features three of my tanshi along with those of many talented poets.
Grateful to dear Steve Wilkinson, Editor for the publication.
Congratulations to all featured poets.


Creative Inspirations carries a new form of creative poetry this month – Cinquain.
Grateful to Rev. Maurice Reynolds, Owner/Editor who motivated me to read about it and submit. A good learning and thanks to him for the acceptance.
http://www.cipoetrypublication.com/


Always an honor to feature in #Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog.
Today my millipede #haiku is featured, grateful to Joe Woodhouse & C X Turner Luci, Editors, who first published it in #WalesHaiku Journal and to dear Charlotte for republishing. 🙏💕

February dawns bringing good news!
ai li, the creator of three unique short form genres that honour storytelling and keep its breath alive—Cherita, Gembun & Dua releases “snowfall cherita 95”.
ai li says – the cherita lighthouse has been awarded to the following writers and poets in this anthology for their timeless Cherita :
Karina Klesko/ Partha Sarkar/ Dan Schwerin/ Neena Singh/ Daniel W. Brown/ Barun Saha/ Joanna Ashwell/ Kathabela Wilson/ Jackie Chou/ Barry J. Vitcov/ Nicholas Gentile/ Roy Kindelberger/
Congratulations to all fellow poets for the honor! Here’s a sample cherita from ai li:
all in black
the people
in
this room
you would have
hated the colour
ai li
The last publication of January 2025 in Cold Moon Haiku Journal is a #senryu as the Founding Editor Robin Jacobson hands over the reins to Timothy Daly.
Grateful dear Robin for all the great work in Cold Moon featuring the work of haiku poets everyday! You are an inspiration!

It’s Wednesday – The #HaikuFoundation’s Haiku Dialogue day and glad to see my #senryu featured. This week’s prompt was “All the World’s a Stage – Break a Leg”. Grateful to Alex Fyffe, Guest Editor, for selecting it under idioms.
quantum physics
trying to wrap my head
around dark matter
Congratulations to all featured poet friends.
https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialogue-all-the-worlds-a-stage-break-a-leg-long-list/

Wales Haiku Journal, Winter 24/25 edition is online. Delighted to have a #haiku featured, inspired by my walk in the Dahlia Garden.
Grateful to the editors Joe Woodhouse @jwjwoodhouse and Luci @love.rpoetic who inform that the journal received a staggering 2492 poems out of which 239 have been selected.
A big congratulations to all featured poets, it’s indeed a great honor.
https://www.waleshaikujournal.com/winter2024


Delighted to be in the musical Songbirds Waka Anthology of the United Haiku & Tanka Society 2025 with 5 #waka. Waka is the ancient form of Japanese poetry and forerunner of tanka. To know more about Waka read this article —
https://sustainable.japantimes.com/magazine/vol27/
Grateful to dear an’ya, Editor for featuring my verses in the beautiful collection. I am overwhelmed to find my waka in the Editor’s Choice. Congratulations to all featured Songbirds.
Read the beautiful waka here:
https://songbirdsonline.com/






Grateful to dear Rachna Singh, Editor for the publication & for the beautiful presentation through captivating #photos.
https://www.dailyversethewiseowl.art/




