Grateful to dear Kathleen Trocmet, Editor, #ScarletDragonfly journal for featuring my #haiku today in her beautiful journal. This is the last published haiku of 2023!
Dedicated to the friends lost this year…without a goodbye…

Grateful to dear Kathleen Trocmet, Editor, #ScarletDragonfly journal for featuring my #haiku today in her beautiful journal. This is the last published haiku of 2023!
Dedicated to the friends lost this year…without a goodbye…

Grateful to dear Charlotte Digregorio
for featuring my #haiku on her #Writersblog today. This ku won a Commendation in the #katikaticontest 2021.
It’s always an honor to feature in Charlotte’s beautiful Writer’s Blog! 💕


Wednesday brings #HaikuFoundation’s #HaikuDialogue and this week the theme given by Guest Editors Arvinder Kaur & Hifsa Ashraf was #FacialExpressions – #surprise. My grandson Tripat inspired this one!
Grateful to the editors for including my #senryu among their selections.
https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialogue-facial-expressions-surprise-1/

Grateful to Billie Dee, Guest Editor of Triveni haikai & hosts Muskaan Ahuja & Lakshmi Iyer for featuring one of my haiku alongwith Daipayan Nair’s lovely ku published in haikuKATHA on this week’s Triveni ThinkALONG/WriteALONG blog. The topic is karumi – “light-hearted” as advocated by Basho, the grand old master of haiku.
Do visit the website, subscribe and enjoy its multiple features if you are serious about learning Japanese short forms of poetry.
https://www.trivenihaikai.in/post/writealong-19-december

Grateful to dear Sherry Grant Organiser & Al Peat, Judge of the #KM100NZ #Haiku competition for selecting my #haiku for the #LonelinessAnthology to be published shortly.

It’s Wednesday – The #HaikFoundation’s #HaikuDialogue day and glad to see my #senryu featured. This week’s theme was Facial Expressions- #Fear.
Grateful to Hifsa Ashraf & Arvinder Kaur, Guest Editors, for selecting my #senryu.
https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialogue-facial-expressions-fear-1/

Here’s a screenshot of my poetry reading for the KM100NZ Haiku Competition organized by dear poet & pianist Sherry Grant in New Zealand. Grateful to her for the inclusion of this haiku in the “Loneliness Anthology”..
Thank you so much dear Chrissi Villa for your sweet gesture of sharing the screenshot of me reading my haiku there.
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Delighted to be featured in Shadow Pond, a Journal of haiku & senryu issue 2, Winter 2023, on 11th December 2023.
Grateful to Katherine E. Winnick, Editor for the honor. Congratulations to all dear poets.
https://shadowpondjournal.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-shadow-pond-journal-issue-two.html?m=1


Grateful to editor Daipayan Nair and co-editor Lev Hart for including my four #poems. Delighted to have “winter rain”chosen as an Editor’s Pick. Kudos to them for a stunning beautifully curated issue!
Congratulations to all featured talented #poets especially Alan Summers for his novel haiku and the insightful commentary by Lev. Enjoy the issue:
https://haikunetra.blogspot.com





Congratulations to all featured #poets.
