The beautiful #haikuKATHA Issue 22, August 2023 is out and the #cover art by Milind is eye-catching!
Delighted to have a #haiku in the journal. Grateful to dear Kala Ramesh & the brilliant Editorial team.
Congratulations to all featured #poets. Read the issue here:
https://www.trivenihaikai.in/post/haikukatha-issue-22
Thrilled to be featured in the #PoetryPea podcast S6E27 yesterday on #Toriawase and for my #haiku to be selected as one of the Judge’sChoice.
Grateful to dear Patricia McGuire, Editor for the acceptance of two of my haiku, one for the podcast and both for the journal. Many thanks to Jerome Berglund, Judge, for the brilliant and detailed commentary on my haiku. I shall treasure it always! 🙏💕
rising fog
in the chestnut pond
a family of mallards
Congratulations to all featured poets.
Thrilled to feature in The #HaikuFoundation’s “Per Diem” Haiku of the day. Thanks to dear Lakshmi Iyer for putting the spotlight on a favorite #haiku of mine in Amrit Kaal.
Grateful to Fay Aoyagi & John Stevenson for giving it life in ‘The Heron’s Nest’.
PoetryPea podcast S6E26 on Haiku & Tango is online. Grateful to Patricia McGuire, Editor & team for reading my flash haiku in her beautiful crystal-clear voice and awarding it an Honorable Mention:
city rush—
the stillness of dew
on grass
The #haiku will also appear in the Poetry Pea Journal to be published later. Honored to be selected. Congratulations to all poets featured in the podcast. #pealogic
Grateful to Haiku Society of America & the Judges Marcyn Del Clements & Seren Fargo for awarding our #rengay “Thirst” 3rd place (tied).
Billie Dee —you are the best, it was a delight to collaborate and write with you. We made it to the winners list again this year! 💕💕
JUDGES COMMENTARY:
Thirst has such delightful images, like a painting from Van Gogh.
~Marcyn Del Clements
Perfect title. Another well-crafted rengay, with satisfying variation between the verses, while staying true to the theme. I don’t know if the title was decided on before or after the rengay itself was written, but it is another perfect example of how important the title is. In this case, it reflects the commonality within the verses, but in an indirect, somewhat subtle fashion. No one verse actually mentioned ‘thirst.’ I also found great satisfaction in this rengay’s employment of so many of the physical senses — from the “papaya’s bitter edge” to “a whiff of afternoon toil.” Wonderfully provocative. Polishing it off so well, it ends with the full and rich imagery of a pregnant tabby lapping from an oxcart rut. Superb.
~Seren Fargo
HaikuBlossoms—My #20th piece on #rhyvers.com covers #Haibun—the prose-poem.
Thanks to S Affan Yesvi, Editor-in-Chief for the Friday publication of the column.
Hope friends will enjoy reading about this interesting Japanese short form of poetry. Grateful to dear Roberta Beary, celebrated poet, for sharing their essay and haibun.
HAIBUN – THE PROSE POEM
Britain’s leading independent haiku journal #Presence #76, July 2023 is out and I am delighted to have a #haiku featured.
Grateful to Ian Storr, Editor for the publication.
cloud peaks . . .
the girl asks her mother
an age-old question
Congratulations to all featured poets.
Contemporary Haibun Online #cho 19.2 is online and I am delighted to have a small haibun featured – Being Mortal.
Grateful to Peter Newton, Guest Editor for the acceptance & publication.
Being Mortal
My 6-year-old grandson says “Daadi,* I will marry at 21. How old will you be then?”
“81” I reply, looking through my spectacles at his bright eyes.
“Will you be alive?”
“Well, that’s a tough question to answer, for no one knows when the call comes.”
“Who calls us Daadi—is it God?”
“Probably,” a trifle unsure, I respond.
“I wish I were God” he smiles.
young bamboo
my hand reaches
to touch the green
Happy to share my 3 #haiku/ #senryu published in #VSANA—Viewing Stone Association of North America in July 2023.
These were composed on the “One Million Stone” a small Furuya waterfall stone from Wakayama.
Grateful to dear Tom Elias, Editor, VSANA for the selection.
Congratulations to all fellow poets featured.
