onebreathpoetry

Author: neenarotary@gmail.com

  • Under the Basho

    Sunday morning brings exhilarating news from dear Hansha & Stephen Bailey. My five haiku are up on “Under the Basho”.

    So very grateful to dear Kala Ramesh, Editor for the acceptance! Praise from her is a treasure. Happy Spring! 💐💕

  • THF Monthly Kukai

    The joy of getting an Honorable Mention in The Haiku Foundation’s monthly Kukai!

    The prompt for March was “grass”. Grateful!

    My pilgrimage across the Pakistan border to Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara on 4th March inspired this haiku.

    THF Monthly Kukai — April 2023

  • Contemporary Haibun Online

    Contemporary Haibun Online, Issue 19.1 is out and it features my haibun “Birding”. Thanks to my birding friends Harmeet & Jatinder Vijh.

    Grateful to Rich Youmans, Editor for the guidance & publication.

    Congratulations to all featured poets.

    Birding

    Each day we are forgotten by ourselves
    through ourselves,
    For we do not believe, in who we are.
    ~ Mimi Novic, The Silence Between the Sighs

    Away from the hustle-bustle of city life and traffic, my friend and I walk on the dirt path to the village pond. A binocular and a powerful camera rest on my friend’s shoulder.

    Water chestnuts grow thick and lush, coloring the pondwater forest green. I strain to see through the fog. Far off, white-breasted kingfisher perches on a boulder, perhaps waiting for sunshine. My friend picks up her camera.

    I wait empty-handed, the song deep inside me.

    winter molting the flap of new-found wings

  • The Wise Owl April 2023

    The Wise Owl April 2023, Ebony & Gold edition features two of my haibun— Spring Symphony & Segue; many thanks to dear Rachna Singh. Delighted to see them presented so beautifully, thanks to Harmeet Singh for the photographs.

    Congratulations to all featured poets in this second haibun special issue.

    To view magazine please click Ebony & Gold

    To view my haibun click Neena Singh (pasted below)

  • The Wise Owl

    The Ebony & Gold Edition of The Wise Owl is online. In this second haibun special issue, there are interviews with haibun experts, Sean O’Connor & Richard Grahn & poet-artist Sandra Anfang. Lots of haibun to savour. Stories from master storytellers. Musings. Reviews. Podcasts. Montage. Do take time out to browse through this eclectic collection.

    It was wonderful reading the poems of talented poets & putting them all together with the support of Rachna Singh, Principal Editor. Interacting with Richard Grahn & Sean O’Connor was a great learning experience. A keepsake issue! 💐💕

    Not to be missed—The lovely podcasts of haibun readings by Bryan Rickert, Shobhana Kumar & Firdaus Parvez on our TWO YouTube channel. Also my conversation with Richard Grahn, Founding Editor & Artist, Drifting Sands Haibun Journal. 👌💐

    https://www.thewiseowl.art/

  • Failed haiku

    Delighted to appear in Volume 8, issue 88 of failed haiku: A Journal of English Senryu released today.

    Congratulations to Hemapriya Chellappan, & Bryan Rickert, Co-Editors for the publication of a superb power-packed issue.

    Congratulations to all featured poet friends.

    Read the bumper issue here:https://failedhaiku.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/failedhaikuissue88.pdf

  • Drifting Sands Haibun Journal

    Honored to be in the beautiful Drifting Sands Haibun Journal Issue 20, March 2023, with my haibun, “Hiraeth” among the gallery of poems by talented poets. The theme was “Children”.

    Congratulations to all featured poets.

    Grateful to dear Richard Grahn, creator & founding collaborative artist & Editor for the guidance, acceptance & publication. 🙏💐

    Read the beautiful issue here:
    https://drifting-sands-haibun.org/

  • The Mainichi

    Delighted to have my haiku featured in The Mainichi, Japan’s National Daily Newspaper today. Rumi my zen master inspired this haiku.

    Grateful to dear Dhugal J. Lindsay for the honor. 💐🤗

  • Haikupedia

    Grateful to The Haiku Foundation, USA, Haikupedia & dear Theresa Cancro for the honour.

    Glad & humbled to be listed as a poet of Japanese short forms after three decades of being a banker. 💕

    This Month in Haikupedia — March 26, 2023

  • Akitsu Quarterly

    Grateful to dear Robin White, for featuring two of my haiku in the beautiful Akitsu Quarterly, Spring/ Summer 2023 issue.

    chanting
    peace mantras …
    a lotus blooms

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    half-ripe berries
    those the bulbuls
    left behind