Wednesday brings The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue and this week the theme was “Under the March Moon – New Moon”.
Happy to be featured this week thanks to Carole MacRury, Guest Editor, kj Monroe, Managing Editor & Lori, Post Manager.
Congratulations to all featured poets.
https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialogue-under-the-march-moon-new-moon-1/
haikuKATHA issue 17, March 2023 goes live. Congratulations to Kala Ramesh & the team for yet another stunning issue.
Grateful to have a haibun featured.
Read the issue here:
https://www.trivenihaikai.in/post/haikukatha-issue-17
Congratulations to all featured poets.
Umwelt
The unfinished house opposite ours has come under the hammer and stands demolished. Suddenly the blue sky is visible across the road, but the huge tree that guarded the house and attracted birdsong has been chopped off at night.
new neighbors
the trumpet vine overflows
with orange blossoms
Today, I hear some sounds at the gate and walk across to investigate. I find five small pups amid the debris, all colored differently. Their mother comes running and growls at me. The dappled one looks up and tries to stand, it has a foreleg missing.
Note: the pups have grown since then. Dappled is the one on the left. 💕
Neena Singh, Chandigarh, India
The official journal of the Tanka Society of America—Ribbons, Winter 2023, issue 92 is out and I am grateful to have a tanka prose featured.
Grateful to Liz Lanigan, Tanka Editor for the acceptance and publication.
Of Human Bondage
Neena Singh, Chandigarh, India
This is a story of two dogs; the first, a stray black mongrel, who lives in our neighborhood and behaves like a monkey. He leaps our gate and perches on our car. He has made the neighbor’s house his own abode, as the owner of the house is away. Every night and early morning he is seen, perched precariously on their parapet, bold and fearless. I’ve christened him Perch!
The other is our pet Rumi—a 13-year-old yellow lab, more human than dog: trapped by our love, neither free nor fearless. She shows no interest in other dogs but adores babies and youngsters. The only people she barks at are mendicants*, beggars and the garbage collector. Content to be with us, she loves to play catch-ball for treats, avidly listens to music, and greatly enjoys rides in the car.
I often wonder, “Who is happier—Perch or Rumi?”
perched on the wall
a parrot pecks
birdseed
breakfast in the garden
we drink winter sunshine
Well, this tale has a twist.
On return from offshore travels, our neighbor adopted Perch. He no longer jumps walls; has a new name, a red collar, and a leash around his neck. I see him being taken for walks, trotting meekly alongside his master. The look he gives me is one of recognition. A small wag of the tail tells me that he remembers the milk and bread we fed him outside our gate.
this desire
to be a blade of grass
dancing in the rain
yet I stand tall and grim
dripping like the evergreen
HaikuBlossoms my column on Rhyvers.com published thanks to S Affan Yesvi, Editor in Chief.
This week covers Yusa Buson the third of the triumvirate haiku masters.
HAIKU BLOSSOMS (12)
Grateful dear Susan Burch for sharing my published tanka on the Facebook Page of the Tanka Society of America.
7 tanka in 7 days: Day 5
Grateful to dear Pamela A. Babusci
Editor, Moonbathing for giving it life.
Grateful dear Susan Burch for sharing my published tanka on the Facebook Page of the Tanka Society of America.
early dawn
rose light awakens
earthlings
to the wondrous gift
of new possibilities
7 tanka in 7 days: Day 4
Grateful to Steve Wilkinson, Editor, take5ive for giving it life.
Grateful dear Susan Burch for sharing my published tanka on the Facebook Page of Tanka Society of Tanka Society of America.
7 tanka in 7 days: Day 3
Grateful to Susan Constable, Tanka Editor, Cattails for giving it life.
Grateful dear Susan Burch for sharing my tanka on Tanka Society of America Facebook Page. 7 tanka in 7 days —Day 2 🌹
Grateful dear Susan Burch for sharing my published tanka on Tanka Society of America Facebook Page. 7 tanka in 7 days! Day 1
Grateful to Kala Ramesh who gave it life in Under the Basho.
Received this beautiful Anthology —
“In Sun Snow & Rain: Tanka from a World of Song” – a Tanka Anthology in memory of poet Linda Jeanette Ward published by The British Haiku Society & edited by A.A. Marcoff.
Grateful to dear Tony for the inclusion of my tanka in this Anthology with poets from all over the globe. A priceless gem of a gift whose lingering spell will be with us always.
