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  • Take5ive

    Delighted to share my three Tanka published in TAKE 5IVE, Issue 5, Twenty Twenty Two, Yuletide Issue.

    Grateful to dear Steve Wilkinson, Editor for the honour. 💐💕

    Happy Yuletide dear friends. 🎄🌟🥂

    https://take5ive.weebly.com/issue-five-twenty-twenty-two-yuletide.html

  • Haiku Blossoms – 2

    My weekly column “Haiku Blossoms” (2nd) was published in Rhyvers today. Thanks to dear S Affan Yesvi, Editor-in-Chief.

    All friends who want to know more about haiku may like to read it.

    Grateful to dear Jim Kacian, for his kind permission to share excerpts from his book “How to Haiku” published by Red Moon Press. Jim is Founder & President of The Haiku Foundation and a celebrated haiku poet, Editor, publisher & public speaker.

    Read the column here:

    Haiku Blossoms (2) 

  • THF Haiku Dialogue

    In The Haiku Foundation’s popular Haiku Dialogue on the theme – Childhood Memories – a Special Item From Childhood.

    Many thanks to guest editors, Sherry Grant & Zoe Grant for selecting my ku this Wednesday, on 21.12,22

    Flashback to my son’s childhood and now my grandson’s! The beggar bear survives!

  • Prune Juice

    Prune Juice Journal, a journal of senryu & related forms, Issue 38 is live!

    Grateful to dear Tia Haynes, Editor for the inclusion of my senryu. Ode to all the cities I’ve lived in! 💕

    Read the bumper issue here:
    https://prunejuicesenryu.com/2022/12/19/issue-38/

  • World Haiku Series 2022

    Results announced!

    Grateful dear Hidenori Hiruta san for including me in the World Haiku Series 2022.

    An honour to be among the selected poets. My 10 haiku and photos will be published in 2023. 🙏💐💕

    https://akitahaiku.com/2022/12/19/results-of-the-world-haiku-series

  • Haiku Blossoms – Rhyvers

    My new column on Rhyvers for an appreciation of haiku poetry.

    Thanks dear S Affan Yesvi, Editor-in-Chief for the motivation and grateful to dear Pravat Kumar Padhy for the guidance.

    Photo clicked in my garden.

    https://rhyvers.com/haiku-blossoms/?fbclid=IwAR26kDzV2XedozyyIrdl9yop0Qw693iGleHRbtFyTs8doBjP9GsciYKyiQs&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

  • THF Haiku Dialogue

    Delighted to feature in The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue this week.

    Grateful to Guest editors Sherry Grant
    & Zoe Grant for selecting my ku written on this week’s prompt: Childhood Memories—Exploring Emotions.

  • Autumn Moon haiku journal

    Delighted to be in the beautiful Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 6.1, Autumn /Winter 2022-23 issue.

    Grateful to dear Bruce Ross, Editor for the acceptance & publication of three of my haiku with Hindi translations.


    https://www.autumnmoonhaiku.com/

  • THF Haiku Dialogue

    Wednesday brings the Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue and delighted to be in this week too. Theme being “return”.

    Grateful to Peter H Fischer for the selection & congratulations to all featured poets.

  • VSANA

    VSANA – Viewing Stone Association of North America shared the image of this Chinese Long River pattern stone for composing poetry.

    My debut in December with these two haiku, so very grateful to Thomas Elias.

    grief overflow…
    she holds closely
    her loneliness


    solitary stone
    the striations deepen
    my solitude


    https://www.vsana.org/poems-poetry-prose