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  • Daily Romanian Haiku and Senryu

    Daily Romanian Haiku and Senryu have featured three of my haiku and senryu on their Facebook Page with Romanian and Hindi translations.

    Grateful to dear Mihai Moldveanu for the honor. 🙏💕

    “This week, our international haijin guest is Neena Singh from India.”

    1.

    sleepless
    through the night…
    calls of wild geese

    नींद नहीं आती…
    रात भर जंगली हंसों
    की आवाज़ें

    nedormit
    toată noaptea –
    chemarea gâștelor sălbatice

    2.

    wildflowers bend –
    a passing train carries
    their scent away

    जंगली फूल झुके
    गुजरती ट्रेन उनकी खुशबू
    अपने साथ ले जाए

    reverența florilor sălbatice –
    un tren care trece cară
    mirosul lor departe

    3.

    childhood memories
    the north wind sways –
    an empty swing

    बचपन की यादें
    उत्तरी हवा झुलाए
    एक खाली झूला

    amintiri din copilărie –
    vântul de nord se leagănă
    un leagăn gol

    https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php/?story_fbid=122103977252841288&id=615752386521

  • Heterodox Haiga issue

    Heterodox Haiku’s “Etymology: Hybrids in Japanese Inspired Micropoetics” special Haiga issue is out.

    Grateful to dear Jerome Berglund, Editor,
    for including my haiga in this anthology of “Roots”.

    https://archive.org/details/etymology_202504/mode/2up

  • AHS 2025 Autumn Equinox Kukai Results

    Australian Haiku Society 2025 Autumn Equinox Kukai Results are announced today on International Haiku Poetry Day.

    Delighted to have won the 2nd Prize with this haiku:

    golden wattle
    a girl braids her hair
    with sunlight

    Grateful to Leanne Mumford, Convenor of the Contest and poet friends who voted for my haiku. Congratulations to all winners.

    AHS 2025 Autumn Equinox Kukai Results

  • Fireflies’ Light

    Fireflies’ Light: A Magazine of Short Poems from the Missouri Baptist University, Issue 31, April 2025 is now available online. (Link in comments)

    Grateful to John J. Han & Mason Arledge Co-editors, for including my two #haiku and a #tanka.

    Congratulations to all featured #poets in the beautiful journal.

  • Enchanted Garden Journal

    Delighted to have a #tanka and a #haiga on “Petaluh- Celebrating Blossoms” in Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, 2nd Anniversary Issue 11, April 2025 published from Romania.

    Grateful to Steliana Cristina Voicu, Editor for the publication with Romanian translations. Congratulations to all featured poets. #EnchantedGardenHaiku

    Read the beautiful issue here:

    https://enchanted-garden-haiku.blogspot.com/2025/04/enchanted-garden-issue-11-petaluh-april.html

  • The Haibun Journal

    The Haibun Journal is a print journal published from Ireland, specialising in the haibun literary form.

    Grateful to the Editor Sean O’Connor & Assistant Editors—Amanda Bell, Kim Richardson and Paul Bregazzi for featuring my haibun “Heartspace”in this beautiful journal issue 7:1, April 2025.

    Congratulations to all featured poets.

    Heart Space

    silent walk
    her dog collar
    in my pocket

    H. Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu Contest 2024, Honorable Mention

    The leash still hangs by the swing in the garden. its metal tag with her name clinks softly when the wind nudges it.

    The walks are lonely now—no eager paws tapping against the floor, no warm nose nudging my hand. I still follow our usual path, but the collar stays curled in my pocket.

    At the neighborhood park, the sun spills across the grass in long golden streaks. I imagine her beautiful form there, ears perked, eyes bright, nose to the ground, chasing shadows that no longer move.

    I call her name once, softly. The breeze carries it away.

    first light…
    paw prints etched
    on the walkway

    Neena Singh, India

  • Sciku Project

    Grateful to Andrew Holmes, Founder of The Sciku Project for featuring my sciku today. The latest scientific discoveries in haiku form – sciku! Thanks to John Hawkhead who guided me to submit my ku for this project.

    Gravity of Thought

    quantum physics
    trying to wrap my head
    around dark matter

    by Neena Singh

    What is Dark Matter?

    Unsolved problem in physics: Dark matter is a form of matter that doesn’t emit, absorb, or reflect light, making it invisible. Its presence is inferred through its gravitational effects on visible matter, such as galaxies and stars.

    Proportion: It accounts for approximately 27% of the universe’s mass-energy content, compared to just 5% for normal (baryonic) matter.

    Further reading:

    ‘Dark matter’, Wikipedia article, available: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

    Author bio:

    Neena Singh is a banker turned poet. Her haikai poetry is regularly published in journals and magazines. She has published three books of poetry—”Whispers of the Soul: the journey within”, “One Breath Poetry” and the upcoming “A Peacock’s Cry – seasons of haiku”. She runs a non-profit for quality interventions in the education and health of underprivileged children in Chandigarh, India.

    This poem was originally published in Haiku Dialogue, 29th January 2025.

    Gravity of Thought by Neena Singh

  • Creative Inspirations

    Creative Inspirations website has been updated this month of April. Please be sure to check out the “Activity Poems” page to view the wonderful Tanka Flower Activity poems from several of the contributors.

    Grateful to Rev. Maurice J Reynolds for including my pink roses tanka.

    Congratulations to all featured poet friends.

    http://www.cipoetrypublication.com/

  • Contemporary Haibun Online

    Contemporary Haibun Online 21.1 April 2025 issue is online.

    Grateful to Ron Moss, editor for #Haiga for including my sunset Haiga in the gallery. 

  • Poetry Pea Journal

    Poetry Pea Journal 1:25 is out and it features my #haiku and 2 #scifiku of which “red dust”was read earlier on the podcast.

    Grateful to dear Patricia McGuire, Editor @ThePoetryPea, & her team for the acceptance. @pealogic. Thanks to Linda for the selecting my haiku for the video prompt.