It’s Wednesday – The #HaikuFoundation’s #HaikuDialogue day and glad to see my #haiku featured in the long list. This week’s theme was: Music Around the World – Loving you with all of my tunes or let’s talk about feelings.🎶💕
Grateful to Deborah Karl-Brandt, Guest Editor, kj Munroe, Managing Editor & Lori, Post Manager for the selection.
Congratulations to all featured #poet friends.
Pleasant surprise to receive a message from Jenny Bienemann who runs Sunday Haiku Milieu from Chicago, Illinois that she has chosen my ku for her readers this Sunday!
Grateful to you dear Jenny! 💕
hedgerow: a journal of short poems, issue #150 is out.
Grateful to dear Caroline Skanne, Founding Editor for the acceptance & publication of my #senryu.
Congratulations to all featured poets in the print journal available on Amazon.
border outpost—
the sandbag wall
sprouts weeds
– hedgerow, #150
Delighted that #Ribbons Fall/Winter 2025: Volume 21 Number 2 issue features my #tanka & #tankaprose. Ribbons is the prestigious tanka journal of the #TankaSociety of America.
Grateful to Susan Weaver, Editor & Liz Lanigan, Tanka Prose Editor for the acceptance & publication.
Presence
Neena Singh, Chandigarh, India
autumn of life—
the clock’s slow pendulum
marks time
not in minutes or hours
but in moments shared
On our forty-third anniversary this year, a long-time friend gifted us this wooden antique clock, knowing, perhaps, that at this age, what we cherish most is neither speed, nor ambition but time together.
The brass pendulum swings gently, measuring this new rhythm of our lives. On quiet afternoons, I listen to its calm ticking—unhurried, unlike the years behind us—the busyness of shared years: raising our son, moving cities, building careers, building our home. Yet now, the silences between the ticks seem just as full.
the clock strikes five
you awaken my dream
with masala chai…
these moments I gather
like shells on the beach
The October 2025 issue of cattails is online. Delighted to have a #monoku. #senryu and #haibun in the beautiful issue.
Grateful to Geethanjali Rajan – Haiku Editor, David Kelly – Senryu Editor, & Shobhana Kumar – Haibun Editor for the guidance and acceptance. Kudos to Sonam Chhoki, Editor-in- Chief and Mike Montreuil, Managing Editor.
Congratulations to all featured poets.
Chrysanthemum, October 2025, issue 35 is out. Happy to have a #haiku in it along with its German translation.
Grateful to dear Beate Conrad, Editor for the selection and congratulations to all featured #poets.
Delighted to have a #tanka and a #Haiga celebrating“Tea Time”, in Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 13, October 2025
Grateful to Steliana Cristina Voicu, Founder & Editor for the publication with Romanian translations. Congratulations to all featured #poets.
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 “Utopia”in this beautiful journal issue 7:2, October 2025. This is the last issue of this journal.
Congratulations to all featured poets.
Utopia
We stand on the bridge and watch the swollen river carry broken branches, an upturned sandal, a pale flowered shirt tangled with reeds.
My grandson asks if rivers have memories. I want to say yes—that water remembers the way a body falls, remembers how the sky cracks open with bombs, remembers fire.
At night, I read him a bedtime story of a magic forest where wolves and sheep drink from the same stream.
He scoffs, “Daadi, wolves never share”.
“That’s what stories are for—to imagine what isn’t yet,” I smile.
ceasefire—
a baya weaver bird
stitches the green
Up on Triveni Haikai India’s SPOTLIGHT feature today on 9th October 2025 is my humpback whale haiku selected by Guest Editor Rupa Anand.
Grateful dear Rupa for selecting this haiku which is a dear favorite of mine, first published on VSANA. (Viewing Stone Association of North America) kindly selected by Tom Elias, Editor. 🙏💕
Wednesday brings The Haiku Foundation’s HAIKU DIALOGUE – Music Around the World – From apprentice to master or how to walk the path of music.
Many thanks to Guest Deborah Karl-Brandt, Post Manager Lori Zajkowski, and Managing Editor Katherine Munro for including my senryu. 🙏
Congratulations to all featured poets!
