Blogs

  • Frogpond

    Thrilled to have a a collaborative #rengay “Sabi Park” written with John Thompson, published in #Frogpond, Volume 48:2. 

    Frogpond is the prestigious print journal of #HaikuSocietyofAmerica.

    Thanks dear John for the collaboration – as always, it was a privilege and a joy to write with you! 

    Grateful to Jacob Salzer, Editor for the kind publication. 

    Congratulations to all poets featured in the journal.

    #frogpond #journal #rengay #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers, #poetry #haiku #senryu

  • Hexagon Anthology

    Grateful dear Corine Timmer for including my poem in the Hexagon Anthology alongside these poet friends. The cover is beautiful! 💕

    I am happy to reveal the cover Hexagonhaiku and the list of contributing poets. Double drumroll please 🥁

    Congratulations to each of you and welcome on board! You will all receive an email within the next week, if you haven’t already. Thanks to R. C. Thomas Richard Thomas for providing this year’s wonderful illustrations.

  • Bulgarian Haiku Contest 2025

    🌸Honoured to share that my three #haiku have been recognized for #OverallPerformance at the 9th International Haiku #CherryBlossom #Contest organized by the #bulgarianhaiku Union 2025:

    cherry blossoms
    in the mountain mist
    a monk’s prayer

    *

    scented breeze…
    cherry petals follow
    the street singer

    *

    last blossoms –
    the old man’s cane
    stops down the lane

    *

    Grateful to the honorable jury – Antoaneta Nikolova, Vessislava Savova, Zornitza Harizanova, Alexandra Ivoylova and the
    Сооrdinators: Tsanka Shiskova & Kristina Todorova for this recognition.🙏

    Congratulations to all the #winners! 💐💕

  • #FemkuMag

    Received the beautiful new #Summer 2025 issue 39 of #FemkuMag in my Inbox.

    My gratitude to Founder and Editor-in-Chief dear Rowan Beckett Minor and Carissa Coane, Editor, for accepting my #haiku & #tanka for publication. The cover #Haiga is by Marianne Paul.

    Congratulations to all featured #poets in this special magazine for revolutionary #haiku by #women, trans, & gender expansive voices.

  • Triya Patrika

    The Triya Mag Monsoon 2025 Edition is online. Grateful to dear Teji Sethi, Founder & Curator, and Editors Vaibhav & Priti Sahayogi Chahar for such an aesthetic & beautiful bilingual poetry journal.

    Grateful to have my 2 haiku translated in Hindi and republished among the beautiful selections. It is always a delight to read the poems in Hindi.

    Congratulations to all featured poet friends.

  • Japan Fair Haiku Contest 2025

    Delighted to have won #2ndPrize in the #JapanFair #HaikuContest2025!

    Entries came in from 35 countries:
    358 haiku poems in English, including 24 youth entries
    368 haiku poems in Japanese, including 256 youth entries

    Grateful to the Judge Michael Dylan Welch for taking time out to review and select the winning English entries and for his insightful and beautiful comments. Acolades to Japan Fair for celebrating the spirit of #haiku.

    Congratulations to the #winners & #HMs.💕💐

  • Cold Moon Journal

    Cold Moon Journal featured my #haiku on 13th July 2025

    Grateful to dear Timothy Daley & Oana Cercel, Editors, for the honor. Do visit the blog site & Insta for reading a range of poetic forms.

  • Guru Purnima

    Happy Guru Purnima to all!
    Remembering my first Haiku Guru Late Dr Angelee Deodhar. We wrote this collaboration in July 2016 and it was published on thesongis website of Marianne. 🙏💐💕

    GURU PURNIMA 2016
    A Collaborative between Neena Singh and Angelee Deodhar

    Tonight the full moon
    scatters petals of light
    golden strains of music float
    remembered from the past…

    I remember the Guru
    who showed me where to look
    not what to see, held a brush
    as he ground ink for me…

    he walked beside me unseen
    a lamp held high till
    the scent of jasmine
    resonated in my soul

    stumbling over rocks
    through muddy streams I went
    tasting the wild waters
    and fruit I didn’t know

    the ineffable wonder of life
    the sacred mystery unveiled
    I bow to the Guru, who reflects
    the moon in me tonight.

  • Modern Haiku

    So happy to have my #senryu featured in Modern haiku journal, 56.2.

    Grateful to Paul Miller, Editor for kind acceptance & publication.

    Congratulations to all #poets whose poetry is featured in this prestigious print journal. #ModernHaiku, #haiku, #senryu

  • HSA Rengay Award 2025

    Grateful and Honored

    Thrilled to share that our collaborative rengay “Between Worlds” has won 3rd Place in the Haiku Society of America Rengay Award 2025, held in honor of Garry Gay, the creator of the rengay form.

    Sincere thanks to HSA and judges Jonathan Roman and Agnes Eva Savich for this recognition.

    Dear John Thompson — what a joy it was to co-write with you! Your opening hokku was brilliant, and the verses unfolded effortlessly from there.

    (John: verses 1, 3 & 5 | Mine: 2, 4 & 6

    Humbled to be among the winners in 2021, 2023, and now 2025!

    Congratulations to all the winners and honorable mentions. 🙏💐

    #haiku #rengay #haikupoetry #collaborativepoetry #HSA #poetryhonor #betweenworlds