The beautiful Contemporary Haibun Online #cho 21.3 is online and I am delighted to have a #haibun featured.
Grateful to dear Terri Hale French, Editor for her kind guidance, acceptance & publication. The journal is filled with literary gems and lovely haiga. Link to the journal:
https://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/table-of-contents-21-3/
The beautiful haikuKATHA issue 49, November 2025 with cover art by Priti Aisola is live on the Triveni haikai website.
Congratulations to dear Kala Ramesh, Founder & the brilliant Editorial Team for another fantastic issue. Grateful for the inclusion of my #haibun among the gallery of poems by talented haijin.
Congratulations to all featured poets especially Lakshmi Iyer afor winning the Tejaswat award for her evocative tanka and Jenny Shepherd for her interesting Haibun as the Editor’s Choice.
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.
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
Honored to be in the beautiful Drifting Sands Haibun – a Journal of haibun and tanka prose, Issue 33, September 2025, with my #haibun, “War and Peace” among the gallery of poems by talented poets.
Grateful to dear Dr. Anna Cates, Guest Editor, @Sangita Kalarickal, Chief Editor & @Reid Hepworth, Associate Editor, for the acceptance & publication. 🙏💐
Congratulation to all featured poets.
War and Peace.
Neena Singh
Chandigarh, India
air raid siren
amid the darkness
moonflowers
It begins with the sound — shrill, rising, slicing the dusk like a blade. The siren is followed by a blackout, and everything dissolves into shadow: lights are off, ceiling fans stop, conversations halt, the city holds its breath. We pull the curtains tight, switch off phones, and light a single candle.
My grandson asks if war has begun. Grandpa’s voice is calm telling him it’s a mock drill. Yet the next day, reality strikes, the sky feels no longer mine, with missiles flashing like gargantuan fireflies.
That night, I dream of green fields and children of both countries flying kites—no borders, no flags, no fear.
ceasefire
granny hums louder
shelling peas
Author’s Note: Title borrowed from Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace”.
Poetry Pea’s haibun journal – Tendrils Volume 2, 2025 is published. It’s out in print via Amazon, here’s the link:
https://a.co/d/23ZrO9p
It’s also available to download as a PDF. Here’s the link:
https://buymeacoffee.com/poetrypea/e/453034
Grateful to dear Patricia McGuire for the publication of my #haibun, drawn from my school days in Lucknow.
@ThePoetryPea
@pealogic
Pan Haiku Review issue 5 (Summer 2025) – A haibun and tanka-bun edition plus the supplement/art special feature: Pan Haiku Review #5 Special Haibunga Gallery Supplement featuring Tim Roberts is out. It’s going to be an interesting and enjoyable read during the week and a keepsake edition!
Grateful to Alan Summers, Editor for including my haibun “Backscatter” in the bumper issue. Great to have him back in action after the elbow injury and tough surgery.
Congratulations to all featured poets.
Delighted to have a small #haibun published in #WorldHaikuReview, Japan, Spring 2025.
Grateful to Susumu Takiguchi San and Rohini Gupta, Editors for the inclusion of my prose poem in this quality issue. Congratulations to the featured haijin.
Grateful to dear Kala @kalaramesh8, Founder & Managing Editor and her talented team of Shalini & Firdaus for the kind acceptance of my haibun.
Congratulations to all featured poets especially dear Nalini Shetty for the Tejasvat award! ⭐️
Sharing my recent talk on Japanese short forms of poetry for Melow (Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World).
Grateful to Prof. Manju Jaidka, President, Melow for inviting me to share my love for haiku, tanka and haibun with the hope to spread the awareness of this art form more and more.