HaikuBlossoms—My #20th piece on #rhyvers.com covers #Haibun—the prose-poem.
Thanks to S Affan Yesvi, Editor-in-Chief for the Friday publication of the column.
Hope friends will enjoy reading about this interesting Japanese short form of poetry. Grateful to dear Roberta Beary, celebrated poet, for sharing their essay and haibun.
HAIBUN – THE PROSE POEM
Contemporary Haibun Online #cho 19.2 is online and I am delighted to have a small haibun featured – Being Mortal.
Grateful to Peter Newton, Guest Editor for the acceptance & publication.
Being Mortal
My 6-year-old grandson says “Daadi,* I will marry at 21. How old will you be then?”
“81” I reply, looking through my spectacles at his bright eyes.
“Will you be alive?”
“Well, that’s a tough question to answer, for no one knows when the call comes.”
“Who calls us Daadi—is it God?”
“Probably,” a trifle unsure, I respond.
“I wish I were God” he smiles.
young bamboo
my hand reaches
to touch the green
Thrilled to see #DriftingSands #Haibun journal issue 22 online, which features my #haibun “Raga of Grief” and “Morning Solitude” photo on Oasis.
Grateful to dear Richard Grahn, Founder-Developer & Creative Artist and Keith Polette, Guest Editor for the acceptance & publication.
fleeting autumn…
seeing the sounds
fade into silence
The Poetry Pea Journal 1:23 also features my short haibun—Music of the Soul. Hope you will enjoy reading it.
Music of the Soul
Looking for a book on my bookshelf, I scan and touch my beloved friends of years past. My fingers gently brush their spines. I find “The Singer and His Song” a biography of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. I listen to his lyrical Bengali song sung by the author Reba Som on the accompanying CD. The words are barely understood, yet my eyes close and I enter a world of magic.
snow-edged
the wayside stream
still gurgles
DriftingSands #Haibun Journal, issue 21, May 2023 is out.
Grateful to Diana Webb, Editor & Richard Grahn, Founding Editor & Artist for the guidance and publication of my #Tankaprose—Circle of Life.
The issue also has a link to my Ripples in the Sand #podcast with Sangita Kalarickal Krivošíková, where I read some of my published #haibun.
Congratulations to all featured poets. So much to read and relish! 🙏💐
Read the issue here:
https://drifting-sands-haibun.org/
Grateful to Richard Grahn, Founding Editor & Collaborative Artist, Drifting Sands Haibun and the Drifting Sands – Poet’s Hub for putting me on their “Ripples in the Sand” audio podcast with Sangita Kalarickal Krivosik, Author and lovely host. The podcast was recorded on 7th May 2023 and I felt deeply honored to be invited to share my haibun poems. 💕
Grateful for your feedback dear friends, once you give it a listen.
Doubly delighted to have a haibun published in World Haiku Review, Spring 2023.
Grateful to Susumu san and Rohini Gupta, Editors for the publication.
Contemporary Haibun Online, Issue 19.1 is out and it features my haibun “Birding”. Thanks to my birding friends Harmeet & Jatinder Vijh.
Grateful to Rich Youmans, Editor for the guidance & publication.
Congratulations to all featured poets.
Birding
Each day we are forgotten by ourselves
through ourselves,
For we do not believe, in who we are.
~ Mimi Novic, The Silence Between the Sighs
Away from the hustle-bustle of city life and traffic, my friend and I walk on the dirt path to the village pond. A binocular and a powerful camera rest on my friend’s shoulder.
Water chestnuts grow thick and lush, coloring the pondwater forest green. I strain to see through the fog. Far off, white-breasted kingfisher perches on a boulder, perhaps waiting for sunshine. My friend picks up her camera.
I wait empty-handed, the song deep inside me.
winter molting the flap of new-found wings
The Wise Owl April 2023, Ebony & Gold edition features two of my haibun— Spring Symphony & Segue; many thanks to dear Rachna Singh. Delighted to see them presented so beautifully, thanks to Harmeet Singh for the photographs.
Congratulations to all featured poets in this second haibun special issue.
To view magazine please click Ebony & Gold
To view my haibun click Neena Singh (pasted below)
The Ebony & Gold Edition of The Wise Owl is online. In this second haibun special issue, there are interviews with haibun experts, Sean O’Connor & Richard Grahn & poet-artist Sandra Anfang. Lots of haibun to savour. Stories from master storytellers. Musings. Reviews. Podcasts. Montage. Do take time out to browse through this eclectic collection.
It was wonderful reading the poems of talented poets & putting them all together with the support of Rachna Singh, Principal Editor. Interacting with Richard Grahn & Sean O’Connor was a great learning experience. A keepsake issue! 💐💕
Not to be missed—The lovely podcasts of haibun readings by Bryan Rickert, Shobhana Kumar & Firdaus Parvez on our TWO YouTube channel. Also my conversation with Richard Grahn, Founding Editor & Artist, Drifting Sands Haibun Journal. 👌💐