Wednesday brings #HaikuFoundation’s #HaikuDialogue and this week the theme given by Guest Editors Arvinder Kaur & Hifsa Ashraf was #FacialExpressions – #surprise. My grandson Tripat inspired this one!
Grateful to the editors for including my #senryu among their selections.
https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialogue-facial-expressions-surprise-1/
Grateful to Billie Dee, Guest Editor of Triveni haikai & hosts Muskaan Ahuja & Lakshmi Iyer for featuring one of my haiku alongwith Daipayan Nair’s lovely ku published in haikuKATHA on this week’s Triveni ThinkALONG/WriteALONG blog. The topic is karumi – “light-hearted” as advocated by Basho, the grand old master of haiku.
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https://www.trivenihaikai.in/post/writealong-19-december
Grateful to dear Sherry Grant Organiser & Al Peat, Judge of the #KM100NZ #Haiku competition for selecting my #haiku for the #LonelinessAnthology to be published shortly.
It’s Wednesday – The #HaikFoundation’s #HaikuDialogue day and glad to see my #senryu featured. This week’s theme was Facial Expressions- #Fear.
Grateful to Hifsa Ashraf & Arvinder Kaur, Guest Editors, for selecting my #senryu.
https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialogue-facial-expressions-fear-1/
Here’s a screenshot of my poetry reading for the KM100NZ Haiku Competition organized by dear poet & pianist Sherry Grant in New Zealand. Grateful to her for the inclusion of this haiku in the “Loneliness Anthology”..
Thank you so much dear Chrissi Villa for your sweet gesture of sharing the screenshot of me reading my haiku there.
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Delighted to be featured in Shadow Pond, a Journal of haiku & senryu issue 2, Winter 2023, on 11th December 2023.
Grateful to Katherine E. Winnick, Editor for the honor. Congratulations to all dear poets.
https://shadowpondjournal.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-shadow-pond-journal-issue-two.html?m=1
Grateful to editor Daipayan Nair and co-editor Lev Hart for including my four #poems. Delighted to have “winter rain”chosen as an Editor’s Pick. Kudos to them for a stunning beautifully curated issue!
Congratulations to all featured talented #poets especially Alan Summers for his novel haiku and the insightful commentary by Lev. Enjoy the issue:
https://haikunetra.blogspot.com
Congratulations to all featured #poets.
Contemporary Haibun Online 19.3 #cho is online and I am delighted to have a #tankaprose featured- The Miracle of Flight”. Two #Haiga in collaboration with dear Billie Dee are also included in the Haiga Gallery. The photos clicked by me are of Sukhna Lake, Chandigarh and enhancing them are the haiku are penned by Billie.
Grateful to Tish Davis, Editor, Tanka Prose for the acceptance and guidance.
Thanks to Ron Moss for the acceptance of our Haiga.
Congratulations to all featured poets.
https ://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/cho19-3-table-of-contents/neena-singh-the-miracle-of-flight/
The Miracle of Flight
It’s a hot summer morning and as I water the plants in the garden I see some movement behind a flowerpot. I move closer, two sharp eyes and a curved beak peer—a baby hawk! The bird appears injured as one wing is stretched out. The closer I move, the more it tries to hop behind the row of pots.
I call my birding friends for advice and follow their instructions:
“Just let it be…it will fly away”;
“keep a piece of raw meat and some water near it,“
“keep a boiled egg near it”.
Bending low, I whisper—“fly baby, you are meant to soar in the sky”. It looks at me with its piercing eyes and flaps its wing, as if it understands.
surprise guest
behind a flowerpot . . .
the grace and wisdom
in its bright eyes
hold me captive
Delighted to have a haiku and a Haiga on “Secret Santa” in Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 5, December 2023.
Grateful to Steliana Voicu, Editor for the publication with its Romanian translation. Congratulations to all featured poets.
https://enchanted-garden-haiku.blogspot.com/2023/12/enchanted-garden-issue-5-secret-santa.html?m=1