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  • Chrysanthemum

    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.

  • Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal

    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.

    EnchantedGardenHaiku
    teatime

  • The Haibun Journal

    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

  • Triveni SPOTLIGHT

    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. 🙏💕

  • Poetry Pea Journal

    Poetry Pea Journal, 4:25 September 2025 is out.

    Grateful to Patricia McGuire & Editors for featuring my haiku & senryu—the first two on creepy crawlies and the next two selected for the monthly video prompts:

    dusty windowsill—
    a beetle trails through
    summer’ end

    • Honorable Mention

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    caterpillar crawl
    the child mimics
    on her belly

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    sway of hips
    the night itself
    set spinning

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    autumn dusk
    ripples shimmer around
    the dance of trunks

    Sharing the Judge’s Choice Commentary. Congratulations to all featured poets.

    PoetryPea, #pealogic

  • VSANA

    VSANA featured this Landscape stone for October —kasahara-san.

    Grateful to Tom Elias, Editor for publishing two of my #tanka on their website.

    Congratulations to all featured poets.

  • Poetry Pea Podcast

    Poetry Pea Podcast S8E39 on creepy crawlies in haiku and senryu for August 2025 is online. Grateful to Patricia McGuire, Editor for including my haiku. It was thrilling to hear the insightful commentary by Clive Grewcock who selected my #haku as his Judge’s choice.

    Do listen to the podcast: https://youtu.be/hkxnuNKO8MU?si=F1JcdeZ6zCBC94ns

    dusty windowsill—
    a beetle trails through
    summer’s end

    This will also be published in the Poetry Pea Journal 4:25 alongside my other accepted haiku.
    @pealogic, #ThePoetryPea

    Congratulations to all #poets whose poems are featured in the podcast.

  • Triveni Spotlight

    Up on Triveni Haikai India’s Spotlight feature today on 27th September 2025 is my haiku selected by Guest Editor Anju Kishore. Grateful dear Anju for selecting this haiku which is a dear favorite of mine published in Wales Haiku Journal, Spring 2023 issue. The Editor Joe Woodhouse had given it life and also recommended it for a Touchstone Award. 🙏💕

  • The Mamba

    Happy to be in The Mamba – Journal of the Africa Haiku Network, issue 18 – September 2025, with a collaborative haiga. The beautiful photo which inspired the haiku was clicked by my friend Pritpal Sagoo, Creative Director of Bushtrek Safaris.

    Grateful to the editor Ayeyemi Taofeek and the guest editor, Scott Mason for the acceptance & publication. Thanks to Emmanuel Kalusian for considering my work.

    Congratulations to all featured poets.

  • Drifting Sands Haibun

    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”.