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Tag: # PoetryPea

  • Poetry Pea Journal

    Poetry Pea Journal, 5.25 December 2025 is out.

    Grateful to Patricia McGuire & Editors for featuring my awarded haiku and senryu as also my two accepted tanka:

    golden wattle
    a girl braids her hair
    with sunlight

    2nd Prize, 2025 Autumn Equinox Kukai, Australian Haiku Society

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    summer solstice
    the busker plays
    a tune from home

    2nd Prize, 2025, Japan Fair Haiku Contest

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

    Awarded for oversll performance, 9th International Contest Cherry Blossom 2025, Bulgarian Haiku Union

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    dusty windowsill
    a beetle trails through
    summer’s end

    Honorable Mention, Judge’s Choice, Poetry Pea Journal of haiku and senryu 4.25

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    needle’s eye
    granny threads
    another memory

    First Prize ( tie), theme “eye”, The Haiku Foundation Monthly Kukai, October 2025

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Poetry Pea Journal

    Poetry Pea Journal 2:25 is out. 
    Grateful to Patricia McGuire & editorial team for including two haiku/ senryu of mine, one of which was featured earlier in the podcast. @pealogic

  • Poetry Pea Journal

    Poetry Pea Journal 1:25 is out and it features my #haiku and 2 #scifiku of which “red dust”was read earlier on the podcast.

    Grateful to dear Patricia McGuire, Editor @ThePoetryPea, & her team for the acceptance. @pealogic. Thanks to Linda for the selecting my haiku for the video prompt.

  • Poetry Pea Journal of Split Sequences

    The Poetry Pea journal of Split Sequences 2025 features our split sequence—Gökotta, penned by the super talented Vandana Parashar and me. It was a pleasure to collaborate with her.

    Grateful to Patricia McGuire, Editor @ThePoetryPea & her team for the acceptance. @pealogic. @ThePoetryPea

    The title is a Swedish word, meaning waking up early morning to hear birdsong.

  • Poetry Pea

    Poetry Pea Podcast S7E53 on #tanka —the poetry that is tanka is online. Grateful to Patricia McGuire & the editorial team for including mine. This is also published in the Poetry Pea Journal 6:24, out now. @pealogic

    Congratulations to all featured poets.

    https://poetrypea.com/s7e53-the-poetry-that-is-tanka

  • Poetry Pea Podcast

    Poetry Pea Podcast S7 E44 on #madku —#senryu, poetry that voices our frustration, anger, irritation & indignation is online.

    Grateful to Patricia McGuire & editorial team for including mine. This will also be published in the Poetry Pea Journal 5:24.
    @pealogic

    the child carries
    her cross each day
    till she says ‘No’

    https://youtu.be/oAISrgX2-Bo?

  • Poetry Pea Podcast

    The popular Poetry Pea Podcast S7E35 on #senryu – The Senryu Way part one, went online on 27th August 2024.

    Grateful to Editor Patricia McGuire @ThePoetryPea for including my “borrowed anthology”senryu. This along with another poem- “photo-op” selected by Linda Ludwig for the video prompt will be published in the Poetry Pea Journal 4:24 releasing soon.
    @pealogic

    borrowed anthology—
    flipping pages to read
    the marginalia

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    photo-op…
    laughter travels
    across the Atlantic
    Neena Singh

    Congratulations to all #poets featured in the interesting podcast.

  • Poetry Pea Journal

    Poetry Pea Journal 3:24 is out.

    Thanks to Patricia McGuire @pealogic for featuring two of my single object haiku. The “scent of spring” was read out in the podcast and our mangoes did vanish in the summer vacation!

    Congratulations to all featured poets.