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  • 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. 🙏💕

  • Haiku Dialogue

    Wednesday brings The Haiku Foundation’s HAIKU DIALOGUE – Music Around the World – From apprentice to master or how to walk the path of music.

    Many thanks to Guest Deborah Karl-Brandt, Post Manager Lori Zajkowski, and Managing Editor Katherine Munro for including my senryu. 🙏

    Congratulations to all featured poets!

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Quail Eggs Tanka Journal

    Quail Eggs, a #tanka journal, Issue 2, September 2025 is live.

    Grateful to @Alison Williams, Editor for featuring my tanka & tanka prose and congratulations on the beautiful second issue filled with tanka gems!

    Congratulations to all featured #poets.

  • Creative Inspirations

    Creative Inspirations September/ October 2025 received today.

    Grateful to Rev. Maurice Reynolds, Owner-Editor for the inclusion of 2 of my #haiku and a #tanka in the beautiful Autumn issue.

    Congratulations to all featured #poets.

  • Pan Haiku Review

    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.

  • VSANA – Home Stone

    VSANA featured this Home stone last month—an attractive hut stone with a natural aged appearance, collected several years ago in the Yuha Desert in extreme southeastern California near the borders of Arizona and Mexico.

    Grateful to Tom Elias, Editor for publishing both my #tanka and a #senryu on their website.

  • VSANA

    Happy to share my3 #tanka published in #VSANA—Viewing Stone Association of North America on September 1, 2025. These are in response to Buddha’s Stone—Fossil coral has long been recognized and collected in China for its aesthetic qualities.

    Grateful to dear Tom Elias, Editor, VSANA who says, “When I displayed this piece in an upright position, it reminded me of another symbolic Buddhist hand gesture—the Vitarka Mudra.”

    Congratulations to all fellow poets featured.