Sharing my recent talk on Japanese short forms of poetry for Melow (Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World).
Grateful to Prof. Manju Jaidka, President, Melow for inviting me to share my love for haiku, tanka and haibun with the hope to spread the awareness of this art form more and more.
Grateful to dear Kelly Sauvage Moyer, Editor, for accepting my collaborative #Haiga with Neena Verma published in failed haiku, Vol 10, Issue 109.
Congratulations dear friend Neena for your beautiful photograph which inspired the #senryu.
A new month dawns and brings good tidings! #failedhaiku, a journal of English senryu is online. @Senryulournal
Grateful to dear Kelly Sauvage Moyer, Editor for accepting my 4 #senryu, for Failed Haiku, Vol 10, Issue 109. Kelly, your note announcing the release of the journal deeply touched my heart. I share it here:
“Once again, you all have touched my heart and I can’t help but to express my thanks. For what, you ask? For entrusting me with not only your work but the truest parts of yourselves. Each issue, you share the moments that have moved you. You give me (and your readers) access to your delight, your disappointment, your memories, your hopes and so much more. It’s often hard to find people within our daily lives who are capable of holding space for authentic emotion so, through our verse, the world at large becomes our trusted confidante. That’s the blessing and curse of being a writer, isn’t it? We need to be heard and understood. Though your spouse or best friend may think you’re off your rocker, please know that I celebrate you for your courage and willingness to show the very essence of who you are.”
With love and admiration,
Kelly
Congratulations to Sangita Kalarickal Krivošíková for her haiga on the cover and to all featured #poets in the beautiful bumper issue.
Chrysanthemum April 2025, issue 34 is out. Happy to have a haiku in it along with the German translation.
Grateful to dear Beate Conrad, Editor for the selection and congratulations to all featured poets.
Delighted to be in “Under the Basho 2025” on 25th April with a #haiku. Under the Bashō is a unique online journal.
Grateful to dear Don Baird, Chief Editor & Co-Founder, Marilyn Ashbaugh, Editor, and Stephen Bailey, Webmaster & Co-Founder for the acceptance & publication.
https://underthebasho.com/the-journal/under-the-basho-2025/haiku.html
Cold Moon Journal featured my #senryu on 20th April 2025.
Grateful to dear Timothy Daley & Oana Cercel, Editors, for the honor. Do visit the blog site & Insta for reading a range of poetic forms.
https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2025/04/neena-singh.html
Daily Romanian Haiku and Senryu have featured three of my haiku and senryu on their Facebook Page with Romanian and Hindi translations.
Grateful to dear Mihai Moldveanu for the honor. 🙏💕
“This week, our international haijin guest is Neena Singh from India.”
1.
sleepless
through the night…
calls of wild geese
नींद नहीं आती…
रात भर जंगली हंसों
की आवाज़ें
nedormit
toată noaptea –
chemarea gâștelor sălbatice
2.
wildflowers bend –
a passing train carries
their scent away
जंगली फूल झुके
गुजरती ट्रेन उनकी खुशबू
अपने साथ ले जाए
reverența florilor sălbatice –
un tren care trece cară
mirosul lor departe
3.
childhood memories
the north wind sways –
an empty swing
बचपन की यादें
उत्तरी हवा झुलाए
एक खाली झूला
amintiri din copilărie –
vântul de nord se leagănă
un leagăn gol
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php/?story_fbid=122103977252841288&id=615752386521
Heterodox Haiku’s “Etymology: Hybrids in Japanese Inspired Micropoetics” special Haiga issue is out.
Grateful to dear Jerome Berglund, Editor,
for including my haiga in this anthology of “Roots”.
https://archive.org/details/etymology_202504/mode/2up
Delighted to have a #tanka and a #haiga on “Petaluh- Celebrating Blossoms” in Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, 2nd Anniversary Issue 11, April 2025 published from Romania.
Grateful to Steliana Cristina Voicu, Editor for the publication with Romanian translations. Congratulations to all featured poets. #EnchantedGardenHaiku
Read the beautiful issue here:
https://enchanted-garden-haiku.blogspot.com/2025/04/enchanted-garden-issue-11-petaluh-april.html
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 “Heartspace”in this beautiful journal issue 7:1, April 2025.
Congratulations to all featured poets.
Heart Space
silent walk
her dog collar
in my pocket
H. Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu Contest 2024, Honorable Mention
The leash still hangs by the swing in the garden. its metal tag with her name clinks softly when the wind nudges it.
The walks are lonely now—no eager paws tapping against the floor, no warm nose nudging my hand. I still follow our usual path, but the collar stays curled in my pocket.
At the neighborhood park, the sun spills across the grass in long golden streaks. I imagine her beautiful form there, ears perked, eyes bright, nose to the ground, chasing shadows that no longer move.
I call her name once, softly. The breeze carries it away.
first light…
paw prints etched
on the walkway
Neena Singh, India