Quail Eggs, a #tanka journal, Issue 3, December 2025 is live.
Grateful to Alison Williams, Editor for featuring my tanka and congratulations on the beautiful issue filled with tanka gems!
Congratulations to all featured #poets. Happy to read the tanka of my TSA mentees – Padma Priya & @Dipankar Dasgupta.
Poetry Pea Podcast S8E47 on Celebrating Tanka is online. Grateful to Patricia McGuire, Editor & her team for accepting two of my #tanka – this one read in the podcast and both tanka to be included in the Poetry Pea Journal 5:25 out soon.
autumn moon
a gecko darts across
the ceiling crack
the night sky unfolds
as if nothing’s broken
@pealogic, #ThePoetryPea
Congratulations to all #poets whose poems are featured in the podcast.
Listen to the interesting podcast filled with beautiful tanka here:
https://youtu.be/CHqWmyp_b-4?si=k0pm4kk6XnQK2kTi
Fireflies’ Light: A Magazine of Short Poems from the Missouri Baptist University, Issue 31, April 2025 is now available online. (Link in comments)
Grateful to John J. Han & Mason Arledge Co-editors, for including my two #haiku and a #tanka.
Congratulations to all featured #poets in the beautiful journal.
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
Creative Inspirations website has been updated this month of April. Please be sure to check out the “Activity Poems” page to view the wonderful Tanka Flower Activity poems from several of the contributors.
Grateful to Rev. Maurice J Reynolds for including my pink roses tanka.
Congratulations to all featured poet friends.
http://www.cipoetrypublication.com/
The beautiful #haikuKatha issue 32, June 2024 is live on #Trivenihaikai website.
Kudos to dear Kala Ramesh, Founder & Managing Editor & the brilliant Editorial #Team for another fantastic issue. The watercolor cover painting by Murali Sivaramakrishnan is beautiful.
Grateful for the inclusion of my #tanka among the gallery of talented haijin. Congratulations to all featured #poets.
Read the beautiful issue here:
https://www.trivenihaikai.in/post/haikukatha-issue-32
My tanka published in Scarlet Dragonfly Journal today.
Grateful to dear Kathleen Trocmet-Poetry Editor for featuring it.
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 #tanka featured in “art of tanka”—the inaugural issue launched by Pamela A. Babusci, Editor.
Grateful to dear Pamela for the honor!
Congratulations to all featured poet friends.
Thrilled to read my 2 #tanka in #cattails journal, October 2023 with Hindi translations.
Grateful to Jenny Fraser, Tanka Editor for the kind acceptance of 2 of my tanka. Elated to read her comments, awarding Editor’s Choice to “my mother” tanka.
