Tag: #thehaikufoundation

  • THF Haiku Dialogue

    Delighted to feature in The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue this week.

    Grateful to Guest editors Sherry Grant
    & Zoe Grant for selecting my ku written on this week’s prompt: Childhood Memories—Exploring Emotions.

  • THF Haiku Dialogue

    Wednesday brings the Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue and delighted to be in this week too. Theme being “return”.

    Grateful to Peter H Fischer for the selection & congratulations to all featured poets.

  • THF Haiku Dialogue

    This week the Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue is about the Art of Pilgrimage—completion.

    Grateful to Peter H Fischer for featuring my haiku about my wondrous trek 3000 metres above the Paro valley to the Buddhist Monastery Tiger’s Nest, in Bhutan.

    monastery trek
    a ladder to heaven
    now back home

  • THF Haiku Dialogue

    Delighted to be in The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue this Wednesday again on “purpose”.

    Grateful to Peter Fischer, Guest Editor for the selection & congratulations to all featured poets.

    morning tea I sip a cuckoo’s trill
  • Touchstone Nomination 2022

    Grateful to Patricia McGuire. Editor Poetry Pea for nominating my monoku for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award for Individual Poems 2022:

    droplets on a banana leaf the beggar counts his coins

    Poetry Pea Podcast, S5E22, Original haiku and senryu, 21st November 2022.

    The joy is too great to express in words. Wish my poem Godspeed dear family and friends. I shall keep my fingers crossed.

  • THF Haiku Dialogue

    Wednesday brings THF’s Haiku Dialogue and the theme this week was “encounters”.

    Grateful to Peter Fischer, Guest Editor for selecting my ku.

  • New to Haiku – The Haiku Foundation

    Deeply honored to be interviewed by Julie Kelsey, of The Haiku Foundation’s Education Committee, for “New to Haiku”, an initiative with the goal of reaching out to welcome beginning haiku poets.

    Julie’s insightful questions made me retrace my journey and realize how much I still need to learn…miles to go before I sleep…

    You may like to read the interview here and do leave your comments:

  • THF Haiku Dialogue

    Wednesday brings Haiku Dialogue and the theme this week was “A Good Wander: The Art of Pilgrimage – Obstacles & Trials” with Guest Editor P. H. Fischer.

    Grateful to have a ku featured, thanks to the Editors.

  • The Haiku Foundation

    Thanks to dear Julie Bloss Kelsey for including me in this display of 52 haiku poets on the Haiku Foundation.

    This was in response to Julie’s question—which published haiku of yours speaks “This Is Me”.

    Below is mine, which speaks for itself!

    https://thehaikufoundation.org/new-to-haiku-the-haiku-mixer/

  • THF Haiku Dialogue

    Wednesday brings the popular weekly Haiku Dialogue of The Haiku Foundation.

    The theme this week was family portraits-Portrait 2: a photo of his daughter’s elopement wedding at a National Park during covid days.

    237 haiku from 149 poets representing 29 countries were received. Grateful to John S Green, Guest Editor for including my haiku in the Editor’s Selections.