World haiku review

I know I've been neglecting my blog. But I promise to change.And for a starter, one of my poems published in the current (June, 2015) issue of World Haiku Review. Actually, it's my debut in the journal.

thrush song...

who am I 

to figure you out

(Honorable mention in the shintai section)

galaxy & hill temple

galaxy--
just a lily pond
will do

*****

hill temple . . .

our ascent

into the fog

Frogpond,37.3,autumn issue

Paper boat and all night rain

 paper boat
big enough to hold
a dream or two

faintly
the sound of anklets
all night rain 

The Herons Nest, Vol XV.4, December 2013

From A Hundred Gourds

A sparrow, a dandelion and the mist...from last year's A Hundred Gourds, issue 2.4.

sipping stale coffee the same sparrow as yesterday

even before i could wish you were gone dandelion

loneliness-

each peak wrapped

in its own mist

 Santoka says:

if I sell my rags
and buy some sake
will there still be loneliness... 

Santoka

Photo:creative commons

if i could give a name to this wind wild poppies

Frogpond 36.3

what remains

what remains

of this twilight--

orange blossoms

Vol XIV, NO.3

The Herons Nest

September, 2012

starry night, open window and black water

It's already mid-November and I've again missed quite a few submission deadlines of journals where i had intended to submit; but on the plus side, still one and a half month to go in this year and more importantly Diwali is behind me! I always feel relieved and upbeat when Diwali is over...don't know why.Duties done, chores completed and respects paid, I feel a whole lot lighter, like, now i am free to do my own thing, to go back to my own world. Not that there was too much to do this year...the reasons being my own illness and the passing away of a close relative. Yet the aftermath of Diwali is always NICE! The weather seems sweeter, I am feeling much better and who knows maybe soon, very soon, I'd be able to write some poetry!

Meanwhile,to go over a few recent publications, these three haiku (by me) were published in A Hundred Gourds 1:4, September 2012 issue.

 
 starry night tripping over the banyan roots

opening the window 

to a moth and what's left

of the moon

black water pond

how deep

the crow's eyes

Plum blossoms

image:Michael Carr

after all the things
that have gone wrong-
plum blossoms


Published in The Heron's Nest, June 2012. Vol 14.2

all that I want

all that I want
to tell you tonight...
glass bangles

Acorn,
Spring, 2011

rocking chair

rocking chair
back and forth
between now and then


Frogpond,
Vol 34.3, 2011

lime pickle

An afternoon spent playing with colours, fonts and photo effects ... and this is the result of one of my efforts. The ku has been published in Frogpond.

Haiga-bat wings

Haiku previously published in Simply haiku. The woods in the photo are just opposite my house.