hosts: Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our Wednesday Feature! 22nd April 2026 poet of the month: Pravat Kumar Padhy Crown Shyness I came across the phrase ‘Crown shyness’ recently while reading a journal for children narrating the environment and Mother Earth. As such the tree remains one of my literary pearls. I often use a tree as a metaphor – Like a monk, it is determined/In its root of meditation

hosts: Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our Wednesday Feature! 15th April 2026 poet of the month: Pravat Kumar Padhy her cloth soaked with tears… on the edge of curled green leaf the burden of the heavy rains Cold Moon Journal, 15 October 2000 (Ed. Roberta Beach Jacobson) Windrows You roll along the trails of forests, garden paths, backyards, and busy city streets. The melodic rustle down the hills s

hosts: Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our Wednesday Feature! 8th April 2026 poet of the month: Pravat Kumar Padhy blue moon through the oncology window twisting aside I stare at the twinkling stars to become one amongst all Eucalypt, Issue 28, 2020 (Ed. Julie Thorndyke) birds’ song fades away into thin forest posters of darkened sky and sunken lakes at the Anthropocene conference Ribbons, Winter Iss

hosts: Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our Wednesday Feature! 1st April 2026 poet of the month: Pravat Kumar Padhy sublime smiles the painting portrays I adjust to live rewinding the coil of time in the shadows of my loneliness Notes From the Gean, Vol 2 Issue 2, 2010 (Tanka Ed. H. Gene Murtha) withered flowers I gather with love and care closing my eyes in the garden of memories I dream the greatn

hosts: Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our Wednesday Feature! 25 th March 2026 poet of the month: Kanjini Devi calls of ruru from dusk to dawn punctuating rituals and prayers this Great Night of Shiva (haikuKATHA Issue 43, May 2025) Eight Precepts I've been at the monastery for several weeks. Joining the predawn chant--I soak up Sanskrit prayers like a sp

hosts: Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our Wednesday Feature! 18 th March 2026 poet of the month: Kanjini Devi the paddock now free from blackberry brambles rescue goats the permanent tracks they leave in my heart (haikuKATHA Issue 28, February 2024) (SPOTLIGHT Triveni Haikai India Oct2025) farmers moving stock on the road I slow down to gre

hosts: Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our Wednesday Feature! 11 th March 2026 poet of the month: Kanjini Devi now you are one with water and wind ashes to ashes I whisper your name at first and final light (haikuKATHA #20 June 2023) lilac clusters adorn the jacaranda we planted if only you could see all that you have given

hosts: Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our Wednesday Feature! 4 th March 2026 poet of the month: Kanjini Devi seagulls screeching over a street guitarist from the gallery I pluck up courage to sing you Songbird (haikuKATHA Issue 11, September 2022) reap

hosts: Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our Wednesday Feature! 25th February, 2026 poet of the month: Neal Whitman my poetry group gathers at the park terrace rain-blessed leaves transform the concrete surface into a Greek mossaic cattails, September 2014, Pen the Painting prize a lovely seabird dips her wing into a wave we drop anchor rising from the spindrift a rainbow leaves us too soon