A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY! Hosts: Teji Sethi and Kala Ramesh GUEST EDITOR: K. Ramesh
Note by the Editor
Sometimes when we as haiku poets compose haiku there is a certain joy or happiness that we would experience after composing a haiku. The happiness could be due to various factors:
for example, being available to register a moment and write a haiku or it could be because we found the right words and also a certain effortlessness involved in composing that haiku! This feeling is the gift we get for the haiku we have composed, and it keeps as going as haiku poets! For the December Spotlight, I wanted haijins to share such haiku!
-- K. Ramesh
1
Geethanjali Rajan
Mainichi – 6.12.2013
clear sky--
the vendor sells clouds
of cotton candy
2
Ashish Narain
(published in Under the Basho 2022.
backyard swing... the rhythm of her feet pushing the ground
3
Muskaan
Haiku Windows, May 9, 2018
(The Haiku Foundation )
just enough time
to see the falling rain…
hospital window
4
Mona Bedi
Acorn Fall Issue 2022
falling leaf—
my grief too
has no sound
5
Lakshmi Iyer
Honourable Mention,
The First Yugen International Haiku contest, Romania - 2021
mother gathers
a spoonful of stars ...
autumn light
6
Vandana Parashar
( Modern Haiku, 53:2, June 2022)
honeymoon
all night long the sound
of melting snow
7
Subir Ningthouja
(Selected haiku; 14th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest, 2022)
hard egg
a chick refuses
to break open
8 Shalini Pattabiraman
Haiku Dialogue, 7 April 2021
the turn of wheels
out of dense fog
a wolf's cry
9
Akila G
a special edition of haiku in Muse India, 2016, edited by Kala Ramesh.
last leaf…
what does it take
to let go
10
Kala Ramesh
Acorn: Issue #49, Fall 2022
swelling buds
I tell myself there is
a tomorrow
11
Vidya S Venkatramani
Under the Basho 2020
twilight skies-
nightfall on the edge
of a bat’s wings
12
Rohini Gupta
The Heron’s Nest March 2008
dawn over Dal lake
emerging from the mist
the flower boat
13
Quamrul Hassan
Italian Haiku Contest
condemned cell
through the small window
cherry petals
14
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan
Published in Issa’s Untidy Hut August 2014)
unfenced:
songs from
the tea garden
15
Baisali Chatterjee Dutt
Stardust Haiku
Issue 61- January 2022
flower seller
at the temple gate…
scent of prayer
16
Srinivasa Rao Sambangi
(Third Place, NZPS International Poetry Cometition 2022)
reaching shore
the mallard’s shadow
Regains its feet