Nalini
a lone flower
stands tall
much like my mother
all through her life
a determined bloom !
awake alone to the year’s first morning sun.
in the mirror
this familiar stranger …
a burst of birdsong
THE DIGITAL AGE
No one makes
time to stare
at nothing
these days
we don’t make nothing.
Nothing does.
It is the time
that un-makes us all
Shikha S. Lamba is a jewelry designer and poet living in Hong Kong. Her poems and photography have previously been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart prize.
Chen-ou Liu is the author of five books, including “Following the Moon to the Maple Land” (First Prize, 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) and “A Life in Transition and Translation” (Honorable Mention, 2014 Turtle Light Press Biennial Haiku Chapbook Competition). His tanka and haiku have been honored with many awards.
Mark Jackley’s poems have appeared in Frogpond, NOON, Password, and elsewhere. Read more of his poetry at www.markjackley.com
bruise-toned night
things she remembers
things she doesn’t
hay ride
finally reaching
our last straw
dried river
the bed full of pebbles
marks a lifetime
angel’s wing mushroom
not a flutter
on the ultrasound
Chen-ou Liu is the author of five books, including “Following the Moon to the Maple Land” (First Prize, 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) and “A Life in Transition and Translation” (Honorable Mention, 2014 Turtle Light Press Biennial Haiku Chapbook Competition). His tanka and haiku have been honored with many awards.
Leon Tefft is a writer, poet and author of Haiku Evolution and Haiku Traditions from Greenville, South Carolina. He is a member of the Haiku Society of America and the Tanka Society of America. You can see more of Leon’s work and connect with him at leontefft.com
Shiva is a doctor by profession, surgeon by passion and a mother at heart. She loves to wonder and ponder at small and big miracles of nature which transcend as life.
Adele Evershed is a Welsh writer who swapped the Valleys for the American East Coast. Her haiku and senryu appear in Modern Haiku, Presence, Wales Haiku Journal, Frogpond, and Akitsu Quarterly, among others; she was shortlisted for a Touchstone Award from The Haiku Foundation and recently received a Golden Pea Award. She is the author of Pressed Between Palms (Nun Prophet Press) with a forthcoming collection from Cuttlefish Books.
the Maple Leaf
flipping in the white drift …
a hyphen
before “Canadian”
joins my two halves
breaching whales
rise higher and higher
letting go
something she did
long time back
wandering after cawing fades into the winter dusk
— Hifsa Ashraf , Pakistancreeping jenny
recalling names
more slowly now
last flame —
marigold petals
folding her in
Chen-ou Liu is the author of five books, including “Following the Moon to the Maple Land” (First Prize, 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) and “A Life in Transition and Translation” (Honorable Mention, 2014 Turtle Light Press Biennial Haiku Chapbook Competition). His tanka and haiku have been honored with many awards.
Minal Sarosh is an awarded Indian English poet, novelist and haikuist. She has published two novels, Soil for My Roots ( 2015) and Wicked Money (2020) . And her two poetry collections are Mitosis & Other Poems ( 1992) and A Lizard’s Tail and Other Poems (2020).
Hifsa Ashraf is an award-winning multilingual poet, author, editor, and social activist from Rawalpindi, Pakistan. She is the author of six individual and four collaborative micropoetry books. She received the Touchstone Award (2021) and Honourable Mentions in the Touchstone Distinguished Books Award (2020) and Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award (2021).
Leon Tefft is a writer, poet and author of Haiku Evolution and Haiku Traditions from Greenville, South Carolina. He is a member of the Haiku Society of America and the Tanka Society of America. You can see more of Leon’s work and connect with him at leontefft.com
Vaishnavi Ramaswamy is a lover of poetry, languages, nature, wildlife and crystals.
