World Haiku Review Dec 2012 Issue: Got one here

One of our haiku has managed to sneak through and feature in the World Haiku Review December 2012 issue among many others.

Our haiku in WHR

A couple of our haiku made it to the World Haiku Review August 2011 issue, three had made it to the January edition of the same. We are content to be part of this exclusive tribe of writers. Here is the link to the main site: World Haiku Review Main Page 

Our haiku can be viewed, among many others, at:
Page 1 August 2011 WHR
Page 2 August 2011 WHR

Another Haiku Published: The Heron's Nest (June 2011)

Hi all,
Got one of my haiku published in the June issue of The Heron's Nest. Most Haiku magazines, online or otherwise publish their selections every quarter. The link to my page along with many other Haiku writers can be seen at: Haiku, June 2011

The many wonderful, supple, concise haiku poems, including Pune's own Kala Ramesh in this June 2011 of the site can be read from the links available at:
The Heron's Nest (Home Page)

My earlier haiku publications at the World Haiku Review, January 2011 can be read at:
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3

World Haiku Review: My First Haiku Publication (January 2011)

Hi all,

I just wanted to share my surprise and joy, when by accident, happened to see my December submissions on the World Haiku Review website (January 2011 issue). Out of the four of them selected,have got two honourable mentions, a Second place and a Third Place in respective categories.

For starters, Haiku is an ancient form of Japanese form of poetry. It consists of three lines, preferably with syllables in the order of 5-7-5...

The links are provided below...

Link 1
Neo-Classical Haiku (Among Seven Honourable Mentions)
Zatsuei, or Haiku of Merit (Selection)

Link 2
Shintai Haiku Selections (Second Place)

Link 3
Vanguard Haiku (Third Place)

Malavli on January 1, 2011

trailing
turning in the back seat
a sun ripening

breathless
stone steps
end abruptly

dark chamber
eyes shut tight
a shrill, thin whistle

rock to rock
airborne feet
dancing

lunch box (haiga)

out for lunch

edibles sway

left, right

siesta (haiga)

siesta
two pairs of legs
rest side by side

At the Hamara Haiku Festival, Pune

Vidur Jyoti captures another moment at Bhamburda Forest, on the second day of the festival

This is to say that the Hamara Haiku Festival held at Kala Chhaya, Pune on November 27th and 28th, 2010 was a continuous monsoon drizzle in learning the various alternate ways of writing poetry. It was the first stage, like learning the alphabets, of the conciseness of haiku writing, the similarity of the former to senryu, the five-line lyrical tanka, and the prose-cum-haiku flexibility of the haibun, and finally the creatively boggling renku session, where each poet contributes the new delicate leaves to the bare branches of the poem.

As so much was to be imbibed, rebellion, and queries as to why poems had to be written in that particular way were kept aside. Meanwhile, let me thank all who made up for the extreme, deep, experience that the festival was, in no particular order, from the experienced, to the young, co-participants, organisers...

Kala Ramesh – Pune, Johannes Manjrekar - Baroda, Rohini Gupta - Mumbai, Dilip Daswani - Pune, Vidur Jyoti - Delhi, Rajendra Samal - Delhi, K. Ramesh – Chennai, Shernaz Wadia - Pune, Raamesh Gowri Raghavan - Mumbai, Sarat Rao - Mumbai, Mahrukh Bulsara - Mumbai, Gautam Nadkarni - Mumbai, Zalina Gamat – Pune and Nirali Shah – Pune