dense fog
the train evaporates
into a distant horn
Previously published in The Heron’s Nest, June 2009.
Published by
Kala Ramesh
Kala Ramesh co-edited the award winning Naad Anunaad: an Anthology of Contemporary World Haiku (Vishwakarma Publication 2016) and co-authored an e-book with Marlene Mountain one-line twos (Bones 2016). She is the author of two books: haiku (Katha Books 2010, reprint 2017) and beyond the horizon beyond (Vishwakarma Publication 2017) and a tanka e-chapbook unseen arc (Snapshot Press 2017).
Kala?s initiatives culminated in founding IN haiku in 2013. She teaches haiku and allied genres at Symbiosis International University Pune. To bring haiku into everyday spaces, Kala initiated HaikuWALL, haikuTRAIL, haikuTALK, haikuWORKSHOP, haikuYOUTH, haikuUTSAV, haikuDHYANA and haikuSAATSANGATH, the last being a stage performance with dancers and actors.
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very nice
I've been lucky enough to hear this haiku live from Kala at the Royal Festival Hall as a guest of With Words and the London Haiku Group.
Area 17 blog account of the event: http://area17.blogspot.com/2010/09/kala-ramesh-sp…
I'm happy you could relate to this, Pamela
Thanks,
_kala
Oh, well done, Kala….shades of Hogwarts!
As Kala knows, I love this haiku.
If you google "Area 17 kala" you'll see _kala in action as the guest of With Words and the London Haiku Group.
Alan
Ha! Alan – I remember my London trip with such joy.
It was great meeting you, Karen, and all the members of the London haiku group, in person as well.
warmly,
_kala
Thanks a ton Mary.
Ha! Alan – I remember my London trip with such joy.
It was great meeting you, Karen, and all the members of the London haiku group, in person as well.
Thanks Martin,
This is a memory ku, when we had visited Shimla some 20 years back. At that time I didn't even know an art-form like haiku existed!
:)
_kala
Excellent.
Thanks Sue,
Receiving appreciation always feels good :)
_kala
Another train haiku:
the night train passes
along the mountain trail
garlic snores
Alan Summers
Azami #51 (Japan, Sept. 1998)
With Words: http://www.withwords.org.uk/comp.html
distant whistle,
approaching thunder–
his eyes trace the tracks
g'day kala
this is a beauty.
relief at last…
moving out from
the madness of city
peace and love
Thanks Barbara,
How are you doing?
Your haiku brought a smile, very true!
_kala
Terrific haiku, and I love poems about trains too!
Alan, With Words