liquid sky . . .
a steel bucket hits
the well water
Originally published in Notes from the Gean, March 2010.
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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I like your liquid sky; I can see the reflection of the sky in the water, and then the splash! as the lowered bucket lands in the water…
Another masterpiece… thank you Kala!
a pond leaf in and out of twilight
Love this, Kala. As i read this without seeing your name, i instinctively knew this must have come from an Indian pen.
mum once said that the sky and the sea are one, since the sea borrows its color from the sky. I feel it in this haiku
Thanks a ton Andre,
Sanjuktaa – I smiled at your comment! [Even now at my parents' house we use the well water for watering the plants and washing the clothes]
Eric, A beautiful thought. And it surely feels good that you could connect up your mother's observation to this ku.
Lisa, that's just what happened. Thanks. It's a pleasure when a haiku poem is crystal clear and the readers are able to get the picture accurately.
Martin, I enjoyed your one-line ku.
warmly,
_kala
This haiku is worth a few quiet slow reads instead of rushing by. You'll be rewarded for taking your time.
Alan, With Words
Dear Alan,
That's a great comment from you.
Thank you so much.
warmly,
_kala :)
Beautiful haiku, Kala!
Thanks Vida!
Nice to see you here :)
_kala
loveliest haiku
out of the well at last
in a steel bucket
an injured frog
perfectly sparse.
Shauna & Shaheen,
Thanks a ton for taking time off to send your responses.
Truly appreciate the gesture ?
Warmly,
_kala
thanks kala ramish thanks thanks thanks,,,,,,,,,,
i really do not know the art of writing short poems but you proved to be the loadstar for my muse thanks once again
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