her plait in step with her hips a string of jasmine

 

 

 

(First published in Bones, an e-book in PDF format by Kala Ramesh and Marlene Mountain)

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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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    1. Thanks Yesha. Most kind of you to take the time to comment here. Appreciate your gesture.
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  1. A notable verse, Kala, and I've been quickly inspired.
    __From time to time, I scribble one liners as they were once written in the original (but, vertical) Japanese format; here is this moments 'woven' echo. Thank you_! _m

    braided trails twist within these forest trees the vines weave

    1. Thanks Sheila. Happy you could relate to it!
      The ebook is free and tinywords has given the link above – just click on it and it will take you to Bones library

  2. .
    Very nice sense of movement and scent.
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    night jasmine
    trying to find it…
    the yellow half moon

    Alan Summers
    Publications credits: Presence 14 (2001); Cornell University, Mann Library, U.S.A. "Daily Haiku" poet October 2001

    Written in the Mehrauli district of New Delhi, India.
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