mountain trek
my steps ringed
with birdsong
(Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2021)
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. View all posts by Kala Ramesh
mountains height
climbing toward that vertex
birds toll my steps
__Grand, Kala! As we watch nature, we are then… watched.
Magyar,
Thank you so much.
Nice haiku you have penned.
This is such a lovely haiku. I particularly like the verb “ringed”. I imagine birdsong echoing and reverberating like bells all around the hiker but also, in unison with the hiker’s own steps. The theme of being one with nature is very strong. I love the musicality of this delightful concert in the forest.
Marcie,
Thank you so much.
What beautiful feedback.
Simple and best!
Oh! Muskaan.
Thank you so much.
….as always!