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Author: 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.
the wind howling horizon on a wave
Posted on 23 June 201022 May 2010Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 10.1Tags haiku, monostich, one line, wind6 Comments on
dense fog the train evaporates into a distant horn
Posted on 20 October 20109 October 2010Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 10.3Tags cities, fog, haiku, trains14 Comments on
painting class children color each other into laughter
Posted on 27 January 201120 January 2011Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 11.1Tags children, color, haiku, paint14 Comments on
slipping in beneath the kitchen door –first sunlight
Posted on 17 March 201115 March 2011Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 11.1Tags dawn, haiku, light, morning11 Comments on
white water rafting we spin around our laughter
Posted on 10 August 20112 August 2011Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 11.2Tags haiku, rivers, summer11 Comments on
ceiling mirror between screams I see my child being born
Posted on 16 August 20112 August 2011Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 11.2Tags babies, birth, children, haiku, mirrors, parents11 Comments on
liquid sky . . . a steel bucket hits the well water      
Posted on 26 September 201125 September 2011Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 11.2Tags haiku15 Comments on
twilight trees birds go in and out of song
Posted on 12 October 201212 October 2012Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 12.111 Comments on
male gaze the female in me squares up her arms
Posted on 10 September 20139 September 2013Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 13.213 Comments on
Gita chanting — as each stanza ends the bell
Posted on 18 February 20141 February 2014Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 13.324 Comments on
an evening of tangled thoughts . . . through branches even this rugged moon looks tattered at the edges     (originally appeared in American Tanka ? June
Posted on 20 May 201415 May 2014Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 14.12 Comments on
midnight jetty the sound of water slapping water     (Originally published in A Hundred Gourds 1:3 ? June 2012)
Posted on 19 November 201417 November 2014Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 14.215 Comments on
  how little I know of bird calls distant thunder     (Akita International Haiku Award, First Prize, September 2013)  
Posted on 10 November 20157 November 2015Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 15.219 Comments on
  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)
Posted on 29 June 201623 June 2016Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 16.127 Comments on
  after sunset mountains become the sky a muezzin’s call       (originally appeared in Frogpond 38:3.? Autumn 2015)
Posted on 12 October 20167 October 2016Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 16.222 Comments on
blossoms . . . the dog leap-curves toward the frisbee       (originally published in Frogpond,Vol. XXX, No. 2, 2007)
Posted on 20 January 20174 January 2017Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 16.211 Comments on
“The Look,” a haibun by Kala Ramesh
Posted on 15 May 20177 May 2017Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 17.120 Comments on
the darkness of my skin on my soul this stickiness     (Originally published in is/let, November 2017)
Posted on 18 July 201811 July 2018Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 18.18 Comments on
monsoons begin with each day's rains the hills turn greener greener     Originally appeared in beyond the horizon beyond (Vishwakarma Publications 2017)
Posted on 23 January 201923 January 2019Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 18.213 Comments on
an eagle shadows a wheat field’s yellow whisper
Posted on 2 August 201918 July 2019Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 19.124 Comments on
thunderclap — the darkening sky splits into liquid night         (Originally published in beyond the horizon beyond)
Posted on 7 July 20206 July 2020Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 20.118 Comments on
I am the city twice born imprisoned with no key to return a nonchalant moon passes through
Posted on 17 November 20203 October 2020Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 20.24 Comments on
mountain trek my steps ringed with birdsong       (Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2021)  
Posted on 12 May 202230 April 2022Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 22.17 Comments on
notes trickle down a riverbed of sand … the memory of water             (Originally appeared in the 5th edition of the Santoka
Posted on 13 October 202212 October 2022Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 22.29 Comments on
who am i a falling leaf gives the answer
Posted on 19 May 202320 May 2023Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 23.114 Comments on
patina on dancing Shiva the guardian of a ruined temple  
Posted on 8 January 202430 December 2023Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 23.26 Comments on
humpback whale! for a split-second the sky steps back     (Originally published in Presence Haiku Journal #76, July 2023)        
Posted on 25 April 202418 April 2024Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 24.19 Comments on
Gita chanting birds become the ellipsis       (Originally received an Akita International Haiku Award, September 2014, Honourable Mention)
Posted on 9 April 202527 March 2025Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 25.13 Comments on
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