The Tweeting Haijin

spring sunrise alien buds unfold under a UV lamp telepathic sages praise the verdant day which mindset will go best with new baseball cap? mating dance of the spybot insects her aura color clearly tells she came to say good bye! hunting in Triangulum for a new home planet then the blood moon was branded with a coca-cola ad armalcolite scarecrow in the cell culture lab face to face with a row of clones in the identity parade isolation zone guard beatboxing to himself my jetcar slows as the fusion reactor blows a valve just woken from the stillness of the cryo-dream Participating poets Roman Lyakhovetsky: verses 1 (hokku), 3 (daisan), 5, 11 Elizabeth McFarland: verses 2, 4, 7, 9,12 (ageku) Raamesh Gowri Raghavan: verses 6, 8, 10 Scheme jo (verses 1-3), ha (verses 4-8), kyu (verses 9-12) Tomegaki by Roman    The great Edgar Allan Poe once wrote: "A poem in my opinion is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object pleasure, not truth.”  Sci-fi themed poetr...

Our e-book, the taste of sea breeze , was published as a celebration of two years of IN haiku Mumbai . This anthology contains haiku, tanka, senryu, haibun and renku, alongside a form which we think we invented - the renbun (haibun linked to each other on the lines of renku). Available on Amazon.in , it is edited by Rohini Gupta ( who also did the cover ), with contributions from Paresh Tiwari, Mahrukh Bulsara, Brijesh Raj, Gautam Nadkarni, Sandra Martyres, Kasturi Jadhav, Rochelle Potkar and yours truly. Here are a few reviews so far on the Amazon page : A Lovely Tasting! (Kashmira Raj on 16 July 2016) For Haiku lovers, this book packs a punch. There are some pleasant surprises here and I found several 'aha' moments. Some verses have touched the heart bringing to mind visions from my past. The beauty of this is that it sometimes evokes an entire thought process, different from what the writer may have meant to convey, thereby leaving an indelible mark. Not only th...

coffee shop - the flavour of her voice in every sip                          / Gautam bittersweet the mogras sold by the schoolgirl          / Brijesh lingering over the evening rush hour - summer sun                      / Raamesh bleeding from the barbed wire the coat you wore last winter  /Paresh nothing left behind except that last goodbye                          / Rohini I step into the morrow of my dreams                / Gautam from the tulip garden stolen petals and kisses                   / Brijesh bridal veil the colour of magic on her lips       / Raamesh with cross stitches we add a full moon to the nigh...

Diwali lights . . . exposing the demons I still haven't slayed   / Sameer inner darkness hidden we light the façade   / max dusky hands count cartons of fairness cream in the factory   / raamesh the touch of cool lips on my fevered brow   / anitha once again that unfamiliar perfume on his shirt   / jayashree this summer night my dog sniffs for the moon   / raamesh the lean shadow cast by a paper wasp's hive   / samar fighting for queenship of hexagonal cells   / raamesh frosty starlight drapes the bare branches of an unknown tree   / samar through the grassland this kangaroo skips a beat   / jayashree we were together the last time the kurinji* bloomed   / anitha alive again I enjoy the hum of bees   / shrikaanth *the Kurinji blooms in profusion every twelve years A junicho composed by the members of IN haiku on facebook, started on 3rd November and finished on 26th May 20...

beyond the fort’s wall . . . rice harvesters' songs of long ago   / angelee coughing bouts punctuate the watchman's stroll   / paresh as the rain falls the cobra’s coils tighten around her eggs   / raamesh flocks of sparrows fly over a swamp   / sathi ripe fruit falling into the lake break the summer moon   / shabbir passing clouds usher in the malhar   / surya sitar notes caress his beloved’s flowing tresses   / gautam the door shuts quickly behind the smiling couple   / seshu I sense a shade of emerald in a bush by the stream   / neelam butterflies in a burst of colours   / cheryl over a meadow birds in flight split the sky   / surya the orchid leans into the new year   / kala An autumn junicho composed on 20th of October, 2013 at The Golconda Stones Haiku Meet. The participants were: Angelee Deodhar, Chandigarh – vs 1 Paresh Tiwari , Hyderabad – vs 2 Raamesh Gowri R...

above the moor not attached to anything a skylark sings   /basho on a greening trail the pale sun coats branches   / paresh eyes unblinking I wait for her window curtains to open   /raamesh now that he’s gone she orders his favourite meal   /bhavani from a cellar the scent of hops spreads to the warm patio   /angelee the halo around a vandalised Buddha   / geethanjali the circus lion’s yawn much bigger than its roar . . .   / sanjuktaa ready for the weary a dry bed of leaves   / brijesh on the road parijat blossoms mirror the night sky   / raamesh chowkidar’s torch flashes in the cemetery   / angelee jostling at the mall to grab last season’s stilettos   / lakshmi the horizon balances a winter moon   / kala * A spring junicho by the members of IN haiku at Haiku Utsav 2013 composed at the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, Pune, February 23rd, 2013 Joint sabaki – Rohini G...