The Haikuist (5-7-5 format)
winter
moonlight tea …
she pours her
tenderly touch
of the shining wind
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star-crowned
spring sky
through her
tiny right earring
I am close to few
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early morning dew--
quieting
reach of your warmth
retains the colour
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midnight thunder cloud
she whispers across the screen
for rain to visit
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a red rose
flower--
the promise I
make to keep
for butterfly
dream
The Haikuist, July 2026 (Ed. Gail Lynn)
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"Dar Jabra for Publication and Distribution" announces
the release of a new poetry work
in the new hainka poetry art entitled "The moons in a long night" by the poet Mohamed Helmy Al-Risha.We are pleased to announce the release of "Dar Jabra for Publishing and Distribution" a collection of poetry by the Palestinian poet Dr. Mohammed HelmyFeather in which the poet is the first Arab poet to practice this poetry experiment after the Indian poet (Pravat Kumar Padhy), who created this type of poetry.
The poet Mohamed Helmy Al-Risha has a rich poetry experience, he has many poetic versions, a number of critical studies have been written about his poetry, and he is a researcher and translator who has translated many poems from or into Arabic.
We congratulate Dr. Mohamed Helmy Feather on the new edition,
and we hope that he will continue giving, and we congratulate all those who are
interested in the poetry of reading.
The book is medium sections of 156 pages.
Indian poet Pravat Kumar Padhy created a poetry called 'Hainka'. Hainka, which is a poetic fusion between haiku and tanka, and features the image that connects the haiku piece as a central line 'kakekatoba', with the next tanka.
He had this idea in 2016. But later, in July 2020, he published
an article that explains it with some examples of the Hainka. Hainka is
proposed as an individual, independent literary genre of its own, unlike the
continuous communicative form that appears in the Renga.
Instead of just associating haiku with tanka in the typical term, the composition in hainka relies on the linking of images ("piece" of haiku that acts as a "pointer line" for the next tanka) to discover human nature, love and emotion in a broader sense than by placing aggregate images side by side.
For comfort, the piece and the hub line is pointed with a
slanted line.
Generally, the Hainka poem, in order to describe, needs to
convey a broader view of the holding of the images while considering the aspect
of "connection and transformation" within the framework of the
integrated poem.
The face of the East is a tainted color
The wonder of the sunset in Katran-
The absent crows make my night darker.
Your white is a planet in my orbit alone
Have mercy on me in the morning and in the evening
Give me a blue mind of my soul in front of me
My tongue is full of grass:
The absent crows make my night darker.
a lone passenger reads
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29
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Schrödinger's cat
mouse replaced by its predator
with a quantum computer
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bird counting--
a sudden drop in
happiness index
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the other nature
I recall lines
of Karai Senryū
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Never Let Me Go
he tilts the soil upside down
for another crop
* Kazuo Ishiguro got the Nobel Prize
for his novel “Never Let Me Go” that centers around the grappling tension
of the carer for organ donors and the clones raised for organ harvesting.
Haiku Page, Issue
12, 2026 (Ed. John Zhieng)
Comment:
starry night-
a desire aged
with me
-- By Carmela Marino
The haiku with seven words is indeed a minimalistic expression in its poetic spirit. It manifests a sort of synesthetic element or influence on abstraction. The tonal and rhythmic styles create a subtle resonance. The kinesthetic image, “starry night,’ a situation or sight, reveals a metaphoric expression of a psychological phenomenon and a cognitive impression. The kireji, en dash) portrays a thought pause, as defined by Faubion Bowers, and the phrase section elucidates a sudden shift. The poet does not specify the nature of the desire; it could represent an incident from the past, a long-term memory, a lost moment in life, or an expectation fervently longing for fulfillment. Precisely so, the poet chooses the indefinite article ‘a desire’ in line two.The phrase block, “a desire aged/ with me” reveals a sublime concept of abstraction. In this haiku, the poet subconsciously juxtaposes the present with past events in a subtle tone. The emotionally blended abstract fraction has been well juxtaposed with the concrete image. Apparently, it reminds me of the haiku “The water lying/ in a withered lotus . . ./ if repentance has a colour” by Kagiwada Yuko. Interestingly, the haiku embodies a cognitive poetic approach, with a close similarity to Jim Kacian’s memorable monoku “pain fading the days back to wilderness,” embedded in human-centric psychology. The phrase section represents a humble acceptance of reconciliation along with self-realization and tranquility. The emotional instant and philosophical tone set in a sense of yūgen in the transcendental realm of the flow of time.
The haiku, in its brevity, holds immense potential for meaningful expansion from the setting of ‘starry night-’ into ‘a desire aged’ with time and thus exhibits a sort of four-dimensional haiku.
In Hegelian terms, the flow of the haiku is essentially
simple with fragmentary language but implies sensitivity of both the real and
the abstract. Bashō once said, 'the taste of haikai is sabi' and the present haiku justifies it with soul
and spirit.
-Pravat Kumar Padhy
early moonset
so much to speak before
she left smiling
wild flower–
I breathe my
loneliness
melting away my pain— garden dew
the zero-shadow moment I am with myself
cherry blossoms—
the scent bridging
the long river
moonlit shadow
the old dogs lick
each other
blue earth–
lone robot on
the moon
deep dark space
many cosmic townships
with their own light
early dawn–
millions of stars
in dark
moonrise the sky from the oncology wing
early evening
the bat moves
moonward
Dog is misspelled
the child discovered
the Great
composing haiga–
painting sunlight
with black ink
a piece of chalk in my pocket first day of retirement
Valentine’s Day—
between you and me
a thin moonlight
flock of sheep–
the moon guiding
the evening
morning breeze–
the remnant rain drops
holding on to leaves
cattle herd
the one who walks
differently
deep silence–
planets move around
without noise
red carpet–
the monks walk
barefoot
old palace–
the guide speaks on
behalf of the king
foreign land–
amongst all strangers
a known moon
coins our ancestors exchanged a great length of time
first rain
the paper boat carries
my childhood
tea garden–
the narrow lane
leading to the sky
winter morning
the scarecrow with
a snow-cap
desert journey—
camels follow shadow
after shadow
sunrise–
the morning enters
without a knock
His Thoughts on Poetry:
The
poetic ecstasies and journey of human life are parallel and perennial, beyond
space and time The essence of poetry nestles in the diligent fragrance of the
flower, the simplicity flow of the river, the gentle spread of leaves, the
calmness of the ocean and the embellishment of soothing shadow. Poetry
unveils the physics behind light and sound, chemistry of colour and aroma, and
geological expression of the landscapes.
He feels, “Poetry inspires to unfold the sublime spiritual wealth of the tiny dust particle as it embodies the basic building block of creation: the living and the non-living. The mystic of art and literature delightfully reveals the kaleidoscope of science through colorful flair of human aspiration. It amalgamates the spiritual romanticism, transcendentalism and intellectual cadence of human beings in the perennial journey along the corridor of nature’s panorama of blissful beauty”.
The tiniest object of nature has its genuine worth in this world and it is associated with us in different forms. Perhaps it is the discovery of this truth that has given rise to the genesis of Haiku poem. Haiku imparts life to every object in the form of a vivid image. Essentially the genre of expression acts as a diligent medium of exploration of the beauty of wide spectrum of living and non-living entities. The tiny seed of haiku sprouts into a beautiful tree of wisdom. The doctrine of ‘haikuism’ will usher in building a planet of nature’s paradise and abode of peace and brotherhood.
The art of poetry glimmers the symphony of love and peace and epitomizes the culture through ages. The philosophy of poetry keeps on flowing like ripples of rhythm through time and space. It muses with the innocence of the animals, songs of the birds, swinging branches of the trees, braided rhythm of a waterfall, shifting shadows of mountains, breezing touch of the dunes of desert and silence of the azure sky!
Science is the composite reflection and
poetry is its genetic soul. Let us put poetry to thrive in time and anti time,
in matter and antimatter. Let it blossom the aesthetic sublimity of human life,
blissful endurance, and creative opulence. Like a flower, it sprinkles the
hidden fragrance to fulfill the purpose of fostering peace and fraternity with
the art of expression, perfection, and purity. Life is a poem, music its
journey!
He humbly expresses, “I am a tiny bird dwelling in my nest, and singing songs for others and to the surroundings. The beautiful nature, the mysterious celestial dance, tiny grass to gigantic tree, the spectrum of a living organism, the silence of the desert, loneliness of parting, vastness of the sky, the softness of snow, the burden of grief and sufferings, tender smiles of the kids, glorious womanhood, etc. influence my poetry. I feel I am not a poet, I am a medium to transcreate the treasure of the grains of sand and silence of the shells.”
