tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655765660293784042024-03-09T22:05:45.869-08:00Poetic ResonanceImage: Smita PadhyP K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.comBlogger687125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-36840743489030192832024-03-03T19:56:00.000-08:002024-03-09T22:05:13.078-08:00<p><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 18pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 18pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj40VYQGJNw5DJvStsQz6Kv4byLqvlVctWYtcjeKYiQJ5FD1q9XaamexUcfY8TR5QzAJ4WeF5BKwT9Z0sG0acVmxlqTu25M3VSwdtL8FVEgOVUCvsCNYpiywfL-JKMMC93ck3eyHhcYe2kWpPDsUY5qcV4TZQEbJZ6KP_G7mh9z0Z6UGQBg7PIwR6Iz9W8/s1024/Abstractaphy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="1024" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj40VYQGJNw5DJvStsQz6Kv4byLqvlVctWYtcjeKYiQJ5FD1q9XaamexUcfY8TR5QzAJ4WeF5BKwT9Z0sG0acVmxlqTu25M3VSwdtL8FVEgOVUCvsCNYpiywfL-JKMMC93ck3eyHhcYe2kWpPDsUY5qcV4TZQEbJZ6KP_G7mh9z0Z6UGQBg7PIwR6Iz9W8/s320/Abstractaphy.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 18pt;"><br />no chirps</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 18pt;">in barren trees<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 18pt;">I grieve <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 18pt;">for the lost
treasure <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 18pt;">of mountain
green<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 75.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 75.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 18pt;">The Abstractaphy Initiative, 21 February
2024 (Ed, Richard Grahn)<o:p></o:p></span></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-18811086213835412242024-02-27T20:33:00.000-08:002024-02-27T20:33:01.716-08:00Butterfly Dream: Migrating Songs Haiku by Pravat Kumar Padhy<p><br /></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">English Original</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">dune <span style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><a style="animation-name: none !important; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>after dune the migrating songs</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Presence, 60, 2018</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Pravat Kumar Padhy </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Chinese Translation (Traditional)</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">穿越一個又一個的沙丘, 候鳥的歌聲</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Chinese Translation (Simplified)</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">穿越一个又一个的沙丘, 候鸟的歌声</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 4:47 PM </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">comments:</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Anonymous February 17, 2024 at 5:05 PM</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">The concluding word, songs (not bird name), makes this one-line haiku multi-sensorily and emotionally effective.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">And my haiku below could be read as a sequel (about post-migration) to Pravat's:</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">the sweep</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">of wind-sculpted sand dunes</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">this loss, and yet ...</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">haikuNetra, 1:4, 2023</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com/2024/02/butterfly-dream-migrating-songs-haiku.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR1_iT_IBkLCwPLzm2C_dwWiQEd_87ekqXCS5dagdY2xGeGyKRlVJ0zZds4</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div></div>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-49005422858244636362024-02-23T18:47:00.000-08:002024-02-27T20:21:07.015-08:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhta6yhQZm8HdCSAQHsXvLiDEui0G1hM4H6M5IFEnVCtn4vX8LlOsyTFPHqLuXjvSMJ5I37JPKOJvwDJpoSw_5XRdj2hy9golK3RAfHmQGbDnMbl0ERHk-MzpiKomcMSh8mA5JZACaT8g-sp6rynaO40gF5s6jMIcmvRq0xiErphI67E24ezA6ope7uy3U/s500/The%20Daily%20Verse%20The%20Wise%20Owl_%209%20Feb%202024.jpg" style="font-size: 22.6667px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="500" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhta6yhQZm8HdCSAQHsXvLiDEui0G1hM4H6M5IFEnVCtn4vX8LlOsyTFPHqLuXjvSMJ5I37JPKOJvwDJpoSw_5XRdj2hy9golK3RAfHmQGbDnMbl0ERHk-MzpiKomcMSh8mA5JZACaT8g-sp6rynaO40gF5s6jMIcmvRq0xiErphI67E24ezA6ope7uy3U/w414-h216/The%20Daily%20Verse%20The%20Wise%20Owl_%209%20Feb%202024.jpg" width="414" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000cc; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; color: #0000cc; font-size: 17pt;">Awaiting Rainbow</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 17pt;">By Pravat Kumar Padhy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">Ripples of clouds</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">gather on the horizon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">the early morning sun<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">about to shine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">the waves of my dream<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="background: white; color: #0000cc; font-size: medium; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Gentle breeze<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="background: white; color: #0000cc; font-size: medium; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">over the pristine river
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="background: white; color: #0000cc; font-size: medium; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">a sudden storm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="background: white; color: #0000cc; font-size: medium; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">uproots the tree laden
with hope <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="background: white; color: #0000cc; font-size: medium; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">filling the void with
shivers of cold <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: 180.75pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #0000cc; font-size: medium; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 353.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">An art of love<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 353.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">of the bright sculpture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 353.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">near the shore <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 353.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">as though the waves of passion <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 353.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">climb up only to break and return<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">Morning zephyr <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">across the tall
grass field<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">whispers something<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">I could feel <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">in my
loneliness the urge within<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">The touch <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">of springtide I
miss<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">on my thirsty
lips <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">the winter
evening continues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">to scrub the
splintered memories<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">A crescent moon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">at midnight edge …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">I walk alone <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">rewinding the time <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">of my vanished dream<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">Still along <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">the weathered trail<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">solemnly I wish <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">the new sun hitherto to shine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: medium;">for the lone tree to bloom again</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 17pt;">The Daily Verse, The
Wise Owl, Feb 2024 (Ed. Rachna Singh)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 17pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-72660981417983461372024-02-01T21:37:00.000-08:002024-02-01T21:37:18.675-08:00<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrz0Fr2c0iPzq8cSHRhnPSyceJEjgG6rV0jE6iW4dMW7PCDZeCfsIF3U4N8tq0OFlOnntMgj5r0xl5eWAQ_ACrc1c2oAhKPnap4DxGsZ75cPiripH67iLf5w2e1N6Puztqvb5X7fnXWfsibtBhphHJCmbt4wNRW5dH57Gm4JLLb7uYR10S71DgG0CiokI/s960/Sea%20Change_monoku%202024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrz0Fr2c0iPzq8cSHRhnPSyceJEjgG6rV0jE6iW4dMW7PCDZeCfsIF3U4N8tq0OFlOnntMgj5r0xl5eWAQ_ACrc1c2oAhKPnap4DxGsZ75cPiripH67iLf5w2e1N6Puztqvb5X7fnXWfsibtBhphHJCmbt4wNRW5dH57Gm4JLLb7uYR10S71DgG0CiokI/w411-h308/Sea%20Change_monoku%202024.jpg" width="411" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: #1f0da3; font-size: large;">children
cross one bridge and the other migratory birds</span><span style="color: #1f0da3; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 75.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Editors’ Choice, Nominated
for The Haiku Reader, Whiptail, issue 2: 2022 (Eds. GRIX and Kat Lehmann)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 75.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Sea Change An Anthology of
single-Line Poems, Whiptail Press and Red Moon Press, 2024 (Eds. Kat Lehmann
and Robin Smith)</span></p><p>
<br /></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-3313516357644408062024-01-12T23:28:00.000-08:002024-01-12T23:28:03.348-08:00Book Launch 'longing sun longing rain by Geethanjali Rajan 13th Jan 2024<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn9JPKePtOb6MCQmehEbWxC_SD1Ptj6sJPNPVV7CYeFf0FZinE2ZiwOFDhEqPkdRQvp3ew9metkw0tahMw_a1u8WhUCG7zxLP_6fOZzvNYEgWe2CCvzZ3HM3msJ9TZ7cdZs47HzDd2QfXQSLCy2Pw0TytQ7IIBWzSov7YV82xtZtQamhvcB2Ls-YYO8p4/s1024/Book%20Launch%20geethanjali_Jan%202024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="723" height="555" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn9JPKePtOb6MCQmehEbWxC_SD1Ptj6sJPNPVV7CYeFf0FZinE2ZiwOFDhEqPkdRQvp3ew9metkw0tahMw_a1u8WhUCG7zxLP_6fOZzvNYEgWe2CCvzZ3HM3msJ9TZ7cdZs47HzDd2QfXQSLCy2Pw0TytQ7IIBWzSov7YV82xtZtQamhvcB2Ls-YYO8p4/w517-h555/Book%20Launch%20geethanjali_Jan%202024.jpg" width="517" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-45935694320497597222024-01-10T22:51:00.000-08:002024-01-10T22:52:23.470-08:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkmmIowwODb2D12IRD5MQuPuWsm3IL9L4LSkSkUpOj7hcyLve5QeHD-UDp98IyD15BocJsoq0xnw-7QnkZvSjAceR4xMrLX4Ll91dagorR7ZZc3YndK-294Pp75__pkrq590MFLBH4AvlezhBMr9TnLTEwsgFfLYpsCff3h07EqmmmrYXQkUrvHXE0HPM/s941/Creative%20Inspirations_2024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="941" data-original-width="720" height="385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkmmIowwODb2D12IRD5MQuPuWsm3IL9L4LSkSkUpOj7hcyLve5QeHD-UDp98IyD15BocJsoq0xnw-7QnkZvSjAceR4xMrLX4Ll91dagorR7ZZc3YndK-294Pp75__pkrq590MFLBH4AvlezhBMr9TnLTEwsgFfLYpsCff3h07EqmmmrYXQkUrvHXE0HPM/w295-h385/Creative%20Inspirations_2024.jpg" width="295" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Yin
and Yang <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">At
the end <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Of
thunder and storm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">A
little patience <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Leads
us to a gentle calm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">There
is always a tomorrow <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Even
the west hides <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The
sun will rise <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Again
from the east<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Rolling
down the hill<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">A
boulder finds a place to rest<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Merging
with the sea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The
river still continues to flow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The
time folds the past <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">And
unveils the future<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The
dream within the seed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Wakes
up to life at every present<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Creative Inspirations, January-February 2024 (Ed. Maurice Reynolds)</span></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-50663194845791447462024-01-08T22:55:00.000-08:002024-01-08T22:55:25.306-08:00<p><span style="color: #2c1b95; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaHCgIJy_DMJ7zYC4xYy8z6kX9NRmBmJxR_XwpMeSMrsLrrR_zzjczniCC8-dtn2D_7oMzFrlYfnXAo0QY0KWiaPZveJclzcfNlkAw5DMeksWG9KxT8Rt215FZWhRwFmGItap9VIIoImhq0c6sEmDd2oobALYe0-anDcKUf_FTkx2wwzxe6Xl340k7sTQ/s789/Pan%20haiku_Issue%202_2023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="628" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaHCgIJy_DMJ7zYC4xYy8z6kX9NRmBmJxR_XwpMeSMrsLrrR_zzjczniCC8-dtn2D_7oMzFrlYfnXAo0QY0KWiaPZveJclzcfNlkAw5DMeksWG9KxT8Rt215FZWhRwFmGItap9VIIoImhq0c6sEmDd2oobALYe0-anDcKUf_FTkx2wwzxe6Xl340k7sTQ/s320/Pan%20haiku_Issue%202_2023.jpg" width="255" /></a></div><br />new pond -<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2c1b95; font-size: 14.0pt;">a frog leaps the whisper <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2c1b95; font-size: 14.0pt;">of a breeze<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2c1b95; font-size: 14pt;">Pan Haiku Review, December 2023 (Ed.
Alan Summers)</span></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-82475786412703880752024-01-01T07:07:00.000-08:002024-01-01T07:07:21.037-08:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpGKf5qwbJo3D4qUsYqFXw8DhBQHAz4Xa5Dsyp0ernEJy_U61_EFi4hvL_IFO11IWIY38a2d6YaBvEzcb8JaQmHN8NkskE_CeSCGFJoNlVTNWhDyBS85vvYCtCZACVGnF3MvmwVAca1yoiq3EicveaJefvp7HyBEqyKL8fHTF1LtBwlKSYIxs9WIeLiF8/s960/VSANA_Dec%202023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpGKf5qwbJo3D4qUsYqFXw8DhBQHAz4Xa5Dsyp0ernEJy_U61_EFi4hvL_IFO11IWIY38a2d6YaBvEzcb8JaQmHN8NkskE_CeSCGFJoNlVTNWhDyBS85vvYCtCZACVGnF3MvmwVAca1yoiq3EicveaJefvp7HyBEqyKL8fHTF1LtBwlKSYIxs9WIeLiF8/w463-h348/VSANA_Dec%202023.jpg" width="463" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-57220714577053876372023-12-25T21:06:00.000-08:002023-12-25T21:06:04.358-08:00<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #25159b; font-size: 18pt;">riverbed</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: #25159b; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">the washer man cleanses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: #25159b; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">his body with a pebble<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #25159b; font-size: 18pt;">Presence # 77, 2023 (Ed.
Ian Storr)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #25159b; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-78062230389780656442023-12-10T21:06:00.000-08:002023-12-10T21:06:07.747-08:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1QHie747TxEEDCzboW3VFGj306j_YN8zRvE-mMXIkgNdMtkmebITUIuu-D8VNeHnnp8lxSD_Mb1bYN77zF6qF1nG1d__BXVKMb_uUaSVy8QWTbXKEhefQIxzNm7hwO96y6SWiqKUZ8ZDZCGYhKBjO_t7J2bekuTXI3xw7HOAE_pLc9lJhh6Z8ajGb1U/s1200/Scarlet-dragonfly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="1200" height="75" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1QHie747TxEEDCzboW3VFGj306j_YN8zRvE-mMXIkgNdMtkmebITUIuu-D8VNeHnnp8lxSD_Mb1bYN77zF6qF1nG1d__BXVKMb_uUaSVy8QWTbXKEhefQIxzNm7hwO96y6SWiqKUZ8ZDZCGYhKBjO_t7J2bekuTXI3xw7HOAE_pLc9lJhh6Z8ajGb1U/s320/Scarlet-dragonfly.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <i><span style="color: #1b119f; font-size: 16.0pt;">wabi-sabi</span></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1b119f; font-size: 16.0pt;">the wooden
bucket fills <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1b119f; font-size: 16.0pt;">back into the
well<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1b119f; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1b119f; font-size: 16.0pt;">Scarlet
Dragonfly, 3.11.2023 (Ed. <span style="background: white;">Kathleen Trocmet)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="color: #1b119f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="https://scarletdragonflyjournal.wordpress.com/?s=Pravat+Kumar+Padhy">https://scarletdragonflyjournal.wordpress.com/?s=Pravat+Kumar+Padhy</a></span>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-22512357114718763962023-12-03T20:11:00.000-08:002023-12-13T04:00:02.866-08:00<p><span style="color: #23139d; font-size: 16pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #23139d; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwli_jS-8ZLvMxAw_xcVhjWgagDVBYH8nLbNGDg0oeT72dloO_6LspuL4pIRWOlffYAPFH0IdLJG2FTGumveVmEo9jF67ySaEnhkvRIMGt9IkdL-68zcYwRNwfQdK55ezy3uWEurk_GYi60Jdv8pCaLgo4PDR6qCqEVtfcieTzKfMWa9G3S1wyh3proao/s1080/Poerty%20Pea.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwli_jS-8ZLvMxAw_xcVhjWgagDVBYH8nLbNGDg0oeT72dloO_6LspuL4pIRWOlffYAPFH0IdLJG2FTGumveVmEo9jF67ySaEnhkvRIMGt9IkdL-68zcYwRNwfQdK55ezy3uWEurk_GYi60Jdv8pCaLgo4PDR6qCqEVtfcieTzKfMWa9G3S1wyh3proao/s320/Poerty%20Pea.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #23139d; font-size: 16pt;"><br />funeral procession</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #23139d; font-size: 16pt;">the last chapter of the <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #23139d; font-size: 16pt;">civil war<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: #23139d; font-size: 16pt;">-Poetry Pea 2:23, December
2023 (Ed. Patricia </span><span style="color: #23139d; font-size: 16pt;">McGuire)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #23139d; font-size: 16pt;">*****</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #23139d; font-size: 16pt;">cherry blossoms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #23139d; font-size: 16pt;">a mother lifts
her baby<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #23139d; font-size: 16pt;">nearer to the
moon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: #23139d; font-size: 16pt;">-Poetry Pea 2:23, December
2023 (Ed. Patricia </span><span style="color: #23139d; font-size: 16pt;">McGuire)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #23139d; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-58614795944393985882023-11-10T09:37:00.002-08:002023-11-10T09:37:40.214-08:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMB0Jae9NXcQ05KC06BJF44bWrTdGO3Ql6RG1E3lk7Q0Fd57qHr7ilc0rHCp0nq5pjzQiks17kItysgKc4Uzpm7OFY4tcf0bdoGz0_O4k9CW92lBleG0kWSZVNBt6jr7ElqJDb4WiDWpsGs0rGJHmCf11qYk6zPdphD3vYMe29n31hdvaNAjy9OsJN_vc/s960/Black%20Ying.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMB0Jae9NXcQ05KC06BJF44bWrTdGO3Ql6RG1E3lk7Q0Fd57qHr7ilc0rHCp0nq5pjzQiks17kItysgKc4Uzpm7OFY4tcf0bdoGz0_O4k9CW92lBleG0kWSZVNBt6jr7ElqJDb4WiDWpsGs0rGJHmCf11qYk6zPdphD3vYMe29n31hdvaNAjy9OsJN_vc/w422-h317/Black%20Ying.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-91411983317158089702023-11-10T09:36:00.002-08:002023-11-10T09:36:32.318-08:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvva-w0egJbMB6CFlh-wJ1P5MbwmewrvOJ7CbHbmxD5znLDTG2PkHNnZCHEqRSRfyoEQPGCAJcc4Tz3EACNbUNnl0O9ZGg9SujC3X8zIvzYUri2wWM3r9tj40EZ7LSYJkQYP9c3vaSMC_TEgSjCog4D5quxe6du8P-s_dC6U6haBg8U8tJndH9yGdcFMo/s960/Twister.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvva-w0egJbMB6CFlh-wJ1P5MbwmewrvOJ7CbHbmxD5znLDTG2PkHNnZCHEqRSRfyoEQPGCAJcc4Tz3EACNbUNnl0O9ZGg9SujC3X8zIvzYUri2wWM3r9tj40EZ7LSYJkQYP9c3vaSMC_TEgSjCog4D5quxe6du8P-s_dC6U6haBg8U8tJndH9yGdcFMo/w403-h303/Twister.jpg" width="403" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-35108638323308894692023-10-27T02:55:00.000-07:002023-10-27T02:55:00.207-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuJVgeSAtz-D5kiCPkYuqYudL_n3Qr3MFo8YnXzSSl3954HzB404hhb5uEfCdp2P8g3VotmaA89Ynq940Iro05_EaBfkygcXpoEmHvztbxHzyLaRXsZBllQRf1vYwzN802xUmKPa0fZCdbDAOhlI2kIdFUmgz2nxi5e1W_3I70K2D-gYGtGh7t2kdqUyk/s2340/Fireflies'%20Light%202023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2340" data-original-width="1080" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuJVgeSAtz-D5kiCPkYuqYudL_n3Qr3MFo8YnXzSSl3954HzB404hhb5uEfCdp2P8g3VotmaA89Ynq940Iro05_EaBfkygcXpoEmHvztbxHzyLaRXsZBllQRf1vYwzN802xUmKPa0fZCdbDAOhlI2kIdFUmgz2nxi5e1W_3I70K2D-gYGtGh7t2kdqUyk/w253-h361/Fireflies'%20Light%202023.jpg" width="253" /></a></div><br /> <b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Braided
Haiku</span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 16.0pt;">smoke of the battlefield<b> </b> <i>the scattered silence<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 16.0pt;">a thin patch of grass<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 16.0pt;">mingles with the winter fog<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 16.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 16.0pt;">the rising sun<i>
swaddling for hope </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 16pt;">*</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 16.0pt;">smoke of the battlefield<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 16.0pt;">mingles with the winter fog<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 16.0pt;">the rising sun<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 16pt;">*</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 16.0pt;">the scattered silence</span></i><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 16.0pt;">a thin patch of grass<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 16.0pt;">swaddling
for hope </span></i><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 16.0pt;">Fireflies’ Light, Issue 28, October 2023 (Eds. John J.Hon &
Mason Arledge)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Author’s Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> The ‘Braided Haiku’ is a form I experimented with in
July 2021. Editor, Eric A. Lohman, Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective is
kind enough to inspire me with valuable suggestions. </span><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-size: 16pt;">There are two one-breath short monoku:
one at the top and one at the bottom having a two-liner in between. In all, the
braided haiku frames out to be, two 3-line standalone haiku: one in <i>italicized</i>,
the other in plain text and two monoku out of a 4-line micropoem.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> The form is titled ‘Braided Haiku’ as three plaits
are required to braid or weave. Here we have 2-number of three plaits (one in <i>italicized
</i>and the other in plain text) to compose two standalone 3-line haiku.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-44738709908728516802023-10-18T21:10:00.000-07:002023-10-18T21:10:08.326-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVBrBESfcG6eWcmN6yEbT6LSasAVwfuPg1sGEZ5M0H2Qvxsh-Gydz5-v2gthiztafRH3YGSAlhPUGDSk3PaviIfczBJo3Khx69b6hWpUcFEYy-Nf3uygyCj4TdKh4ZoxRzD_LIwJtjpGEfDGUx3GqIZ4Wxd-CD_OAIOK71wQvIRpczzP_OkuRyxCKN1so/s584/THF_%20Volunteer%20Anthology%202023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="417" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVBrBESfcG6eWcmN6yEbT6LSasAVwfuPg1sGEZ5M0H2Qvxsh-Gydz5-v2gthiztafRH3YGSAlhPUGDSk3PaviIfczBJo3Khx69b6hWpUcFEYy-Nf3uygyCj4TdKh4ZoxRzD_LIwJtjpGEfDGUx3GqIZ4Wxd-CD_OAIOK71wQvIRpczzP_OkuRyxCKN1so/s320/THF_%20Volunteer%20Anthology%202023.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><span style="color: #1010a0; font-size: 16pt;">space debris
the lotus leaf mottled with mud</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #23139d; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #23139d; font-size: 16.0pt;">The High Lonesome, The Haiku Foundation Anthology, 2023 (Eds.
Jim Kacian and Julie Bloss Kelsey)<o:p></o:p></span></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-9317923968051975082023-10-03T19:54:00.003-07:002023-10-03T19:54:57.749-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCFqs1xla7aDxQiORPr39e2loH_-a1OkjF9vXJnVM84QwLAjhyphenhyphenNElVsCN6WoxRXeOhDrOwnMERwY8fJHjHm4Gls7kdES5cT6vI7CZRpq65hKRDCJvZP1xJ4-5m3jx30KksR5y6qBRMCrcmqBv-u2ct0rydUZXqE-31tDMzyTcuKD5lADuWBflketL0Lvo/s809/black%20tea.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="809" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCFqs1xla7aDxQiORPr39e2loH_-a1OkjF9vXJnVM84QwLAjhyphenhyphenNElVsCN6WoxRXeOhDrOwnMERwY8fJHjHm4Gls7kdES5cT6vI7CZRpq65hKRDCJvZP1xJ4-5m3jx30KksR5y6qBRMCrcmqBv-u2ct0rydUZXqE-31tDMzyTcuKD5lADuWBflketL0Lvo/s320/black%20tea.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "inherit", "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">black tea--</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-bidi-language: HI;">I search in vain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-bidi-language: HI;">the milky way<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-bidi-language: HI;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-bidi-language: HI;">tè nero--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-bidi-language: HI;">cerco invano<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-bidi-language: HI;">la Via Lattea<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-bidi-language: HI;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/haiku?__eep__=6&__cft__%5b0%5d=AZURjFVdq-ooRj7JJZmD9SC5dmv_N9NeNDwqrEFGZN_DfmM5S86MQ69Jd2Gk4uvpzNWxH5zx9ae0duEcxBCCFOiiO2p2LiO7j0u5zVAnxEO4E9KwpgFcskNQxUBUSuxQxkKqxbStmgKuXTgGE_DFb3CSG9iW_7Mor3QWkNZJ0SfGM1WCvvG3pTpMbSGjWy6debDSmlyzhnuGn8_6GEF4jUsn&__tn__=*NK-y-R"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: blue; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">#haiku</span></a> di <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pravat.k.padhy?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZURjFVdq-ooRj7JJZmD9SC5dmv_N9NeNDwqrEFGZN_DfmM5S86MQ69Jd2Gk4uvpzNWxH5zx9ae0duEcxBCCFOiiO2p2LiO7j0u5zVAnxEO4E9KwpgFcskNQxUBUSuxQxkKqxbStmgKuXTgGE_DFb3CSG9iW_7Mor3QWkNZJ0SfGM1WCvvG3pTpMbSGjWy6debDSmlyzhnuGn8_6GEF4jUsn&__tn__=-%5dK-y-R"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: windowtext; padding: 0in; text-decoration-line: none;">Pravat Kumar Padhy</span></a>,
tr. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/cenisiluca?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZURjFVdq-ooRj7JJZmD9SC5dmv_N9NeNDwqrEFGZN_DfmM5S86MQ69Jd2Gk4uvpzNWxH5zx9ae0duEcxBCCFOiiO2p2LiO7j0u5zVAnxEO4E9KwpgFcskNQxUBUSuxQxkKqxbStmgKuXTgGE_DFb3CSG9iW_7Mor3QWkNZJ0SfGM1WCvvG3pTpMbSGjWy6debDSmlyzhnuGn8_6GEF4jUsn&__tn__=-%5dK-y-R"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: windowtext; padding: 0in; text-decoration-line: none;">Luca Cenisi</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Da: Cosmic Symphony, Cyberwit, 2019, p. 35<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Foto: Yinan Chen, Galaxy Above the Trees<o:p></o:p></span></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-18743162715927636322023-09-23T08:08:00.005-07:002023-09-23T08:08:38.006-07:00Braided Haiku<p> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Braided
Haiku</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU1SokId2jP-uNn5UXK9iWmzi1axHNSQtmvfzRdOE5nQjUN-Czw-IhYmdH5ZM0hF1eQHcCJeDML4YmaunGqUceE-NJqh0bzFqgzBwkEkISNQXv_L7QjY186jMUNk1banHge_53oESRYnOxUCfWDBPilN9qPzj2A4Odhe2RG0MLVLaPV6-_Rzx_tHvlPOQ/s1466/Fresh%20Out%20Magazine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1466" data-original-width="1080" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU1SokId2jP-uNn5UXK9iWmzi1axHNSQtmvfzRdOE5nQjUN-Czw-IhYmdH5ZM0hF1eQHcCJeDML4YmaunGqUceE-NJqh0bzFqgzBwkEkISNQXv_L7QjY186jMUNk1banHge_53oESRYnOxUCfWDBPilN9qPzj2A4Odhe2RG0MLVLaPV6-_Rzx_tHvlPOQ/w303-h346/Fresh%20Out%20Magazine.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><br />hiding behind <i style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">a half-clad moon</i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">the other hemisphere</span><br />
<i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">sun-brightened</span></i><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">floating clouds <i>the serrated edge</i></span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><br />
*<br />
<i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">a half-clad moon</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">sun-brightened</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">the serrated edge</span></i><br />
<!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br />
<!--[endif]--></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">hiding behind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">the other hemisphere <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">floating clouds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Credit: Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective
28 May 2023 (Ed. Eric Lohman)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">origami
memories</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
a twist-folded rose<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I
gently unloop <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">plait
by plait her long hair<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">the
flow <i>contours the wind<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">*</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">origami
memories</span></i><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">plait
by plait her long hair<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">contours
the wind<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">*</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">a
twist-folded rose<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I
gently unloop <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">the
flow</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Credit: Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective,
11 June 2023</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Author’s
Note:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
The ‘Braided Haiku’ is a form experimented by me during July 2021. Editor, Eric
A. Lohman, Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, is kind enough to inspire
me with valuable suggestions. </span><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">There are two monoku: one at the top and
one at the bottom having a two-liner in between. In all, the braided haiku
frames out to be, two three-line haiku: one in <i>italicized</i> & the
other in plain text and two monoku out of a 4-line micropoem.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> The form is
titled ‘Braided Haiku’ as three plaits
are required to braid or weave. Here we have 2-number of three plaits (one in <i>italicized
</i>and the other in plain text) to compose two stand-alone 3-line haiku.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-64695063828300535252023-09-13T06:15:00.001-07:002023-09-13T06:15:15.461-07:00<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #25159b; font-size: 16pt;">sunflowers--</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #25159b; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">kids in thoughtfulness <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #25159b; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">stare eastward<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 75.0pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #25159b; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Shadow Pond Journal, Issue One, 28
June 2023 (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #25159b; font-size: 16pt;">Ed.
Katherine Winnick)</span><span style="color: #25159b; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 21.3333px;"><span style="color: #25159b;">https://shadowpondjournal.blogspot.com/2023/07/pravat-kumar-padhy-india.html</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 21.3333px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_E-5Hr9GuXlQETO1-Fciw0rQVoUIIBH-owPoL0qcOM1vblIr4o1aAwcXEUN1vim7qR5LjCXyxwxfnVwj3Jvu6WaMixayCqhkHm6dEtd4Q2o8cYRSgb-xv0io2ijkUTwDxWsl_ughP6IKFo1kRCxfYUJVOlEqSLt4PqjLCZZyGKLLdPblYpeoYOclJ_2c/s490/Shadow%20Pond%20Journal%20Issue%201%20Summer%202023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="490" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_E-5Hr9GuXlQETO1-Fciw0rQVoUIIBH-owPoL0qcOM1vblIr4o1aAwcXEUN1vim7qR5LjCXyxwxfnVwj3Jvu6WaMixayCqhkHm6dEtd4Q2o8cYRSgb-xv0io2ijkUTwDxWsl_ughP6IKFo1kRCxfYUJVOlEqSLt4PqjLCZZyGKLLdPblYpeoYOclJ_2c/s320/Shadow%20Pond%20Journal%20Issue%201%20Summer%202023.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #25159b;"><br /></span><p></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-16334878226206334922023-09-03T11:12:00.005-07:002023-09-03T11:14:24.349-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj62xQ4524YFtHJhzlmdiv45yT6RZqIHIsZ3bEt8x1yF44MTe5s9lVH-4VbVLDyniVcKIlddw7XjXk_iUklN9X1uLfWd-ZOf9tfQJ5GGChJJtXn8iNnMCMWU8qHTf0LHSfmrFVM446so0qWLxjJK_tUiu_1DtgsxKaB1twfGZKjYWUgSAyyp00vWkbHBRU/s960/K%20Ramesh_a%20small%20tree%20of%20tender%20leaves.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj62xQ4524YFtHJhzlmdiv45yT6RZqIHIsZ3bEt8x1yF44MTe5s9lVH-4VbVLDyniVcKIlddw7XjXk_iUklN9X1uLfWd-ZOf9tfQJ5GGChJJtXn8iNnMCMWU8qHTf0LHSfmrFVM446so0qWLxjJK_tUiu_1DtgsxKaB1twfGZKjYWUgSAyyp00vWkbHBRU/s320/K%20Ramesh_a%20small%20tree%20of%20tender%20leaves.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a small tree of tender
leaves by K Ramesh, CinammonTeal Publisher, 2020, p.53</span></b><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.15pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A Haiku Spell<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.15pt;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reviewed by Pravat
Kumar Padhy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;">K
Ramesh is one of the finest voices of contemporary Indian haiku. Being a teacher
in Physics, I think he follows the aesthetic principles of haiku with
sensibility and honesty. He is a great admirer of rural poetic sketch and
through his art of words, he enlivens the moment with simplicity and
gracefulness. He chooses to translate the image with the infusion of poetic
energy. He observes the happenings at present as to how to haiku, and presents the
readers to rejoice</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> in the words of Gary Snyder “help us live where we are now.”
</span><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;">He crafts haiku as a metaphor for aesthetic search with
imaginative rendering and thus readers enjoy the ‘lifefullness’of poetry. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.15pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Ramesh explores
aesthetic essences from nature including tiny creatures like ants, butterflies,
cicadas, lizards, crickets, beetles etc. When you read the beautiful lines of
the collections, largely you will feel “Small is beautiful and the beauty lies
in its simplicity.” I recall the opening stanza of the poem, ‘Little Things’ by
</span><em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 14pt;">Catherine Pulsifer:</span></em><em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p align="center" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Simple things are the
little things<br />
Such happiness they can bring<br />
From watching a sunrise<br />
To giving a child a simple surprise.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Gazing gently at the tender leaves under the evening
breeze, Ramesh crowns his collection with tenderness:<span style="color: #444444;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">a small tree<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">of tender leaves…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">evening breeze<span style="color: #444444;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">I
feel in his poetic endeavor, there has been an intuitive playfulness of transgressing
the observations into cadences of human fulfillment. Many a time, we knowingly
or unknowingly overlook the nuances of nature: whispers of breeze or muse of
silence in between the chirpings. But Ramesh as a poet is very sensitive to tuning
every note preserved in nature to sing the song. This is where he ignites the
poetic spell as a worshiper of nature with the Zen feeling. He tries to script
the silence in between and interacts with a meditative language thus exploring
the unseen to unveil with the touch of ‘poetic surprise’.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Interestingly,
honouring the basic elements of haiku, he quite often blends the ‘whitespace’ and
creates intra-juxtaposition in the phrase section of haiku:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">winter morning…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">I open my hands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">to a newborn calf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">*</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">summer dawn…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">listening to one cuckoo,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">I
hear many more<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;">Rightly
so,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> HF Noyes says, “When we let go of
all our preconditioning, discarding our habitual mental sets, biases and
stagnant emotive states, our brush against the small and ordinary connects us
with the universal and eternal. The absence of the period at the end of the
modern haiku is meant to leave the haiku open-ended for an echoing extension
into what Blake termed “eternity's sunrise.” Ramesh exhibits a sense of
nostalgia and gratification for nature. He discovers the sound of silence, hidden
stories of the universe in a pebble and metaphorically steps, with a quantum
shift, into the night of the Milky Way:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">daybreak in the forest…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">the silence between two calls<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">of
a Malabar thrush<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">*</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">on the pebble<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">so many stories<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">of
the universe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">*</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">power failure…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">I step into the night<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">of
the Milky Way<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">His sense of observation is so vivid that it lingers
with the readers for all times to come. Some of his memorable senryu reflect
lightheartedness (</span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">karumi</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">) with keen observation (</span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">ugachi</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">performance over…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">the dancer removes her earrings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">with
a smile<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">in the cart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">the garbage heap taller<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">than
the street cleaner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Fay Aoyagi blends the spirit of haiku with senses
and says, “With haiku eyes, I see my inner self. With haiku ears, I listen to
my surroundings. With haiku tongue, I taste my past. With haiku nose I sense my
future. With haiku fingers I open and close tiny drawers in my mind.” </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Nature restores with care the sublime manifestation of ethical goodness.
Ramesh tries to explore this quietude in a meditative way. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">I find Ramesh tries to embody the sensory language with
brilliance.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">daybreak…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">I drink tea facing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">the
hill’s silence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">forest guest house…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">scent of the teakwood bed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">throughout
the night<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">*</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">single
call of the night-heron so many stars<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The beauty resides in the rural
landscape. Ramesh tries to reflect Indianness with diligent lyrical quality in
his haiku. The modulation and structural configurations of haiku uplift and he
often believes in a ‘communicative and interactive’ model to celebrate the
moment. This is unique in his poems:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">sunlit valley…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">the little shepherdess talks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">to
a calf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He is concerned about the ecological aspects and skillfully
blends the socio-religious aspects. The pulse of juxtaposition is crafted with
the shades of reality:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">a heron’s pulsing throat…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">the river thin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">on
the riverbed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">*</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">long afternoon…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">the church spire shade<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">reaches
the beggar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The
usages of metaphorical phrases like ‘night of the Milky Way’, ‘world of pebbles’
etc enrich the intensity of images. In places, the magic of haiku is manifested
through innovative language and structural framework. The following haiku
elucidates how his self-interaction care to portray the dynamics of image
construction. This is a unique art of assimilation of self with the other thus
entering into a philosophical milieu with a subtle twist. Let us observe the
metrical framework, rhythmic beats and linguistic braiding within the phrase
section of the following haiku and juxtaposition:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">if not for the moonlight<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">I wouldn’t have noticed…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">glide
of a heron<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Ramesh unveils his
poetic excellence from the surroundings in a brilliant style. A few poems like
‘</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">balcony
breeze…/ a full red moon</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> / </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">between the
apartments</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">’; ‘</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">stormy weather…/
the sway of two trees/ entwined together’ (depiction of sort of cause and
effect) </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">modestly portray the
observations and could have been poetically augmented.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">There has been great
pleasure in exploring poetic sparks in Ramesh’s haiku. His haiku are at the
best of exploring the depth of simplicity (<i>iki</i>) and nuances associated
with common images.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> James Hillman once wrote:<i> </i>“<i>Mind is fundamentally
poetic in nature”</i>. <i>Soul is </i>“<i>that which deepens.</i>”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> I think poems by Ramesh have hidden souls that will amaze everyone. Nothing could be more
poetically profound to define haiku spell to celebrate with the concluding poem
Ramesh pens with resonance:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">hillside view…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">I don’t mind waiting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">for
the waiter</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Publication: The Wise
Owl, Review Supplement, August, 2023.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.15pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-67260142801431034192023-08-23T23:05:00.001-07:002023-08-23T23:05:10.881-07:00<p><span style="color: #1710a0; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">spacetime</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1710a0;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">our journey<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1710a0;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">of ever redshift<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #1710a0;">Stardust, Issue 79, July 2023, (Ed
Valentina</span><span style="background: white; color: #1c169a;"> Ranaldi-Adams)</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1710a0;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sNr8YwheXwuJ4AFzb_dYJ8I337XLxlUO/view</span></b></span></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-89113410161658860182023-08-18T23:03:00.001-07:002023-08-18T23:03:23.779-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsuy02nd22Pc7a1_raUvVO-I2wdb4-4C71PxKXrgwgPG_DFbiZmGmMZDWd_oMjnZjicdkb3JvuKarEguh8M76JkGel2mYVHPhGQDpAQun8AaqTUVdmIT8vkg8IpkN7jeTgblf-LceolbLr7lvEGx0JPoqw6-ZsieW4EyyOLpFYDs_KmSCu-70W6hRYeis/s960/VSANA_Japanese%20waterfall%20Stone_Aug%202023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsuy02nd22Pc7a1_raUvVO-I2wdb4-4C71PxKXrgwgPG_DFbiZmGmMZDWd_oMjnZjicdkb3JvuKarEguh8M76JkGel2mYVHPhGQDpAQun8AaqTUVdmIT8vkg8IpkN7jeTgblf-LceolbLr7lvEGx0JPoqw6-ZsieW4EyyOLpFYDs_KmSCu-70W6hRYeis/w523-h393/VSANA_Japanese%20waterfall%20Stone_Aug%202023.jpg" width="523" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-74847493913409919042023-08-08T04:26:00.004-07:002023-08-08T04:26:31.292-07:00Talking Books: Neena Singh talks to Dr. Pravat Kumar Padhy The Wise Owl, July Issue (Roseate & Gold), 2023<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH7arPFFZL1CB9AYjXhTAaj84DQoD0pp_77Udif84-ThXsfVx0pVG8FqdfD3noY8F2b71a-wUJX8no_qLvLH6-XABZZmxtzya_maXnxqsD0xn1G_Joc89RfB0v7ycmV2Wh-EOuUuyQNJrNkxGtrCWfJzBKr5gf7p9rd2KB9rmAcbiUpdGcVIDTWhf8nt8/s2000/I_AM_A_WOMAN1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH7arPFFZL1CB9AYjXhTAaj84DQoD0pp_77Udif84-ThXsfVx0pVG8FqdfD3noY8F2b71a-wUJX8no_qLvLH6-XABZZmxtzya_maXnxqsD0xn1G_Joc89RfB0v7ycmV2Wh-EOuUuyQNJrNkxGtrCWfJzBKr5gf7p9rd2KB9rmAcbiUpdGcVIDTWhf8nt8/s320/I_AM_A_WOMAN1.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /> <b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NS: What inspired you to write a book titled ‘I am a Woman’
as a ‘man’ poet?</span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;">PKP:
Thank you, Neena, for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;">offering me an opportunity to</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;"> speak about my forthcoming collection
of verses, ‘I am a Woman.’ I record my sincere gratitude to Dr. Rachna Singh,
the Principal Editor, <i>The Wise Owl</i>, for featuring my interview in the
special column of ‘Talking Books.’ </span><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I chose writing poetry as it symbolizes the power of
feminism in its tenderness and musicality. </span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt;">In
the column ‘Letter to Editor, Indian Express’, December 5<sup>th</sup> 1984, I
voiced my support for education to girl children to bestow confidence on them
and redress social balance. I underline gender equality and respect for
womanhood in many poems written during the eighties and the nineties. I once
emphatically put forth: ‘…</span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">Why crazy/ Snatching her surname/ The born
identity/ Her parental tie</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.’ (Poem: Married Woman).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Women symbolize creation, beauty, love, kindness,
compassion, and harmony. In our culture and tradition, the woman is revered as </span><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">shakti</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
or power (Durga), knowledge and wisdom (Saraswati), fortune and prosperity
(Lakshmi).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt;">Despite progress in gender equality,
we have socio-cultural issues related to women and this needs to be addressed
keeping in view of the progressive phase of mankind at large. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Rightly, Dalai
Lama says, “<i>I call myself a feminist. Isn’t that what you call people who
fight for women’s rights</i>?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I feel if male equally realizes the problem and comes
forward with a comprehensive solution, it would look pragmatic and progressive.</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt;"> This led me to write the present collection, ‘I am a
woman.’</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NS: How did you choose this format of tanka
verses as a long-connected poem to tell the story of a woman?</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;">PKP: I like to
compose micro poetry or shorter verses along with longer verses. Tanka, the
Japanese form of the 5-line short poem, has a profound scope to embody human
feelings with poetic essence and lyrical exposition. Hence, I chose to write
the long poem in this format. We may recall that all the classic works of
Japanese diary literature </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 14pt;">about love, passion,
and lamentation have been </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;">written with prose along with <i>waka</i>
(tanka) poetry.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NS: How did you approach the subject of
womanhood in your 5 lined tanka poetry?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">PKP: No doubt being a male writer, apparently
it looks difficult to delve into the theme and imageries from the perspective
of feminist poetry. I have read many poems by female poets namely Eunice de
Sauza, Amrita Pritam, Gouri Deshpande, Meena Alexander, Mani Rao, Sunita Jain,
Kamala Das, Sarita Jenamani, Rupi Kaur and others. I have seen social
imbalance, and the sufferings of women. I feel moved by the grieving situation
and the psychological torments a woman has to face because of gender bias. I
could see the love and affection her parents bestowed on her and the apparent
contrast the moment she enters into the phase of her married life. In the
present collection, I have tried to sketch the phases of memorable ecstasy with
her parents, sufferings and trauma at a later stage and her courage to fight
back with feminine modesty and integrity.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NS: Can you share some of the themes or motifs
that are explored in your latest book?</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;">PKP: The collection, ‘I am a Woman’ is a sort of long poem written in
the form of fictional verse with candour poetic styles and imageries. It
portrays the life sketch of a woman named <i>Chandni</i>. She demonstrates her
resilience to face socio-psychological challenges. <i>Chandni </i>belongs to a
modest family with limited financial support. She recalls the early life of joy
‘…</span><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 14pt;">mummy
holds her/ fondly closing the eyes/ and feels beats of rhythm together</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 14pt;">.’ But the happiness
lasts for a brief period and after her marriage, she wonders: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;">‘</span><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 14pt;">she offers /aroma to all/ how strange/ the thorns
that protect/ at last, pierce her to bleed</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 14pt;">.’ The agony she faces as ‘<i>he scratches her
skin/ like wiping over the doormat / as if a mopping cloth/ he cleanses his
dust/ ungracefully pouring the foam of his sin</i>.’ She runs from pillar to
post for justice, but to no avail. In spite of the hurdles, she is optimistic:
‘</span><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 14pt;">like an adrift tree/ she is hurt and drained / trusts
the woman of justice / holding the beam balance /on the cover page of the
Social science</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 14pt;">.’</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NS:
What challenges did you face in capturing the essence of a woman through your
poems?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PKP: It has been a constant striking point to keep the critical balance of
expression from the point of view of a grief-stridden woman. </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The structural
fabric of language, rhythm and poetic landscape have been dealt with
sensibility and succinctness.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
As the collection is a sensitive issue immersed in agony and seclusion on the
part of the woman, I have to tread carefully with poetic idioms, text, and
texture without being didactic or rhetorical. Moreover, I tried my best to
portray feminist poetry in its true spirit and translate it with veracity and
sincerity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Diana
Webb pens in her blurb:</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt;"> “…With elements of the
elegiac, lyrical and cathartic, it is a paean to the feminine principle, as
embodied in the tale of one member of womankind and promises rich rewards for
anyone with a poetic soul.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NS: Did you rely on personal experiences or
research to understand the female perspective in your poetry or any particular
woman, real or fictional, who served as a muse or influence for your poetry?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PKP: I have been keenly
observing the plight of some families and the emotional stories of women. That
is what stirred me to show the prevalent domestic violence and patriarchal
culture through poetry.<i> Chandni</i> is a fictional character.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NS: How do you think your perspective as a man
influenced the way you portrayed women in your book?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">PKP: Well, I am conscious of my ‘male’ self.
At the same time, I try and journey into the female psyche so that I am able to
articulate a woman’s perspective with conviction. I perceive </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> female
psychology and immerse myself in the character, in order to highlight them
through </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">words and portray reality. Honestly, many such stories
remain untold and buried. My poetry is a eulogy to womanhood.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NS: What themes or issues related to womanhood
did you explore in your book?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PKP: The attitude
of a male-dominated society towards women is one of the striking aspects
enumerated in my book. The unbearable pain, anguish, social prejudices and
tension that a woman undergoes have been reflected. Post-marriage issues and
related family problems are placed before the readers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 14pt;">Jenny Ward Angyal comments, “.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;">and this book traces the life of one
representative woman from childhood, when she learns ‘the alphabet of body,’
through harsh and despairing adulthood, when ‘waves wash away / her lengthy
inner script,’ to the resurgence of hope as she seeks to ‘revise the pristine
manuscript for her daughter.’ That manuscript is a celebration of woman and a
poetic hymn to the feminine principle.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NS: What message or emotion do you hope readers
will take away from ‘I am a Woman’?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PKP: I hope the readers will realize the journey of life of a woman is
different from man, her counterpart, and the dignity of a woman needs to be
respected. I stretched and metaphorically intensified the loneliness <i>Chandni</i>
had undergone. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NS: How
do you see your role as a male poet in contributing to the ongoing conversation
about gender and identity?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PKP: The present time desires an equal space for men and women. Men
should not shy away from raising concerns about women. Mutual involvement and
mutual respect are essential to build a comprehensive family life. Irrespective
of caste, creed and gender, if we feel it is ‘our’ problem and to be solved by
‘ourselves’ jointly, then there won’t be any dichotomy or bewilderment in
family life. As ‘Male Ally’, jointly we can make a happy and cohesive family
life. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NS: What do you believe is the importance of
men exploring and expressing the female experience through art?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PKP: Man and woman are two sides of the same coin with distinct symbols on both
sides. But the aesthetic value of the coin is unique and the same. Art is a
mirror. It is the way one sees, thus reflecting the contours of his thoughts. I
recall one of my poems written in the eighties: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;">‘</span><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unveil the
art/It is/Alive/It lives/Not in itself/But in your/Angle of/Mind and eyes.</span></i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;">’</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt;">It is like we have two garden paths. But the
breeze carries the aroma in all possible directions. Man needs to inhale to
realize this philosophical aspect of life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NS: Can you share any memorable moments or
experiences that occurred during the creation of ‘I am a Woman’?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PKP: In fact,
while writing the collection over a long time, I experienced the feeling of
being an actress absorbed in the cinematic scope of the script. That is an
interesting experience. I wish her a happy life when she gives birth to a baby
girl. Being elated, I encourage her to cherish: ‘<i>life is a poem and music
its journey</i>.’ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I
became very conscious while writing the concluding stanza of the collection.
The last line </span><b><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">‘<i>I am a Woman</i>’ <i>to prove
again</i>’ </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of
the final stanza engulfed me in the pain and agony of my protagonist.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;">Suparna Ghosh, a prolific writer and visual
artist from Canada pens in her Foreword, “</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;">Perhaps, I thought, by
intertwining the layers of <i>Devi</i>, the
Goddess of my vision, with his view of <i>Chandni</i>,
the moonbeam, I would be according a befitting offering to <i>I am a Woman</i>.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NS: How do you balance the line between
personal expression and respectful representation when writing about gender or
identity that differs from your own?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PKP: One’s perceptions and way of interpretation emanate from the cognitive
sphere. I try to remain unbiased and optimistic in my approach to exploring the
path leading to the destination. No doubt, as a male author, a critical balance
and congenial space are essential. I am particular about the usage of words and
try to imbibe as <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Robert Frost said, “<i>Poetry
is when our emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”</i></span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt;">I think in art and literature, a sense of
integrity and honesty is essential.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NS: In
what ways do you believe poetry can contribute to discussions around gender and
identity?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PKP: I feel art has immense depth to fathom the aspirations of mankind. Poetry can create a flagship of mutual
respect and brotherhood through its rhythm and resonance. </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As an allusive to
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Wordsworth’s phrase: “<i>the child is father
of the man</i>”, I coined the line “<i>the child is mother
of the woman</i>” in my haibun titled ‘Leading the Way’. </span> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Rebecca Drouilhet, the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 14pt;">haiku moderator on Inkstone Poetry Forum, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">commented: “Beautifully and
sensitively penned. The charm of the place and the relationship grounded me in
the wholeness of the feminine.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NS:
Can you share any particular poem from
your book that you feel encapsulate the overall message or essence of ‘I am a
Woman’?</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;">PKP: I feel </span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;">Chandni</i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;"> has to march ahead with the
flow of time with a sense of optimism. She aspires to see her daughter enjoy
the dawn of a new life. But we have the social responsibility to erase her
apprehension of </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 14pt;">‘<i>I am a Woman’ to prove again</i>.’
The following stanzas perhaps encapsulate the theme of the book.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">wiping tears</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">gently from her face<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">with a needle of hope<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">she threads the pain
in between <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">reading the life, like
an anthology of poem<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">she desires to revise<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: .5in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the pristine
manuscript<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 3.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -3.5in;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">for her daughter<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as she reckons with a crescent smile<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">‘I am a Woman’ to prove again<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NS: Has writing ‘I am a Woman’ influenced your
own understanding or perception of femininity and women's experiences in any
way?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">PKP: I have read feminist poetry written by
Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou,</span><i style="font-size: 14pt;"> </i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Sylvia Plath and Audre Lorde including
poets from India, especially Kamal Das. I chose the title of the book using the
first-person pronoun ‘I’ to emphasize integrity and conviction. During writing,
I felt the anxieties and sufferings of a woman and her psychological condition.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This reinforces the responsibility of the male
counterparts for fostering a happy family and prosperous society at large. In
life, if we embrace “</span><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Odd is the beginning of even/Imperfection
is the part of perfection / And vacuum is the venue of accumulation</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">”
(excerpt from my earlier poem ‘If I were an Ugly Girl’) then our world would be
a land of the joy of living.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NS: Would you like to share with our readers the
writing, editing & publishing process?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">PKP: I started writing this collection in mid-2019. I continuously
revised the manuscript and focused on the woman-centric emotional cadence. Some
of the stanzas have been published in leading journals namely <span style="background: white;">Borderless International,</span> Lyrical Passion
Poetry,</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> MoonInk Tanka
Poetry Anthology, Presence,</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Lothlorien Poetry Journal, In Sun,
Snow & Rain Tanka Anthology (British Haiku Society) and others. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I added the beginning part of the collection
later to highlight the love and affection a girl child receives from her
parents.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> This enhanced the contrast images. I record
with great indebtedness to my poet friend Diana Webb who introduced me to John
Gonzalez, the poet and publisher of The Magic Pen Press, London. I am grateful to
John, Frank Williams and Tony Marcoff for their immense interest and
inspiration in publishing the book. Shloka’s elegant cover page art made an
aesthetic assimilation to the content of the collection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NS: What advice would you give to aspiring poets who
aim to explore and express gender-related themes in their own writing?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">PKP: Gender is just a word. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 14pt;">“...<i>wisely nature/ never coins in evolution/ defining a tree: male or
female</i>.<i>”</i> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Poetry can be an effective vehicle for
social change. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It
becomes poetically critical to translate the ‘voice behind silence’ of the
emotionally distraught women. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Aspiring poets can usher in a
beautiful society if we are optimistic and embrace the sense of oneness and
spirit of love.</span></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-59758725304602241002023-07-31T20:18:00.000-07:002023-07-31T20:18:10.623-07:00<p> <b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #0000cc; font-size: 16.0pt;">Where humble happiness
endeared each scene!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 91.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 14pt;">After nearly two decades I visit my
village. The narrow road with twists and turns and bushes on both sides leads
to my home.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 91.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 14pt;">The scratchy sound from the pulley of
the village well and the smiles of my grandma still resonate as I pass by.
Childhood days float like clouds: Plucking jujube, taking baths in the village
pond crowded with weeds …the mud-walled school where I learned the basics, the
frog-dancing with friends for the rain to fall, playing hide-and-seek in bare
feet, sailing paper boat in potholes, worshipping the village goddess for
peace, harmony and good health to prevail.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 91.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 14pt;">Oh! here I used to do my homework
sitting under a kerosene lamp, and listening to stories of ‘King and Queen’
from my grandma under the summer stars.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 91.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 14pt;">Elders gossip with folded legs, sparrows
whisper something from door to door and koel song cued the season of mango
arrival!</span><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><i style="text-align: left; text-indent: -12pt;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 91.5pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left; text-indent: -12pt;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 14.0pt;">Fled are those times, if e'er such times
were seen,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: left; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 14.0pt;"> When rustic poets praised their native
green;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: left; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 14.0pt;"> No shepherds now, in smooth alternate verse,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: left; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Their country's beauty or their nymphs'
rehearse;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 91.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 14pt;">On my way back, I try to catch the wind
as I walk from my past to the crowded present.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 91.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0000cc; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -12pt;">twilight
shade</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: left; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> memories bridge the gap <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: left; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> of the star-filled sky<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 91.5pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="background: white; color: #0000cc; font-size: 14.0pt;">Author’s Note:</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0000cc; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"> The title of the
haibun is from the poem, ‘The Deserted Village’ by Oliver Goldsmith
(1728-1774).The stanza in italic is from the poem </span><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">‘The Village’ by George Crabbe
(1754-1832).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Drifting Sands, Issue 21, 2023 (Ed Diana Webb)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://drifting-sands-haibun.org/2023/05/30/where-humble-happiness-endeared-each-scene/" style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>https://drifting-sands-haibun.org/2023/05/30/where-humble-happiness-endeared-each-scene/</b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #1d1799; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span></b></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-63891922078793012122023-07-12T22:18:00.002-07:002023-07-12T22:18:25.631-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgziqw0ZAj-aZFQPha4lkf8BN_hTBsG7-xVVrRWaab7HWMIPfga8ns6HOd3z_KrPJY6D434aqiUXzjgAq46bMkJfRmUQI0bPD8zAsxdrTeZ-Mzu5Ga5iL9zW7YkLEN-bUisUayKFTTXVUiMrD1FtpW_WF9VUP3glJAWN9tpuQNpFtCTZDfcst4k5HlPyUE/s960/VSANA_June%202023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgziqw0ZAj-aZFQPha4lkf8BN_hTBsG7-xVVrRWaab7HWMIPfga8ns6HOd3z_KrPJY6D434aqiUXzjgAq46bMkJfRmUQI0bPD8zAsxdrTeZ-Mzu5Ga5iL9zW7YkLEN-bUisUayKFTTXVUiMrD1FtpW_WF9VUP3glJAWN9tpuQNpFtCTZDfcst4k5HlPyUE/w489-h367/VSANA_June%202023.jpg" width="489" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>P K Padhyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459318479754229231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576566029378404.post-25920304727804829092023-07-02T21:40:00.002-07:002023-07-02T21:40:45.913-07:00<p><span style="color: #172699; font-size: 14pt;">light years…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #172699; font-size: 14.0pt;">charitably the
stars <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #172699; font-size: 14.0pt;">tender lights<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="https://tsuridoro.org/"><span style="background: white; color: #111111; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; text-decoration-line: none;">tsuri-dōrō,
May-June, Issue, Issue 15, May-June 2023 </span></a>(Ed.<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"> Tony Pupello)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #172699; font-size: 14.0pt;">https://tsuridoro.org/issue-15-may-june-2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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