Searching the Size

It is the evening hour of cloudy summer in Doon Valley, Dehradun. The children are busy collecting pebbles from the river bank. The rock pebbles record the long journey to reach the moon-like shape. Out of joy, I also start picking a few and return home. My tiny daughter, Rupa, posts an eager look and smiles.

cut out of moon

the child reconfirms

looking up

The Notes from the Gean, Vol.3, Issue 4, March 2012 

Atlas Poetica: 11, March 2012

Atlas Poetica 11 : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka


15 March 2012 – Perryville, Maryland, USA

Today Keibooks releases Atlas Poetica 11, the latest issue of the highly regarded journal. Atlas Poetica continues its tradition of focussing upon a topic of particular interest in the field of tanka, kyoka, and gogyoshi
poetry in English. This issue emphasizes responsive tanka—sequences written by two or more authors in a 'call and response' fashion. Includes a nonfiction article by Dr. Carmella Braniger, several examples of responsive tanka, and a review of a collection of responsive tanka. As always, it publishes individual tanka, kyoka, and gogyoshi, tanka prose and sequences, book reviews, announcements, and other items of interest.

Contributors to ATPO 11 include:

Alexis Rotella, André Surridge, Autumn Noelle Hall, Bob Lucky, Brendan Slater, Brigid Fayers, Bruce D. Reed, Bruce England, Carmella Braniger, Charles Tarlton, Christina Nguyen, Claire Everett, David Edwards, Dawn Bruce, Eric Greinke, Gary LeBel, Gary Severance, Genie Nakano, Ignatius Fay, Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah, James Won, Jenny Ward Angyal, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, John Daleiden, Kath Abela Wilson, Laura Maffei, Leslie Ihde, Lisa Tibbs, Lorne Henry, Lucas Stenland, Luminita Suse, M. Kei, Margaret L.Grace, Magdalena Dale, Marilyn Hazelton, Marilyn Humbert, Mary Hind, Mel Goldberg, Melissa Allen, Mike Montreuil, Mira N. Mataric, Nancy Ellis Taylor, Natalie Perfetti, Neal Whitman, Oprica Padeanu, Owen Bullock, Patricia Prime, Peggy Castro, Pravat Kumar Padhy, Raquel Bailey, Randy Brooks, Rodney Williams, S. M. Abeles, Sherry Steiner, Sonam Chhoki, Steven Carter, T. J. Edge, Taro Aizu, Terry Ingram, Tessa J. Wooldridge, Tish Davis, Tracy Davidson, William Cullen, Jr.
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M. Kei
Editor, Atlas Poetica
A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka

Daily Haiku Selection: The Mainichi News
March 23, 2012

deep dark space
many cosmic townships
with their own light

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/features/haiku/news/20120224p2g00m0fe204000c.html

MAGNAPOETS

dead of night

the lizard on the wall

still awake

Magnapoets,  Issue 9, January, 2012 

I watch 

the black, white and brown

short and tall

all variances and varieties

in the garden of beauty

Magnapoets, Issue 9, January , 2012 

KOKAKO HAIKU JOURNAL

merry time
children in the open ground
collecting rain

Kokako – 13, September, 2010 

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milky pond

the water lilies

with moon

Kokako 16, March 2012

crow’s nest—
twilight’s shadow vanishes
with early sunset

Ginyu, No 53, January 2012



full moon night
swings of shadow
steal the light

*****

crescent moon
a feather stuck in
darkness

*****

naked tree
the crows veil
the darkness

*****

Poetry for Tomorrow

We feel proud

being descendant of Neanderthals

on the flow of time

living here, adjacent everywhere

as a part of the long human-ware.


Beauty of boundary

encircles the edge of space

We are amongst

The sun, moon and stars

at a kaleidoscopic distance.


A play of love

for entire mankind

I plant

in dream, a world of garden

full of flowers and friendship.


Diogen,  Issue 19, February, 2012