her fate

lulls her to sleep

the stars

blanket her scars

the moon caresses her body

 

Tanka Anthology in Memory of Linda Jeanette Ward

British Haiku Society, 2022 (Ed. Anthony Marcoff)

 

 birds’ song

fades away into thin forest

posters of darkened sky

and sunken lakes

at the Anthropocene conference

 

Ribbons, Winter Issue, Vol. 19 No.1, 2023  (Ed. Susan Weaver)

 

 CHO Haibun Anthology #18 2023 (Red Moon Press)

in between the stars the spiraling darkness

*****

barren branch

wish I could call the bird

by its name

Poetry Pea 3:22 January Issue 2023 (Patricia McGuire)

 

 

 cacoëthes

By Pravat Kumar Padhy and Neena Singh

autumn years

remembering the poems

in my first collection 

 
tangerine dusk
our shadows deepen
 
long night
lighting a candle
one after another 
 

the screech
of the barn owl
until almost dawn 
 
gently holding
a red maple leaf 
 

this thirst 
for belonging

the cuckoo calls repeatedly

 

Drifting Sands haibun (Guest Ed. Sonam Chokki)

https://drifting-sands-haibun.org/01/2023/cacoethes/

 

 dipping sun

over the tea garden

a gentle silence

 

tsuri-dōrō, Jan-feb Issue, Issue 13, 2023 (Ed. Tony Pupello)

https://tsuridoro.org/issue-13-jan-feb-2023