re:Virals 573
Sudha Devi Nayak — like a pall of sadness: commentaries on "quiet as a grave / the overwhelming silence / of days gone by" by Mike Jones
re:Virals is an interactive feature which offers commentary on selected haiku each week. The supplier of the best commentary each week gets to choose the next week’s poem. An updated version of Virals, an early interactive feature of THF. co-hosts: Shawn Blair, Melissa Dennison, Susan Yavaniski, and Keith Evetts (managing editor).
Sudha Devi Nayak — like a pall of sadness: commentaries on "quiet as a grave / the overwhelming silence / of days gone by" by Mike Jones
Radhamani Sarma—a melody of the sweet past: commentaries on "end of summer - the sound of the waves in my conch" by Geethanjali Rajan
Kavita Ratna - go with the flow: commentaries on "robin on the fence—/are you the same bird I saw/when I was five?" by Robert Lowes
Carol Reynolds—under its calming spell: commentaries on "rocking rowboat / the slow pulse / of jellyfish" by Anne Fox
Jennifer Gurney—through the innocent eyes: comments on "past bedtime… / a lunar landing glows / through the keyhole" by Lorraine Padden
Alan Summers—if we dare...commentaries on "a train / I have missed / dream after dream" by John Stevenson
Dan Campbell to see anew: commentaries on "more airstrikes/the deepening red/of the poppy" by Archie G. Carlos
Sean Murphy—'the lone and level sands:' commentaries on "tide / the castle sinks / into its moat" by Edward Cody Huddleston
Peggy Bilbro-it's all interpretation:commentaries on "tidal surge this wave of something unutterable" by Debbie Strange
Jennifer Gurney—the simple things: commentaries on "sunny morning / the smell of coffee among / balcony flowers" by Slobodan Pupovać
Sean Murphy—a problem that can't be punched away: commentaries on "addicted to life— / a superhero beats / intoxication" by Paul Callus
Sudha Devi Nayak—in at the deep end: commentaries on "at the end of the diving board yes" by Mary Stevens
Adel Imhof—geography is memory: commentaries on Shelli Jankowski-Smith's monoku "fading foothills the marriage lost in creeping sepia"
Alan Summers—everything depends on that comma: commentaries on "a second ambulance / passes, silently / in the rain" by Alan Yan
Isabella Mori—they are connected: commentaries on "empty crab shell— / the tide / through it" by Jacek Margolak
Urszula Marciniak-life hinges on a single moment- "gulp! /our resident bullfrog/ swallows a swallow "— by Henry W. Kreuter
Shannon Blood — coming home to self: commentaries on "deep moss / sinking into/ the slow spaces" by Isabella Mori
Sébastien Revon — an impossible intimacy: commentaries on "desert rose / the impossibility / of us both" by Ravi Kiran
Dan Campbell—all lightness: commentaries on "ripples of water / in the brimming birdbath— / spring breeze" by Anne Curran
Sitarama Seshu Maringanti — Beyond Words: commentaries on “touching me / without touching me / sea breeze” by Thomas David