Poet Profile

Manasa Reddy Chichili

Manasa Reddy Chichili is a poet from Hyderabad, Telangana, India. She has previously written poems, short poems, haikus, and tankas. They have been published in a variety of online journals and blogs such as Under the Basho, Triya Magazine, Haikuniverse, The Mainichi, Daily Haiku, The Mamba, Cold Moon Journal, Atlanta publications, Poetry Potion, Enchanted Garden, Autumn Moon Journal, King River Press, Time Haiku Journal, so on and so forth. Her haiku was nominated for the Touchstone Award (2025). She has also dabbled in writing haiku in Japanese, submitting them to https://haikutown.jp/.

Awards and Other Honors:

Touchstone Nomination for Individual Poems Award (2025).

spring breeze
a green tendril
waving herself

mountain evening
the last sunlight
touches the pine

mom's smile 
autumn bucket
keeps filling

autumn day 
my mother’s music
in my heart

autumn drizzling
crows on a
scare crow

winter twilight
gloves off
to catch the ferry boat

Credits:

“mountain evening” – The Mainichi, June 8,2026; “autumn day” – Autumn Moon Haiku Journal Vol. 9:1, Autumn/Winter 2025-26; “autumn drizzling” – The Mainichi, Nov. 26, 2025; “mom's smile” – Cold Moon Journal Sept. 14, 2025; “winter twilight” – The Mainichi, March 7, 2025; “spring breeze” – LEAF issue 7, August 2025.