Lakshmi Iyer Archives - The Haiku Foundation

New to Haiku: Advice for Beginners — Lakshmi Iyer

Today at New to Haiku, let's meet Lakshmi Iyer. Lakshmi's haiku and senryu have appeared in publications worldwide, including Wales Haiku Journal, whiptail: journal of the single-line poem, failed haiku, Haikuniverse, Under the Basho, and haikuKATHA. One of her haiku…

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Beata Czeszejko — freedom is the big theme: commentaries on "old age home/the sudden urge/to climb a tree" by John Pappas

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Colette Kern: fixing the changing times: comments on "stamp album— /a page from a country/that no longer is" by Linda Papanicolaou

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Lorin Ford — all metaphor: commentaries on "in a room/I never go in/the ticking clock" by Robert Epstein.

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Jonathan Epstein — nothing is ordinary: comments on "old coat/closer and closer/to my dad" by Sébastien Revon

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Ann Smith: set free — comments on "a heron’s flight/in my/self-propelled wheelchair" by Goran Lowrie

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Amanda White — mourning the child now grown: commentaries on "bookmark/where my son/grew too old" by Chad Lee Robinson.

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Sébastien Revon — the essence of beginnings: commentaries on "Today/our story starts/with cherry blossoms." by Chloe Chan

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Sushama Kapur: classic horror - commentaries on "the scream it owns just before it" by John Hawkhead

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Amoolya Kamalnath — the wealth packed into a simple ku: commentaries on "garden party/the brief appearance/of butterflies" by Bryan Rickert

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Melanie Alberts — a haiku that's not too enigmatic

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Amanda White — a deeply relatable haiku

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Sébastien Revon - a surrealist poem of longing and awe — commentary on Peter Yovu's poem "sunrise darkens the face I dream with"

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Barbara Sabol - connecting a natural event with personal emotion

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Patricia McGuire - a journey to the other side of the haiku

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Ann Smith - looking at the moon

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Melanie Alberts - a time to say goodbye

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Sushama Kapur - with flying colours

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Peggy Bilbro's imagination is inspired

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Sushama Kapur is caught in a moment.