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Maurice Nevile: enlisting the reader. Commentaries on "traffic jam / my small son asks / who made God" by Peggy Willis Lyles
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Ashoka Weerakkody — an inspiring headline: commentaries on the reversed vertical poem: "roof of the world no room to brea th e" by Roland Packer.
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Sheila Barksdale — if it works... commentaries on "singing bowl/the room swept clean/of sorrow" by Sally Biggar
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Jonathan Epstein — the singular harmony of a shared meal. Commentaries on "pumpkin soup/the family's oneness/in slurps" by Aparna Pathak
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Lakshmi Iyer—caught in a world of desires: commentaries on "eternal life/even the cuckoo wants it/summer night" by Deborah A. Bennett
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Harriet Thistlethwaite — a bid for freedom: commentaries on "plein air painting--/I fill my brush/with the sky" by Carole MacRury
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Chloe Chan — look closer and find something special: commentaries on "on the tip/of the bird's beak/a drop of rainbow" by Earl Livings
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Dan Campbell — missing the magnificent magnolia: commentaries on: "the magnolia / wasn't ours, but its absence / is" by Patricia J. Machmuller.
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Beata Czeszejko — seeing wisdom in imperfection: commentaries on "opening the window/to a moth and what's left/of the moon" by Sanjuktaa Asopa
New to Haiku: Dealing With Rejection
(This post was updated on August 15, 2023, to clarify a comment from Joshua Gage.) So, you’ve written and edited a set of ten amazing haiku. You’ve studied the markets and found the perfect place to submit. You are now…
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Lakshmi Iyer — knowing the bad touch from the good: commentaries on "scars on my wrist / the man who begged me / to call him uncle" by Roberta Beary
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Haiku of the Day for August 2023 on the theme of the Amrit Kaal - The Golden Era as selected by Lakshmi Iyer
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