And The Story Continues…
written by: Kala Ramesh
@HaikuCrazee
Words and more words spill out from every cell. Words, mere words, I say, and try to blow them away, like black ants climbing up my leg.
Soon these words have strung onto my other thoughts, working havoc with my sleep. I sit up and find a poem ready to be singled out.
blossoms
turn with the wind:
a burst of colours
Meditating on this image, I get back to sleep, assuming I’ll soon be deep in the valley of slumber, only to hear the rumblings of another poem.
a clog
of floating weeds —
I become the river
A Pushcart Prize-nominated haikai poet and mentor, Kala Ramesh is the Founder and Director of Triveni Haikai India, Founder and Managing Editor of haikuKATHA Journal. Her book of haiku and haibun Beyond the Horizon Beyond was shortlisted for the Tagore Literary Prize in 2019. Her third book – the forest I know – published by HarperCollins, was launched at the prestigious Jaipur Literature Festival in March 2022. She received the WE Trailblazer Poet Teacher Award 2020, from Women Empowered India. Kala is the haiku editor at Under the Basho since its inception in 2013.
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