Tag: #tanka

#haiku 3 & #tanka 11

Hello and welcome to my mid-week haikai and tanka posts. Very pleased to have published these in the Cold Moon Journal. I was even more pleased (actually quite stunned) find that the haiku made it to the journal’s long list for Touchstone nominations 2024.

spring cleaning
we discover mom’s
insecurities

Mohua Maulik
Cold Moon Journal 10th November 2024

planting
peace lilies in beds
overrun
with the same old  
unresolved grudges

Mohua Maulik
Cold Moon Journal 1st February 2025

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#tanka 8

A mid-week tanka for your reading pleasure (hopefully!).

a red rose
behind the shrubs
unseen
she belittles her own
existence

haikuKATHA Issue 30 April 2024

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#tanka 7

Hello everyone, hope you are having a great week. Today after days of sweltering heat, the clouds decided cut us some slack – phew! Below is a tanka of mine for your kind perusal. Do share your thoughts and comments.

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#senryu 1 & #tanka 6

This is my first time posting a senryu. According to the Haiku Society of America, haiku is the “essence of a movement keenly perceived in which nature is linked to human nature”. Senryu, by contrast, is “primarily concerned with human nature; often humorous or satiric”. Although, sometimes the line is blurred, at least for me. So apologies in advance for misnaming either.

Published in Cold Moon Journal

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#tanka 4 & 5

Hello everyone, i am back with a couple of my tanka published in haikuKATHA Issue 34 2024.

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#tanka 2

Shubho Noboborsho!

Wishing you all a very happy Bengali New Year! And my warm, albeit belated, greetings to all for Baisakhi, Vishu, Ugadi, Puthandu, Maha Vishubha Sankranti, Bohag Bihu and (my apologies for the) many more that I am sure to have missed. This New Year, may all our lives be filled with peace and joy.

Posting one of my published tanka for your kind perusal.

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#tanka 1

Hello everyone! Today i present two unpublished tanka for your comments and suggestions

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TankaTuesday#7

Hello and welcome to my second post of the day. A rarity I assure you but the thing is I thought I had posted my entry for Collen’s #TankaTuesday challenge but apparently I had just thought about it. But thankfully, the unexpected rains washed away the pollution daze and I am double posting before it is too late. The rules are to to write in any of the 24 syllabic forms of Japanese poetry using a kigo or season word as an inspiration. While there are 24 seasons in Japan, we are allowed to use season words as per our region.

Here’s my tanka for the challenge:

jobless

browsing the internet for

Diwali deals

buying clothes for

the summer

As you may have guessed, the Indian or dare I say the global festival of lights, Diwali is the kigo word here. Wishing everyone a very Happy and Prosperous Diwali. May all the darkness be banished, evil vanquished and peace reign supreme.

TankaTuesday#6

It’s time for Colleens #TankaTuesday the weekly challenge (October 22 – November 6). The rules are to to write in any of the 24 syllabic forms of Japanese poetry using a kigo or season word as an inspiration. While there are 24 seasons in Japan, we are allowed to use season words as per our region.

Here’s my tanka for the challenge:

hazy morning

jogging before

Diwali

deciding to wear

a sari

Although Diwali could be the kigo word but since this year it is on 12th of November I thought perhaps it may be too early to use it. Yet it may be noted, everything is geared around Diwali now, particularly shopping. But anyway I have used ‘hazy morning’ as the kigo word as this time of the year is notorious for pollution haze, particularly in Delhi region due to a variety of factors which apparently are beyond correction. I am presuming that most, if not all, will be familiar with Diwali the festival of lights when Lord Rama returned home after spending 14 years in the wilderness and defeating the evil King Ravan. A sari is the traditional unstitched garment that is 6 yards (5.5 meters) long. I am hoping the advantages of opting for such an apparel would be self-evident 😉

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TankaTuesday#5

Hello I am back after a week of prayers, celebrations, socializing and gorging 😀 And it’s already time for Colleen’s #TankaTuesday challenge where the rules are to to write in any of the 24 syllabic forms of Japanese poetry using a kigo or season word as an inspiration. While there are 24 seasons in Japan, we are allowed to use season words as per our region.

She leaves

a quietude behind

Vijayadashami

praying for the guns

to fall silent

I have used ‘Vijayadashami’ (literally victory tenth day) as the kigo word here. Vijayadashami (which was on 24th October this year) is celebrated after Navratri and is the 10th day that marks the end of Durga Puja and the celebration of Her victory over Mahishasura (the buffalo demon) and the triumph of good over evil. After the celebrations, there is a hush and lull in the neighborhood.

Vijayadashami is also celebrated as Dussehra, the day when Lord Rama defeated the evil king Raavan, whose effigies are burnt to symbolize the burning of the evils within us as well as the triumph of good over evil.

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