Friday, January 16, 2015

Haiku/Senryu--By Shloka Shankar--India

alphabet soup
I mentally run
spell check
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the myths i believe in silver lining
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laundry day...
the stains of memory
still intact
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January...
a little too warm
for winter
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mnemonic
all the things
I'm supposed to forget
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Shloka Shankar is a freelance writer residing in India. Her work appears in over two dozen international anthologies including publications by Paragram, Silver Birch Press, Minor Arcana Press, Harbinger Asylum, Kind of a Hurricane Press and Writing Knights Press among others. Her poems, erasures, haiku & tanka have appeared in numerous print and online journals. She is also the editor of the literary and arts journal, Sonic Boom.

6 comments:

  1. Hi Shloka. Love the haiku, especially the first one. Very creative. Thank you for sharing and continued blessings!

    -MJ (www.tgbtgpublictions.com)

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  2. Superb haiku Shloka. I love that first one as well

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  3. Very nice! Yes, the first one is great.

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  4. Thank you so much, Maurice, Maureen and Peggy :) Glad you liked the first one :) :)

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  5. Shioka, the one that grabbed me was, "the myths I believe in silver lining". It confirmed for me a wonderful experience I had this morning and know for sure that every cloud has a silver lining. But all your Haiku is wonderful. Thank you for sharing your talent.
    Charlene

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  6. Schloka, such a few and simple bunch of words strung together into meaningful sentiments. Thank you.

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