Friday, May 8, 2015

Haiku/Senryu--By Shloka Shankar--India

blank page
the scent of thought
unformed
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chicken breast
i marinate my ego
a little longer
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singed at the horizon a lace of pink
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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.

8 comments:

  1. These are very cool and artistic, Shloka. Your word paintings are beautiful. The last one reminds me of an oil painting I did.......... cool! Sheri

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  2. Shioka, thank you for sharing these well written and interesting haiku. I loved them all.
    Charlene

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  3. You have a lovely touch with words. I enjoyed them all. Ralph.

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  4. I don't know much about haikus, but these I definitely enjoyed reading! Great work!

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  5. Hi Shloka. I enjoyed reading your haiku, especially the second one. Got nice chuckle out of it. Thank you for sharing and continued blessings!

    -MJ (www.tgbtgpublictions.com)

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  6. I thought your first Haiku was truly wonderful. You have done an excellent job.

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  7. Hello Shioka, I think the gist of these writes gets through in a most expressive way..'

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