• TV Light Makes My Black Tea Blood Red

    There is a call to action. And then there is the complete paralysis of disbelief.

  • On a little cloud numbered nine.

    It has been very long since I sent in a submission. But failed haiku had a new submissions calendar, and I was running around a bit less stressed. So here are some senryu that made it into the journal. Check out the other poems in this lovely journal here: failed haiku For a wee memory of…

  • IWD 2025

    Humans have been around for so long, and yet somehow the species has still so much to learn about itself. I have failed to understand what prompts people to justify second class citizen treatment of women. Women have to constantly perform twice as well to be recognized as half as good.   As a species…

  • Winter blues

      All around us is a tug of war. A tug here and a tug there. By people and peoples who are not the ones dying. Not the ones living their fears. Not the ones whose blood flows. And yet so many tugs. And among all these tugs and stretches it is the common man…

  • A little marvel!

      Late post!This news is so dear to me because @pealogic had published my very first haiku back in 2021! In 2024, my ku muggy afternoonseven the dog blinksone eye at a time was nominated for the Touchstone Award. Being one of the nominees is for me an award in itself because of the number…