• far from failed_haiku

    It has been a couple of months since the one of a kind haikai journal shut its doors. I have noticed it to be the fate of several journals these days, and wonder if it has to do with editor-burnout. One does get exhausted with taking care of life while at the same time running…


  • Y is for Yearn Aches lie in the heart, And love shines through the moon. For all that is forfeit and all that is attained; For all that is forborne and all that is endured; For paths untrodden and dreams unrealized, Yearning sings slow her melancholic notes. And slashes the spirit into chains of tears.…


  • X: (I couldn’t post this last night due to a power outage in our area. So today is a day for two posts!) Wind played in Mark’s red curly locks. He smiled, as he pedaled harder, sweat dripping down his brow and down his neck. He loved bicycling down this road. The sky dipped down…


  • W is for Wary I’ve always thought of myself as a carefree person. Recently, I was jolted into reality by a look from a colleague at lunch: What sort of Indian are you, whimpering at the sight of red flakes on her plate? My mum always had a theory about capsaicin and its corrosive effect…


  • V is for Vexed So totally want to, like, stamp my foot, and, like, slam the door at the same time as want to, like, coolly raise my eyebrow, toss my head, you know, and, like, glide out or something? Confused, man, so totally, like, confused. Vexed is, I think, a teenage emotion. Not the…