• 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…

  • Love song

    This post is a simple one, a tip of the hat to my most favorite love song ever. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s words are the very definition of romance in my mind.  Here’s her most famous sonnet.     Return to Skaypisms for more.

  • A nod to spring

    Am stoked to share my debut in LEAF!  (At the link here)   This issue is gorgeous, and I swallowed it up in one gulp. Beautiful work by so many haikuists of the world, I am honored to be standing among them. I hope you read, comment and most of all, enjoy some beautiful haiku/senryu. …

  • an ode to home

    Valentine month is a celebration in Glomag, where the issue is a paperback available through Amazon.  (At the link here)     Glomag is always a bumper issue with atleast a couple hundred poets contributing, this year’s February issue is no different. Among other beautiful creations, here is my poem this month, some reflections on…

  • On Poetry Pea

    You know how much I fan-girl over Poetry Pea podcast. The podcast host Patricia McGuire has guided me (and many others I’m sure) through the haikai path with her insightful observations, her unmatched haiku reading and her trailblazer guests the past couple of years when I started writing haiku, senryu and other haikai poetry forms.…