Haiku by Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta
an impromptu singalong
with crickets—
candle running out
Under the Bashō (April 2022)
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thunderstorm—
pilot announces a detour
through Sagittarius
tsuri-dōrō, issue #9 (May 2022)
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monsoon wind —
sparrows and undergarments
drying on clothesline
haikuKATHA, issue #10 (August 2022)
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bowl of hot ramen
… for a moment I consider
using chopsticks
haikuKATHA, issue #10 (August 2022)
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expired milk her crankiness simmering
The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue (September 2022)
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wintry night—
i weave the howl
into the bedtime story
The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue (September 2022)
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evening walk—
a stray dog’s half-tail
in full swing
NVHA’s Haiku In Action (September 2022)
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fading light—
a cricket
too eager to sing
haikuKATHA, issue #11 (September 2022)
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early winter—
a red-nosed doctor
scribbles words
haikuKATHA, issue #11 (September 2022)
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the sun still little egret
Whiptail, issue #5 (November 2022)
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Bio:
Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta is passionate about what the haikai poetic forms like haiku, senryu and haiga allow a writer to do. Bashō’s haiku inspire him to look closely at nature and revel in its paradoxical simplicity and complexity. Issa’s haiku inspire him to appreciate all life with a sensitivity we afford to our own. To one day write haiku like these great Japanese masters did and provide readers with the transformative experience their haiku do is a life long goal that he intends to pursue. It is also his dream to publish haiku collections one day. His confidence about publishing some day lies not in his own ability but in the world and the universe that is so incredibly complicated and layered that there are bound to be things that truly bring out the best in his creative spirit.
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