Kala Ramesh
. . .
tea ceremony before an open window
shoshin
lotus
pond
a cuckoo's song fills
gone
are
the days
her empty bowl
I
wanted
more
moon after moon the river keeps giving
About the Author
Kala Ramesh is a renowned pioneer in the field of haikai literature in India. Her 2017 book Beyond the Horizon Beyond was awarded a Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize Certificate.
Beautiful, Kala.
Thank you so much, Terri.
Just saw your comment now.
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Dear Kala,
Like Virginia Woolf’s waves, your lines swell and simmer, contract, expand into one continuous wave, and are something else entirely their own, not hers. Yet, how like a book for the space and duration, the breath of those five elements it gives, this unique haibun. Thank you.
With love,
Donna
Dear Donna,
Thank you so much.
So very happy this poem works so well for you.
How well you have described it.
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warmest,
_kala