Certificates, Awards & Honors

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·       Haiku Master of the Month" (April 2016) by NHK world TV program - Haiku Masters.

·       Haiku Master of the Month" (November 2016) by NHK world TV program - Haiku Masters.

·       Commended haiku, IAFOR haiku awards (2016)

·       Third Place, Samurai Haibun contest [UHTS] (2016)

·       Shortlisted in Touchstone awards for individual poems in 2016.

·       1st place in fourth Sonic Boom senryu contest.

·       First Place for tanka prose - The Maple Relation, in the "Where Tanka Prose Grows" Contest, Mandy's Pages (2016)

·       2nd Place in Tanka Time  Contest, Mandy's Pages (2017)

·       Honourable mention In 6th Matsuyama photo haiku contest, Japan.

·       1st prize in THE 4TH HAIKU CONTEST ON THE THEME OF THE GOURD 2018, The Haiku Association “Three Rivers”,

·       Vancouver Cherry Blossoms haiku ( International Shakura award 2017

Haiku displayed at Golden Triangle USA 2019

Haiku displayed at Golden Triangle USA 2018

Haiga

NHK World TV program - Haiku Masters  September 2017)

NHK World TV program - Haiku Masters November 2016

NHK WORLD TV PROGRAM - HAIKU MASTERS april 2017

Haibun and Tanka prose

Faith

I wonder if I have ever asked anyone to worship my mother. Also I don’t remember anyone asking me to worship their mother. I have mine and they have theirs.

daybreak…

the damaged idol

on the roundabout

First published in Eunoia Reviw ( August 5 2018)

Waters

 Volume scares me. I remember how a mug plunging into a bucket full of water would make me restless during childhood. I don't call it a phobia, just to avoid being labeled. But even the thought of gallons of water wobbling as a whole in oceans is enough to send chills to my spine. Snorkeling is an adventure that I don't want in my life. I didn't want to see life in the swift current of river.

death day

a dip in the river

that took him away

First published in Haibun Today, Volume 11 #3 September 2017

  

Instincts

Every relationship loses its charm and dies, sooner or later. This death can be gradual or fortuitous.

thunderstrike —

the miasma

of his hair oil

First published in Neologism poetry Journal August 218

Sparrow

His touch was warm while our hands brushed in the paper pouchof popcorn but his face had same familiar stern look. I remember how he looked at me when refused to go for a date with him few decades back. "The sunset is so beautiful." He murmured casually. "Yes it is." I couldn't have agreed more. And we watched our grandchildren playing together in the park; his grandchildren with mine.

memorial bench

I watch the sparrow

pecking at popcorn

3rd place (2016 UHTS Samurai Haibun Competition)

The Maple Relation

The maple leaves changed its colors and now the tree is standing bare. Even though it is said that maple is not a good tree to have in your yard; I have no regret for it. I knew it  was not strong enough to face the storm hence I have prepared myself to see it falling too.Once you own a thing, you should be ready to watch all the seasons with it.We wanted a maple, we had it-

for all the things

said and unsaid

you and I

reach where

we ought to be

1st place, where Tanka prose grows , Mandy's pages 2016

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