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Issue 22: 4 Feb. 2024
Micro-Poem: 6 words
and Photograph
Shahai (aka photo-poem)
By Richa Sharma

 

(arriving)

 

(arriving): shahai (micro-poem plus photo) by Richa Sharma
Untitled shahai (aka photo-poem) © by Richa Sharma.
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arriving without a suitcase spring rain

Richa Sharma
Issue 22 (February 2024)

resides in Ghaziabad, India. She loves reading and writing poetry in her leisure time. Since 2019, her work has appeared in numerous online and print journals dedicated to short Japanese poetry, including Akitsu Quarterly, Failed Haiku, Frogpond, Haiku Dialogue, Presence, seashores, tsuri-dōrō, and others.

Her work has also been appreciated in various international contests like the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2021; 3rd Star Haiku Contest; Japan Fair 2022 Contest; Heliosparrow Poetry Journal’s Semagrams Contest 2022; 7th Radmila Bogojevic International Haiku Competition; 10th Golden Triangle Haiku Contest (2023); 12th Setouchi-Matsuyama International Photo-Haiku Contest in English; and others.

She also served as a contest panelist judge in the 2023 Trailblazer Contest.

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

Marriage, micro-haibun by Richa Sharma in Cafe Haiku (24 March 2023)

Seven Tiny Poems in Ink, Sweat & Tears (13 March 2022)

Ten Micro-Poems in Lothlorian Poetry Journal (14 February 2022)

Ten Haiku by Richa Sharma translated into Japanese by Hidenori Hiruta for World Haiku Series 2019, Akita International Haiku Network (17 July 2020)

 
 
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