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Simply Haiku: A Quarterly Journal of Japanese Short Form Poetry
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Summer 2006, vol 4 no 2
TANKA
Kala Ramesh
dry heat . . .
a dip in the cool stream
feeling
the intangible
waterness of water
the thrill
of first rains
in my hands
your hands
first time i held
loneliness
i thought
would kill --
i unwrap
old passions
An exponent of North Indian Classical music, Kala Ramesh is a just-turned-haiku poet. She feels both amazed and humbled by the fact that this great art form has found such an abiding niche in her heart, and writes:
i bow
to the setting sun
the moon rises
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