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Daily Verse
 

Week 4, January 2024
 

Image by Terry Tan De Hao

The Morn
by Latika Singha  22nd  January 2024

Tropical Flower

the morn


tip toeing
on a
dulcet note,

spreading across
the sky,

like a slow
smile, on a
beauteous visage,

gradually
revealing

beauty on beauty, hue
on hue,

bewitching
brilliance

Image by Denis Sebastian Tamas

Poems

by Jahnavi Gogoi, 23rd January 2024

Rosemary and Olives
Image by Chris Chow

Scarlet Cardinal 

frisky in a blizzard

last  man standing 

Image by Jason Leung

Morning run

around the Lotus pond 

i bloom anew

Image by Anton Atanasov

First day of spring 

a ladybug on the threshold 

my infant coos a new song

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Warm December Day
ByJennifer Gurney 24th January 2024

Intricate Snowflake

car windows

rolled down

in December

 

patio door

slid open wide

for the time

 

letting out

the old stale air

of winter

 

breathing deep

from the well

of new life

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Haiku

by Govind Joshi 25th January 2024

Crayon
Image by Johannes Plenio

north star
we correct
our course

Image by jaikishan patel

summer afternoon
a farmer resting
under the jackfruit tree

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after the storm
sweeping
the yard

Image by Jakob Owens

I am not barren
By Shafkat Aziz Hajam,  26th January 2024

Flower Girl

I am not barren .

My fecundity has not dwindled yet.

Enough as before to bringforth blossoms of all sorts and I do .

Alas ! Frequent invasions of atrocious autumn

Debilitates their potency to bloom in full

To show my greatness in their daintiness and redolence

That would once captivate aves from overseas

To warble in praise of my nature.

O Heaven! Free me from this brutish autumn,

Can’t endure it any more .

To glitter with my flair

Let clement spring reign over me.

Biographies of Poets

Latika Singha, ever enchanted by the written and spoken ' word ', lives in jaipur, with her green friends, friends with paws and some spirited fellow humans. She is also besotted by expression in hindustani.. and absorbs herself, reading and writing in this lovely language too..

Jahnavi Gogoi’s poetry has been published in Haiku Corner by The Japan Society, Shadow Pond Journal, The Leaf Journal, haikuNetra, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Cold Moon Journal, The Usawa Literary review, Borderless Journal, The Chakkar, Poems India, Lothlorien Poetry Journal among others. She won the first prize in the poetry writing competition organized by the Chandigarh Literary Society in the year 2022 for her poem ‘If this isn’t love’. She writes a lot about her native state of Assam, India, having spent her early childhood years in the shadow of the Patkai hills in northeast India. Jahnavi now lives in the beautiful town of Ajax in Ontario, Canada with her husband and daughter.

Jennifer Gurney lives in Colorado where she teaches, paints, writes and hikes. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of journals, including Daily Verse, The Ravens Perch, HaikUniverse, Haiku Corner, Cold Moon Journal, Scarlet Dragonfly and The Haiku Foundation.

Govind Joshi is a mariner and navigates ships around the world for a living. He lives in Dehradun, India and loves nature, gardening, travel and poetry. His Japanese short form poetry has been published in many fine print and online journals including Frogpond, Presence, cattails and chrysanthemum. 

Shafkat Aziz Hajam is a poet, reviewer and co-author. He is the author of two children poetry collections titled as The Cuckoo’s Voice, The Canary’s Voice and The Unknown Wounded Heart. His poems have appeared in international magazines and anthologies like Wheel song anthology UK, Prodigy, digital literary magazine USA, Inner Child Press International anthology USA, SAARC anthology etc. He has also written more than hundred funny limericks for children. Currently, he is working as a private school English language teacher. 

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