Shloka Shankar
Born 1989 in Bangalore, India
Living in Bangalore, India
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autumn’s stillness stencilled on my breath
Under the Basho (One-line haiku section, 2015)
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exchange student
I barter grammar
for love
The Bamboo Hut (Autumn 2015)
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piggyback ride
I wonder if this too
is déjà ku
The Bamboo Hut (Autumn 2015)
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blending colours the blackbird’s song
brass bell: a haiku journal (September 1, 2015)
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gossamer the length of a dream
A Hundred Gourds 5:1 (December 2015)
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tipping the balance a nightjar’s call
shufPoetry (Issue 5, October 2015)
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daylight savings
my biological clock
runs backwards
Whispers (October 13, 2015)
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summertime filigreed on my mind
Frameless Sky (Issue 3, December 2015)
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typecast as a verb the moon tonight
Bones Journal (Issue 8, November 2015)
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amnesia
watching re-runs
for the first time
Failed Haiku (Vol. 1, issue 1, January 2016)
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voice
over
i
become
my
mother
Failed Haiku (Vol. 1, issue 1, January 2016)
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alzheimer's . . .
a goldfish circles
the same spot
Whispers (December 17, 2015)
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ivory tower shadows of loneliness
A Hundred Gourds 4:2 (March 2015)
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Schrödinger's moth stares back at me
moongarlic E-zine (Issue 3, November 2014)
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cow's lick
making the same mistakes
over and over
cattails (September 2014)
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a baton whooshes in C#
Bones Journal (Issue 6, March 2015)
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sleepless I whistle through my nose
Whispers (March 24, 2015)
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one-third of my past soars higher on Garuda’s wing
Whispers (March 24, 2015)
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carousel
i chase a dream
backwards
High Coupe (April 14, 2015)
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rolling down the same road again tumbleweed
Presence (Issue 52, 2015)
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chry
sa
lis
turn
ing
in
to
some
one
i’m
not
moongarlic E-zine (Issue 4, May 2015)
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in media res the dreamscape of our lives
the other bunny (June 2, 2015)
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blowing smoke the way you
the other bunny (August 10, 2015)
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before and after the wasteland white butterflies
The Zen Space (July 3, 2015)
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tapping into my kundalini this rain
Under the Basho (One-line haiku section, 2015)
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forked road
the choices that
never mattered
Daily Haiku, Cycle 18 (January 22, 2015)
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New Year's eve . . .
the things that will
remain the same
Wild Plum 1:1 (March 2015)
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alphabet soup
I mentally run
spell check
Whispers (January 16, 2015)
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from the corner of my eye pigeon’s flight
Daily Haiku, Cycle 18 (March 01, 2015)
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not so long ago the colour of silence
Daily Haiku, Cycle 18 (March 02, 2015)
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hyphenated the twig between branches
Daily Haiku, Cycle 18 (March 07, 2015)
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reunion
she swallows
her commas
Prune Juice (Issue Fifteen, March 2015)
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odd sock
wondering what I saw
in you
Frozen Butterfly (Issue 2, April 2015)
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the lag between breaths white space
Frozen Butterfly (Issue 2, April 2015)
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rejection mail –
blaming it on bad
Feng Shui
Under the Basho (Modern Haiku section, 2015)
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dusky skies –
somewhere, a daisy
closes in
Creatrix #25, June 2014
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fruit flies
the decay of what
we were
Prune Juice, July 2014
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shooting star . . .
too many things
to wish for
Under The Basho, (Modern Haiku Section), 2014
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late summer . . .
watching a dog
chase its tail
A Hundred Gourds: 3:4, September 2014 (Haiga)
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darkness visible a firefly burns itself out
Daily Haiga (August 2, 2014)
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partition –
a soldier's limb lies
in no man's land
World Haiku Review, August, 2014 (Third Place in Vanguard Haiku)
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graphite moon . . .
a bat's wing spans
its radius
Daily Haiku, Cycle 18 (October 26, 2014)
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crimson leaves . . .
the evening rustles
into a hush
Daily Haiku, Cycle 18 (October 29, 2014)
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scrabble
all the whys
in my life
Haigaonline XV no. 2, Autumn 2014 (Concrete Haiku)
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autumn deepens . . .
the family portrait hangs
from a rusty nail
Creatrix #25, June 2014
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cherry blossoms . . .
they make way
for the hearse
ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK, April 2014
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barely spring . . .
clear skies reflected
in the thaw
ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK, March 2014
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fishing trip . . .
his fingers smell of
canned tuna
brass bell: a haiku journal, May 2014
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still pond . . .
the growing ripples
within
Whispers, April 2014
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open field . . .
the ladybug glides down
a blade of grass
cattails, May 2014
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photo album
Maud's fading youth
before her
Shiki Kukai Free Format Entry, April 2014
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half-moon . . .
just the glow-worms and me
Creatrix #25 Haiku – June 2014
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fiery skies . . .
the silence between us
deepens
Creatrix #25 Haiku – June 2014
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winter chill . . .
the patchwork quilt smells
of memories
Issa's Untidy Hut, Wednesday Haiku #181 ( June 2014)
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mayfly . . .
his face now
a memory
A Hundred Gourds, 3:3 June 2014
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evening lull . . .
the hoary whisperings
of the sea
The Bamboo Hut Press, 2014
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spring field . . .
cottony clouds drift
into nothingness
World Haiku Review: Spring Issue, April 2014