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