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protected by their ego shields (tanka)

Two rivals, protected by their ego shields, belting each other with sharp, cutting words.

December 17, 2023

protected
by their ego shields
two rivals
belting each other
with knife-sharp words

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PART OF A COLLECTION

The Way and 2 other poems

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Kala Ramesh

Kala Ramesh is an award-winning poet, editor, and anthologist who received a Pushcart Prize nomination in Modern Haiku (51.3) for her haibun β€œOn Slippery Ground.” Her book of haiku and haibun, Beyond the Horizon Beyond, was shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize in 2019, and HarperCollins published her book of tanka and tanka prose, The Forest I Know, in July 2021. She is the founder and creative director of Triveni Haikai India and the founder of haikuKATHA Journal.

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