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Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta)

@coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social

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Haikai Poet • Sumi-e/Ink/Animation/Photography & miscellaneous creative dabblings Editor: @haikuseed.bsky.social journal Twitter/IG: @coffeeandhaiku / @thetwistedperspectives

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Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · Dec 11

🗓️ The Everyday Poem

[The plan is to keep building this poem endlessly (hopefully) by posting short stanzas now and then that builds on the previous.]

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Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · 29d

Hey! So it is called a thermal printer, used for label printing generally. I don't know how it works but it doesn't use ink and sort of uses heat to print on a special kind of paper for thermal printing. 😁

Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · Sep 17

Trying everything I can to get back to writing poetry. Using a portable inkless printer seems to be doing the trick.

#poem

wind chimes
come alive
by thunder
ring for me
to come sit
at the edge
of a teasing drizzle.

i unglue myself
from the screen
and fold the laptop

i unfurl and fly
to the porch
and drink
the shapeless sea
through every pore
on my face
cracked but whole.

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Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · Sep 17

Invisible to-do list items.

A small white paper sticking out of a portable palm-sized printer with the following text:

To Do List:
- yesterday's dreams

Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · Sep 17

#senryu #haiga

A haiga printed on a small bill/receipt size paper with some barcodes and a QR code. The senryu reads

self-checkout
... the mindless hand
picking up
one more thing

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · Jul 28

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

— Martin Luther King
#quote

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Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social · Jul 28

gesturing with a bread stick
the retired baker

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Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · Jul 28

A #haiga

#haiku #monoku

A haiga with minimal artwork. On a slightly orange-tinted background, a few thin horizontal red lines among thin black lines. They depict a rough scene of spring, red flowers among wild grass.

The haiku/monoku reads:

spring in passing a snail

Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · Jul 28

And enough grief to fill the halls of a million gods with fervent prayers.

if we stay consistent
with our symbolism
there is enough grief
in this world to fly
flags at half-mast
from east to west
until the end of time

Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · Jul 27

anguishing over coming up with fresh material
in a world that offers as inspiration
the same violence
every day, every night

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Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · Jul 27

Turned it into a visual poem. And an accompanying rant.

A minimal visual poem.

To the bottom of the image are five short horizontal red lines. Hovering above them is a pitch black sun.

Inside the sun, in white text:

to conceive of such a thing as providence...
digging two-feet-long graves

The calluses we grow through each minute of life on this planet hide from us the fact about how fundamental it is that life ought to be treated with gentleness, and how far strayed we are - as individuals, as a collective, as sects within the collective, as sects that believe in grand things that ought to have prevented these sects from keeping the cycle of violence spinning. The utter failure to recognize the failure of the whole enterprise of religions, stark-naked as a fish rotting to the bone on the shore, is where the final straw breaks for some. Hope? What hope does this world offer if we have to beg it to not kill children?

Two-feet-long graves. A tale as old as time.
For those killed in war.
For those killed in infanticide.
For those killed as sacrifice.
For those killed by disease.

And that's just two-feer-long graves for human children.

Then there's the unspoken-for lot. Not that the spoken-for lot have any brighter fortune.

For the rats in the labs.
For the monkeys in the cages.
For the peacocks on our plates.
For the minks we wear.

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Becky @beekyhd.bsky.social · Jul 27

A mosquito that would bleed profusely if you slapped it

(Google translate)

やる気わくわくちゃん @6630.bsky.social · Jul 27

叩いたら大量に血が出そうな蚊 #夏 #俳句 #haiku

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Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social · Jul 27

restless night
kicked out of bed
by a dream

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Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · Jul 27

reading Circe
into the night
balcony jasmines

#haiku

A dimly lit photo of the book 'Circe' by Madeline Miller.

Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · Jul 27

to conceive of such a thing as providence...
digging two-feet-long graves

#poem

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Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · Jul 27

i wake up
with incomplete thoughts...
cooing pigeon

#haiku

Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · Jul 27

time tick-tocking
in detached coldness

to a jarring end
come many warm desires

#micropoem #poem

Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · Jun 3

We can only hope to find some semblance of objectivity by showing compassion towards as many perspectives as possible.

#sumie #chinesepainting #japanesepainting #bonsai #meditativeart #inkpainting #painting #sketchbook

A sumi-e like painting in a sketchbook.

A bonsai in a planter with vague clouds of leaves and pink flowers. A grey branch streaks across the frame with the word 'Perspective' written above it.

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Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · Jun 2

ringing ears—
not so bad as
the last missile

#senryu #micropoem

Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · Jun 2

Another grumpy frog.

#sumie #chinesepainting #digitalart #frog #inkart #enso #meditativeart

A sumi-e like painting.

A grumpy looking frog sitting before green grass with pink flowers. It is surrounded by water. A red ensō in the background, like a rising sun.

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Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · May 27

It is already another bloody sunrise, is it?
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#sumie #sumi #sumiink #inkpainting #inkart #painting #chinesepainting #japanesepainting #frog #frogcore #frogart #minimalart #suibokuga #procreate #meditativeart

A sumi-e like artwork.

A frog, caricature-like, is sitting in grass with a puzzled, almost-irritated, look. Dragonflies are actively flying about and around it. A red sun in the form of an enso is rising behind the frog.

Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · May 26

Springboarding onto a moon rising from one part of heaven into another.
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#artwork #painting #neon #frog #frogart #nightart #lakeside #paintingart #enso #meditativeart #nature

A glowing dual-tone artwork. It is a night scene with a glowing white enso representing the moon.

There is a mound of land amidst a water body, everything lit and glowing in soft moonlight. There are a bunch of grasses on the small mound. A glowing frog is midair, as if jumping onto the moon.

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Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social · May 26

night owl
a flashlight walking
down the street
#NaHaiWriMo

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Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · May 26

Series: The World According to Man
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#sumie #sumiink
#digitalart #meditativeart #artivism #poetry #micropoetry #visualpoetry

A sumi-e like painting of a flower with many petals and sharp long leaves behind it flowing in the air.

The poem reads:

in a world drunk on divine symbolism,
what do 12,331 nuclear warheads symbolize?

Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · May 26

Series: The World According to Man
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#sumie #sumiink
#digitalart #meditativeart #artivism #poetry #micropoetry #visualpoetry

A sumi-e like painting of a bowl of steaming food with chopsticks resting on the top of the bowl. A red sun hangs over the bowl.

The poem reads:

the veil is off
with veal on the plate

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Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social · May 26

Series: The World According to Man
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#sumie #sumiink
#digitalart #meditativeart #artivism #poetry #micropoetry #visualpoetry

An artwork in the style of sumi-e. Minimal with black ink on white background.

A red sun hangs beyond bamboo leaves and shoots.

The poem reads:
the spores of life too dumb
to stay beyond the borders

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