The Bamboo Hut - Vol 2 Features My Tanka :)

Well - in two days from now you will get to see the link to my Haiku book. I just completed my book cover. Tomorrow, the day is to finish my final stage proof read. The cover is designed by me and looks so beautiful. I am quite unwell. I am writing this post with a canal in my arm. It hurts but after I finished my cover page - I am so happy.

After this book - I will be taking good rest for couple of months with just meditating and exercising with my instructors. I have seen a quite unwell time for the last three months. Time to pull up my socks to be back in shape and lose 4 kgs that I have gained (:...glad my inches are still the same but I am not happy with my health...so please send me wishes and prayers when you read this post!

Though, I will keep blogging :) and will be writing a haiku a day.

THE BAMBOO HUT, Vol 2 is published  and you can read my tanka on page 2 of the current issue at the link below:

http://www.calameo.com/read/0024790772224ebc91213

OR Visit my FB official author page to view the embedded link.

Keep watching this place. Just two days from now - I will announce the book.

Stay blessed<3

Good night!

Haiku Published in Tamarind Magazine :)

Dear Readers --

My two haiku published in Tamarind Magazine (August 2014 and September 2014), inspired by Chris Postle's art work.

mood swings -
changing colours of water
in the midsummer

(http://issuu.com/marybarber2/docs/tamarind___9_-_final)

August 2014
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alone at dusk -
swirling on their shadows
a swan and two cygnets

September 2014

(http://issuu.com/marybarber2/docs/tamarind___10_final)

Buona Notte!!

Senryu Mood !!

LOL...I just submitted my senryu for the first time. If it gets rejected for this journal, I will send it to others. For next three days, I just want to work on my first Haiku book.  

Yes, I am making a big canvas for Diwali and also making candles from next week. Keep reading this space of my blog for the release of my haiku book and senryu updates. I died of laughing after reading my own senryu.....:)

Proud to share a poem (though I think it is best to address it as a limerick) written by my mother. I guess, I would love to introduce myself like this...<3

Neither I am fat nor thin

But I am in between

Neither I am milky nor cheesy

But I am very choosy

Neither I am pretty nor sweet

But I expect a good treat

Neither I am young nor so old

But I am very very bold

If anyone makes me his/her friend 

The choice is at their end

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Happy Weekend!

Control Your Breathing. Pattern !!

I am almost half-way of my reading - 'Fault in our Stars' by John Green. I am watching the movie chapter by chapter. A line by Augustus Waters in the Support Group - 'My roller coaster just goes up....and up' inspires me to live my life better and better :)...

I like the book as it marks a journey between life and death. It makes one believe in destiny and GOD!!

I just opened the window of 'Garden Of Chocolates' for corporate and festive orders, today morning. Spring cleaning is in full swing as I see myself getting lot more busier in next few weeks. 

Last night, I was out for a family dinner. At the table, I listened to a great remedy for all pains, anger, despair and negativity. The art to live better - if we learn to control our breathing.

I give an example from my experience. When we are angry, we gulp words or stammer at couple of letters. This happens as we do not breath properly. We lose breathe, we lose our control of energy travelling to mind, and finally end up in stammering or gulping words. Imagine a priest who teach us are always calm, and their words really reach us in the right way. It happens as they have full control on their mind as they have control. Couple of minutes ago, I tried to follow it. So many things are told but I tried to control my mind by controlling my breathing pattern.

Anyways, 'Fault in our Stars' is a must read for my all readers.

Happy Monday!

Updates About Haiku -

The book is almost done! I am making the book cover and proofreading the work again. I might take few more weeks before I announce this book. This book will include all my published and ranked haiku as well. A number of new ku to make you feel proud of buying this book. I have also made notes around haiku for beginners with good examples from my work. I want my book to be read by every person irrespective of the fact - whether they know about haiku or not. I want a good mesmerising book cover just like my beauty :)))...I am not kidding ;). I plan to launch the kindle book and maybe audio book as well.

My one-line haiku is also published here at the below link - brass bell: a haiku journal

One- line haiku also published with many other haiku friends.

http://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.in/2014/09/one-line-haiku.html

I won 6th Place in a PoetrySoup Contest, and 3rd Place in a Caribbean Kukai Contest.

Below is the link to my haiga that got published in Dailyhaiga on September 1st, 2014.

http://www.dailyhaiga.org/haiga-archives/1440/-mood-swings-by-archana-kapoor-nagpal-india

In today's Asahi Haikuist Network my two haiku have been shortlisted. I really like the way, David McMurray puts up his column. Thanks for a special mention in the 'FROM THE NOTEBOOK' section. I always wanted to be more featured in this column as it is really read by international students learning haiku. To read my work - please visit the below link:

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/cool_japan/style/AJ201409050004

Kanna - Read The Bday Wish Today!!

All I can write for a wish - Thank You. It means a lot to kanna, and will always!

Well, FB is strange as it sends a wish I waited the whole day to my 'others folder'. I just saw the 'others folder' as there were two messages. If 1000 people wish us and one person does not wish us - people like me wait for that one wish over the 1000 wishes. I guess all of us are like that. I hardly check my 'others' folder. So many messages come in a day and I hate to check them. I wish I would have checked it on my birthday. I thought my friend forgot my birthday. I thought deep inside that I invested in a wrong friend. Worse, I could not share with anyone how I felt the whole day. It happens ....you deserve too much from life, at times. I kept questioning - how can my friend forget my birthday and did all my calculations...blah blah....human nature...(:...But I assumed 'All is only for good - just to convince myself or the silly mind'.

But does that really matter. When you think of a friend every day, it does not matter. When you love your friend every day, it does not matter. And if you miss them every day, it does not matter whether they wished on your bday or not. But the fact remains - we still wait for that one wish!!!

It was a moonless night on my birthday. I could not talk to the moon about how I felt. At times, the moon helps me to answer my questions.

I also waited. All I can write for a wish - Thank You. It means a lot to kanna, and will always!

Hope my friend reads this as my friend never visits my blog. My friend does not even know I write a message on his/her birthday every August and push it to drafts before the next day starts. Maybe, some day my friend will visit my blog. And I will continue to write that one birthday message every year - as I feel true wishes reach our loved ones. Too late or may be never - I really don't know!!

Peace, Kanna!!

Sixth Position :)

Another contest and I got so many congratulations messages. Then I realised my haiku is on 6th place and so much appreciated.  Below is the link. Thanks for this.

http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/poem_detail.aspx?ID=590931