Sarang Bhand
Marjorie Pezzoli
Christina Chin
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Facing the Sun
fallen clay
becomes bronze
the patina of bruises ~ Marjorie Pezzoli
park swing in disuse
rusted metal ~ Christina Chin
melting slowly
in devotional fire
to be born anew ~ Sarang Bhand
stoking the forge
heat of the moment
moving past pain ~ Marjorie Pezzoli
from form to formless
evolution of self ~ Sarang Bhand
baked in the sun
threshing sunflower
seeds on the ground ~ Christina Chin
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Bio
Christina Chin is a painter and haiku poet from Malaysia. She is a four-time recipient of top 100 in the mDAC Summit Contests, exhibited at the Palo Alto Art Center, California. 1st prize winner of the 34th Annual Cherry Blossom Sakura Festival 2020 Haiku Contest. 1st prize winner in the 8th Setouchi Matsuyama 2019 Photohaiku Contest. She has been published in numerous journals, multilingual journals, and anthologies, including Japan's prestigious monthly Haikukai Magazine.
Marjorie Pezzoli is a silk painter over 30 years, a visual artist, storyteller, and haikuist. Her writings cover joy, hope, grief, and cosmic wonders. Nature is a huge inspiration. Since 2019 her poems have been published in numerous poetry anthologies and online journals. Her work deals with grief, hope, earth stewardship, and cosmic wonders. Photos taken while out walking Beau, the dog with Betty Davis eyes, inspires much of her work. Marjorie looks for words worth more than a thousand images. wwwPezzoliart.com
Sarang Bhand is an entrepreneur working in the clean-tech space. When he is not troubleshooting projects, he likes to spend time writing over the weekends. He is a keen student of the Japanese poetry forms and likes to write senryu exploring the subtleties of day to day observations and human tendencies. His writings can be found @ih_klektik on X (previously Twitter).
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