A new verse from returning contributor Shloka Shankar:
𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘰𝘯. We render the noir of sleep
— Shloka Shankar
𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘰𝘯. We render the noir of sleep
— Shloka Shankar
…
evening all afternoon. We render the noir of sleep — Shloka Shankar
dadakuku.com
March 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A new verse from returning contributor Shloka Shankar:
𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘰𝘯. We render the noir of sleep
— Shloka Shankar
𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘰𝘯. We render the noir of sleep
— Shloka Shankar
A new verse from returning contributor Shloka Shankar:
psychedelic winds the paranoia feeds itself
— Shloka Shankar
psychedelic winds the paranoia feeds itself
— Shloka Shankar
…
psychedelic winds the paranoia feeds itself — Shloka Shankar
dadakuku.com
August 26, 2026 at 2:58 PM
A new verse from returning contributor Shloka Shankar:
psychedelic winds the paranoia feeds itself
— Shloka Shankar
psychedelic winds the paranoia feeds itself
— Shloka Shankar
Ich erforsche gerade, wie Friedrich Schlegel die altindische Strophenform Shloka für sich entdeckt, und erst jetzt fallen mir die unendlichen Wortwitzmöglichkeiten von Schlegel/Shloka auf.
June 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Ich erforsche gerade, wie Friedrich Schlegel die altindische Strophenform Shloka für sich entdeckt, und erst jetzt fallen mir die unendlichen Wortwitzmöglichkeiten von Schlegel/Shloka auf.
A new verse from returning contributor Shloka Shankar:
to write by a fire. The spasm of winter unrecorded
— Shloka Shankar
to write by a fire. The spasm of winter unrecorded
— Shloka Shankar
…
to write by a fire. The spasm of winter unrecorded — Shloka Shankar from pages 339 and 152 of ‘The Dracula’ by Bram Stoker, using William Burroughs’ fold-in technique
dadakuku.com
April 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A new verse from returning contributor Shloka Shankar:
to write by a fire. The spasm of winter unrecorded
— Shloka Shankar
to write by a fire. The spasm of winter unrecorded
— Shloka Shankar
A new verse from returning contributor Shloka Shankar:
unaware of our presence. The silhouettes of language clouds
— Shloka Shankar
unaware of our presence. The silhouettes of language clouds
— Shloka Shankar
…
unaware of our presence. The silhouettes of language clouds — Shloka Shankar found poem taken from pages 71 and 350 of The Dracula by Bram Stoker.
dadakuku.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A new verse from returning contributor Shloka Shankar:
unaware of our presence. The silhouettes of language clouds
— Shloka Shankar
unaware of our presence. The silhouettes of language clouds
— Shloka Shankar
Haiku of the day!
Thanks Shloka and Vidya for the honour! 🙏
#haiku #micropoetry #writingcommunity
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Thanks Shloka and Vidya for the honour! 🙏
#haiku #micropoetry #writingcommunity
thehaikufoundation.org/hifsa-ashraf...
June 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Haiku of the day!
Thanks Shloka and Vidya for the honour! 🙏
#haiku #micropoetry #writingcommunity
thehaikufoundation.org/hifsa-ashraf...
Thanks Shloka and Vidya for the honour! 🙏
#haiku #micropoetry #writingcommunity
thehaikufoundation.org/hifsa-ashraf...
#Collaborative #haiga by Surashree Joshi @surashree_ulhas_joshi ( #haiku ) & Shloka Shankar @shloks23 ( #image ). Surashree is an English teacher & Hinduastani Classical vocalist. Shloka is an #artist, #poet & #editor with many fine publications to her name. #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers
February 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
#Collaborative #haiga by Surashree Joshi @surashree_ulhas_joshi ( #haiku ) & Shloka Shankar @shloks23 ( #image ). Surashree is an English teacher & Hinduastani Classical vocalist. Shloka is an #artist, #poet & #editor with many fine publications to her name. #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers
A new verse from returning contributor Shloka Shankar:
in the starless & inscrutable. A moment of reprieve
— Shloka Shankar
in the starless & inscrutable. A moment of reprieve
— Shloka Shankar
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in the starless & inscrutable. A moment of reprieve — Shloka Shankar after Samuel Beckett’s “Whoroscope”
dadakuku.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:59 PM
A new verse from returning contributor Shloka Shankar:
in the starless & inscrutable. A moment of reprieve
— Shloka Shankar
in the starless & inscrutable. A moment of reprieve
— Shloka Shankar
A new verse from returning contributor Shloka Shankar:
destabilizing sibilants half-rain
— Shloka Shankar
destabilizing sibilants half-rain
— Shloka Shankar
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destabilizing sibilants half-rain — Shloka Shankar
dadakuku.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A new verse from returning contributor Shloka Shankar:
destabilizing sibilants half-rain
— Shloka Shankar
destabilizing sibilants half-rain
— Shloka Shankar
A new verse from returning contributor Shloka Shankar:
semiconscious glass belched out from the spirit’s mirror
— Shloka Shankar
semiconscious glass belched out from the spirit’s mirror
— Shloka Shankar
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semiconscious glass belched out from the spirit’s mirror — Shloka Shankar
dadakuku.com
March 30, 2026 at 3:13 PM
A new verse from returning contributor Shloka Shankar:
semiconscious glass belched out from the spirit’s mirror
— Shloka Shankar
semiconscious glass belched out from the spirit’s mirror
— Shloka Shankar
You're so right. Give me some half remembered shloka. Then again I guess they're reasonably worried about writing a religion they don't practice, and are mildly unfamiliar with.
December 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
You're so right. Give me some half remembered shloka. Then again I guess they're reasonably worried about writing a religion they don't practice, and are mildly unfamiliar with.
#collaborative #haiga by Shloka Shankar @shloks23 ( #monoku ) & #artist Leslie Buchanan. Shloka is a poet, editor, & visual artist from India & long-time FreshOut contributor. Find more on her published work & other endeavors at her website: www.shlokashankar.com | #poetry #art #grandfathers #aspen
July 1, 2025 at 9:59 AM
#collaborative #haiga by Shloka Shankar @shloks23 ( #monoku ) & #artist Leslie Buchanan. Shloka is a poet, editor, & visual artist from India & long-time FreshOut contributor. Find more on her published work & other endeavors at her website: www.shlokashankar.com | #poetry #art #grandfathers #aspen
Demnächst Neues von mir:
Vom Hexameter zum Shloka. Friedrich Schlegels Übersetzungen aus dem Altindischen und der Beginn einer historisch-vergleichenden Metrik
#LitWiss
Vom Hexameter zum Shloka. Friedrich Schlegels Übersetzungen aus dem Altindischen und der Beginn einer historisch-vergleichenden Metrik
#LitWiss
May 4, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Demnächst Neues von mir:
Vom Hexameter zum Shloka. Friedrich Schlegels Übersetzungen aus dem Altindischen und der Beginn einer historisch-vergleichenden Metrik
#LitWiss
Vom Hexameter zum Shloka. Friedrich Schlegels Übersetzungen aus dem Altindischen und der Beginn einer historisch-vergleichenden Metrik
#LitWiss
Eine großartige Tagung an der LMU München ist nun zuende, super organisiert von @mrschaefer.bsky.social und Daniel Ehrmann: Medien an der Schwelle. Praktiken, Poetologien, Politik um 1800.
U. a. mit @martinawernli.bsky.social, Anne Bohnenkamp, Heinrich Bosse.
Mein Thema: Vom Hexameter zum Shloka.
U. a. mit @martinawernli.bsky.social, Anne Bohnenkamp, Heinrich Bosse.
Mein Thema: Vom Hexameter zum Shloka.
July 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Eine großartige Tagung an der LMU München ist nun zuende, super organisiert von @mrschaefer.bsky.social und Daniel Ehrmann: Medien an der Schwelle. Praktiken, Poetologien, Politik um 1800.
U. a. mit @martinawernli.bsky.social, Anne Bohnenkamp, Heinrich Bosse.
Mein Thema: Vom Hexameter zum Shloka.
U. a. mit @martinawernli.bsky.social, Anne Bohnenkamp, Heinrich Bosse.
Mein Thema: Vom Hexameter zum Shloka.
So grateful to Shloka Shankar for including me in the latest marvellous edition of Sonic Boom @sonicboomjournal.bsky.social.
marginalia
remembered ways
of returning love
#haiku
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marginalia
remembered ways
of returning love
#haiku
89b51d07-bdbc-4f8c-8b62-740f86360cd5.filesusr.com/ugd/61020d_f...
March 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
So grateful to Shloka Shankar for including me in the latest marvellous edition of Sonic Boom @sonicboomjournal.bsky.social.
marginalia
remembered ways
of returning love
#haiku
89b51d07-bdbc-4f8c-8b62-740f86360cd5.filesusr.com/ugd/61020d_f...
marginalia
remembered ways
of returning love
#haiku
89b51d07-bdbc-4f8c-8b62-740f86360cd5.filesusr.com/ugd/61020d_f...
Shloka Ramachandran explores her lived experience of chronic pain through a series of four poems.
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thepolyphony.org/2025/04/22/f...
Four Poems: Voicing Pain
Shloka Ramachandran explores her lived experience of chronic pain through a series of four poems.
thepolyphony.org
April 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Shloka Ramachandran explores her lived experience of chronic pain through a series of four poems.
thepolyphony.org/2025/04/22/f...
thepolyphony.org/2025/04/22/f...
You control your actions, not the results. Don't let results control you, lest you fall to inaction.
Bhagavad Gita 2:47
That shloka holds true in quite a lot of contexts.
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Bhagavad Gita 2:47
That shloka holds true in quite a lot of contexts.
bsky.app/profile/osus...
January 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
You control your actions, not the results. Don't let results control you, lest you fall to inaction.
Bhagavad Gita 2:47
That shloka holds true in quite a lot of contexts.
bsky.app/profile/osus...
Bhagavad Gita 2:47
That shloka holds true in quite a lot of contexts.
bsky.app/profile/osus...
Recently released at @sonicboomjournal.bsky.social edited by Shloka Shankar…
slipping moorings in mist we once were
Many more good things here: sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/cu...
#poetry #art #haiku
slipping moorings in mist we once were
Many more good things here: sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/cu...
#poetry #art #haiku
July 23, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Recently released at @sonicboomjournal.bsky.social edited by Shloka Shankar…
slipping moorings in mist we once were
Many more good things here: sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/cu...
#poetry #art #haiku
slipping moorings in mist we once were
Many more good things here: sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/cu...
#poetry #art #haiku
‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’
From The Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 11, shloka 32
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer, on seeing the 1st atomic bomb
detonate.
From The Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 11, shloka 32
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer, on seeing the 1st atomic bomb
detonate.
March 1, 2026 at 4:45 AM
‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’
From The Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 11, shloka 32
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer, on seeing the 1st atomic bomb
detonate.
From The Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 11, shloka 32
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer, on seeing the 1st atomic bomb
detonate.
Kleine sneak preview meines unfassbar nerdigen Vortragthemas am nächsten Samstag (ich entschuldige mich schon vorher):
June 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Kleine sneak preview meines unfassbar nerdigen Vortragthemas am nächsten Samstag (ich entschuldige mich schon vorher):
Simon Ravenscroft - Purbasha Roy - Christian Ward - @stevencw.bsky.social - Shloka Shankar - Nuala McEvoy - Michael Moreth - Shee - @joeyflash.bsky.social - Kevin B - Victor Adebayo Meye - @susanllin.bsky.social
March 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Simon Ravenscroft - Purbasha Roy - Christian Ward - @stevencw.bsky.social - Shloka Shankar - Nuala McEvoy - Michael Moreth - Shee - @joeyflash.bsky.social - Kevin B - Victor Adebayo Meye - @susanllin.bsky.social
A new verse from returning contributor Shloka Shankar:
in a formulated phrase my days of sawdust hands
— Shloka Shankar
in a formulated phrase my days of sawdust hands
— Shloka Shankar
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in a formulated phrase my days of sawdust hands — Shloka Shankar remixed from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot.
dadakuku.com
April 21, 2026 at 3:57 PM
A new verse from returning contributor Shloka Shankar:
in a formulated phrase my days of sawdust hands
— Shloka Shankar
in a formulated phrase my days of sawdust hands
— Shloka Shankar
Grateful to Shloka Shankar for including my monoku in the current edition of Sonic Boom. A great journal.
sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/cu...
#haiku
#monoku
#micropoetry
@sonicboomjournal.bsky.social
sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/cu...
#haiku
#monoku
#micropoetry
@sonicboomjournal.bsky.social
March 20, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Grateful to Shloka Shankar for including my monoku in the current edition of Sonic Boom. A great journal.
sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/cu...
#haiku
#monoku
#micropoetry
@sonicboomjournal.bsky.social
sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/cu...
#haiku
#monoku
#micropoetry
@sonicboomjournal.bsky.social
#collab #haiga by Arvinder Kaur @arvinderk8 ( #poem ) & Shloka Shankar ( #image ) @shloks23 Arvinder both award-winning #poets & #artists, well known in the #haiku world. #india #poetry #valentinesday #micropoetry #swing #artist #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #artlovers
March 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
#collab #haiga by Arvinder Kaur @arvinderk8 ( #poem ) & Shloka Shankar ( #image ) @shloks23 Arvinder both award-winning #poets & #artists, well known in the #haiku world. #india #poetry #valentinesday #micropoetry #swing #artist #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #artlovers
🌟 BOTN nomination! 🌟
Shloka Shankar (objective correlative)
Shloka Shankar (objective correlative)
October 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
🌟 BOTN nomination! 🌟
Shloka Shankar (objective correlative)
Shloka Shankar (objective correlative)