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Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta)
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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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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.
September 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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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
September 17, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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#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
September 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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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
July 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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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
July 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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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.
July 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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reading Circe
into the night
balcony jasmines

#haiku
A dimly lit photo of the book 'Circe' by Madeline Miller.
July 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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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.
June 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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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.
June 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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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.
May 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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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.
May 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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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?
May 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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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
May 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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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
May 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Series: The World According to Man
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#sumie #sumiink
#digitalart #meditativeart #artivism #poetry #micropoetry #visualpoetry
A red sun beyond a rectangle plan pot with long leaves growing as a shrub. A blue flower is sticking out of it. The poem reads: a garden full of Stockholm Syndrome blossoms
May 26, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Series: The World According to Man
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#sumie #sumiink
#digitalart #meditativeart
#birdart #birds #artivism #poetry #micropoetry #visualpoetry
Sumi-e style digital artwork showing a bird perched on a branch that is sprouting pink flowers at the tips of the branch's shoots. The bird has a long tail and is looking up and to the right. A large sun covers the top right corner of the painting. The poem reads: smuggling the bird muffling the birdsong
May 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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#sumie #sumiink
#digitalart #meditativeart #artivism #poetry #micropoetry #visualpoetry
A sumi-e like painting with large brush strokes depicting barren land and on the horizon are a line of trees. A red sun hangs in the sky to the left. The poem reads: deep within us the seeds of deforestation
May 14, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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This #haiku signboard is stood up somewhere in the Golden Triangle area in Washington D.C. Will be up until early May, among a hundred other selected haiku in this year's Golden Triangle haiku contest.
A signboard with the haiku: driftwood tugging at the hem of the river
April 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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We are good at making inspiring symbols of animals, making them gods and then anticlimactically we gut them of all dignity.

#digitalart
It is a painting. There is a red sun in the sky, sparse white clouds. A small water body is reflecting the sun, and the water itself seems to be in motion. Beyond it is a green patch of land stretching from edge to edge. A monk or a woman clad in a saree is turned away looking at a large white bird standing next to them. The white bird is looking up into the sky. A few yards away these two is a tortoise, or a turtle, with its held craned up reaching for a butterfly that is trying to land on it. The text reads: nowhere is it ours but everywhere it is home for something
April 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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A poster commissioned by mankind. They asked me to capture it in all its glory its immense, unrelenting and unconditional efforts to coexist peacefully with all of nature on Earth.
Starting from the edges of the frame towards the center, there are leaves upon leaves, going from dark green to yellow. There is a clearing at the center. There is a fingerprint-like pattern covered all over the clearing in red. On this fingerprint pattern is text that reads: "the bloody fingerprints of mankind"
April 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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The winding road seems to tie itself up in knots the more I stand still, calculating possibilities, hoping a shortcut opens right at my feet.

#painting #sumie #digitalart #poetry #prosepoetry
A sumi-e style painting with a monk, turned away, standing on a snow-laden rock with a walking stick in hand. Beyond him is a huge snowy mountain, with steep cliffs here and there popping out in black against the white of snow. The sun is in the top left, a red enso. There is a torii gate on the mountain top and the monk seems to be looking at it.
March 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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In a world of territorial disputes, show me a creature that doesn't call this planet home. Between carving up the land, boiling the sea and choking the air, show me the consent of all the species who back our vision of a better tomorrow.

#painting #sumie #digitalart #poetry #prosepoetry
A sumi-e style painting of a monk standing on some flattened platform, turned away, looking at mountain ranges painted with black and grey ink. A red enso in the sky and white clouds spread here and there. A bird is standing next to the monk, a few yards away, on a similar flat platform. With a twig in its beak.
March 31, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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A melting glacier and a tree that will be barren forever. The silence riding the wind is carrying a record of tragedies that will persist across seasons. The weight of a guilty conscience and the drag of utter helplessness of being just a grain of sand.

#painting #sumie #digitalart
A sumi-e style brushwork. There is a bare branch ink black ink reach from the left edge of the frame to the right. In the background are mountain ranges drawn in grey ink with minimal brush strokes outlining the shapes here and there of the ranges. A red enso is in the sky, like a sun. A monk in brown is standing under the bare branch and is turned away, looking at the mountain ranges.
March 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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A photograph from a flight showing a frosted window. The poem reads: frost forming on the window how memories of my grandma phase shift
March 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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F that.
Moved to Kerala half a year ago. My FB reels suggestions feed always has one reel that has an elephant. Always either being outright abused or delusionally being preyed upon in the name of prayers in temples. The algorithms should show these to people who are insensitive, not to the people who are already tortured by that reality. the elephant's ear flopping after it tries to free its chains— temple bells
February 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM