In One Breath: Through Pseudohaiku

By Sanjay C Kuttan

This is me, my dance with life through poetry, haiku, and words; hoping to resonate with other hearts when read. I hope my dance form and rhythm resonates. I hope you will find something in this anthology of pseudohaiku that moves you and makes you smile, or tear, or get motivated to do something more to create, propagate even establish love in your world, for our world.

We sigh in one breath and enter the world with our first one breath and depart with our last one breath. In between we are awestruck with the wonders of nature, gasping in one breath and equally so when witnessing its destruction. Such significance associated with one breath, that may be seventeen syllables can be read in one breath and the reader’s or listener’s soul moved just a little.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Jul 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9781543766400

Sanjay C Kuttan

Sanjay Kuttan was born in Johor Baru, Malaysia in 1964. He started writing at the age of 15 after being inspired by the publication of his mother, Rosaly Puthucheary’s first collection of poems, Pillow Your Dreams. He moved to Singapore in 1908 and studied at St Joseph’s Institution. As an undergraduate at the National University of Singapore he had his first opportunity to have his poetry published. He completed his PhD in Pharmacology at the same university. He spent much of his working life travelling whilst being employed by ExxonMobil and subsequently McKinsey & Company. He currently works as the Executive Director of the Singapore Maritime Institute after working for the Energy Market Authority (Singapore), DNVGL and the Nanyang Technological University. In the late 90’s he linked up with Stazja McFadyen, editor and publisher of the Austin Poets at Large weekly e-newsletter. Thanks to the internet, Sanjay’s poetry was able to reach a larger audience. Encouraged by Stazja, he continued to write and was published locally as well as abroad in various publications. He published his first anthology of poetry in 2009, “Where Fires Rage” by Straits Times Press. This was after more than a decade of his poems appearing anthologies such as “In Our Own Words – A Generation Defining Itself” Vol 3 (2005) and Vol 8 (2009), “World Healing Book” (2004), “Singa No. 30” (2000), “Bad News Bigolo – Love Edition” (1998) and e-zines Like MAP of Austin Poetry (US)@www.austinmetro.com, The Poets Porch (US) @www.poetsporch.com; Comrade Ezine (UK/US)@www.comrade.org.uk, The Writers Hood (US) @www.writershood.com, and Pachamamapress (US) @www.pachamamapress.com. Recently, his short story “Dying Alone” was published in Balik Kampung Vol 3C (2016) by Books Actually and “From a Simple heart” published in Letters to my Son by Marshall Cavendish (2020). He lives in Singapore with his wife Yip Wai Kuan and two sons Kyran Ming Kuttan and Sachi Ren Kuttan

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In One Breath

through pseudohaiku

SANJAY C KUTTAN

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Copyright © 2021 by Sanjay C Kuttan.

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IN MEMORY OF

Shirley Hew,

You gave me a break

and believed there was more than

one book within me.

DEDICATION

I dedicate this collection to

My Lord Jesus for His everlasting love,

grace and mercy and especially for

His work at the Cross, the poem

I experience every day of my life;

my two sons, Sachi and Kyran

for their unconditional love and helping

me be a better father;

the love of my life and best friend Kuan,

for letting me be myself, bringing out the

best of me and