Rita R. Melissano, Ph.D. is a Touchstone Award nominated Poet.  Her work in the micro poetry field has been quickly noticed and receiving special commentaries.  The featured Reader in poetry events, her poems have been published in national and international poetry journals, anthologies and featured on websites & podcasts.  Recipient of the Honorable Mention in Mt. Fuji Taisho Tanka Contest, 2024 (Japan). she is the author of two (2) books she has just released at once::

AIKU The Way of Love: a story told in haiku (Archway Publishing, 2026) and The Way of Love: a collection of tanka (Archway Publishing, 2026), creating her own special series "The Way of Love". The trilogy in the series will be completed at the end of the year.

She writes about all facets of love and beauty, even when hidden in the ugly and painful parts of life, about the richness, depth and breadth of that kaleidoscopic flow that gives meaning to our life, that moves the stars, the universe, that cradles a human and non-human heart.  That’s what inspires and awakens her being, lets her fly in the dark of the cosmos, sit inside a slice of moon, as if it were a balcony climbed up by a woman’s song.  And that song may be a haiku that wakes her up at dawn while still dreaming, and wants to be written down.  Often, she even writes inside her dreams only to discover that what was written was never actually recorded!

Rita lives in a forest overlooking the Mississippi which inspires her writing, photography & Haiga (Japanese art form that combines short form poetry with images), oneness with Nature and living The Way…of Love.  

For now, here some of Rita Melissano’s HAIKU: