Under The Basho, 2023

 

Haiga with Oscar Luparia 

Under the Basho, April 19, 2023

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 2023

autumn drizzle

singing the lullaby

back to mom

خزاں کی بوندا باندی
ماں کی لوری
ماں کے لئےگاتے ہوئے

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 7:1, Autumn/Winter 2023-24
11/4/2023

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hollow tree trunk

attuning to the sound
of emptiness

Honorable Mention - Best of Volume 6 (6:1 and 6:2)

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 

Prune Juice, 2023

early menopause
dry leaves fall
into my lap

Prune Juice, issue 41. Also included in the best of the issue.

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screenshots

doubling up

my weary frame rate (RCT)

chroma keying

reshapes my image (HA)

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meteor shower

the beliefs we hold

back (ha)

Fukitol 

compounding our fate (rct)

(Published in Prune Juice, Issue 40, August 2023)

 

Otoliths, 2023

Tan-Renga


mirror illusion
dividing myself
in bits and bites (HA) 

poisoned
eating apples (RCT)

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monotone talk
the bumpy road
through my ears (HA)

hearing aids
…nothing (RCT)

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Carina Nebula
relapsing my pulse
ash clouds (HA)

young stars
at our peak (RCT)

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misted sky
a tinge of gray
makeshifts my axis (HA)

full circle
by noon (RCT)

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aurora
I step out
of my primordial self (HA)

an Oculus
sunrise (RCT)

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doomscrolling
bad news
until the very end (RCT)

refolding
an old paper crane (HA)


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situationship
my feelings still
in a vacuum (HA)

#mindovermatter
#followyourheart (RCT)


Hifsa Ashraf and R.C. Thomas

https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2023/06/hifsa-ashraf-and-rc-thomas.html