Lothlorien Poetry Journal, 2025

late evening stroll
an ebb tide rolls back
the moonlight


windswept beach
the seaweed tangled
in a driftwood


harvest wind—
the intermittent chirp
of a barn cricket


melting snow…
small talks resumed
over the shared fence


mid-summer heat
fallen leaves settle
in the Buddha's lap


late summer heat—
circling around a fallen tree
the muted honeybees

sunlit autumn leaf
finding my way
back home


dense fog—
the family garden’s oak
without a bough


early summer twilight
in the gargoyle’s mouth
nestling sparrows


solar eclipse—
the patriarchal speech
of a village chieftain


Published on Saturday, September 13, 2025

https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/09/ten-haiku-poems-by-hifsa-ashraf.html

Haiku in Action 2025, Nick Virgilio Haiku Association

 

early menopause

I let autumn leaves fall

into my lap 

Haiku in Action, Metamorphosis, August 27th-August 31st 2025

The Pan Haiku Review, 2025

solidarity sukkah—
the dust settles
into willows branches


rubble dust setting sun before time


The Pan Haiku Review, issue 6, Autumn/Winter 2025
https://www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haiku-review/

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Lingering shadows

The cold wind shrinks me within the pashmina shawl during my morning walk in a park. I am not ready for this unexpected weather in Spring. I walk carefully on a curved cobblestone trail that is half covered in moss. In the distance, cumulus clouds are brewing the storm deep in their bellies. Some old fears resurface from my mind, freeze my steps, and hold me back. The sudden cawing nudges me back to my senses. I sit down on a nearby rusty bench for a while before I go back home.


distant thunder—
a white feather clings
to the fence

Pan Haiku Review issue 5 haibun & tanka-bun edi on part two Summer 2025 ed. Alan Summers

https://www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haiku-review/