Published in Daily Haiga, 28 July 2025
https://www.dailyhaiga.org/haiga-archives/3828/-wind-by-hfsa-ashraf-pakistan
Ancestral Home
ancient wind—
dandelion seeds drift
across the family field
unfolding tales
of love and loss
courtyard fountain—
ripples overlapping
a childhood lullaby
from the balcony
renaming stars
after loved ones
chorus of crickets
echoes through the veranda
lingering dream—
room by room by room
our shadows fade
Inspired by a 125 years old haveli in Chishtian, Punjab, Pakistan— owned by Bhadera Family.
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Published in Cattails, October 2025
http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattails252.pdf
Published in Cattails, April 2025
http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattails251.pdf
haiga with Oscar Luparia
Freshout Mag, December 11, 2024
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riverside walk the moon and I parting ways
self-healing
The yellow and brown leaves of chinar settle in on the windowsill like a jigsaw puzzle that needs to be solved. They are dead, useless, and soundless until the autumn breeze tickles them to fall on the ground, get mixed with soil, and nourish the tree they were once part of. I am trying to solve the jigsaw puzzle of my life where certain regrets fall on the windowsill of my conscious mind, and I am waiting for the wind of understanding to tickle them, make them fall, so that they can mix with the soil of peace, and nourish my soul.
evening sunlight
in my wet eyes
no more excuses
photosynthesis
resetting
my aura
progress update
overshared
Hifsa Ashraf & R.C. Thomas
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brain fog
gliding through the mist
a robotic goose
a bird in the hand
out of memory
Hifsa Ashraf & R.C. Thomas
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my undecillion lives
so often I come
to nought
countless
false alarms
R.C. Thomas & Hifsa Ashraf
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caching
nightmares
what's left of now
kept for later
catalyzing
phosphenes
R.C. Thomas & Hifsa Ashraf
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Sagittarius A
adopting
a new identity
the treadmill
to nowhere
Hifsa Ashraf & R.C. Thomas
Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Saturday, 12 August 2023
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April 02 2023
dark energy
still wandering
the Milky Way
my hooded cloak
worn thin
