kontinuum: kortárs haiku_contemporary haiku, 2022

deepening 

the river’s silence 

hillside stars 

day lily— 

the warm touch 

of my foster mom 

kontinuum, vol. 2, no. 1, July 2022

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eddies of water
the fading songs
of an old sailor


midnight storm
the murmuration
of my diary pages


watermarks
on the abandoned shore
my lingering grief


prognosis—
the hidden bruises
in a green apple


bedridden
the moon too
disappeared


kontinuum: kortárs haiku_contemporary haiku, vol. 1, no. 2, January 2022

ISSN 2755-1172

drifting-sands-haibun, 2022

 Transformed 

I am walking through a park carpeted in fallen leaves. Each leaf has its own unique colors, colors that are more meaningful since my first chemo.

I witness the way they accept annihilation, so gracefully, so compassionately. I see how the cold wind detaches them, how they fall in a rhythmic, almost meditative way. And finally, I witness their burial, how they feed the tree they once were part of.

sunlit mist
the lingering song
of a robin

My breath masks my face as, for a moment, I stop to feel the pulse of these roots and branches: the pulse of this forest. Among the trees, each string of thoughts unravels thoughts that make me vulnerable and fragile. A warm tear runs down my cold face and I move on.

way back home
I carry no more
shadows

drifting-sands-haibun, January issue 13

Espacio Luna Alfanje, 2022

back home late 

a lone moth flickers 

the porch light 

گھر دیر سے واپسی

ایک تنہا پتنگا برآمدے کی

 روشنی کو پھڑپھڑاتے ہوئے

Haiku International Plaquette Space Moon Alfanje January 2022

Femku Mag, 2022

lunar umbra
what if I tell
the whole truth

Femkumag January 2022, Issue 32

Cold Moon Journal, 2022

 house sparrow out of the house sparrow 

January 27th, 2022

Wales Haiku Journal, 2022

sunlit dewdrops
on the grassy field
child’s first poem

overripe oranges
the most of
this grief

floodwater
the least we know
about a river

lake’s mist
unfolding my story
the rorschach test

the low flight
of a white heron
receding waves

Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn Edition 2022

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dry leaf…

the argument

that loses its worth

Wales Haiku Journal, Summer Edition 2022

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long winter night

the moon walks me

to the edge of a dream

Wales Haiku Journal, Spring issue 2022

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family haveli
a spiral cobweb mends
the broken window

Wales Haiku Journal, 2021-22

ESUJ-H: English Haiku, 2022

silver thaw

settling on the bough 

winter stars

ESUJ-H: English Haiku, January 2022