Friday, June 28, 2024

failed haiku, 2024


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 


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Failed Haiku, Vol. 9, issue 104


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kitchen window
mom’s fingerprints
now mine

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underground train
the screech
of my silence


and a collaborative haiga with Oscar Luparia


failed haiku A Journal of English Senryu Volume 9, Issue 100



ESUJ-H, 2024

late night breeze
rippling the stars
in a trough

ESUJ-H, July 2024

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Asahi Haiku Network, 2024

midsummer sky the face of my blues

ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray
June 21, 2024

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candlelight vigil
flicker in the eyes
blue flames


blue lagoon reshaping my daydreams

ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray
May 31, 2024 and republished in July 19 2024






Wednesday, May 22, 2024

THF Haiku Dialogue, 2024

vortex of water
through the tree canopy
third eye

Haiku Dialogue, Surrealistic Art – “Landscape” Oct 02, 2024

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sacred mountain 

each thought becomes

a hymn


Haiku Dialogue - on the top (mountains), August 07, 2024

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long summer drought
the jigsaw puzzle
of a farmer’s life

An extremely poignant take on the prompt. How the farmers live in the fear of Nature’s wrath. The cracks on the earth spell doom for them and the image of ‘the jigsaw puzzle’ sits so appropriately. It is hard to put the pieces of life together if one has to suffer a long drought. The poem stood out for the visual of the puzzle that is so close to the face of the earth in the case of a severe drought.

HAIKU DIALOGUE – Rain ! Rain ? – Drought – commentary 22nd May 2024

https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialogue-rain-rain-drought-commentary/

Monday, May 20, 2024

Setu / सेतु 2024

oil spill—
the fading patterns
of a turtle carapace


Masters of Educating & Agitating: Politiku & Dissenryu as Pamphleteering
Setu Bilingual Journal’s Masters Series Part VI guest edited by Jerome Berglund

Setu/सेतु  ISSN 2475-1359, Bilingual monthly journal published from Pittsburgh, USA 

https://www.setumag.com/2024/02/guest-editors-note-setu-special-2.html?m=1








Sunday, May 19, 2024

Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, 2024

 


synaptic delays

walking through
the end of time

latent dream
creeping under my skin
night smoke

beyond emptiness
the blood molecules
fall apart

migratory birds
intercepting
my random thoughts

cold snap
the screams curl
into blues

clumsy rhetoric
the white noise
of ravens

whispering
beneath the concrete debris
black moths


Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, May 19, 2024 (about Gaza)









Monday, May 6, 2024

Wales Haiku Journal, 2024




Wales Haiku Journal Issue Autumn 2024

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wood smoke
a part of forest follows
me back home





Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2024

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east wind—
unfolding the memory
of his departure

Wales Haiku Journal, Spring 2024