Sunday, March 3, 2024


no chirps

in barren trees

I grieve

for the lost treasure

of mountain green

 

The Abstractaphy Initiative, 21 February 2024 (Ed, Richard Grahn)

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Butterfly Dream: Migrating Songs Haiku by Pravat Kumar Padhy


English Original
dune after dune the migrating songs
Presence, 60, 2018
Pravat Kumar Padhy

Chinese Translation (Traditional)
穿越一個又一個的沙丘, 候鳥的歌聲
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
穿越一个又一个的沙丘, 候鸟的歌声
Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 4:47 PM

comments:
Anonymous February 17, 2024 at 5:05 PM
The concluding word, songs (not bird name), makes this one-line haiku multi-sensorily and emotionally effective.
And my haiku below could be read as a sequel (about post-migration) to Pravat's:
the sweep
of wind-sculpted sand dunes
this loss, and yet ...
haikuNetra, 1:4, 2023

https://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com/2024/02/butterfly-dream-migrating-songs-haiku.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR1_iT_IBkLCwPLzm2C_dwWiQEd_87ekqXCS5dagdY2xGeGyKRlVJ0zZds4

Friday, February 23, 2024

 


Awaiting  Rainbow

By Pravat Kumar Padhy

Ripples of clouds

gather on the horizon

the early morning sun

about to shine

the waves of my dream

 

Gentle breeze

over the pristine river  

a sudden storm

uproots the tree laden with hope

filling the void with shivers of cold

                                       

An art of love

of the bright sculpture

near the shore

as though the waves of passion

climb up only to break and return

 

Morning zephyr

across the tall grass field

whispers something 

I could feel

in my loneliness the urge within

 

The touch  

of springtide I miss

on my thirsty lips

the winter evening continues

to scrub the splintered memories

 

A crescent moon

at midnight edge …

I walk alone

rewinding the time

of my vanished dream

 

Still along

the weathered trail

solemnly I wish   

the new sun hitherto to shine

for the lone tree to bloom again


The Daily Verse, The Wise Owl, Feb 2024 (Ed. Rachna Singh)

 

Thursday, February 1, 2024

 


children cross one bridge and the other migratory birds

Editors’ Choice, Nominated for The Haiku Reader, Whiptail, issue 2: 2022 (Eds. GRIX and Kat Lehmann)

Sea Change An Anthology of single-Line Poems, Whiptail Press and Red Moon Press, 2024 (Eds. Kat Lehmann and Robin Smith)


Wednesday, January 10, 2024


 

Yin and Yang

 

At the end

Of thunder and storm

A little patience

Leads us to a gentle calm

 

There is always a tomorrow

Even the west hides 

The sun will rise

Again from the east

 

Rolling down the hill

A boulder finds a place to rest

Merging with the sea

The river still continues to flow

 

The time folds the past

And unveils the future

The dream within the seed

Wakes up to life at every present

 

Creative Inspirations, January-February 2024 (Ed. Maurice Reynolds)

Monday, January 8, 2024


new pond -

a frog leaps the whisper

of a breeze

Pan Haiku Review, December 2023 (Ed. Alan Summers)