Holi …

no one a stranger

at my doorstep

Note: Holi, the festival of colours, is celebrated throughout India marking the spring’s arrival. The day signifies the eternal love of the deities Radha and Krishn. The festive day is an occasion of love and forgetting and forgiving the differences with others.

Fresh Out  March 26, 2025 (Ed. Eric Lohman)

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 swinging back and forth my childhood days

 THF Volunteer Anthology, 2025 (Eds. Marta Chocilowska and Robert Kania)

migratory birds

across the border--

same blue sky

 

Presence #81, 2025 (Ed. Ian Storr)

she recounts

mystic relationship

umbilical cord

bridging oneness

of clouds and rain

 

Quail Eggs, Inaugural Issue 1, 2025 (Ed. Alison Williams)

https://quaileggstanka.blogspot.com/p/issue-1-june-2025-tanka-7.html?m=1

 

 birds’ sanctuary

a sudden dark sound

washes away

the colours of the rainbow 

pouring  grief-stricken rains

 

Creative Inspirations May-June issue , 2025 (Ed.  Maurice J Reynolds)

 

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tender rays

on the blooming buds

stepping watchfully

a born-blind gestures

what could be the colour of light

 

Creative Inspirations, May-June issue, 2025 (Ed.  Maurice J Reynolds)

 

 often we 

live in the cavity 

of our past

missing rainbow colors

and tender rain we shared  

 

Songbirds Waka Anthology, 2025 (Ed. an’ya)

 

https://songbirdsonline.com/

 

 

 

shades of colour he/she with unusual sunset

we live in possibilities dust through a tiny hole

Password, Issue 2.1, 2025 (Ed. Melissa Allen)