serpent tamer--
the muse curls up
into the basket
*****
flying snake
the frog switches its colour
with every leap
Hexagon , October 2025 (Ed. Corine Timmer)
Friday, December 5, 2025
Saturday, November 29, 2025
In Search of Peace: Haiku Sequence
In Search of Peace
By Pravat Kumar Padhy
makeshift camp
kids stare at
the full moon
scribbled with warplanes
open
sky
the
vultures fly across
the
disputed border
war victims
the new rice wet
in grief
broken
promise
peace
lost its
meditation
waning moon
the parents beside
the coffin
prison
cell--
morning
prayer
echoes
darkness
empty
shell
a
girl in search of her doll
in
the rubble
war memorial
the dove on a
rusted cannon
events
of history
peace
and war on
the
same page
Kurukshetra:
Between War and Peace 2025(Eds. Prof. Roopali Sircar Gaur and Anita Joseph.
Monday, November 24, 2025
Script of Life
so
blissfully
how the child bathes the toy, decks it with the colourful dress,
feeds, and sings a lullaby
the way you see the unseen
as time trickles ahead like sands between the fingers leaving me
behind alone
a monosyllable
Contemporary Haibun Online, Issue 19.2, 2023 (Guest Ed. Peter
Newton)
https://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/cho-19-2table-of-contents/pravat-kumar-padhy-script-of-life/
Fleeting Moments
The horizon is crimson beneath an azure sky…the children play and dance in a
luscious, green meadow. A drizzle of rain descends, laden with glittering
sunlight. The children's attention turns to the colourful arc that has appeared overhead. Their grandma claps
and names the hues from one to seven.
wave on wave
the wrinkles unfold
colours of joy
Drifting Sands
Haibun, Issue 23, 2023 (Ed. Marion Clarke)
https://drifting-sands-haibun.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Issue-23.pdf
Saturday, November 22, 2025
The Sciku Project: Muse of Meow, Meow …
Muse of Meow, Meow … by Pravat Kumar Padhy
fog outside
Schrödinger’s cat
I wish it alive
Sciku Project, 20 July 2025 (Ed. Andrew Holmes)
Erwin Schrödinger
(1887-1961) was an Austrian-Irish Physicist. His landmark research on wave
function led to the theory of ‘quantum entanglement’, which he coined in 1935.
He imagined an
experiment in which a hypothetical cat was placed inside a sealed box with a
flask of poison and a radioactive source. The thought experiment defined that
the cat remained in a quantum superposition state of being dead and alive until
one opened the box and observed it. This led to the much-debated quantum
physics of modern times.
Further reading:
‘Schrödinger’s cat’, Wikipedia article,
available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
‘Erwin Schrödinger’, Wikipedia article,
available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger
Author bio:
Pravat Kumar Padhy,
based in Bhubaneswar, India, holds a Master of Science and a Ph.D from Indian
Institute of Technology, ISM Dhanbad. He is a mainstream poet and a writer of
Japanese short forms of poetry. His essay “Haiku: The Poetry of Science and
Soul” will be featured this year in the UK-based journal, Presence.
He served as a panel judge of ‘The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Awards for
Individual Poems.’
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