Butterfly Dream: Garland Haiku by Pravat Kumar Padhy

Butterfly Dream: Garland Haiku by Pravat Kumar Padhy

English Original

gene splicing
I rearrange flowers
of the garland

The Heron’s Nest, 18:3, September 2016

Pravat Kumar Padhy


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

基因剪接
我重新安排花環
的鮮花

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

基因剪接
我重新安排花环
的鲜花


Bio Sketch

Born in India, poems widely published and anthologized. Works referred in Spectrum History of Indian Literature in English, Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Poetry etc. Poems awarded high acclamations by Writer’s Guild of India and Editors’ Choice awards. Pravat Kumar Padhy's Japanese short form of poetry appeared in many international journals and anthologies. Songs of Love: A celebration is his third collection of verse by Writers Workshop, Calcutta. Featured in The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India, to be published by Hidden Brook Press, Canada, 2014

selfie--

the sky and I within

a closed frame

*

Selfie —

der Himmel und ich ein

geschlossener Rahmen

*****

celestial thought

the moonflower on her

braided hair

*

himmlischer Gedanke

die Prunkwinde auf ihrem

geflochtenen Haar

*****

the butterfly

moves here and there--

I never ask her name

*

der Schmetterling

fliegt mal hierhin mal dorthin —

ich frage nie nach ihrem Namen

Chrysanthemum 23 Spring Issue 2018 (Ed. Beate Conrad)

http://www.chrysanthemum-haiku.net/media/Chrysanthemum_23.pdf

sand-art

for a moment I forget

the vastness

Presence #60 (Ed. Ian Storr)

*****

dune after dune the migrating songs

Presence #60 (Ed. Ian Storr)

melting away my pain-- garden dew

( The Heron’s Nest, Vol. XV, No. 4, December 2013) 

tinywords (Eds.  Kathe L. Palka and Peter Newton)

https://tinywords.com/2018/04/02/26167/           

By Pravat Kumar Padhy

Dog is misspelled 
the child discovered 
the Great
***
calendar pages –
between the dates 
time escapes
***
deep dark space
many cosmic townships
with their own light

(From LYNX-Aha Poetry, XXV; The Critical Poet; The Mainichi Daily News)

Scroll.in 8.4.2018 (Rohini Kejriwal, Curator)

https://scroll.in/article/874823/freezing-the-moment-a-celebration-of-haiku-by-poets-from-india

Cal Performances: Kodo Resource Guide, University of California Berkeley, 2nd Feb 2015

I am happy to share that my tanka, ‘I mingle’ is cited in the “Kodo Resource Guide”, Cal Performances, University of California, Berkeley, 2014/2015 Season.

I mingle

with the vastness

in my dream

caressing the tenderness of

the sea, calmness of the sky

Sketchbook, Vol 5, No 3, May-June, 2010 (Eds. Karina Klesko and John Daleiden)

http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-tanka-poetry…
http://calperformances.org/learn/k-12/pdf/2014/kodo-1415.pdf

boundary wall--

fruits bearing branches

on either side

The Mamba (Journal of African Haiku) Issue 5, March 2018 (Eds.Adjei Agyei-Baah and Emma)

https://africahaikunetwork.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/mamba-journal-issue-5.pdf