Reminiscing  the Manuscripts of Four Decades Ago: Some of My Haiku-like Poems

half-moon in the sky

her body veiled in mixed

colours of clouds

Publication Credits: “Life”, Deepti, Vol.8, Issue III, Oct-Dec 1978 (translated from Odia), Ed. Shasidhar Pattnaik

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The remoteness of separation

I writhe

Like a leaf

Falling from the tree

Publication Credit: “Separation”, Poet, Vol. 28. No.10, 1987 (Ed. Krishna Srinivas)

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Try best

Like a bird

Reaching

To its nest

Publication Credit: “A Better Living”, Kavita India, Vol. III, Nos. 2&3, July-Dec 1990, (Ed. A. Chittaranjan Sahay)

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it is tiny

because it nests with care

the mightiest in it

“Interviews with Indians Writing in English” (Writers Workshop Publication, Calcutta, 1992), edited by Atma Ram.

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Dog is misspelled

the child discovered

the Great 

Publication Credits: “God”, World Poetry Anthology, 1992 (Ed. Krishna Srinivas)

Lynx-Aha Poetry, XXV:1 Feb 2010 (Ed. Werner Reichhold)

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