self-quarantine

even the shadow

shies away

*****

last kiss--

the gap barricades

my extended hand

*****

masked face

I identify the flowers

of the garden

*****

24/7…

news headlines

about covid-19

 *****

noiseless

roadside trees

turn greener

*****

dawn to dusk--

the street dogs

bark each other

*****

winter rain

the signboard reads

covid-19 patients

*****

rooftop

I listen to

sea of silence

*****

the old man googles in isolation an art of living

*****

https://spillwords.com/covid-19-by-pravat-kumar-padhy/

home quarantine

video calls from

next room 

*****

sowing seeds--

distance not mattered

for the gardener

 

World Haiku Review, Autumn 2020  (Ed-in-Chief. Susumu Takiguchi; Ed. Rohini Gupta)  

https://sites.google.com/site/worldhaikureview2/autumn-2020-issue/vanguard-haiku-page-3

 

lockdown--

I drag my shadow away

from the windowpane

 

behind the mask: haiku in the time of Covid-19, Spring Moon Press, 2020 (Ed. Margaret Dornaus)

 

mirror surface the past I leave behind

Presence # 67,2020 (Ed. Ian Storr)

https://www.facebook.com/MyHaikuPond/posts/3150259048393929?comment_id=3150260971727070&notif_id=1595607237831910&notif_t=comment_mention&ref=notif