prison yard 
songs of cicada
with no fear

Second Prize in  Second international haiku contest for the award “Radmila Bogojevic", 2018 (II internacionalni haiku konkurs za nagradu “Radmila Bogojević”).

Muse of Science

scars

on her face

I console

how the craters glorify

the whiteness of  the moon

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sitting alone

in deep midnight

I harvest

wisdom of consciousness

the part  of the enlightened galaxy

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in exchange

of my welcome-smile

the aliens

bridge our blue earth

with another milky path

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the rising urge

of wave after wave…

the moon

whispers  gentle swell

of the passionate desire

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I return

from the crematorium  

with moist eyes

at the entrance  gate

a robot with the stony face

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the river sways

the bagful of wilted leaves…

in a wooden boat

recalling Archimedes’ principle

the crowded pilgrims try to readjust

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cosmic call

for the earth scientists…

space ladder bridging 

conference in Mars town

with the interstellar beings

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my daughter quizzes

about the wall painting

I revisit

school physics of the falling apple

over Newton sitting under the tree

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a radiant street

deep in the space

the Milky Way

leads to the glittering art

of the big-bang  ballet

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the girl reaches

the far off distant planet

the aliens delivered

a parcel of gene box draped

with ribbons of Dolly sheep

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Stacking Stones: An Anthology of Short Tanka Sequences (Ed. M Kei, 2018)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stacking-Stones-Anthology-Short-Sequences-ebook/dp/B07GBLY23N

she baskets

the wilted flowers

while the newborn

unfolds a world of  joy

hidden in the wild garden

Skylark 6:1 Summer 2018 (Ed. Claire Everett)

enlightened...

the sunshine finds

its way

Haikuuniverse,  11 .8.2018 (Ed. Rick Lupert)

http://www.haikuniverse.com/haiku-by-pravat-kumar-padhy-6/

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

The Living Anthology, Don Baird, Editor in Chief

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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)

The Living Haiku Anthology, Don Baird, Editor in Chief

a distant call--

adjusting the gap between

the needle and thread

Haikuuniverse,  6 .7.2018 (Ed. Rick Lupert)

http://www.haikuniverse.com/haiku-by-pravat-kumar-padhy-5/

Failed Haiku, Vol.3, Issue 31, 2018

http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue31.pdf