wabi-sabi

the wooden bucket fills

back into the well

 

Scarlet Dragonfly, 3.11.2023 (Ed. Kathleen Trocmet)

https://scarletdragonflyjournal.wordpress.com/?s=Pravat+Kumar+Padhy

funeral procession

the last chapter of the

civil war

-Poetry Pea 2:23, December 2023 (Ed. Patricia McGuire)

*****

cherry blossoms

a mother lifts her baby

nearer to the moon

-Poetry Pea 2:23, December 2023 (Ed. Patricia McGuire)

 

 

 

 Braided Haiku

 

smoke of the battlefield  the scattered silence

 

a thin patch of grass

mingles with the winter fog

 

the rising sun swaddling for hope

*

smoke of the battlefield

mingles with the winter fog

the rising sun

*

the scattered silence

a thin patch of grass

swaddling for hope

 

Fireflies’ Light, Issue 28, October 2023 (Eds. John J.Hon & Mason Arledge)

Author’s Note: The ‘Braided Haiku’ is a form I experimented with in July 2021. Editor, Eric A. Lohman, Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective is kind enough to inspire me with valuable suggestions. There are two one-breath short monoku: one at the top and one at the bottom having a two-liner in between. In all, the braided haiku frames out to be, two 3-line standalone haiku: one in italicized, the other in plain text and two monoku out of a 4-line micropoem. The form is titled ‘Braided Haiku’ as three plaits are required to braid or weave. Here we have 2-number of three plaits (one in italicized and the other in plain text) to compose two standalone 3-line haiku.

 

 

space debris the lotus leaf mottled with mud

 

The High Lonesome, The Haiku Foundation Anthology, 2023 (Eds. Jim Kacian and Julie Bloss Kelsey)

black tea--

I search in vain

the milky way

 

tè nero--

cerco invano

la Via Lattea

 

#haiku di Pravat Kumar Padhy, tr. Luca Cenisi

Da: Cosmic Symphony, Cyberwit, 2019, p. 35

Foto: Yinan Chen, Galaxy Above the Trees