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

Braided Haiku

 Braided Haiku

hiding behind a half-clad moon

                       
the other hemisphere
sun-brightened
 
floating clouds the serrated edge
 
*
a half-clad moon
sun-brightened
the serrated edge

*

hiding behind

the other hemisphere

floating clouds

Credit: Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective 28 May 2023 (Ed. Eric Lohman)

 

origami memories a twist-folded rose

 

I gently unloop

plait by plait her long hair

 

the flow contours the wind

 

*

origami memories

plait by plait her long hair

contours the wind

*

a twist-folded rose

I gently unloop

the flow

Credit: Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, 11 June 2023

Author’s Note: The ‘Braided Haiku’ is a form experimented by me during 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 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 three-line 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 stand-alone 3-line haiku.

 

sunflowers--

kids in thoughtfulness

stare eastward

 

Shadow Pond Journal, Issue One, 28 June 2023 (Ed. Katherine Winnick)

https://shadowpondjournal.blogspot.com/2023/07/pravat-kumar-padhy-india.html