Published in tsuri-dōrō Issue #32 – March/April 2026

        roadside daisies
  another year to try
  my free will 

Bhawana 

Thanks to the editor, Tony Pupello !

Link-  tsuri-dōrō

Welcome

 Dear Reader

 

Thank you for visiting my blog :)

 

This blog is a home for my poems- most of them published in various national, international online haiku journals, anthologies, blog pages and poetry spaces. 

Poetry for me is not just writing, but feeling, living and witnessing the life happening. Poetry has opened a door to the world that makes me feel alive, heard and understood. 

 

The sheer beauty and fragility of life in words.  

 

I also have a small literary haiku and poetry online journal.  

The Bougainvillea Journal 🌸

 

If you enjoy the poems you find here, I warmly invite you to explore the Journal as well. 

 

AS Words Fly- The Bougainvillea Journal 🌸

 

With warmth and gratitude

Bhawana  

 

 

Haibun published in haikuKATHA Issue 52

 

haikuKATHA- the official monthly publication by Triveni Haikai India. 

 

As always beautiful issue! 

Happy to have my haibun published in it !

 

Thanks to Kala Ramesh ma'am & the Editorial Team

 

 https://trivenihaikai.in

 

 

Published in Solitary Daisy Haiku

 

twilight hues

in the folds of her hands

cherry blossoms

 

 

 

Thanks to the editors Michele and Sally. 

 

Also, so honored for the mention in 'Sally's notebook'. 

 

Issue 68 

 

 

Published in Triya Basant Edition Feb/Mar 2026

Two of my poems from Chrysanthemum and Cattails Journal are published in Triya Basant Edition 2026 with Hindi translation. 

Thanks to the TriyaMag editors for the translation and beautiful issue.

 

Link- 

 Triya MAg

 

Nominated by Wales Haiku Journal for Touchstone Awards 2025

 

autumn moon

trying grandma's recipe

after her passing

 

 

Their beautiful mini journal can be read here -

 Wales Haiku Touchstone Mini Journal 2025

 

Thank you dear editors- Joe and Luci 

 

Link- Wales Haiku Journal  

Haiku published in Solitary Daisy Haiku Journal -Issue 66

blue hour deepens
in my new journal
your old note

 

Thank you dear editors- Sally Quon and Michele Rule

Link- Solitary Daisy Journal 

Haiku in tsuri-dōrō -Issue #31 – Jan/Feb 2026

 

 

 

twilight hues
father compliments
my argument

 

 

Thank you to the Editor-Tony Pupello

Link- tsuri-dōrō 

One Breath poem in O2 haiku literary magazine

 

 

bamboo wind chime softly moves the mid-day moon

Thank you dear editors  

Link- O2 Haiku 

My Tanka Prose 'Unheard Story' in Cold Moon Journal

It's almost past midnight. With the soft tick-tick of the clock in my room and the faint, distant music from outside, I somehow like this moment. Now that nights have grown colder and quieter, and the breeze is crisp, I can even listen to the tree in our backyard.  And I'm inclined to believe my thoughts are being heard too. 

The rustle of a page turning echoes in the room. I set the book aside to look outside again, to hear the tree. Somehow I remember the books in my wishlist, although many on the bookshelf still sit unread, waiting to be opened. 

Yet I seek a new adventure in this mundane and cold night perhaps the darkness reveals its own story too, and it is for me to find mine. 

soft glow

of the streetlamp

in the misty night. . .

the immersion

in our lost sighs

 

 

Thanks to the editors - Timothy Daly and Oana Cercel 

 Link- Cold Moon Journal  

Haiku in Autumn Moon Haiku Journal Volume 9:1, Autumn/Winter 2025-26

harvest moon
taste of ripe plums
in our talks

 

 Bhawana 

 

Link- Autumn Moon Haiku Journal  

Thanks to the editors-  Founder (emeritus): Bruce Ross
Editors: Astrid Andreescu
Kristen Lindquist

Haiku featured in the Shadow Pond Journal

 

cold night
a new flute learner
flickers the star

 

 

 

Bhawana Rathore

November 25th 2025 

 

 

Thanks to dear editor Katherine E Winnick 

 Link- Shadow Pond Journal 

Two poems, haiku and one-line haiku in The Pan Haiku Review Autumn/Winter Edition 2025 (issue 6)

 

 

morning chill
a last bloom of lotus
in the still lake 

 .......

each step drowns dunes of late autumn

(This one also received the 'Mahō mention' which translates to 'magic' in English)

Bhawana Rathore

 

Thank you dear editor Alan Summers  

Link-  Pan Haiku Review

Haiku published in Enchanted Garden, Issue 14: Spicy-ku, December 2025

 

early winter breeze

with a sprinkle

of cinnamon and pepper

the soup simmers

our childhood memories

 

briză de început de iarnă

cu un strop

de scorțișoară și piper

supa fierbe la foc mic

amintirile noastre din copilărie

 

Bhawana Rathore, India

(Translation in Romanian) 

Thank you to dear editor Steliana Voicu

Link - Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal  

Haiku and Senryu published in Autumn/Winter issue 2025 of FemkuMag

 

 

roadside daisies
reaching the end
of twenties

 

 

evening walk
the simpler times
mother talks about

 

early winter
my own shadow
falling short

 

Bhawana Rathore  

 

Thank you to editors Rowan Beckett Minor and Kelly Sargent 

 Link- FemkuMag