Senryu: published in Prune Juice

Accepted and published in the November issue of "Prune Juice : Journal of Senryu, Kyoka, Haibun, & Haiga"

waiting room
I turn my back
to the clock

grocery store
an old man asks
for his own address

career shift
a room full of posters
now empty

          - Bhawana

   #Senryu
My Senryu on Page 28 
Link to the Prune Juice 29th issue, November 2019-
https://prunejuice.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/pj29.pdf

This Humanity

In the bound of time and space

Unaware and out of place

Everyday beholds the same shining sun

The reasons kept, the reasons burnt

An opinion can change with just a gaze

It can be dark while you’re in daze

The journey sums up in different lines

For some just a run, for some sublime

Forever the echo runs through blood

Thousands of generation begin as a bud

Blooms, live, decays and then blooms again

Somewhere the drought and somewhere, the rain

The pain they hide, the smiles they share

Some are just thoughts, while some nightmares

Unknown faces and thousands of stories

Wearisome eyes hiding the tale of glories

What you think and what I actually meant!

The differences do sometime make a dent

The deception in your perception

Beyond the way of comprehension

What it justifies, what not!

Figuring out a way to ease the knot

When everyone walks the path undecided

Seen, unseen yet the dreams ignited

Holds the key from you to me

Only our beating hearts can see

©Bhawana

Senryu: Published in FemkuMag

clear water
the transparency
of her flaws

 - Bhawana
 

#Senryu #FemkuMag #shortpoetry

Link to the FemkuMag home page-
https://femkumag.wixsite.com/home

I walk alone

To the endless vastness

On this path forlorn

I walk alone

I walk alone

There was a time when I didn’t know

What should I do, where do I belong!

But in this moment of time

To that far unknown

I walk alone

I walk alone

A promise in my heart

To amend what was torn

For the dreams I had

For the dreams not known

I walk alone

I walk alone

This is my journey

Losing sight of the shore

For the first time

The shadows doesn’t scare me anymore

Igniting the lights within

Fighting on my own

I walk alone

I walk alone

Everything inspires me

To appreciate what was sown

Looking at the sky

And this seraphic dawn

Indeed life has it way

To show what was not shown

But here I am now

Walking all alone

In the midst of chaos

Looking at all the smiles

Grateful and optimistic

Without any fear and lies

I walk alone

I walk alone

©Bhawana

#Poetry #walkingalone 

Under The Basho......my seven published Haiku

barefoot
I root myself
back again


moonless sky
all the stars
disappear too


highway
the shadows of grass
lean back


autumn equinox
the weight of thoughts
drowns each step


twilight song
the everlasting ring
of a temple bell


moonlit sky
the stillness of water
in my thoughts


a cuckoo’s song
the aroma of rain
in my coffee cup

Bhawana

So, glad to be accepted in Under The Basho.
#Haiku #Underthebasho #poetry #shortformofpoetry

 Link to the original page-
 https://underthebasho.com/utb-2019/modern-haiku/3046-bhawana-rathore.html

A Rispetto.....

Shimmering crescent moon ascending the sky

As I behold this fleeting sublime moment

Through the eternal unheard whispers of time

The tales in my heart and the endearment

The reflections in the stillness of water

A journey to the soul as my mind wanders

A sudden rush of thoughts sweep me far away

To a distant land where just love paves the way

©Bhawana

#Rispetto #poetry #short form poetry

Rispetto style: 8 lines with 11 syllables in each line and with a rhyme scheme ab ab cc dd

For the tomorrow

Gleaming stars stare back at me
Affirming that they heard me
Not everyone can comprehend this
Aching soul smiling with bliss
But I'll leave the contemplation up to you
What’s part of me is part of you too
Are you happy when you're all alone?
Aimlessly walking on this path forlorn
Unable to let go, stuck in one place
The mind once a garden now a dreary space
Trapped in head, suffering inside
Suffocating thoughts, imprisoning lies
The restlessness, the longing in your sighs
The fear, the expectations in your eyes
But being broken isn’t a new norm
There’s always a way to survive the storm
Just one step can change the course of life
From the darkest hour, through the toughest time
With the little courage amidst thousands of sorrow
A hope, a promise of new, effulgent tomorrow
The soul that feels empty inside
Needs just a touch of love to revive

©Bhawana

#Poetry