A Pine

a leafless pine-
some poems
are like that too
just before
they turn green

 

 

© Bhawana
#poetry
letwordsfly.blogspot.com

Published in FemKu Mag (April 2021 issue 29)

 

moonlit lake
the comfort of
being myself

 

ripples...
how predictable
the world has become

 

as if they know
all my thoughts...
cicadas

 

Thank you editor- Lori A. Minor

Link- Femku Mag PDF

Published in BONES Journal (Bones 22)

So glad to be published in Bones 22 

Thank you editor- sir Johannes S. H. Bjerg @jshb32 

- Bhawana 

Link to the PDF of Bones 22 issue-

 http://www.bonesjournal.com/no22/bones22.pdf

Painting the dream

 

Before I lose the glimpse
of distant horizon
and all the thoughts
tumble down
let me touch the sky
with my eyes
and paint the dreams
all over it

© Bhawana
#poetry
letwordsfly.blogspot.com

 

Published in The Blo͞o Outlier Journal 2020

The inaugural issue of the Blo͞o Outlier Journal (Winter Issue 2020) by sir Alan Summers 😊 😊

busy street
I bow my head
to the rain

#haiku
http://bloooutlierjournal.blogspot.com

 

 

First Published Tanka: Under The Basho (2020)

enough for today
I close the diary
chanting Om . . .
into the unknown
the sun disappears

 

 Thank you dear editor- Jenny Ward Angyal

 Link- Under the Basho

Published in Cattails, Oct 2020 (Haiku)

rainbow. . .
the shadows of me
scatter as one

#haiku

Thank you ma'am- editor Geethanjali Rajan
Link-http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattailsOCTOBER2020.pdf

Published in the Cattails, Oct 2020 (Senryu)

empty cups
we pour more
of our emptiness

dust storm
a monk packs his home
in the blanket

#senryu

Thank you sir - editor Gautam Nadkarni
Link- http://cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattail

in search

on a rough path
like this
bare-feet
I'm walking
in search
of something
something
that has no name
no form
and I wonder
if it even exists

©Bhawana

Dusky Sky

 

beholding
the dusky sky
how it falls
into the lap of night
slowly
steadily
with those
slumberous eyes

© Bhawana

Like a butterfly . . .

 As if a butterfly has landed 

softly on water

 causing ripples and

a subtle shift of thoughts 

the way your world 

merged into mine 

through the time 

connecting the dots 

 

© Bhawana

Few Unpublished Haiku

 

ocean waves
watching the thoughts
come and go

 

heavy heart-
leaves fall
one by one

 

footprints
I find myself here
back again

 

starry sky
connecting the dots
between us

 

rustling leaves
perhaps wind knows
my name

 

summer dream
the tooth fairy I used
to believe in

 

cherry blossoms
a reason fair enough
to leave shadows

 

spring rain untie knots within a rainbow the shadow reflects

 

a swan's flight
the shape of sky
in the water

 

this eerie silence
the pigeons on wire
facing each other

 

social distancing
a squirrel knocks
on the window

 

 ©Bhawana

Tried writing Tanka

her hair
braided with stars
realigning with life
a thought
shapes the galaxy

 

a long night
I travel back
with
the map
of constellation

 

 

 

Modern Haiku: Published in Under the Basho

tree house
the stories left
out to rust

billowing clouds
what's already dark
becomes darker


 - Bhawana



 Link to the Under the Basho-
https://underthebasho.com/current-year/modern-haiku/3282-bhawana-rathore.html

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A beginning. . .

soft glow of dawn
etched in eyes
her hair braided
with stars

re-aligning with life
chirping birds
under the feet
dewy green grass

building bridges between
the re-constructed reality
distorted, uprooted
in the past

a thought
shapes the galaxy
once again
a journey to start !

©Bhawana

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#poetry #dawn #newstart