Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Haiku/Senryu--By Shloka Shankar--India

job listings
swatting flies above
my head
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face mask
mother peels years
off her skin
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sleepless I whistle through my nose
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hanging
from a gossamer...
moth wing
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one-third of my past soars on Garuda's wing
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Shloka Shankar is a freelance writer residing in India. Her work appears in over two dozen international anthologies including publications by Paragram, Silver Birch Press, Minor Arcana Press, Harbinger Asylum, Kind of a Hurricane Press and Writing Knights Press among others. Her poems, erasures, haiku & tanka have appeared in numerous print and online journals. She is also the editor of the literary and arts journal, Sonic Boom.

4 comments:

  1. Hi, Shloka, these Haiku are such fun to read and as I read I heard myself laughing out loud! Very creative! Sheri

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  2. love the pictures these conjure up

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  3. Shloka, I truly enjoyed these picturesque Hiaku/Senryu. Thank you for sharing your wonderful talent.
    Charlene

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