Haiku--By Arvinder Kaur--India

tree swing -
in and out of sunshine
my outstretched toes
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smoke drifts
from the incense stick-
my wayward thoughts
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vacant desk...
the expanse of sunlight
uninterrupted
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waterfall...
a distant echo
of her anklets
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Note--Previously published at A Hundred Gourds
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Arvinder Kaur is an Associate professor in English and Media Studies. She writes haiku both in Punjabi as well as English. She has four books to her credit which include poetry, a work of translation and her first collection of punjabi haiku, Nimolian. Her work has been published in several haiku journals and anthologies. She lives in Chandigarh with her family.