Haiku--By Arvinder Kaur--India

at home
the chrysanthemums bloom and fade-
hospital silence
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soldier's homecoming -
mother hums a lullaby
one last time
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the same sand
where all my castles  fell -
homecoming
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long distance call -
chirp by chirp the sounds
of childhood

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wheat stalks-
someone calls me
by a forgotten name

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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.