To touch a poem--By Angelee Deodhar--India

To touch a poem

A deodar        blue in the sun

its cones warm in my hands

beneath the hemlock’s

                 spreading shade

smooth mushrooms

the colour of rabbit fur

the pine’s spiky, musky green

to the song of a warbler

past a weathered branch

of rain softened beech

I walk on dew wet grass

and with these words    

touch a poem.

(Previously published in first Katha e book of poems, 2010, The song is, in 2015 and in GlOMAG 2016)

Dr. Ms Angelee Deodhar, an eye surgeon by profession as well as a haiku poet, translator, and artist lives and works in Chandigarh, India. Her haiku, haibun and haiga have been published internationally in various books and journals, and her work can be viewed online too. She has edited three anthologies Journeys , Journeys 2015 and Journeys 2017, her latest anthology of International Haibun has just been released on Amazon. It has a total of 133 haibun, the work of 29 poets of international repute.