haiku/senryu--By Arvinder Kaur--India

as if

the unknown is all mine -

train window

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holding mist

by the leash -

morning walk

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ceasefire -

a soldier comes home

wrapped in moonlight

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bean stalks -

height marks fade

in our childhood room

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kitchen gossip -

the sound of her knife

on the chopping board

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meteor shower -

my mother's first valentine

after father died

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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.