Haiku Entries – June 2009

My room is filled with softness
As i sit and watch
My curtains drape the wind.

Sonam Palden (Thimphu)

A new life
Plops out of a mother’s womb
I think i felt my first breath!

Sonam Palden(Thimphu)

Endearing like a girl ripe in her nubility
Fresh and tender like the smell of peach
This is life for now

Chimi Seldon (Thimphu)

Chilly morning breeze
Silent river
A lonely soul finally home

Chimi Seldon (Thimphu)

My weary eyes
In the morning
Mirror a passing reverie

Sonam Palden (Thimphu)

No sign of the cat and the kittens
The night feels lonely
Where can they be?

Namgay Wangchuk (Thimphu)

Smiles and small talk,
Steel rods and saplings,
Planting trees

Namgay Wangchuk (Thimphu)

The night’s silence
My old faded walls
Autumn never ends.

Sonam Palden (Thimphu)

The EU elections
extremists rear their heads.
Will people never learn?

Dave (Swansea, UK)

The night still
Soft scratch scratch sound
Of a crawling spider

Tshering Dolkar (Thimphu)

From my window
I saw the gushy muddy swollen water
My heart stood still

Tshering Dolkar ( Thimphu)

Alone in a backstreet cafe
The words appear even more poignant
Was that a haiku?

Shenphen Zangpo  (Thimphu)

In between the two
Is the story of our lives
Who are we to choose?

Jurmi Chhowing (Thimphu)

He loves animals
We were always at the zoo
Someday, he’ll remember them

Jurmi Chhowing (Thimphu)

I don’t remember
The last time I played marbles
How is it you do?

Jurmi Chhowing (Thimphu)

Shameless leaves gyrate
To the last note of winter wind
An old oak tree cringes.

Tashi Gyeltshen (Thimphu)

Address yellowing
On an unopened envelope
Cold air whispering.

Tashi Gyeltshen (Thimphu)

Somewhere in the deep forest,
A caterpillar becomes a butterfly.

Tashi Gyeltshen (Thimphu)

I am an unembraced hug,
lost in a deserted street.

Tashi Gyeltshen (Thimphu)

On the edge of the table,
a spider has spun its web,
after all, there is room for another one.

Namgay Wangchuk (Thimphu)

Listening to mom chatting,
there is a cremation.
Smoke hangs in the air below.

Namgay Wangchuk (Thimphu)

I turned off the lights,
my cat’s silhouette,
cleaning itself

Namgay Wangchuk (Thimphu)

desert summer
wider than the horizon
silence

Kay Kirby Dorji  (Baghdad, Iraq)