Haiku Entries – July 2009

Waking from a dream
I walk unsteadily
Into another

Chandra DeNap (Thimphu)

Rain falling in the gutter
Ripples come and go
Sad goodbyes

Sonam Palden (Thimphu)

In the wilderness
Choices emerge
An old friend

Namgay Wangchuk (Thimphu)

Norah Jones’ smoky voice
Drifts through the evening breeze
The tree outside my window enchants me

Sonam Palden (Thimphu)

The mummer of talk
From behind me in class
Haiku

Namgay Wangchuk  (Thimphu)

The auburn sky
The snow covered peak
Silence

Namgay Wangchuk  (Thimphu)

Waft of cold morning air on my face
A hand waving from a moving car
I feel the sadness of falling leaves

Chimi Seldon (Thimphu)

I am falling to earth
My body comes apart on the wind
This is my haiku

Fiona Stedl (Thimphu – dedicated to  H.E. Situ Rinpoche, who said that expecting someone to stay mindful in the bardo was like chucking them out of a plane window and asking them to compose a haiku on the way down)

Five crows leave the tree
Second time this morning
Where did the sun go?

Fiona Stedl (Thimphu – morning of a solar eclipse)

Snow falls on my tent
Inside, it’s warm
Where did I leave my boots?

Fiona Stedl (Thimphu)

Leaves falling
Not a breath of wind
The monkeys are with us

Fiona Stedl (Thimphu)

Morning leaves sad
As the bright morning
Plunges into darkness

Sonam Palden (Thimphu -  morning of a solar eclipse)

Life and death
Come together
One full circle in the sky

Sonam Palden (Thimphu -  morning of a solar eclipse)

Barks, howls and chirps going awry
The dogs and the birds wonder
Is it night or dawn?

Sonam Palden (Thimphu – morning of a solar eclipse)

Birds chirping, the morning was ordinary.
Darkness intruding, cameras appearing,
Sliver and mote, solar eclipse did I see

Neten Chhetri (Thimphu)

Phone call
The conversation cut
- 11PM

Neten Chhetri (Thimphu)

The azure gleam
The sky is different
A child walks by

Namgay Wangchuk (Thimphu)

Dark clouds looming from the mountain south of Thimphu
I watch my breath on the windowpane
Scared!

Chimi Seldon (Thimphu)

In the warm still night
In the upper Himalayan mountains
Mosquitoes busy

Tshering Dolkar (Thimphu)

Driving past
The vast hot and dry concrete jungle
I enter into
Light drizzle and thick forest surrounding

Tshering Dolkar (Thimphu)

My eyes feasting
On the pink and red rhododendron all around
A brown yak appears

Tshering Dolkar (Thimphu)

In the air
A sudden wave of heat
Heart chilled

Tshering Dolkar (Thimphu)

Looked here, looked there, looked everywhere.
Disheartened, we lost it that night,
Excited we found it next morning

Neten Chhetri  (Thimphu)

Haiku, when i look right,
haiku, when i look left,
it’s haiku everywhere i look.
have i become one?

Nirage Rai (Thimphu)

Grass and small bushes are uprooted,
holes dug out,
insects killed and rendered homeless..
a tree is planted

Nirage Rai (Thimphu)

The moment has come,
people have gathered..
it’s time for a game of cards

Nirage Rai (Thimphu)

Thoughts go passing,
i keep sitting,
wondering..
is that haiku?

Nirage Rai (Thimphu)

In the wide blue sky just a cloud
in poor plant drought,
no bug

Nuno Ferreira (Lisbon, Portugal)

They play  all day long
Little hearts drumming carefree
Who needs Play Station?

Maxine Ain (USA)

Feel like wan bi,
people making fun of me,
I forget that the sun is shining

Namgay Wangchuk (Thimphu)

The rain in Dhaka
Brings a whiff of the fish and the sea
I long to see the ocean

Softly, the leaves flutter
In late afternoon light
On my bedroom wall

Relaxing
In swirling traffic
To the musical squeaks of the rickshaw wheels

10th of july… a hotter sunny day
Intense rays overhead….
global warming we’ve created…

Semon Neeopaney (Thimphu)

Slow Yanni music,
Hot Sun,
I am lazy after lunch

Neten Chhetri (Thimphu)

Steaming masala chai on the roadside
together with the smell of muck
the ground still wet from the rain

Sonam Palden (Dhaka, Bangladesh)

People pass by,
here i sit.
alone

Nirage Rai (Thimphu)

Cool wind blowing
sun sets behind the mountains
it’s the end of the day

Nirage Rai (Thimphu)

Paddyfield
Rain
Trashichoedzong

Letho (Thimphu)

With a heavy heart
I prayed for your departure
from a never returning journey

Junu (Thimphu)

I am orphaned
from the time
you took your last breathe

Junu (Thimphu)

Drenched with the rain,
I am glad
It washed away old memories

Junu (Thimphu)

Where is peace?
Every where and no where
We create

Neten Chhetri (Thimphu)

Hide and seek,
Life and death,
Circle of life

Neten Chhetri (Thimphu)

Shocked, the world mourns Michael Jackson
Unnoticed, millions cry in hunger
- reality in the 21st century

Dave (Swansea, UK)

Barely awake,
tossing and turning,
Different coloured lights stream into the room

Namgay Wangchuk (Thimphu)

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)

Chilly morning breeze
Silent river
A lonely soul finally home

Chimi Seldon (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)