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January 2016

Written on 03 March 2016.

waking dream
my skin prowls my body
in self-awareness
 
 
  • Failed Haiku 1

Written on 03 March 2016.

climate change 
not always 
as good as 
a rest

Written on 03 March 2016.

acid rain
I drop a tab
of coolness

Written on 03 March 2016.

first reading
where words lie before
their utterance

Written on 03 March 2016.

Victory Day—
one child asks another
'over what?'
 
Fifth Place - Bangabandhu Kukai of the Haiku Society of Bangladesh
  • Bangabandhu Kukai

Written on 03 March 2016.

on tenterhooks the bated now

Written on 03 March 2016.

unbidden nature –
is the earth moving
for you too?

Written on 03 March 2016.

by nightfall
our ever-present
unforeseen 

Written on 03 March 2016.

in this nothing too
godheads lie hidden

Written on 03 March 2016.

humid haze
air coagulates
in the light

Written on 03 March 2016.

thirty degrees
bees hexangulate
summer heat

Written on 03 March 2016.

humid breeze
rumours of snow drift
from afar

Written on 03 March 2016.

swift bloom
on a summer breeze
the diva shits

Written on 03 March 2016.

in its fullness
the moon drowns
in my son
 
 
  • Failed Haiku 2

Written on 03 March 2016.

twilight sky
a word narrows down
my mind's expanse

Written on 03 March 2016.

bowed by heat
I kneel before 
a cicada shell

Written on 03 March 2016.

death toll
a bellbird avoids
its refrain

Written on 03 March 2016.

summer expanse
nothing to define it
but my words

Written on 03 March 2016.

more equal
than each other
summer clouds
 
 
  • Right Hand Pointing #95

Written on 03 March 2016.

drip-fed haiku vi a iv tubed nature

Written on 03 March 2016.

foghorns declare the all unclear

Written on 03 March 2016.

way up north
tyranny becomes
the new clear

Written on 03 March 2016.

down fall
everything 
I ever knew

Written on 03 March 2016.

with this haiku
all the blank spaces
fit together

Written on 03 March 2016.

polar melt—
a white crossed landscape 
to die for

Written on 03 March 2016.

dark moon-rise
a swell of emptiness
in bated chests 

Written on 03 March 2016.

this rose alacks incentive

Written on 03 March 2016.

birth silence 
a bag of bones cradled
in my arms

Written on 03 March 2016.

slow across a calendar days unnumbered

Written on 03 March 2016.

spring disappears
with the memories I had
of who I was then

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