Haiku Poems by Daipayan Nair

HAIKU

 

songbirds play slides 

on a bamboo stalk —

our day out 

 

 

just one 

perfect conch shell –

mom's beachcombing

 

 

full moon –

a pitch-black image

in my cellphone

 

 

Pitri Paksha

my offering caws

across the sky

 

 

whispering waves

as the silence slips

between us

 

 

kids do catfishing

in floodwaters –

plastic scraps

 

 

air terminal —

mom carries her child 

on a luggage cart 

 

 

creaking fan ...

forever in queue 

at the cash counter 

 

 

packaged drinking water

all over a scooter seat –

summer juice stall

 

 

Khandagiri –

the langur taps on my head 

for a peanut handful 

 

 

Hailing from Silchar, Assam, Daipayan Nair is a haijin. He writes micropoetry, mostly haiku and tanka poems. Apart from being a contributor to the Lothlorien Poetry Journal, his works have been widely published on various international platforms and weekly columns like Haiku Dialogue of The Haiku Foundation, Haiku in Action of Nick Virgilio Haiku Association, and FreshOutMag. He has also been published in Haikuniverse, Cold Moon Journal, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Triya Mag, Failed haiku — a journal of English Senryu, and the prestigious monthly of haikuKATHA from Triveni Haikai India.