Ten Haiku by Daipayan Nair

 

Haiku

 

autumn lane —

the madman face to face

with a puddle

 

 

guava sunrise —

grandma tucks the pallu

at her waist

 

 

burning husks …

mom's incense

in every room

 

 

she jumps

on the packed bus

jasmine gust

 

 

the child

cups magic in her hands

red admiral

 

 

swallowing

a painful lump

of ice cream

 

 

no bites

except for mosquitoes

daybreak

 

 

Bihu

the stack of hay

on a bicycle

 

 

noon fair —

a cheering crowd encircles

the cockfight

 

 

hillock climb —

the tea plucker fills her basket

with folk songs

 

 

Daipayan Nair - Hailing from Silchar, Assam, India, Daipayan Nair is a haikuist. He writes micropoetry, mostly haiku and tanka poems. His works have been featured 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 the Frogpond Journal, the prune juice journal, Under the Basho Journal, Failed Haiku Journal, Cold Moon Journal, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Triya Mag, Kingfisher Journal, Poetry Pea Journal, Time Haiku Journal, Failed haiku — a journal of English Senryu, the Akitsu Quarterly, The Wales Haiku Journal among others. His haiku, senryu and tanka have appeared in  the prestigious monthly of haiku KATHA from Triveni Haikai India. His recent collection of haiku and senryu titled "tilt of the winnowing fan" was published in 2022 by Hawakal.