Six Haiku Poems by Debarati Sen

 

Six Haiku Poems

 

still wind, this chaos in my

memory stirs

the moonlight

 

 

inside an old mansion

the wind howls, louder

than my loneliness

 

from the petals

of a picobella petunia…. colours bleed

into my monochrome life

 

knitting longing with the red wool

Ma lets the winter sun cover

her bald patches

 

 

inside a refugee camp

two fugitives bond

over the pain of loss

 

December rain —

petrichor fills

my fading youth 

 

Debarati Sen-Recipient of the ‘POIESIS AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN POETRY -2023’ and the Sylvia Plath Women's Literary Award, Debarati is a  poet from Kolkata. She has published two solo poetry collections and has contributed to a few anthologies. Her poems have been published in webzines like The Antonym, The Yugen Quest Review, The Kolkata Arts, Lapis Lazuli, The Madras Courier, The Sindh Courier, The Piker Press, Chakkar, Kabitalive, to name a few. She has been invited by Samyukta Poetry and Women Empowered Poetry to read her poems. Debarati has recently been nominated for the prestigious Touchstone Award for her senryu published in the Horror Senryu Journal.