Ten Haiku Poems by Inam Hussain Begg Mullick

 

Haiku 

 

Inam Hussain Begg Mullick

  

 

1. 

 

cloud and sun theatre 

day long, then night invites old 

dreams—the wind's dark feet. 

 

2. 

 

soft cities unfold 

with blue towers and minarets— 

night's rife manuscripts. 

 

3. 

 

florid amphitheatre; 

lunate afterimages 

of arcane lips. 

 

4. 

 

the wine of time's flame 

in galactic libraries— 

parrots' tremolo 

 

5. 

 

clocks strike a memory, 

a shock of blue roses 

serenades winter. 

 

6. 

 

the lithesome leaf’s pulse— 

our amorphous curlicue, 

blithe earth, no ado 

 

7. 

 

decrescendo drunk, 

mystical, tender graces, 

breaths—our dreams dovetail. 

 

8. 

 

lithographic flowers 

enhance the room—the radio 

is air's carpentry. 

 

9. 

 

woven textures of the dawn  

embrace the dreaming swans— 

winter's blue boats.    

 

10. 

 

cordate fishermen 

in illumined crescendo, 

moonlight, lions, viola.

 

 

 

 

Inam Hussain Begg Mullick is an award-winning Kolkatan polymath. His most recent book of poems is The Magical Life of Inamorato (Writers Workshop). He is the Director-Founder-Editor, The Kolkata Arts. Inam teaches Creative Writing.