Haiku for the New Year

by Prof. Dr. Anil K. Prasad

Fresh fingers moving
Between white rice grains hiding
Flowers of fresh smell

Both hands stretch and try

To touch the feet shrinking back

Blessings from heaven

Moving down to earth

Anxiety-ridden nimble steps

Vanish near the bend

Food is good with three

Of us jokingly fighting

Teeth chewing alone

Time’s clouds see the bow

Raining down beneath

Arch is wet with hues

Souls in flesh and blood

Moving fingers, eyes wide

A sweet song is heard

Computers perched on

Watch me searching on a page

Words freed from a cage

Words jostling with fear

Vying with themselves for voice

On tiptoe waiting

Distant dreams bedeck

Palm trees beside the blue shore

Abandoned buds bloom

Cuckoos congregate

Dirge in chorus hint at birth

Cradle on the treetops

Green velvet spread

Over the face of earth dreaming

Tears on the petals

Black ice-cold stallions

Pull the reins of December

New Year Jumped in

10-Dec-2010

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anilkprasad
27-Jan-2011 00:11 AM

Time’s clouds see the bow
Raining down beneath
Arch is wet with hues

Good one. May I rewrite line 3 as

Time’s clouds see the bow
Raining down beneath
Fresh paint on the arch

kumarendramallick
13-Dec-2010 12:53 PM