Posting a haibun published in Failed Haiku Issue 109 2025. Do share your thoughts and many thanks for visiting.
Prarabdha*
First day of college. A packed classroom of whispers and rustles. The door opens and two scrawny boys shuffle in.
Forty years later, one of them is a renowned surgeon while the other boy has long succumbed to a brain tumor.
white lotus
planting the seeds
of a new prayer
Mohua Maulik
*Note: Prarabdha is that part of the past karma which is responsible for the present body. It cannot be avoided or changed.
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