Category: Poems

#tanka 12

Happy Ganesha Chaturthi. 🙏🏼May you and your family be blessed with a happy, healthy and prosperous life 🙂 Isn’t the mosaic beautiful! This was made and kindly shared by my friend, Hansa. Thanks a lot, Ferdi.

Today, i have one tanka for you. Do let me know if it resonates with you.

a red hibiscus 
droops over
an unopened bud….
do you also agonize
over your little one

Mohua Maulik,
haikuKATHA issue 41 March 2025

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#haiku 3 & #tanka 11

Hello and welcome to my mid-week haikai and tanka posts. Very pleased to have published these in the Cold Moon Journal. I was even more pleased (actually quite stunned) find that the haiku made it to the journal’s long list for Touchstone nominations 2024.

spring cleaning
we discover mom’s
insecurities

Mohua Maulik
Cold Moon Journal 10th November 2024

planting
peace lilies in beds
overrun
with the same old  
unresolved grudges

Mohua Maulik
Cold Moon Journal 1st February 2025

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#tanka 9 & 10

Hello, hope you are having a grand week. This week in my usual mid-week posting, i present to you, two of my published tanka.

white flowers
of the Rangoon creeper
turn red
how was i so blind
to the warning signs

Mohua Maulik
haikuKATHA issue 38 December 2024

this winter
only dusty leaves remain
on the amaltas
where have all the flowers
and laughter gone

Mohua Maulik
haikuKATHA issue 38 December 2024

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#haibun 5

Hello and welcome to my blog. It’s middle of the week and the time to blow my horn. Today i present a haibun for your reading pleasure.

Wrong Place Wrong Time

I went higher and higher up on the swing until I was horizontal with the bar. I must have been about 7 or 8 years old but I still remember that curl of excitement at the pit of my stomach, the rush of air, my exultant laugh and then — a sickening thud. 

dense fog…
playing on a loop
the what ifs

Mohua Maulik
haikuKATHA issue 39 January 2025

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#tanka 8

A mid-week tanka for your reading pleasure (hopefully!).

a red rose
behind the shrubs
unseen
she belittles her own
existence

haikuKATHA Issue 30 April 2024

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#senryu 2 and 3

Hello! Hope you are having a grand week. For my mid-week posting, i am pleased to present two of my published senryu, which though similar to haiku differs in that a seasonal reference or kigo is not there and deals more with human relationships etc. Here we go:

college reunion—
peals of laughter
i had forgotten

Mohua Maulik, haikuKATHA Issue 36 October 2024

carpet of leaves…
how the mighty go back
to their roots

Mohua Maulik, haikuKATHA Issue 38 December 2024

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#haibun 4

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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Have a super week ahead.

#tanka 7

Hello everyone, hope you are having a great week. Today after days of sweltering heat, the clouds decided cut us some slack – phew! Below is a tanka of mine for your kind perusal. Do share your thoughts and comments.

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#senryu 1 & #tanka 6

This is my first time posting a senryu. According to the Haiku Society of America, haiku is the “essence of a movement keenly perceived in which nature is linked to human nature”. Senryu, by contrast, is “primarily concerned with human nature; often humorous or satiric”. Although, sometimes the line is blurred, at least for me. So apologies in advance for misnaming either.

Published in Cold Moon Journal

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#haibun 3

This week, i am sharing a haibun of mine for your kind perusal and comments.

Published in Failed Haiku Volume 10 Issue 109 2025

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For anyone interested, Chapter 16 of Some Sugar & Spice is up.