Tag: #senryu

#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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#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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#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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