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Haiku for International Haiku Day

 highlighting

the gulmohar’s redness

koel calls


pooja flowers

the rain gods claim them

for their own


non-violence…

our Ganesha makes do

with fallen flowers


flower shop —

I just stand by

to watch the bees


last gong

– the bare maidan

bursts a-flower


(Published in Cafe Haiku on 17/04/2023)

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