On August fifteenth <br />He got married <br />Lost independence <br /> <br />On January twenty sixth <br />He signed with tears <br />His wife’s constitution <br /> <br />(August fifteenth is the Indian Independence day and January twenty sixth, Indian Republic day from which date the Indian constitution came into force) <br /> <br />God shaped faces <br />Man preferred <br />Masks <br /> <br />My office is there <br />Amidst herbs, shrubs, trees and cuckoos <br />My music school too <br /> <br />“Oho”, shouted a haiku poet <br />“Oho”, echoed the mountains <br />He grumbled “Anthropomorphism” <br /> <br /> <br />A poet's wife <br />his first audience <br />first victim <br /> <br />rolling-pin... <br />useful to roll rotis and <br />control husbands <br /> <br />amnesia patient <br />used to go to neighbour’s house <br />even after treatment <br /> <br />night long cruise <br />in trance ship via dream islands <br />till dawn of rality <br /> <br />Overloaded bus <br />Moves like a pregnant woman <br />Abortion feared <br /> <br />Road rollers on move <br />Birds and farmers search <br />For new homes <br /> <br />In concrete jungles <br />Cows feed on <br />Wall posters <br /> <br />A hobo sleeping <br />Under leaky sky dome <br />Season-proof <br /> <br />Small rain <br />Then Sun and a rainbow <br />Dash farmers’ hopes<br /><br />sathya narayana<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/senryu-collection/
