Buddh Poornima - A haiku Sequence by me and Angelee Deodhar

Buddh Poornima

—A Haiku Sequence by Angelee Deodhar and Ajaya Mahala

[The odd #s by Angelee and the even #s by Ajaya]

moon watch -

an owl's hoot ripples into

our meditation                               

how mean I am 
without you -  so vast                              
the moonlight

                     

moonlit torment-

only shadows ,no footfall 

endless wait

               

remembering you 
a distant smudge darkens 
the moonlight

                   

my nose ring 

catches moonrays          

as you leave   

                 

drinking straw 
a moonbeam reaches 
the edge of  her cot 

         

footsteps-                                

mother in law's keys

as we embrace 

            

youthful  haijin 
a calf testing its teeth 
on rice straw

            

not so young now                 

still, through her specs

-a new moon  

         

Poem's Birth

separation

I look for any bleeding

in the fallen leaf
yet another poem waits

for its painless birth

Memory

holding her image

that slips away

I press the nib

again and again

 for the ink

Stories

I  tell her the stories

of all my escapades

one by one

the moonlight  registers

the fall of each leaf

Women in love -A haiku sequence

insanity -

she asks for

my childhood photos

diary pages

overwriting a name

she loves

no love moisture-proof

her cellphone kiss

chirping crickets -

her longings join

the clamour

alone ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­-

moon is  also not there

monsoon clouds …

she adds one more year

to her age

newly wed

trying the Titanic pose

on a country boat

coffee shop

with her tall hubby

the  five- feet  girl

her love scribble

on back … a kiss follows

the last letter U

moulded chairs -

her plastic grip

in his every fold

Bougainvillea –

a thousand colours

of her love smile

Facebook –

her disenchantment

with the faces

wishing well -

she throws a coin

into her own void

suicide note

at the place of signature

a print of her kiss