My Haiku & Tanka appear on Lothlorien Poetry Journal

 https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2023/01/tanka-and-haiku-by-prof-ram-krishna.html

 

Tanka and Haiku

 

 

she draws a church

on the back of a leaflet

to resurrect goddess

in whose name she cried for years

and none counted her tears

 

 

sitting by the road

she plays the harlot for bread

men sin, she suffers

from police raid to VD

they gift with morbid morals

 

 

Kali Puja

ruddy garland round the neck

kneel to quench the thirst

with rum and goat meat invoke

the goddess for sex tonight

 

 

every home

Shiva's monastery:

cannabis

no secrets or lies

relish special tea

 

 

puff by puff

smoke away their tension

trainee programmers

on the roadside mixed smell

of sweat and talcum powder

 

 

seashore:

she lies on her back

eyes closed

feels foam on the waves

butterflies too

 

 

dark clouds over the still trees smelly clothesline

 

 

sex excels a host of sins love hides

 

 

in the wild

inner echoes--

dragonfly

 

 

creepy shadows

along the muddy road--

bright moon

 

 

a load of wood

on her frail back

autumn evening

 

 

on his epitaph:

he died protesting land tax

on his grave

 

 

half of my mind on God

and the other half on sex:

eternal hunger

 

 

rioting flames

witches dance in cave:

strawberry moon

 

 

old diary--

finding phone numbers

of friends still alive