Category: Sequence

Issue 1.4 - Samar Ghose

3/30/2019

Tabula rasa

some who are near my heart

the song
in turn
is born

with one purpose alone

a stone
changes
within

minute by minute they live

a heart murmur
run
wild

Source: “Easter 1916” by W B Yeats (pg. 203) from Seven Centuries of Poetry in English edited by John Leonard, Oxford University Press.

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Fraught

missing

a dog
strips the air
of fright

there is no breeze

trapped
the bruise
of a sky

she knows, she knows

no sound
is silent now

Source: “Rhubarb” by Craig Silvey (pg. 41) publisher Fremantle Arts Centre Press.

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Samar Ghose

lives in Perth, Western Australia with his wife and two adult daughters. He is enamoured of the haiku genre and its related forms. He enjoys the appreciation of the art form via reading and occasionally writing. His work has been published in international online & print journals. Samar feels that haiku can live in both poetry and prose.