Few Poems From My Haiku Chapbook

October 25, 2021

 

working mom
when will papa learn
to part my hair right

….

rearranging itself around me

patriarchy

….

cancelled engagement
was I wrong in asking to keep
my maiden name

….

arranged marriage
an aunt hands me
fairness cream

….

arranged marriage
an aunt hands me
fairness cream

….

fishbowl
is there a world
outside home

….

family picnic
an uncle shows me
his hidden snake

….

first day of school
I cry louder
than my daughter

…..

 

 

You can read more of my work here I Am -Haiku Chap Book

 

 

 

Vandana Parashar

Vandana Parashar is a haiku poet in progress.
Her love for brevity made her fall in love with haiku and related forms of Japanese poetry. Her work has been published in many national and international journals of repute and has won her prizes and accolades. Her haiku was shortlisted for Touchstone Award for Individual poem in 2021.
Her debut e-chapbook “I Am” was published by Title IX Press in 2019.

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