Few Poems From My Haiku Chapbook

working mom
when will papa learn
to part my hair right

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rearranging itself around me

patriarchy

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

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arranged marriage
an aunt hands me
fairness cream

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arranged marriage
an aunt hands me
fairness cream

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fishbowl
is there a world
outside home

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family picnic
an uncle shows me
his hidden snake

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first day of school
I cry louder
than my daughter

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

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Vandana Parashar

Vandana Parashar is a postgraduate in Microbiology, an educator and a haiku poet. Her haiku, senryu and tanka have been published in many national and international journals of repute and has won her many prizes and accolades. Her haiku was also shortlisted for the prestigious Touchstone Award 2020 She is an associate editor of haikuKATHA and one of the editors of Poetry Pea and #FemkuMag. Her debut e-chapbook, I Am, was published by Title IX Press (now Moth Orchid Press) in 2019 and her second chapbook, Alone, I Am Not, was published by Velvet Dusk Publishing in April 2022.