Delighted to feature in this week’s #HaikuFoundation’s #HaikuDialogue on #Migration—#internalmigration. The prompt was about the migration within the state or country and the challenges faced.
During the thirty years of my banking career we had multiple transfers within the country and this inspired my #haiku.
Grateful to dear Carole MacRury, Guest Editor for the selection.
Congratulations to all featured #poets.
Delighted to feature in this week’s #HaikuDialogue on #Migration—#flora and #fauna. The prompt was about the threats faced by flora and fauna.
The amphibian population in India has declined drastically and a study states that 80% of Indian frogs are facing extinction. This and Basho inspired my #haiku.
Grateful to dear Carole MacRury, Guest Editor for the selection.
Delighted to have my #haiku in The Haiku Foundations’s Haiku Dialogue —Editor’s Choice this Wednesday on the theme of Migration-Immigration.
Grateful to Carole MacRury, Guest Editor for the selection and her beautiful commentary which touched my heart.
My father migrated from Sargodha, Pakistan and settled in Lucknow, where I was born and grew up. He used to recount stories of his life with much longing for his lost home & friends. This memory inspired my haiku. The word “hiraeth” fully expressed his emotion of an irretrievably lost homeland.
in each line
on father’s face…
hiraeth
