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Archana Kapoor Nagpal


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Selected Tanka

reading
a bedtime story
to my son
again he asks me
to spell T.S. Eliot


falling
under its own weight
a dandelion flower …
my son runs in all directions
to fill his basket

​

while
playing the piano
at the church …
the holy water pot
captures the first light
conversing
through our mobiles
across the table …
my husband asks me
is it raining outside?

​
finding
a way through its own web
a spider…
hanging from an end to another
to make a new web


lying
next to the banyan tree
in my backyard …
I count the stars
to find a constellation
Sitting
back to back
at the beach…
my daughter asks me
to sing her a rhyme


in and out
of a raincloud
this full moon …
the therapist asks me
to chant ‘om’


I glance
at my baby scans …
yet thinking
whether the unborn
is a boy or a girl?
​

Selected Haiku and Tanka

stirring
my thoughts ...  
ventilator machine


faded portrait …

outside my window
passing rainclouds


ripe mangoes
on the kitchen table --
scented dawn


first light--
pelting holy river
with marigolds


moonless night --
The Western Wall
all white in snow
​

misty twilight --
rainbow arcs over a field
of sunflowers


amidst
the ashes
these rose petals …
yet on my bed
I smell his perfume

first snow …
bends further and further
these red cherries


still born ...
falls from a leaf to another
these dewdrops


child blows
a dandelion seed –
daylight moon


summer heat --
kajal residue settles
under the eyes


chill of darkness --
a candle crackles
under the tree


a spring-fed marsh--
fireflies brighten up the dark
countryside

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downhill ...
far from me
the same moon


rain ends …

in mother’s bedtime story
this petrichor

starry night –
jasmine buds drop
from her braid


ray of sunshine --
the spectrum in the dew
on a leaf


wisp of clouds
hug the snow-capped peaks
dappled sunlight--
​

waves roll
onto the waves --
cloudy evening


falling
in the puddle
a dandelion flower …
still I wonder
where to go

More Selected Haiku

after the rain …
in chanting of mantras
this petrichor 


sultry twilight …
a raincloud shrinks
further and further


first snowfall …
in my pot of water
the rising moon
ancestral home …
from every spider’s hammock
the autumn moon


mountain walk …
catching in my palms
these fireflies


farewell …
away from her epitaph
another fallen leaf
walking downhill …
another time my footsteps
follow my shadow


loneliness ...
on the sand dune
a camel on its shadow


coastal waves …
pondering over my thoughts
again and again



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