Remembering Pulitzer-winning poet Charles Simic

POEM:LEAVES FALLING ON THE ROAD !

MOON AND ROSE - TWO HAIKU POEMS

 1.

In moonlight 

The river is sighing 

a torrid love affair. 

2.

Dew 

on rose petals 

Beauty is delicately fragile. 

(C). - MRITYUNJAY JHA 

RAIN AND MOON : TWO HAIKU POEMS

 

1.

In soft rain

A frog croaking its amorous call 

The air smells of love. 

2.

The full moon-

Lamentation of

Lover's longings. 

(C). - MRITYUNJAY JHA 

THREE HAIKU POEMS

 1.

Flowers-

fragile beauty 

Lover's delight. 

2.

Late November afternoon 

The sky wears

a sad look. 

3.

Last rain

in the summer 

Lover's goodbye kiss. 

(C). - MRITYUNJAY JHA 

BEAUTY IN A WAR

 

Tanks roll on without hesitation 

Shelling goes unabated 

Air becoming thick with human blood 

Flowers are groaning 

Birds dashing to the other side

of the border

Fruits are rotten in orchards

Bridges breaking suddenly

Communication is the casualty

Children taking joyride in their toys 

completely unaware of the sirens blaring out imminent destruction 

War is immortal. 

There are other ways to protest a war 

than mass rallies in Berlin. 

A band playing Mozart 

in a dilapidated church. 

An anonymous artist making murals in the rubbles of what was once a thriving city. 

How naive it is to create beauty out of destruction !

Each piece of ruins is a helpless testimony to our collective failures. 

(C). - MRITYUNJAY JHA 

TWO HAIKU POEMS

 1.

 Rocks-

 dry bones 

 of Civilization. 

2.

 Snow falling steadily 

 Leaves bathed in whiteness 

 Warm memories of love. 

(C). - MRITYUNJAY JHA