Hadith hot afternoon the pinwheel seller spins rainbows into autumn Children of a lesser God, most abandoned at birth, are foundlings extracted from landfills from cartons, from dustbins, brought to orphanages where, if they are lucky, they get some food some succour .The females, if they survive feticide are sold by parents to work as domestic help ,an euphemism for trafficking .Males are trained to learn only from the Holy Book, ignore all modern education as being blasphemous and beg for alms in the streets .The lackeys of mallams, they become easy pickings for nomadic gun toting illiterate extremist groups. shakuhachi flute- cloud shadows reappear on the chest X-ray Notes : Almajiri means immigrant ,mallam is a teacher responsible for almajiri children who come to learn their religion from the Holy Book. Hadith "prophetic traditions", meaning the corpus of the reports of the teachings, deeds and sayings of the Prophet. Monsoon A river of stars separates them and I wonder where you are now? Are you a star or are you lost in a black hole for all eternity? It does not matter, for even when you were alive, you were too absorbed in your work, you were hardly ever around, and had no time for stories of love, like the legendary Tanabata lovers, destined to meet but once a year. cloudy sky- the magpies’ song now silent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata Tanabata also known as the Star Festival, is a Japanese festival celebrates the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi (represented by the stars Vega and Altair respectively). According to legend, the Milky Way separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar. Bio: Dr. Ms Angelee Deodhar, an eye surgeon by profession as well as a haiku poet, translator, and artist lives and works in Chandigarh, India. Her haiku, haibun, short stories and haiga have been published internationally in various books and journals, and her work can be viewed online too. To promote haiku in India, she has translated six books of haiku from English to Hindi,the other official language of India. She has edited both Journeys and Journeys 2015 an Anthology of International Haibun released on Amazon has a total of 145 haibun, by 31 poets of international repute.
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9/29/2016 06:50:24 pm
I'm so glad that these powerful haibun have found a home at Anti-Heroin Chic, Angelee.
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arvinder kaur
9/30/2016 07:21:03 am
wonderful ! touches a deep chord in the heart !
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Geethanjali Rajan
9/30/2016 09:15:47 pm
"Are you a star or are you lost in the black hole..." Very powerful. Incidentally, I landed in Japan on the day of Tanabata last year. A favourite memory.
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Samar Ghose
10/1/2016 04:43:35 am
Each of these speaks more than they say in words. A treat to read.
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Raveesh Varma
10/8/2016 07:06:55 am
Wow; these are so powerful! One is left speechless. One is left speechless. "Von Herzen—Möge es wieder—Zu Herzen gehn!"
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