Senryu and Haiku by Nishi Pulugurtha
Photo: Karan Madhok
‘there is no joy here / only shrieks and tears of pain’.
SENRYU
1.
removed from others
connected disconnected
we see and yet don’t
2.
shrieking, shouting - home
Frightening scary walls close
to breathe to live - Home
3.
there is no joy here
only shrieks and tears of pain
suffering and loss
HAIKU
1.
screams shrieks cries for help
that go unnoticed unheard,
unseen - Worm eating
2.
On the green giloy
A lizard awaiting catch
Motionless and still
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Nishi Pulugurtha is an academic and writes on travel, film, short stories, poetry and on Alzheimer’s Disease. Her work has been published in The Statesman, Kolkata, Prosopisia, The Punch Magazine (forthcoming), Kitaab, Café Dissensus, Coldnoon, and more. She is the author of a monograph on Derozio (2010), guest edited the June 2018 issue of Café Dissensus and has a collection of essays on travel, Out in the Open (2019). She is now working on her first volume of poems and is editing a collection of essays on travel. You can follow her on Twitter: @nishipulu and Instagram: @nishipulu.
